Wednesday, April 20, 2011

VA final

Joy Prior
Final Questions Issues in Contemporary Art and Art Criticism
As I read the final questions for my Contemporary Art and Art Criticism class I pulled my hoodie over my ponytail, pushed my statistic notes across the living room floor, and imagined a critique. A tall man sitting erect on the edge of a leather coach and his combed hair bouncing when he moves his hands. His pastel colored shirt is tucked into a pair of pressed khaki pants. I look at my own appearance: I studied too late last night; I am wearing the same stuff I wore yesterday because everything else is packed in moving boxes; and my nose is running from allergies. No one would take me serious if I was a critique. I read the question again. My professor was not asking if I thought that I was a critique, but to explain the nature and purpose of Criticism as a discipline. I reflected not simply on how I view art differently after my class, but how I view myself. In the best way that I can articulate I feel that the purpose of criticism is to overcome the fear of stating something you believe in that you are brave enough to change when you understand more.
The reason for studying a discipline is not to obtain a title, but to explore. I take mathematics not because I am mathematician but to learn mathematics. I am in biology not because I am a biologist but to learn biology. I am taking art criticism not because I am a critic but to learn criticism. The nature of criticism, just like other disciplines, should be driven by a desire to expand ones knowledge and not in the vain pursuit of a title.
I believe that criticism is a discipline that benefits the individual more than the observer. I thought about what a critique is. He does not only look like a critique, but he has educated himself, learned to articulate his responses, and above all remains confident in himself even when he loses confidence in his response. This semester I have come to the conclusion that learning to critique an art work is more than simply taking the fragments of knowledge I know and pasting them together for publication. As I take art criticism I have learned to reform my opinion when I question my understanding and perspective but I no longer feel that I have to question my self value to reform an onion. I have benefited the most from learning about art criticism.
I no longer approach the connection between the culture of Zion and postmodernism as if I were in a balancing act. Imagine a balance: a feather on one side of the balance and boulder on the other side. The balancing point has to shift between the two items until it finds balance. This image helped me to see that before I can balance two items, such as a feather and a boulder, I have to full understand the two individual objects and their relationship before I can put them in balance. My attempts to balance religious and artistic beliefs were fruitless not because of my lack in effort but because I do not fully understand the two items I was trying to balance. As I have taken more time to discover what postmodernism and the culture of Zion are I am making progress into knowing how I can have both of them in a balanced life. I now approach the connection between the culture of Zion and postmodernism as a discover; two subjects that I image could take more than a life time to explore.
I never imagined that a Visual Arts minor would complement an Early Childhood Education major so well. When I picked Visual Arts as my minor I chose it because I wanted to do something I found relaxing, and something that I know would not require me to cram in useless information the night before an examine. It was when I started helping in a Kindergarten classroom that I began to value the simple things I learned in art, such as there are more mediums than crayons that I can have in my classroom, to more valuable concepts such as how to discuses and recognize visual stereo types in a reading books, or streaming in from the media. The connection between my personal aspirations as an artist and an educator seems to enhance each other. As I study theories on how to engage children in education my own curiosity takes control. Within the safe elements of art I can be daring enough to explore the world and myself. As I see how art has helped me to discover more I put forth extra effort to provide the same opportunities for my students.
Before I began to write out a few important ideas, experiences, insights that I gained while studying contemporary art and artists I looked through my thought journal.
The black silhouette of Kara Walker made me to explore the important idea of imagination and fear. While I looked at Kara Walker I realized that no one else saw the same image that I saw in her work. I took my own experiences and images and put them into the blank silhouettes, filling the scenes with life and color. Her images seem so familuar and entirely unkown. I made this image as a parallel to how I handle the fear of the unknown. When I am afraid of the future it is because I have filled what I can not see with fears that I am familiar with.
One experience that helped me to grow the most in the class was my presentation of my artist. I felt unbelievably self-conscious of presenting my artwork in front of the class. Even during the last week I do not think I would even dare to sketch a house on the white board in front of all the students. Although I still feel pressure that my art work will never be presentable the experience of showing a simple chalk in front of the class helped me to take baby steps of actually sharing my artwork.
An insight that I learned in class that I reread in my thought journal was “the arts encounter the other and challenge the ego of what we know.” I liked this thought for multiple reasons. One reason I liked the thought so much is because it brought up the idea that I develop my the ego is from facts that I think I know, my experiences, and what I am comfortable with. The other thought that I liked was that the arts challenge my ego. That means that art makes me question facts that I think I know, my experiences, and what I am comfortable with. I like the idea of questioning what I know to discover and continue to discover the world and truth around me.

Return my book: I returned you book
I finished Assignment 45: Reread your favorite book from the 5th grade.
I remember my 5th grade teacher read A Year Down Yonder to my class, and I loved it so much that I read the series later that year. After I finished finals on Monday I did one of my favorite things. I went to the gym sat on one of the stationary bikes and reread the book A Year Down Yonder from cover to cover. It seemed a lot shorter than I remembered it in 5th grade, but I had forgotten most of the stories. I can not believe that I forgot about the naked women running out of the house with a snake wrapped around her! How unforgettable is that?

After considering my work, attendance, participation, writing, reading I would give myself an A in this class. I worked at my personal project, and thought about what I wanted to do until my head almost hurt. Not only did I try things this semester that I never thought I would be brave enough to do but I thought about concepts and ideas that I had never dared to think. I finished the reading, and tried to keep up with all of the writings. I can not remember missing class. I really tried hard to not only participate in the group discussions. Most of all I know that I learned and worked in the class because I found what I was learning in Art creeping into my other subjects, Sunday school lessons, and the very way that I think and perceive the world. I enjoyed the class immensely and would honestly say I feel that I deserve an A.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Geog terms

Confucianism: Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius
originated in China but has spread to Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Most people who adhere to the teachings of Confucius follow Chinese traditional religion
shogun ate: government of the shogun, or hereditary military dictator, of Japan from ad 1192 to 1867.
is a military rank and historical title for (in most cases) a hereditary military dictator of Japan.[1] The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo. Although the original meaning of "shogun" is simply "a general", as a title, it is used as the short form of seii taishōgun 征夷大将軍, the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867.[2]
Geomancy: is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. The most prevalent form of divinatory geomancy involves interpreting a series of 16 figures formed by a randomized process that involves recursion followed by analyzing them, often augmented with astrological interpretations.
Wind and Water, an indication that this belief or study put great reference to the natural wind and water elements of Mother Nature
Burakumin: are a Japanese social minority group


Superconurbation: a large urbanized area formed from a number of large metropolitan areas, generally with populations of over a million. Superconurbations occur when metropolitan areas physically merge to form one continuous built up area through population growth and expansion.
Examples include Japan, where Tokyo continues to grow as an urban environment.
Central Place Theory: created by the German geographer Walter Christaller, who asserted that settlements simply functioned as 'central places' providing services to surrounding areas

Pollution exporting: a more developed country sending their waste and garbage to another less developed country.
Bissau Harbor, Guinea Bissau (Credit: T. Agardy)

Special economic zones: is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone.
The category 'SEZ' covers a broad range of more specific zone types, including Free Trade Zones (FTZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZ), Free Zones (FZ), Industrial parks or Industrial Estates (IE), Free Ports, Urban Enterprise Zones and others.
prominent SEZs in the country are Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shantou, and Zhuhai. It is notable that Shenzhen, Shantou, and Zhuhai are all in Guangdong province, and all are on the southern coast of China where sea is very accessible for transportation of goods.


