Case Study 5 - People Living in the Hottest Place --- Ecuador

Some basic information of Ecuador:

Ecuador is located in the South America. Its capital city is Quito, and the largest city is Guayaquil. The official language is Spanish. The Ethnic group is: 65% Mestizo, 25% Indigenous, 7% White, and 3% Black. The president of Ecuador is Rafael Correa, which is a female president, and the vice president is Lenín Moreno.

HISTORY

Ecuador declared on August 10, 1807, from Spain, May 24, 1822 from Gran Colombia, and was recognized by Spain on February 16, 1840. 

Area

The total area of Ecuador is approximately 283,561 square kilometer. 5% of the area is water.

 

Artifact 1 - Infographic

These are the countries on equator:

1. Ecuador

2. Colombia

3. Congo

4. Uganda

5. Gabon

6. Democratic Republic of Congo

7. Indonesia

8. Kenya

9. Maldives

10. Somalia

11. Brazil

12. Kiribati

Original picture on Wordle:

Countries on Equator

Artifact 2 and 3- Newspaper Article & Problem and Solution


Different people live in the different part of the earth, with different culture and different weather. For the Eskimos, they live in the very north side of the earth, where they use refrigerators to warm their foods. For the Kenyans, they live on the equator, where is the hottest place on the earth. To stay in the hottest part on the earth is not a very easy thing to do, especially living in the countries that are on the equator. For Ecuador, the country in the continent of South America, is one of the countries on the equator. 

This is the weather of stats of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Explanation to the graph:

Max temperature: Average max daily temperature per month

Minimum temperature: Average daily temperature per month

Average temperature: Average daily temperature per month

The temperature normals are measured in the period of 1961-1990

	Temperature
Months	Normal	Warmest	Coldest
January	17.0	15.8	8.2
February	16.1	14.3	10.1
March	19.1	18.4	15.9
April	20.6	20.7	18.4
May	25.4	25.4	23.3
June	29.4	29.8	25.0
July	35.8	32.5	32.9
August	37.9	35.6	33.9
September	31.5	30.3	28.6
October	28.9	27.7	18.7
November	24.9	22.5	16.9
December	18.4	19.6	12.3

Average warm temperature: 27.3 degrees Celsius

Average cold temperature: 16.1 degrees Celsius

As you can see, the temperature in Kaohsiung have more differences in the morning to night than the temperature in Guayaquil in the morning to night. For Taiwanese in Kaohsiung like me, need to bring a jacket just incase the weather will be cold both in the morning and night. The temperature in Kaohsiung during the winter time is actually colder than Guayaquil in the winter, so more productions including farming can earn more money by selling them. 

A true story from my family. My grandfather went to Guayaquil, Ecuador, when he was 40 years old. He could not speak any Spanish at fist, but he thought that Guayaquil will be the best place for hm to cultivate shrimps and to earn money by selling them to the markets. He was right. He was able to harvest the shrimps three times a year, but only two times in Taiwan. And because his job of cultivating shrimps was very successful, he became very rich, Although he is not in this world anymore, there are some of his apprentices in Guayaquil that keep cultivate shrimps. By this, we can tell that hot countries are not always our of food to be starving and no money to live. Hot weathers can cause the people to think different to earn money, and to live better. 

Artifact 4 - Documentary

My father took these photos when he went to Ecuador with my mom, and when I was still in my mother's body. My grandfather worked there to cultivate shrimps for business because he knew that the temperature in Ecuador is the best for him to cultivate shrimps and sell them to other countries. I briefly described some basic information about the symbol of Ecuador. Hope you like my video! :)



Presentation:

People live in the HOTTEST PLACE--- Ecuador on Prezi

3 Perspectives of Hotel Rwanda

HOTEL RWANDA

Hotel Rwanda is a movie talking about 3 different groups of people: Hutu, Tutsi, and the United Nations. Basically it is a true story about a Hutu hotel manager, Paul Rusesabagina, who helped more than thousands of Tutsi refugees during their war between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda.