Anthropogenic landscapes: Human Landscapes" are areas of Earth's terrestrial surface where direct human alteration of ecological
Poor air quality in China due to factories and burning fossil fuels
Rust belt: Manufacturing Belt or the Factory Belt
BEIJING - Once China's industrial heartland, the country's northeast region has turned into a "rust belt"

Cast system: is a system of social stratification and social restriction in India in which communities are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called Jatis


Monsoon: rainy phase of a seasonally-changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase
term was first used in English in British India (now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area

Jainism: is an Indian religion that prescribes pacifism and a path of non- violence towards all living beings. Karma. There is no divine being but the universe has its own order a peace

4.2 million followers in India

Sikhism: monotheistic religion
Punjab is the only state in India with a majority Sikh population
Hindi: Hindu belief is enormously diverse: some Hindus are vegetarian, others eat meat; some Hindus believe in many gods, some in one God, some in none at all.
Common to the majority of Hindus is the search for salvation (moksha) – release from the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara) Brahman is the term for the divine and absolute reality. Brahman may be worshipped in many different guises (pantheistic), and also as only one of many Gods (polytheistic) is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition[1] of South Asia whom approximately 1 billion live in India.[10][11] Other significant populations are found in Nepal (23 million), Bangladesh (14 million) and the Indonesian island of Bali (3.3 million

Green revolution: refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.[1]
The initiatives involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers
In the 1960s and '70s, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab changed from traditional methods to American-style farming.


British east India company: was an early English joint-stock company traded mostly with India cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The Company also came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions, to the exclusion, gradually, of its commercial pursuits
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 resulted in widespread devastation in India and condemnation of the East India Company for permitting the events to occur.[citation needed] One of the consequences of the Indian Mutiny was that the British Government nationalised the Company. The Company lost all its administrative powers; its Indian possessions, including its armed forces, were taken over by the Crown pursuant to the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858.

Orogrphic rainfall: is the study of the formation and relief of mountains, precipitation occurs on the windward side of mountains


the orography of East Africa substantially determines the strength of the Indian monsoon

Dravidian language: includes approximately 85 languages, spoken by around 200 million people. They are mainly spoken in southern India

Forward captial: location may be for either economic or strategic reasons
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan; region has historically been a part of the crossroads of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Margalla pass acting as the gateway between the two regions.

Southeast asia: 
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations; goals are to peacefully economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region through joint endeavours in the spirit of equality and partnership in order to strengthen the foundation for a prosperous and peaceful community of Southeast Asian Nations;

was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.

Sunda shelf: is a south east extension of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia. Major landmasses on the shelf include the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Madura, Bali and their surrounding smaller islands.[1] It covers an areas of approximately 1.85 million km2.[2] Sea depths over the shelf rarely exceed 50 metres and extensive areas are less than 20 metres resulting in strong bottom friction and strong tidal friction

Typhoons: is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
forecasts is in Japan, with other tropical cyclone warning centers for the northwest Pacific in Honolulu (the Joint Typhoon Warning Center), the Philippines, and Hong Kong. While the RSMC names each system, the main name list itself is coordinated amongst 18 countries, including the United States, who have territories threatened by typhoons each year. The Philippines uses their own naming list for systems which approach the country.

Swidden agriculture: is an agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding. Slash and burn agriculture typically uses little technology and other tools, and is almost always done for subsistence activity. It is also commonly called swidden agriculture. Most slash and burn agriculture is subsistence agriculture done by farmers who plant crops and raise crops for local consumption. Very little land cleared using labor-intensive slash and burn methods is sold for market; rather what is grown is usually consumed on the farm.
many parts of Indonesia, and involves an estimated 11 million hectares of land, and some six million people

Golden triangle: is one of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas

Transmigration: to cause to go from one state of existence or place to another
by Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country. This involved moving people permanently from the island of Java, but also to a lesser extent from Bali and Madura, to less densely populated areas including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

Primate cites: leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy
Bangkok is the epitome of the primate city in Thailand



Khmer rouge: was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979

Entrepot: is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties. The origins of the entrepot are traced to the commercial behavior of ancient societies. Traders entering foreign territory were exposed to numerous natural and cultural hazards. In addition to facing harsh traveling conditions, they might be attacked by brigands or find themselves in places where they did not know the local languages or customs and were subject to territory-specific laws under which they would find no protection.
Hong Kong also serves as an entrepôt for trade between Asian economies not including China.

Elongated state: An elongated or attenuated nation such as Chile makes for difficult governance of peripheral areas in the north and south from the central capital region near Santiago. Vietnam is also an elongated state.

Fragmented state: Nations such as Indonesia, which is composed of more than 13,000 islands, are known as fragmented or archipelagic states (because they are composed of archipelagos). It is difficult to govern such a country composed of islands (and more than 200 million people).
Denmark and the Philippines are also archipelagic countries separated by water.

Prorupt state: A protruded or panhandle country such as Myanmar (Burma) or Thailand have an extended arm of territory. Like an elongated state, the panhandle complicates that shape of the territory. The state of Oklahoma also has a prominent panhandle.

Comopact state: A compact state with a circular shape is the easiest to manage. Belgium is an excellent example because of the cultural division between Flanders and Wallonia within Belgium. The compact form of Belgium has helped to keep the country together. Compact states are also easier to defend than states of other shapes.

Abroigine: are those people regarded as indigenous to the Australian continent.
Australian Aborigines have been categorised and labelled over time. Her lecture offered a new perspective on the terms urban, traditional and of Indigenous descent as used to define and categorise Aboriginal Australians. She said:
"Not only are these categories inappropriate, they serve to divide us. [...] Government’s insistence on categorising us with modern words like ‘urban’, ‘traditional’ and ‘of Aboriginal descent’ are really only replacing old terms ‘half-caste’ and ‘full-blood’ – based on our colouring.[6]"

Maori: people of New Zealand,
One of the first things you become immediately aware of in New Zealand is the influence of the Maori culture. The vast majority of place names are of Maori origin. At first, visitors may be puzzled by the seemingly impossible-to-pronounce names

Melanesia: is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji


Micronesia: is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

Polynesia: “many islands” Hawaiian Islands at one corner, New Zealand at another, and Easter Island
The larger islands are generally volcanic in origin; the smaller ones are generally coral formations. The principal groups are the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Kiribati islands, Cook Islands, and the islands of French Polynesia. Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken in Polynesia.


Tsunamis: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides and other mass movements, meteorite ocean impacts or similar impact events, and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami


Atoll: is an island (or islands) of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.

A very famous atoll is Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean due to its use as a testing ground for atomic and hydrogen bomb tests

Archipelago: islands or island group is a chain or cluster of islands Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along island arcs generated by subduction zones or hotspots, but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including erosion, deposition and land elevation.
The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The largest archipelagic state in the world, by size, is Indonesia

Haoles: is generally used to refer to an individual that fits one (or more) of the following: "White person, American, Englishman, Caucasian; American
mainly in Hawaii to describe a white person. Depending on how you say it, the word can mean either an insult or just a fact.


Outback: is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

REG final study guide

Page 654
Jesus’ faithful follower were four women
1. His mother, Mary
2. His mother’s sister (Salome)
3. Mary, the wife of Cleophas. Some believe Cleophas/Clopas to be the same person as Alphaeus, the father of Matthew/James
4. Mary Magdalene
Mary, mother of Jesus ancestry of; annunciation to; as virgin; and Holy Ghost; righteousness; visits Elisabeth; gives song of praise; travels to Bethlehem; ponders sacred events; purification of; simeon prophesies; searches for young Jesus; in Capernum; desires to speak with Christ; not to be worshiped; put in John’s care Jesus-“Wome, behold they son!” spoken to John “whom he loved”, waits at cross, observes burial. In the New Testament, a virgin chosen by God the Father to be the mother of His Son in the flesh. After Jesus’ birth, Mary had other children (Mark 6:3). Mary was a virgin, most beautiful and fair above all other virgins, 1 Ne. 11:13–20 Mary was at the wedding at Cana, John 2:2–5 Mary went to Bethlehem with Joseph, Luke 2:4–5
Mary Magdalene A woman in the New Testament who became a devoted disciple of Jesus Christ. Magdalene refers to Magdala, the place from which this Mary came. It is located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Devils cast out of; as faithful follower; at cross; possibly at tomb; She was near the cross, Matt. 27:56 (Mark 15:40; John 19:25). She was at Christ’s burial, Matt. 27:61 (Mark 15:47). She was at the tomb in the morning of the resurrection, Matt. 28:1 (Mark 16:1; Luke 24:10; John 20:1, 11). Jesus appeared first to her after his resurrection, Mark 16:9 (John 20:14–18). Seven devils went out of her, Luke 8:2
Mary, Mother of Mark In the New Testament, the mother of John Mark, who wrote the Gospel of Mark (Acts 12:12).
Mary of Bethany In the New Testament, the sister of Lazarus and Martha. Luke did not know; Christ stays in home of; Lazarus; Anoints Christ’s feet; Believes Christ; Possibly at cross; possibly at tomb: Mary sat and listened at Jesus’ feet, Luke 10:39, 42 Mary and her sister Martha sent for Jesus, John 11:1–45 She anointed Jesus’ feet with ointment, John 12:3–8
Martha The sister of Lazarus and Mary in the New Testament (Luke 10:38–42; John 11:1–46; 12:2). Luke did not know; Christ stays in home of; Lazarus; Believes Christ; possibly at Cross; Possibly at tomb
Lazarus In the New Testament, the brother of Martha and Mary. Jesus raised him from the dead (John 11:1–44; 12:1–2, 9–11). This is not the same Lazarus as the beggar in a parable that Jesus taught (Luke 16:19–31).
Judas Iscariot One of Jesus’ Twelve Apostles in the New Testament (Matt. 10:4; Mark 14:10; John 6:71; 12:4). His surname meant “man of Kerioth.” He was from the tribe of Judah and was the only Apostle who was not a Galilean. Judas betrayed the Lord. Received thirty pieces of silver for delivering Christ to one of the chief priests, Matt. 26:14–16 (Zech. 11:12–13). Betrayed the Lord with a kiss, Matt. 26:47–50 (Mark 14:43–45; Luke 22:47–48; John 18:2–5). Hanged himself, Matt. 27:5 Satan entered into Judas, Luke 22:3 (John 13:2, 26–30). David spoke of Judas’s betrayal of Jesus, Acts 1:16 (Ps. 41:9).
Annas In the New Testament, a man of great influence in the Sanhedrin. VbyV “Jesus was first taken to Annas, father-in-law of Caiaphas. Annas had served as high priest of th orthodox Jewish establishment, and Caiaphas now served in that position. Jesus, when arrested, was first brought to him (John 18:13); he also took a leading part in the trial of the Apostles (Acts 4:3–6).
Caiaphas In the New Testament, a high priest and son-in-law of Annas. VbyV “then Caiaphas vehemently ordered him , or charged him, under oath “ adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Crhist, the Son of God”… Caiaphas accused Jesus of blasphemy. Caiaphas took an active part in opposing Jesus and his disciples (Matt. 26:3–4; John 11:47–51; 18:13–14).
Pilate, Pontius A Roman ruler in Judea, A.D. 26–36 (Luke 3:1). He hated the Jewish people and their religion and put at least some Galileans to death (Luke 13:1). Jesus was accused and condemned to be crucified before Pilate (Matt. 27:2, 11–26, 58–66; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 18:28–19:38).
Barabbas Name of the man released instead of Jesus at the time of the Crucifixion. Barabbas was an insurrectionist, a murderer, and a robber (Matt. 27:16–26; Mark 15:6–15; Luke 23:18–25; John 18:40).
Thomas In the New Testament, one of the original Twelve Apostles chosen by the Savior during his mortal ministry. In Greek the name is Didymus (Matt. 10:2–3; John 14:5; 20:24–29; 21:2). Though Thomas doubted Jesus’ resurrection until he personally saw the Savior, his strength of character made him willing to face persecution and death with his Lord (John 11:16; 20:19–25). Greek Didymus means the same as his Aramaic name, Thomas: “Twin” (Jn 20:24) Doubting Thkomas? It was Thomas who said, “let us also go, that we may die with him” (Jn 11:16)

In the Appendex you can see all of the pictures of all of the maps on pages 713-719
Bethphage, near Jerusalem and the dead sea appendix 1 page 713
The Temple (also treasury, Solomon’s porch) page 718
The Kidron page 716

Appendix 1 page 717
upper room, Mount of Olive, Garden of Gehsemane, Caiaphas’ Palace,

Judgement hall/Praetorium: originally the name for the commander's tent or house in a Roman fortification, a castra or castellum. Later, praetorium was used for the residence of a procurator (governor) of a Roman province, thus acquiring an administrative and juridical sense that was carried over in the Byzantine Empire, where the praitōrion was the residence of a city's governor. The term was also used for the emperor's headquarters.
Judgement seat/the pavement (Gabbatha): It occurs only once in the Bible, in John 19:13, where it states that Pontius Pilate; "brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha."
Golgotha/Calvary,
Cyrene: the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region