Hutu:
For the Hutus' perspective who were trying to kill Tutsis, they wanted to kill all the "cockroaches" because their president lied to their president and killed him. They felt like they got betrayed by someone promised to be peace with them. Because they cannot handle their depressions of it. they decided to kill Tutsis. For the Hutus, like Paul, who wanted to help the innocent Tutsis alive, they look those Tutsis as part of Hutus, just with a different name for their group. Paul tried anything he could do to save all the neighbors. At first he gave the Hutus his money, then he bribed them by giving them with expensive wines. Although he almost failed, he tried again and that leaded him to where success is.


Tutsi:
The Tutsi refugees' perspective is one-word simple: innocent. Thy did not choose to be a Tutsi nor to be a group of people who have a president that lies. In the movie, the refugees try to live by finding ways to escape, but some got killed by the Hutus. They did not have the power to decide with their government, so they did not tell their president to kill Hutu's president. Therefore, they were innocent when they got killed.


United Nation:
For the United Nation, they wanted to help, but they lift for a while when they were told to leave the Tutsis in Hutu place alone. At first they were willing to help Paul to protect the Tutsis in his hotel, but after he realized his status, the United Nation stop helping Paul. Some of then wanted to help, but some, like soldiers and chiefs, looked at him like the other Hutus and Tutsis.

My 2 Perspectives of Africa

Africa

I think Africa has many different kinds of things that you will not be able to see it somewhere else. For example, many rare animals can only be seen in Africa. Cultures and some natural phenomenons only appear this beautiful land. The Soccer World Cup was in South Africa, which makes it more popular. The big sun represents the weather in Africa, which is very, very hot. Their special kind of houses, or tents, are very artistic and are attracted to some people. 

British

I think the British are very cold-blooded, which always uses weapons to deal with everything. They would use weapons to threaten who they want to, which i think is very unfair for the slaves and some other Africans. 

Timeline of Rwanda

COLONIALISM

• 1918 - Under the Treaty of Versailles the former German colony of Rwanda-Urundi is made a United Nations protectorate to be governed by Belgium. The two territories (later become Rwanda and Burudni) are administered separately under two different Tutsi monarchs. Both Germany and Belgium turned the traditional Hutu-Tutsi relationship into a class system. The minority Tutsi (14%) are favored over the Hutus (85%) and goven privileges and western-style education. The Belgains used the Tutsi minority to enforce their rule. 
• 1926 - Belgains introduce a system of ethic identity cards differentiating Hutus from Tutsis. 
• 1957 - PARMEHUTU is formed while Rwanda is still under Belgain rule. 
• 1959 - Hutus rebel against the Belgain colonial power and the Tutsi elite; 150,000 Tutsis flee to Burundi.
• 1960 - Hutus win municipal elections organized by Belgain colonial rulers. 

INDEPENDENCE

• 1961-1962 - Belgium withdraws. Rwanda and Burundi become two separate and independent countries. A Hutu revolution in Rwanda installs a new president. 
• 1963 - Further massacre of Tutsi, this time in response to military attack by exiled Tutsi in Burundi. Again more refugees leave the country. It is estimated that by the mid-1960s half of the Tutsi population is living outside Rwanda. 
• 1967 - Renewed massacres of Tutsis.
• 1973 - Purge of Tutsis from universities. Fresh outbreak of killings, again directed at the Tutsi community. The army cheif of staff, General Juvenal Habyarimana, seizes power, pledging to restore order. He sets up a one-party state. Apolicy of ethnic quotas is entrenched in all public service employment. Tutsi are restricted to nine percent of available jobs. 
• 1975 - National Revolutionary Movement for Development (NRMD) is formed. 
• 1986 - In Uganda, Rwandan exiles are among the victorious troops of Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army who take power, overthrowing the director Milton Obote. 
• 1990 - Forces of the rebel, mainly Tutsi, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invade Rwanda from Uganda.
• July 1990 - Under pressure from Western aid donors, Habyarimana concedes the principle of multi-party democracy. 
• October 1990 - RPF guerrillas invade Rwanda for Uganda. 
• 1990-1991 - Rwanda army begins to train. 
• November 1991 - Dr. Leon Mugesera appeals to Hutus to send the Tutsis back to Ethiopia via the rivers. 
• February 1993 - French forces are again called in to help the government side. 
• August 1993 - Habyarimana and e RPF sign a peace accord that allows for the return os refugees  and a coalition Hutu-PRF government. 2500 U.N. troops are deployed in Kigali. 
• September 1993 - March 1994 - Habyarimana stalls on setting up a power-sharing government. Extremist radio, station, radio mille collines, begins broadcasting exhortations to attack the Tutsis. 
• March 1994 - Many Rwandan human rights activists evacuate their their families from Kigali believing massacres are imminent. 
• April 6, 1994 - President Habyarimana and the president of Burundi are killed when Habyarimana's plane is shot down near Kigali Airport. That night the killing begins. 