Arimathaea,

In Emmaus



Feast of Dedication: John 10:22-39 at the Feast of Dedication he was walking in Solomon’s porch and he testified that He was one with God, but the people tried to stone him to death. celebrated the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. Associated with lights the Hebrew name is Hanukkah. Known as the festival of lights. Lasts eight days. Begins on 25th of Kislev every year about the November to December time. VbyV page 763
Great Pilgrimage festivals: most joyous and greates of yearly agricultural celebrations. One of the three annual pilgrimages festivals
Triumphal entry/palm Sunday: Matthew 21:6-11; Mark 11:7-11; Luke 19:35-38; John 12:12-18; VbyV 460 beginning of the last week of his mortal life. Spread items of clothing and branches in front of him in his honor. The natural habitat of the palm is a more tropical climate such as Joradn Valley. Transported for the celebration. Palm branches had been a symbol of Jewish patriotism, independence, and triumph over enemies. Many Jews were expecting a military power. They plead “save us” and “deliever us” while he traveled through the streets on a donkey the symbol of humility and peace vr a colt which he could have riden as the symbol of military.
Olivet Discourse
The Betrayal VbyV 550-554 “one of you shall betray me”- Jesus to his desciples while in the upper room. “he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me,” breaking bread together and eating from the same bowl together in this case symbolized a close relationship between friends. Judas like, seek the destruction fo those who were their greatest benefactors. Jesus asked Judas to do what he was going to do quickly, the others assumed it was something about finances. “I feel that when the Sacrament was introduced Judas had left,” Judas betrayed Christ because he was offended by his words.
High Priestly/Intercessory Prayer VbyV page 582 John 17:1-26 Jesus as our great high priest now interceded before the Father on our behavl, Jesus offers himself to provide eternal life, Juss presents a final report ot ht eFather of this redemptive mission, intercedes for all those who believe in him through preaching that they wilud demostrate thei discipleship in unity and become one with God. His purpose was to glorify his Father, but at the same time the Father would glorify his Son. Life in Hebrew Khayim is aplural noun life in the eternal sense esixts only in plurality, celetial marriage. The glory in Godly fatherhood.
“Trials” of Jesus: arrested in Gethsemane VbyV 611 Hearing Before Chief Priests at Caiphas’s Palace taken to Annas the father-in-law of Caiaphas that night VbyV 612 (peter denies at Caiaphas’s Palace) The next morning there was a hearing before Caiaphas possibly at Caiaphas’ Palace VbyV 623 hearing before Pilate in Jerusalem at the Antonia fortress possibly VbyV 623 Pilate did not want to deal with the problem so he sent Christ to Herod Antipas (the son of Herod the Great who killed John the Baptist) this was some were in Jerusalem, but Jesus did not even wish to speak to Herod Antipas. Once again he was returned to Pilate at the Antonia Fortress possibly VbyV 631 this is were Pilate releases Barabbas the murder insead of Jesus the Savior at the wish of the Jewish mob and were the Savior was mocked until taken to Golgotha near Jerusalem to be crucified.
Crucifixion VbyV 646 there is nothing in the scriptures to indicated that the crucifixion occurred on a hill it was possibly along the main road. Two thieves were crucified with Jesus. Ther were Lestai, which means more than thieves, the were likely revolutionaries and insurrectionists. Many mocked the savior while he suffered on the cross. Jesus put his mother into John’s care.
Earthquake VbyV 662 just as the eathquakes convulse dthe lands in the western wold at the time of Jesus’ death so upheaval occurred in the land of Jerusalem. The sun hid its face in shame. The veil of the Temple was rent in two. Bodies came out of the tombs, risen ones…
The Resurrection VbyV 675 two angels removed the stone at the entrance of the sepulchre and sat on it, and two women saw them. Mary Magdalene ran to Peter and John. When they arrived the believed as they looked at his empty tomb. VbyV 681 Mary Magdala remained at the sepulchre crying and she saw who she thought was the gardener but who in reality was her risen Lord, but she could not touch Christ until he assended into heaven. He then appeared to other elect women, VbyV 688 the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, the disciples at Jerusalem VbyV 696, Thomas VbyV 699, fishing VbyV 704,
The Ascension VbyV 710on th eMOunt of Olives, he blessed them and then ascended into heaven to sit on the right hadn of God. The disciples praised God in the Temple, but his name is Immanuel which means God is With us, and He is still with us today.
Jesus’ post-mortal ministry VbyV 712 the Savior continues his work on the behalf of the Father’s Children everywhere. The atonement of Jesus Christ is is continually extended towards us, and he asks no price.

REg peom

The seventeenth century Dutch writer, Jacobus Revius, described our involvement in Jesus’ sufferings and death in the following powerful lines, under the title, “He Bore Our Anguish” (translated from the Dutch by Charles D. Tate, Jr., associate professor of English at Brigham Young University; published in BYU Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Autumn 1974, 103; also found in our volume on the Gospels entitled Verse by Verse: The Four Gospels, published by Deseret Book):


It was not the Jews, Lord Jesus, who crucified you,
Nor the traitors who dragged you to the law,
Nor the contemptuous who spit in your face,
Nor those who bound you, and hit you full of wounds,
And it was not the soldiers who with evil hands
Lifted up the reed or the hammer,
Or set that cursed wood on Golgotha,
Or cast lots and gambled for your robe;
It is I, O Lord, it is I who have done it,
I am the heavy tree that overburdened you,
I am the rough bands that bound you,
The nail, the spear, and the cords that whipped you,
The bloodied crown that tore your head:
All this happened, alas! for my sins.

REG CS lewis

C. S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity (pp. 54-56), view of Jesus Christ


[God] selected one particular people and spent several centuries hammering into their heads the sort of God he was—that there was only one of Him and that He cared about right conduct. Those people were the Jews, and the Old Testament gives an account of the hammering process.

Then comes the real shock. Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world Who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.

"One part of the claim tends to slip past us unnoticed because we have heard it so often that we no longer see what it amounts to. I mean the claim to forgive sins: any sins. Now unless the speaker is God, this is really so preposterous as to be comic. We can all understand how a man forgives offences against himself. You tread on my toe and I forgive you, you steal my money and I forgive you. But what should we make of a man, himself unrobbed and untrodden on, who announced that he forgave you for treading on other men's toes and stealing other men's money? Asinine fatuity is the kindest description we should give of his conduct. Yet this is what Jesus did. He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offences. This makes sense only if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin. In the mouth of any speaker who is not God, these words would imply what I can only regard as a silliness and conceit unrivalled by any other character in history.

Yet (and this is the strange, significant thing) even His enemies, when they read the Gospels, do not usually get the impression of silliness and conceit. Still less do unprejudiced readers. Christ says that He is "humble and meek" and we believe Him; not noticing that, if He were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some of His sayings.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Stat final

Joy Prior
STAT 121 Sec 045
State: Is there a significant difference between the mean value of the amount of pictures on Facebook that Joy Prior’s female and male Facebook friends publish on their profile pictures?
Plan: This is an observational study, and the observations were collected from Facebook an online social network. The test procedure will be a two sample t-test that will compare the parameter of the mean values of the amount of pictures the male members on Joy Prior’s Facebook friend list, and amount of pictures the female members on Joy Prior’s Facebook friend list post on their profile page. The null hypothesis is that there will not be a significant difference between the means. The alternative hypothesis is that there will be a significant difference between the means. The hypothesis aim to discover if there is a significant difference between the mean value of the amount of pictures on Facebook that Joy Prior’s female and male Facebook friends publish on their profile pictures? The set level of significance for this study is alpha equals .05.
One of the limitations of the study could be in the collection of the Simple Random Sample. The sample was taken from a list of all of Joy Prior’s Facebook friends assigned a number 001 to 635 in alphabetical order. To create a random sample the data was collected from 104 Facebook profile pages chosen by a list of random numbers taken from Table C (the random number table provided on blackboard). Another limitation of the study was that the sample was only taken from Joy Prior’s Facebook friend list. This study could not be used as a generalization for all members of Facebook, but could simply be used to describe the specific parameter. One observation of the population of Joy Prior’s Facebook friends is that the majority appeared to be in their early to mid-twenties and did not accurately represent the entire social network. It is important to recognize that there was a difference in the sample size of males and females. The number of females sampled was 71, but the number of males sampled was 33. This disturbance in the data collection was possibly due to the observation that Joy Prior has more female Facebook friends than male Facebook friends.
Solve:
Male

Female

The conditions of the two sample t test included a simple random sample and normality in the sample. As mentioned before one of the limitations of the study was the numbers assigned to the population in alphabetical order and not randomly. The data was collected by a sample using random numbers. There was no normality in the distribution. Both populations were right skewed. According to the inner quartile range and the 1.5*IQR rule the male sample did not have any apparent outliers but the female sample has 3 apparent outliers. Under this situation the conditions are not meet.
The calculated sample statistics:
Male
N=33
Mean= 268.0606
Std. Dev.= 226.70271
Variance= 51394.12
Std. Err= 39.46388
5 Number Summary: Min= 6; Max= 1045; Q1= 119; Mean= 268.0606; Q3= 395
Female
N= 72
Mean= 395.84506
Std. Dev.= 372.7559
Variance= 138946.97
Std. Err= 44.237988
5 Number Summary: Min= 1; Max= 1544; Q1= 80; Mean= 395.84506; Q3= 540
Test Statistics:
T-Stat= -1.8165619
Computer calculated p-value= 0.0722
Computer calculated degrees of freedom= 102
Computer calculated std. err.=70.344124
Computer calculated sample mean= -127.78446
Degrees of Freedom= 32
P-value from Table C= .05< p-value < .10
Conclude: Because the .05< p-value < .10 is greater than the set alpha of .05 we can fail-to-reject Ho and concluded that there is not a significant difference between the mean values of the pictures males post on their profile page and the mean value of pictures females post on their profile page taken from the members of Joy Prior’s Facebook friend list.
Implications: The implications of this data can be used for the organization Facebook to know which features, specifically the tagging pictures, are being used by which group of consumers. While collecting the data it appeared that there are other variables that would influence the amount of pictures someone has on their profile page more directly than male or female. Some example hypotheses are the person’s age, the amount of friends, or the hours someone spends of Facebook. The actions resulting from the study is that Joy Prior will no longer have a stereotype of the amount of pictures females and males publish on their profile pictures.

REG final paper

Joy Prior
Rel A 211 Honors: The New Testament
Section 012
Professor Ogden
April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011
Reading 300 pages
To fulfill the credit for the 300 page of extra reading I read 500 pages from Verse by Verse, The Four Gospels by Daniel Kelly Ogden. Throughout the semester I followed along in the book with what was being read and discussed in class. Reading the commentary prior to class helped me to be mentally prepared for the discussions and my perspective of what it means to study the scriptures has been altered.
My awareness during class was enhanced if I read the commentary prior to the class discussions. My professor Ogden wrote Verse by Verse, The Four Gospels and some days his lectures seemed to quote his book verbatim. This never bothered me, because it helped me to remember what I had read the night prior and the lessons I learned from the written text were parallel but not identical to what I learned from the lectures. When I was prepared with my reading for class the stories of Jesus, his friends, and the parables all became clearer.
With each semester at BYU I have to change what it means to me to study the scriptures. I can still remember my seminary bookmark I would check every day after my 10 minutes of reading. It only took me one exam to realize that the BYU religion classes were not equal to seminary. As I got asked more questions by friends and family I realized that not even BYU religion classes can prepare me for the vigorous attacks but the spirit can. The spirit seems to be the revealer of truth, and the promptings that I have felt while I read specific commentary has brought me more light and knowledge. I have not believed that reading 10 minutes a day is enough but I used to limit my study time by only reviewing the bible dictionary and foot notes when I have a question. Reading has helped me believe that the culture, language, and context of the scriptures are as a part of the truth found in the scriptures as the morals. To amplify my scripture study I should continue to add these facts or truths to my study material.
Not only did the commentary enhance my understanding of the class, but it also helped me to refine my scripture studying. I was grateful for the opportunity to read the commentary this semester. Unlike my geology text I never plan to sale my Verse by Verse, The Four Gospels back to the book store, but I do not think that I will be able to simply let it sit in my library. I have already recommended it to a friend who wants to read it this summer and my mom wants to read it in the fall.

Monday, April 11, 2011

SFL service learning

Joy Prior
Review of Volunteering with TOPS
I have worked in Preschools before, but there was a remarkable difference between how I worked with children before and now. Not only did my confidence blossom, but I was able to practice several things I learned in class. It was almost insane to see how much teaching happens when I was simply talking with the students. When I was in the classroom it became clear how varied kindergarteners are in their abilities. The final lesson I learned was that the lesson plan should cater to my and the student’s attention spans, and abilities.
When I was talking to the students on topics they were interested in they could remember what was being taught more clearly. I really did try to put DAP ideals into practice, particularly by drawing “on children’s own interests and introduce children to thing likely to interest them,” (p. 21). For example I will always remember when we were talking about infinity. As we talked about infinity I mentioned how the sign for infinity is a sideways number 8. Then we talked about how the number one is represented by a 1 image, and we went through a list of numbers. Although the children were interested in the idea of infinity I did not think that they were paying attention to what I was explaining. The next week when I was at the writing center I overheard one of the boys I had explained infinity to last week draw a picture of a sideways 8 and tell his friend that it was the sign for infinity.
As I began to talk with the students I was able to see how varied they were in their abilities. Before, during, and after every writing activity all I could think was how “children’s skills vary and they will need different levels of support,” (p. 19). It took a lot of concentration to notice all of the varied levels of ability, but it also took a lot of thought to know how to support the entire student’s in the various levels of ability. It took me a few weeks to notice that one of the little boys never actually talked. Sometimes he would respond when I asked him a direct question, but the majority of the time he worked quietly. Although he finished his work I realized that I was responsible for helping him to develop social abilities as well. I made a point to ask him questions about his sentences, and next time I think that I will try and have him ask and answer questions with a student next to him. I was only able to learn this as I began to spend more time talking and working with the students.
Some days were easier than other days to get a topic of conversation going. One day the assignment was to write two sentences about a dinosaur. Most of my time was spent breaking down the names of the dinosaurs into one or two letter sections. The length of the names intimidated most of the students and instead of wanting to write the name they would just put their pencil down. This day I was so thankful that the group sections were only 15 minutes long. I know that kindergarteners can often only work at a station for 15 to 20 minutes, but in all honesty I do not think that I could have worked another 15 to 20 minutes on dinosaur names (p. 204). I had no idea how to pronounce most of the names and wished that I could have looked some of the pronunciation up. It was a really short section, but I was unprepared for it. The few minutes that I was working in each group was stressful to me, because I did not know what I was doing. The curriculum I design does not only have to capture the attention of the students, but I have to take the responsibility to know and recognize the material.
Overall it was a great learning experience and it helped me to apply learning how to talk with students, recognize different levels of development, and how to organize a lesson plan.