Kevin's Eyes on Africa Prezi

Eyes on Africa: Hunger in Ethiopia. on Prezi

This is Kevin's prezi, talking about famine in Africa. Because of the weather and many other reasons, some Africans die because of starving. I was not surprised that they die because of not eating, but I cannot imagine them being so thin. Some children have skinny arms and legs, but big belly, and usually there are parasites. Because of their poor medical skills, a lot of Africans died since very long time ago. Diseases is another reason why their population goes down. Although they have diamonds and precious jewelries, they still have other issues blocking them having a good life. 

I like Kevin's prezi because it is very easy for people to understand, but maybe more focus on a region or a country will be better. By selecting a region, we can learn more about how people deal with famine and live their lives. 

Eyes on Africa: Lions in South Sahara Desert

Eyes on Africa on Prezi

Lion is the second largest cat family. They usually spend their wild life when they are grown up to about 10-14 years old while they can grow up to 20 years old. Male lions are the ones that do the scent marking and patrolling. They also defend prides from other prides. They are bigger than female lions, which can grown up to 11 feet long from head to tail with a shoulder height of 4 feet. They can weigh up to 550 pounds. Female lions is smaller than male lions, and can weigh up to 400 pounds. Their top speed is 81 kn/hr, but only for short distance. Most of the lion live in a tropical desert, grassy landscape, or forest.
From 19th century to now, the quantity of lions in Africa keep on decreasing. They die because of human's population growth! Since the early 1950's, the populations of lions has been reduced by half, and now there are less than 21000 lions in Africa.

This is the website i found about lion's population from 1800s to now: National Geographic: Big Cats Initiative

Also, this is the video Tina and I made for lions in Africa. The song is "Can you feel the love tonight" from the movie "Lion King". Hope you enjoy it!!!  :D

David Livingstone

David Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813, and died on May 1, 1873 in Africa. He was a Scottish, and was a medical missionary, working with the London Missionary Society, but he was also an explorer who explored in Africa. 

When he was young, his father, Neil Livingstone, found a tutor to give him a Sunday school and also gave him Christian tracts to study. Because of this, he was very good at reading, but reading was not the only thing he liked. He also loved animals, planets, and geological specimens. His father was afraid the contradiction between science and religion, but this led him to accept and know more about the relationship between two of them. 

Shake Zulu

Shaka Zulu is the leader of the Zulu Kingdom. He was born in 1787 and died on September 22, 1828. He was very famous because he united many of the northern Nguni people, includingMtetwaw Paramonountcy and Ndwasdwe. His effort made him became the greatest cheiftman, and was called "The Military Genius" because of his innovation, and also because he knew how to use the strong and strict way to control his reign.  

I would want to share some videos of Zulu tribe in modern day. The first one is about their wedding dance, and the second one is about their dance danced by males. 

Official Website for Territory 21!!!!! :DDD

This is our official website for our nation, Territory 21. Please visit us and leave some comments! :)
And hope you like it. :D

http://territory21officialwebsite.weebly.com/

Here are some pictures of our website:

Territory 21 Economic Report

Economic Indicators:
Import: Territory 21 lacks enough energy to supply electricity for its research. We only produce enough electricity for the daily uses of Torizens. Therefore, we need to import electricity. We do, from D.R.Lewolf. 46% of the electricity used by the daily uses of Torizens is from them, imported. We also import specimens for research, and exotic animals and plant species.
Export:Territory 21 has a surplus of timber, metals, and arable land. This results in strong steel production, mining of metals, lumber, paper-production, as well as agricultural production. We also have a surplus of human resources: intellectuals, services, and labor. Our education is very advanced. Our science and technology is very developed. Since we are a large country, our lakes and rivers may not cover all of our freshwater supply, but we export salt-water fish. We also have a large emphasis on tourism, especially the Florida-like Holidays County.
GDP per capita:

$ 57,200 PPP...(based on Singapore, according to CIA World Factbook)
Sectors, % GDP:
Industry: 30% Mostly steel, semi-conductors, computer parts, robotics, screws, hardware, gaming and entertainment industry...etc.
Agriculture: 30% wheat, grain,  and other crop-related products. Livestock.
Service: 40%...all kinds. Emphasis on education and scientific service, as well as personal interests.
Tax Revenue: % GDP: 12% (modeled after Japan)
Military Expenditures, %GDP: around 3 % (based on the larger sized countries in the world)


More information will be updated as more data is known.


KEY TERMS:
Torizens: Territory 21 citizens.

MUSICS I want to share :D

This song is "Born This Way" by Lady GaGa. I think this related to people in Africa. Many Africans were slaves, but they can don't have to be. They can be anyone they want. In this song, I feel like she is telling everyone that you are who you are (also related to Kesha's We are who we are), and b yourself. 

Born This Way

We Are Who We Are

Music about economics :D

I found a very cool song called "Price Tag" by Jessie J, which is telling us that money is not everything. We shouldn't be so serious about it because we cannot buy happiness from it. I like the song because I feel great after listening it.

Territory 21

Nation Factbook:

CIA World Factbook.
Country Name: Territory 21
Motto:

“In Him We Trust”
Mission Statement:
It is the mission of Territory 21 to provide people with a common aim to bring out their own advancements. We all have goals, and we need the right conditions to carry out our pathways to success. Anyone can be great, historic, as long as the circumstances fit. It is our nation’s central belief that we will provide the ground for human culture to flourish. Our type of government is authoritarian and based on elitism, a lesser form of oligarchy. While it may appear very centralized, our country has a political structure that causes the country to be very de-centralized.
       One of the major ideas of citizen participation in Territory 21 is that the citizens are the “employees” of our country. They all work for the welfare of others. Citizens are given a life. They have a lot of participation potential. In order to be citizens, people are required to be born in Territory 21, with a residential form confirming their residency of at least 5 years, added on the approval of Level 1 ~ 3, and the government should have your profile from Level 1 till 7. You are also required to have an occupation. The levels refer to our political structure:
Level 1: Parental/Familial Level 2: Of the neighborhood Level 3: Local/District/Town               Level 4: City Level 5: City + County Level 6: Occupation Leaders Level 7: Occupation Board Level 8: 102 Approval Level 9 : Social Merit Group Level 10: EE12 Approval
For Level 7, 8, 9, 10 positions, citizenship is required. Residential forms are required for levels 1 to 6 positions and approval or recommendation from your superiors should be attached if you are not a citizen.
       The history of Territory 21 has been brief. The country has only existed for 150 years. It was founded when an alliance formed between powerful families of the region in order to avoid the rule of other countries and also establish a system to benefit the people of the region. As territory expanded, and population increased, new policies and laws were established, and 100 years ago, the country declared independence, to which other countries responded peacefully. Ever since then, the country has been able to tread towards stability and peace without many conflicts.
      
Head of State— Title. State Elder                                  Abbreviation: S.E.
                             Name: Jasmine Lu   
                             E-mail: t21.headst@gmail.com

Head of Foreign Affairs – Title: Foreign. Aff Elder                 Abbreviation: For.AE
                                       Name: Tina Wu
                                       E-mail: t21.foreignaffairs@gmail.com

Head of Domestic Affairs – Title: Domestic Aff. Elder         Abbreviation: Dom.AE
                                       Name: Tracy Kao
                                       E-mail: t21.domesticaffairs@gmail.com

Detailed map with key and legend:
On the map is information about the divisions of territory within Territory 21. The nine counties, named after their capital cities, each have a symbol. The list is included on the side of the map. Note that there are two official national capitals: Pac-Man and Tenochtitlan. On the left of the map is the key.
       Something that was not included in the map is the ports available. Ports will be open along the South coast and around The Ballad Islands. The north is not as open to trade.
       On the right, we share a strait with Kalanji, while to the west of our country is a shared border with the Democratic Republic of Lewolf.