SFL journal

Joy Prior
Week 1 January 25, 2011
I went to the Kindergarten for the first time this week. It was so much fun. I forgot how much I enjoy working with children. For the hour I was responsible for the activity about the letter H, and the H sound. We were supposed to sing a song that was about Hot Cakes, but I could not really figure out the tune, and the kids really did not care too much about the song. Instead we really tried to list of lots of words with the H sound while we played Hot potato. Some of the children were thinking of words that I would not have even imagined that they would know, and other groups needed a little help to think of more than just the word hot or hotcake or hot potato. They were all really well behaved, and were really interested in the game. I got better at getting the students to think of H words and to interact in the game, but I struggled with developing a pattern to the short activity that went well with the timing of the session. Supposable each of the sessions was fifteen minutes but in my own opinion I think that the timings were all different and that they really did not stick strictly to a fifteen minute season, but then again I could be wrong.
Week 2 February 1, 2011
Writing sentences was like pulling teeth. Two sentences, that was all, and we sat there a looked at those papers for the longest time. No I take that back, most of the kids were not even looking at their paper; most of them were trying to look at what everyone else in the classroom was doing. The amount of attention each group gave varied from group to group, but it was generally the same low level of interest. In theory they could color a picture after they wrote two sentences, but most of them sat down and colored first. I felt completely lost. All of the confidence that I felt from the first week was completely gone, and I was at ground zero. I could have possibly been feeling in the negatives.
I tried to think of ways to make writing two sentences interesting. We began by listing off words that the kids knew, we talked about some of the words on the word wall, and I wrote out a few model sentences. I like that by the end most all of the children had written two sentences, and a few had written only one. That really should not have been my goal though. I think that if I had spent less time worrying about trying to get everyone to write two sentences and more time trying to encourage and help the children learn I would have been more successful.
Week 3 February 8, 2011
It was one of those days when I wonder exactly what I am doing with my life. Overwhelmed by the idea that what I was doing means nothing and that I really made the wrong care choice I went to the Kindergarten today. When I got there Dan looked up at me and said, “Oh! There you are. I was worried that you would not be here and I not help me spell Dinosaur.” It made me laugh a little inside, but I was happy. If no one else me being there today mattered to Dan simply because he was afraid of spelling the word Dinosaur.
Week 4 February 15, 2011
Today we wrote one sentence and then we could draw a picture about that sentence. MY minor is visual arts, and I spend a lot of time drawing and painting and working with various artistic mediums. I never realized what great minor this would be with Early Childhood Education. After writing a sentence we all started to draw pictures about what we had written our sentence on. My picture was of me jumping on the tramp.
One of the students brought up the grim reaper; I know, a little out there. Most of the children did not know what a grim reaper is, and so I drew a picture of one. I felt a little satanic, but as soon as the children saw a picture of a grim reaper they could recognize it and started to talk about Halloween. I was really glad that I did not excuse the conversation. I was also glad that I could and did draw a grim reaper, because it helped them to connect the word with a mental image.
Last week one of the children asked about the number infinity. We talked a little about it, and then I drew an infinity sign. I told them how it is the number 8 on its side. Today when I was in the classroom Hugh brought up the word infinity, and then he drew a number 8 on its side. I was a little shocked and pretty impressed that he remembered the sing for infinity.
Week 5 February 22, 2011
In one of the groups none of the students wanted to write a sentence, but we were at the writing center. I asked Dan if he could write a sentence, and tried to help him think of things that he could write about. He threw his pencil, and the teacher came over and told him that if he did not write his sentences he could not move onto the next station. I tried to think of a creative way to encourage him to start writing. We started with one word at a time. We started to play a kind of game. I would close my eyes and count to five and when I opened my eyes I wanted to see the word like on his paper. We played this game for an entire sentence. I think that it worked ok, because it broke the difficult task of writing two sentences into small steps. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by having to write two sentences Dan concentrated on one word at a time. After a while I could stop counting and say, “I am going to look at Olivia’s sentences and when I look back I want to see another word on your paper,” Dan then started to write by himself, and once he finished I was so relieved.
I am so much more confident when I work with the students now, and I am not as afraid to stop and think. I know that sounds a little weird, but I really did struggle when I first started to stop and think. I felt pressured to just keep on going and to just do, do, do. Now though I think that my hour goes better when I pause, think about what is going on, and then try again.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Stat this is the facebook name list

1) Aaron Fielding

2) Abraham Thomas

3) Adam Guppy Keele

4) Adam Michael Gonzales

5) Alana Howlett

6) ALbert L Prior

7) Alexa Kaye Johnson

8) Alexandria Greenwood

9) Alexis Munoa Dyer

10) Alfredo Carrera

11) Alina Haycock Stone

12) Alisha Betts

13) Alisha Talk

14) Alissa Anderson

15) Allen Foster

16) Allison Isaac

17) Allissa Huffaker

18) Ally Cuneo

19) Ally Perkins

20) Allyson Gordon

21) Alyssa Stones

22) Amanda Barlow

23) Amanda Goodman

24) Amanda O'Grady

25) Amber Prior

26) Amberly Ann Larsen

27) Amy Addington

28) Amy Camille Connelly

29) Amy Freeman

30) Amy Ieremia

31) Amy Jennings

32) Amy Lambert

33) Ana Paula Chavarri

34) Andi Smiley

35) Andrea Michele Taylor

36) Andrew Alvarado

37) Andrew Hinton

38) Andrew Prior

39) Angel Saddleback

40) Angelita Fernanda Pereira Pereira

41) Anna Marie Jensen

42) Anna Streibel

43) Annie Mein

44) Annie Wustemann

45) Anthony Frahm

46) April Schaefer

47) Aracely Rodriguez

48) Ariana Lilly

49) Ariel Hanson

50) Ashkia Benallie

51) Ashlee Head

52) Ashlee Nicole Bowen

53) Ashley Baadsgaard Worthen

54) Ashley Calder

55) Ashley Chappel

56) Ashley Christensen

57) Ashley Jarvis

58) Ashley Rothermel

59) Ashley Shelley

60) Ashley Sorensen

61) Ashley Susan Phelps

62) Ashley Williams

63) Aubs Palfreyman

64) Becky Boucher

65) Becky Lucas

66) Ben Cummins

67) Ben Quackenbush

68) Ben Wilson

69) Benjamin Aaron Besendorfer

70) Benjamin Arce

71) Benji Christensen

72) Bert Good

73) Bethany Anne Cherry

74) Bethany Carson

75) Bette Burton Popa

76) Betty Thomas

77) Blake Denning

78) Bob Kindmark

79) Bonny Dowling

80) Brady Olsen

81) Brandon Benally

82) Brandon Davis

83) Brandon Poulter

84) Brandon Soelberg

85) Brandy Foy

86) Brenda Findlay

87) Brent Wesson

88) Brian Urry

89) Briana Crook

90) Brianna Hatch

91) Brianne Burraston

92) Brianne Marie Marble

93) Britney Tourangeau

94) Britni Wing

95) Brittney Karl

96) Brooke Barbee

97) Brooke Comstock

98) Bruce Henriksen

99) Bryce Frost

100) Bryce Perkins

101) Bryce Prior

102) Caitlin Boden

103) Caitlin Morrison

104) Caleb Prior

105) Cameron Fullmer

106) Cameron Porcaro

107) Cami Godfrey

108) Camille Christensen

109) Camille Sine

110) Cammy Watt

111) Camrie George

112) Candace Wride

113) Carl Prior

114) Carson Lindley

115) Casey Kidman

116) Cassidy Darling

117) Catherine Kirk

118) Catie Nuckols

119) Celeste Lee

120) Celina Cortez

121) Chad Losser

122) Charles Denny

123) Charlotte Peterson Twitchell

124) Chase Hutchings

125) Chase Michaelis

126) Chelsea Hatch

127) Chelsea Kate Walker

128) Chelsey Jensen

129) Chelsey Rae Searl

130) Chris Brockbank

131) Chris Chevrier

132) Christie Anderson

133) Christina Heywood

134) Christina Williams

135) Christopher Lawson

136) Christy Pray Ivie

137) Claudia Milena Sandoval

138) Clayton Avery

139) Cody Anderson

140) Cody Austin Pike

141) Cole Hunter

142) Collin Brown

143) Conroy Saddleback

144) Courtney Wagner

145) Dallan Brindley

146) Dallin Jack

147) Dana Kendall

148) Dani Jones

149) Dani Veatch

150) Danica Andersen

151) Daniel Arce

152) Danielle Jones

153) Danny Parker

154) Darin Warren

155) David Clare

156) David Howard

157) David Nester

158) Delanie Law

159) Delite Ful Orton

160) Denna Lawrence

161) Derek Lemon

162) Devin Cope

163) Diallcy Rivera

164) Diana James

165) Dolly Donovan

166) Dom Bills

167) Douglas Wirthlin

168) D-pac Malmgren

169) Earl Carlisle

170) Eden Demre Moss

171) Eileen Luther

172) Eileen Prior

173) Elder B. Mitchell

174) Elder Bryson Thomas Carrick

175) Elder Chase Kiracofe

176) Elder Dallin Kimball

177) Elder Ethan Kalua'u

178) Elder Hayden Christianson

179) Elder Jacob Ray Banks

180) Elder Jared Forsyth

181) Elder M. Blake Fisher

182) Elder Matt Sanchez

183) Elder Max Scott Livingston

184) Elder Rafael Belo Durtschi

185) Elder Ryan Hofstrand

186) Elder Steven Yesel Rodriguez

187) Elder Tanner Snow

188) Elder Thomas Jace Brown

189) Elder Zachary Williams

190) Elizabeth Meinhart Warby

191) Elizabeth Tinti

192) Elyse Leinani Oldroyd

193) Emily Baer

194) Emily Cookson

195) Emily Culp

196) Emily Hawkins

197) Emily Lloyd

198) Emily McDonald

199) Emily Smith

200) Emily Stoehr

201) Enos Ledezma

202) Eric John

203) Eric Nelson

204) Erica Mecham

205) Erika Bird

206) Erika Paice

207) Erin Elizabeth MacPherson

208) Erin Kendrick

209) Ethan Taylor Marston

210) Eva Bighorse

211) Eva Joyce Burton

212) Eva Marie Miller

213) Evan Anderson

214) Eve Rackleff

215) Felicia Castillo

216) Ferry Fleurimond

217) Gabe Roberts

218) Gabriel Roca

219) Georgi Reginato

220) Georgia Marie Lamb

221) Ginelle Jack

222) Ginger Christopher

223) Girish Giri

224) Greg Brooks

225) Greg Forbush

226) Hadyn Richardson

227) Haley Richardson

228) Halie Augustus

229) Hannah Carson

230) Hannah Potter Harris

231) Hayden Jack Johnson

232) Heather Bright

233) Heather Pepperdine

234) Heather Rowley

235) Helen Purser

236) Henrico, Virginia

237) Houston Hiskey

238) Irene Lopez

239) Isaac Potter

240) Ivy Hazlett

241) Jacob Bracken

242) Jacqui Bird

243) Jamie Watchman

244) Janae Miller

245) JaNae Orton

246) Janice Adams Lowe

247) Janice Kirk

248) Janie Endemano

249) Jared Frost

250) Jared John Tuckett

251) Jason Davies

252) Jayden Griffiths

253) Jayne Preciado

254) Jaysi Jorgensen

255) Jayson Shane Jorgensen

256) Jazlyn Unbedacht

257) Jeanne Pinegar Johnson

258) Jeannie Lynn Hawks

259) Jeff Compton

260) Jeffrey Hammond

261) Jelly Otis

262) Jenessa Heckel

263) Jenna Meryl Perry

264) Jennifer Christine Mills

265) Jennifer Lowe

266) Jennifer Sepulveda-Folau

267) Jennifer Sivertsen Christensen

268) Jennifer Smith

269) Jennifer Stone Ainge

270) Jennifer Tourangeau

271) Jennilyn Prior Jorgensen

272) Jerad Ernest Todacheenie

273) Jess Kimball

274) Jesse Galovich

275) Jesse Kelley

276) Jessica Bartlett

277) Jessica Crandall

278) Jessica Dildine

279) Jessica Hoag

280) Jessica Hoffman

281) Jessica Riley

282) Jessica Rose

283) Jessica Shea Allman

284) Jessica Spencer

285) Jessica Spencer

286) Jessica Stokes

287) Jessica W Smith

288) Jessica Wright

289) Jessie Gifford

290) Jessie Pruden

291) Jitayma B. Alderete

292) Joanna McLaren Pace

293) Jocelyn Waite

294) Joe Denker

295) Johnny Christiansen

296) Jolene Kirk

297) Jon Goddard

298) Jon Neves

299) Jonathan Alan George

300) Jonathan Goodman

301) Jono Suave

302) Jordan D. Johnson

303) Jory Christian Brown

304) Josett Weinert

305) Josh Kamuela Roberts

306) Josie Osborn

307) Joy Dutosme Repaja

308) Julia Helen Lowe

309) Julia Kovacikova

310) Juliana Reynolds

311) Julie Elizabeth Lee

312) Julienne Weight

313) Justin H. Crandall

314) Justin Ryan

315) Justin Sly

316) Kai Hansen

317) Kailey Taylor

318) Kaitlin Shepherd

319) Kalama Kaluhiokalani

320) Kaley Cook

321) Kaley Jo Thomas

322) Kaloni Taylor

323) Kamryn Spendlove

324) Kanani Roberts

325) Karalyn Prestwich

326) Karen Marie Shaw

327) Karina Russon

328) Karina Russon

329) Kassidi Johnson

330) Kassie Crook

331) Kat Stoutsenberger

332) Katie Cable

333) Katie Clove

334) Katie Shields

335) Katt Malloy

336) Kawehi Kaa

337) Kaydee O'Brien

338) Kaye Neves

339) Kayla Jo Spurlock

340) Kayla Neves

341) Kaylee Elquist

342) Kayleen Kidman

343) Kaylie Houseman

344) Kaylie Marchbanks Packard

345) Kayson Spendlove

346) Kela Bello

347) Kelcie Curlee

348) Kelli Waite

349) Kelsi Lambourne

350) Ken Frei

351) Kendra Creer Hill

352) Kenna Christensen

353) Kennadi Prior

354) Kenneth Dunn

355) Keoki Leong

356) Kevin Cope

357) Kevin Pooley

358) Kevin-Nikole Kirk

359) Kiera Cook

360) Kiersta Spendlove

361) Kimberly Anne Myler

362) Kimberly Mullins

363) Kimmer Tourangeau

364) Kirsten Kay Wiscombe

365) Kirsten Sly-Bradford

366) Kori Pritchett

367) Krista McEntire

368) Kristen Blunck

369) Kristi Putnam Prior

370) Krysta Temple

371) Kyle Jesse Crotts

372) Kyle Tuft

373) Kyle Weight

374) Kyler Gilstrap

375) Kylie Annah Smith

376) La Blonde

377) Lacey Long

378) Lara Nelson

379) Laura Davis

380) Laura Hutchings

381) Lauren Barney

382) Leann Arce

383) Leilani Roberts

384) Leisl Cope

385) Leisl Cope

386) Lexi Page Marble

387) Lexy Lou Who

388) Linda Moulton Andrus

389) Linda Moulton Andrus

390) Lindsay Soderberg Voelkl

391) Lindsay Tuckett