Climate: The two major climatic regions of our country are tropical and temperate. The middle portion of our country is tropical. It can be easily seen by the agricultural area and the jungle area. The north and south portions of our country extending outwards from the tropical region are the temperate regions.

Our main natural resources are iron/metals, timber, and food production. Food production is mainly produced around the agricultural region, while timber is from the forest surrounding our country. Iron/metals are dug from the underground.
We get 46% of the energy/electricity supply that the average person uses from D. R. Lewolf. The resulting 54% used is self-produced from hydropower, solar power, windpower, geothermal power, and nuclear power (As of Year 0)

Population Pyramids
Demographics:
       Total Land Area: 5 million square kilometers
       Total Population: 100 million people
       Major Cities (Land Area and Populations)

City population ( in millions)
1.    Holidays  3.00
2.    Tenochtitlan 2.00
3.    Holidays 17.00
4.    Lambda  3.00
5.    Dynamite 2.00
6.    Felixphrenics 3.00
7.    Carlosite 3.00
8.    Jazmania 8.00
9.    District 9.00
10. Total City Population 50.00
       Percent Living in Cities (50 %)

Religion: Varied and Free. No survey has been conducted yet.

LAND USAGE:
Agriculture  33%
Cities  27%
Suburban  15%
Forest  15%
Other 10%

Freedom of speech: Limited
Death penalty: Yes
Equality before the law: Theoretically
Currency and Economic Policy: Currency is in NTD. Our economics system is a capitalist one.
Trading policy: We tax imports, and mostly export semi-conductors, steel, and services.
Military/Police Defense/Security policy: Government has control over military. We have air force, navy, and army. We also have a local police system.
Education policy: Very emphasized in our country. Free public education system for all citizens. Residents may require extra procedures. Government sponsors for high school and scholarship for university and beyond.
Health care/Public health policy: We have nationalized health care, and medicines or clinics need to be released by the government or government-certified. Health care is paid for in tax.
Retirement/Social Security policy: For those who don’t follow politics as their career, we give retirement cash to those who have world for at least 10 years in the same occupation/industry. We give 30 thousand NTD per month to each person who has achieved the requirements. We provide social insurance, income maintenance, education, and welfare.
Foreign Aid policy: We provide human service as well as foreign aid. We also provide military service under certain circumstances for our allies during times of war, but mostly we go by treaty terms.
Welfare policy: We do have relief programs and financial aid for the poorer.
30% of the tax is given to households with no steady income of 10 thousand dollars per month or less. We also sponsor religious institutions, community service organizations, and relief organizations. All of these have to be registered with the government before allowed to operate.

Capitalism & Socialism

       There are people living in the world, and some live in the different countries. Different countries have different beliefs of political theories. Capitalism and socialism are two examples of political theories. Some countries are capitalism, which works out good, but some don’t.

       Socialism is a political theory with common ownership. They believe in equal-power relations, self-management, and separated decision-making. In their economic system, they share their products.

Capitalism is an economic system that is used mostly in the world. People get to keep their properties with privacy. They can control how to use it, when to use it, and who do use it. Not only has the higher level status of the people got to keep their properties, but also the lower level people. Because of capitalism, our world became industrialized, and it is used many places in the world. 

JB REED

MRT Station

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 Traffic light

Prince Klemens von Metternich

Prince Klemens von Metternich

Prince Klemens von Metternich was born on May 15, 1773, and died on June 11, 1895 in Austria. He was the German-Austria politician and statesman, and was one of the most important diplomats of his era. He majored negotiation, and after that he majored the congress of Vienna. From 1809 to 1848, he was afraid that Austria will face danger, so then he plan to first stay away from Napoleon because he was part of the France, since that France was the enemy of Austria. But then he became alliance with Napoleon on March 14, 1812.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon was born in Corsica in August 15, 1769. He was the leader and political leader of France and Emperor of the French.He led sucessful campaign against the first and the second coalitions against France. In 1799, he became the first consul, and after five years, the French senate proclaimed him as the emperor of France.
When he was in Egypt, he learned that France had suffered a series of defeats in the War of the Second Coalition.