392) Lindsey Maine Paradis

393) Lindsey McMurdie

394) Linnea Maria Torriente

395) Lisa Christine Anderson

396) Lisa Rose

397) Lisa Schafer

398) Liz Flores

399) Logan Ashkii Miller

400) Loni Spendlove

401) Loren Paul Begay

402) Loren Roundy

403) Lori Poulsen

404) Lucia Moeun Jeong

405) Luke Besendorfer

406) Lynzi Kidman Coffey

407) Madison Senior High School

408) Maele Sue Porter

409) Mallory Denning

410) Mandy Elsmore

411) Marcie'n'joe Potter

412) Marcus Hunt

413) Maren Clayton

414) Maria Anderson

415) Marie Olsen

416) Maris Colorado Arce

417) Mark Adam Keele

418) Marlen Craig Rice

419) Marlena Marie Smith

420) Martha Bachler Prior

421) Martha Guerrero

422) Mary Jacobson

423) Matt Lawson

424) Matt Moon

425) Matt Smith

426) Matthew Anderson

427) Matthew Cole

428) Matthew Vance

429) Max Speed

430) McKenna Lauren Lawson

431) Megan Fisher

432) Megan Nuttall

433) Megan Schmidt

434) Meggen Smith

435) Meggie Holden

436) Melinda Kidman McBride

437) Melissa Crandall Neary

438) Melissa Henrie

439) MeMe Vallett

440) Mercy Johnson

441) Micaela Ericka Rubio

442) Michael J. Crane

443) Michael Murdock

444) Michele Waite

445) Michelle Applegate Olsen

446) Michelle Jayne Clare

447) Mike Scott

448) Miranda Littleton

449) Mitchell Cobb

450) Molly Corinne Miner

451) Monica Alvarez

452) Monica Aubrie Anderson

453) Monica Hawkes

454) Morgan Hales

455) Morgan Hansen

456) Morgan Homan

457) Nachelle Stewart Mackie

458) Nana Pereyra

459) NaRhea Juchau

460) Natalie Anderson

461) Natalie Eliza

462) Natalie M. Hall

463) Natalie McVey

464) Natalie Stewart

465) Nataly Arce

466) Natesa Stephens

467) Nathan Anderson

468) Nathan Kimball

469) Nathanael Sackett

470) Nelson Jared Orton

471) Nicholas Devin Ricky Skinner

472) Nichole Schofield

473) Nick Sales

474) Nicole Egan

475) Nicollette Dedrickson Anderson

476) Nora Camille Wilmarth

477) Nyssa Silvester

478) Olivia Darling Nielsen

479) Olivia Lee Lessard

480) Palmer Christensen

481) Pamela Tyler Tuft

482) Pamella Ann McConnell

483) Parker Davis

484) Patrese Atine

485) Patrese Atine

486) Patrick N' Jewels Parsons

487) Praja Yuda

488) Rachael Mach

489) Rachael Morley

490) Rachel Bair

491) Rachel Leishman

492) Rachel Lyn Button

493) Rachel Mae Shively

494) Rachel Marie Kimball

495) Rachel Moake

496) Rachel Tourangeau

497) Rachel Wood

498) Raj Sitaula

499) Rebecca Abbott

500) Rebecca Engebretsen

501) Rebecca Kaspar

502) Renee Dillman

503) Rhett Nance

504) Rick Stone

505) Rob Lowe

506) Rob Miller

507) Robby Reid

508) Robyn Davis

509) Roman Cortez

510) Ronald Guevara

511) Ronnie Harward

512) Ryan Barker

513) Ryan Heywood

514) Ryan Hyatt

515) Sadie Fielding

516) Saeko Yamashita Logsdon

517) Sam Raleigh

518) Sam Riddle

519) Sam Roberts

520) Sami Gardner

521) Samuel Broomhead

522) Samuel Egbert

523) Sandra Macias

524) Sandra Macias

525) Sara Ashley Peterson

526) Sara Chronister

527) Sara Williams

528) Sarah AndJeremy

529) Sarah Ann Alanis

530) Sarah Anne Hakes

531) Sarah Callison

532) Sarah Clark

533) Sarah Johnson

534) Sarah Kay Benson

535) Sarah Snow

536) Sarahanne Prior Lawson

537) Sarahanne Prior Lawson

538) Scot LeFevre

539) Sean Allsop

540) Se'epa Ete

541) Seth Jenson

542) Seth Potter

543) Shadley LeFevere

544) Shaela Willie Avery

545) Shannon Obrigawitch

546) Shantel Rindlisbacher Flores

547) Sharisa Nay

548) Sharona Eskeets

549) Sharyn Lyn Eaves

550) Sharyti Doril Henriksen

551) Shauny Talk

552) Shawna Fincher

553) Shayla Johnson

554) Shaylene Prior

555) Sheii K. Lindley

556) Shelbie Lynn Hone

557) Shelby Cardoza

558) Shelby Jackson

559) Shelby Morgan Thurgood

560) Shelby Randquist

561) Shelby Willie

562) Sheridan Merkley

563) Shiloh Potter

564) Shirsten Larsen

565) Sidney Boman

566) Silvie Santos

567) Since Yesterday

568) Skjelse Smith

569) Skylar Call

570) Skylar Neilson

571) Skyler Hardman

572) Sonja Ponis LeFevre

573) Sonnett Davies Anderson

574) Sophie Crowley

575) Spencer Keele

576) Stephanie Griffiths

577) Stephanie Nelson

578) Stephen Hoffman

579) Stevanie Anderson

580) Steven Douglas McVey

581) Stevie Crook

582) Summer Giles

583) Susana Ete

584) Swen Prior

585) Sydnee Anderson

586) Sydney Renner

587) Sydnie Landeen

588) Taalin Rasmussen

589) Tamara Carter

590) Tamara Hansen

591) Tanner Ivan Snow

592) Tanner Mahoney Holt

593) Tara Peck

594) Tasha Newman

595) Tava Reid

596) Taylor Anderson

597) Taylor Baker

598) Taylor Reed Thompson

599) Tenika Dennis

600) Teressa Davies Murie

601) Tess Kelly

602) Tessa Kaiulani Roberts

603) Thomas G Plummer

604) Tiffany Webb

605) Timothy Langlois

606) Tishna Lynn Campbell

607) Toph Knutson

608) Tori Linde

609) Tori Snow

610) Tori Vinson

611) Torie Redshirt

612) Trent N. Taylor

613) Trenton Argyle

614) Tressa Betts

615) Trever Jorgensen Kreutzer

616) Trevor Anderson

617) Troy Cressman

618) Tucker Pinder

619) Tyler Brinkerhoff

620) Tyler Gebert

621) Tyler Nicosia

622) Tyler Toronto

623) Tyson Galovich

624) Tyson Smith

625) Unpc Voa

626) Val Cope

627) Vic Pereyra

628) Whitney Dixon

629) Whitney Nicole Dawe

630) Whitney Sanders

631) Whitney Shuman

632) Willis Virginia Burton

633) Witney Wilson

634) Zachary Pratt Gunderson

635) Zackary Stewart

Thursday, April 7, 2011

SFL golden nugget #4

Joy Prior
Golden nugget #4
The golden nugget that I learned from “Use your words” was about the third pillar of DAP. That I need to understand the social, and cultural context of the children I am teaching. I learned while I was reading that this third important concept is so vital, and apart of the development of a child that even if I try to ignore the family background of the students I am teaching it will work it’s way into the classroom.
In the book the author mentions a story about a discussion the children had after reading a story about families. One of the students states how much he hates his family, and his father. The teacher did what was DAP appropriate. She asked the student why he felt that way, and then welcomed discussion from the other students. After that she read a book about emotions and encouraged the children to share their emotions. I learned a lot from her example, but what I will remember is that even if this teacher had tried to ignore the context of her student’s family the child would have been thinking about his family. I realized that why it is important to incorporate the family context of my students is not because I am trying to be polite or nice, but because their family context will change their social and emotional, mental, and even physical development.
I imagined the little boy sitting on the rug, and the most obvious developmental area that was affecting him was emotional. He was talking about emotions, and the simple mentioning of his family stirred up his emotions. Simply reading the story caused even me to feel emotions. The emotions that the students felt while reading the book in the classroom was directly connected to their family context. It would be impossible to ignore the emotional connection that the students had to their families. Realizing that the emotional development of my students began years ago in their living rooms and at their kitchen tables of their homes is not simply polite. The reality that families are a vital part of the emotional development of my students has changed my perspective on teaching.
It also affected the boys mental development. Something that emotional would have distracted him from his studies and the lesson that the teacher had prepaid. It would probably not only distract that boy, but the entire class. The little girl talking about her dad buying her a new bike demonstrates that she would not have listened to the teacher if the teacher had gone straight from the story to talking about letters. Instead I believe that she would have been thinking about her family. The emotions, thoughts, and attention my students spend thinking about their families is probably more time than I can assume. As a teacher I need to be sensitive to times when such the social and cultural context of my students comes into the classroom, because if I attempt to plug through to my scheduled lesson plan some of my students will not be able to pay attention. As an educator I need to acknowledge that some of my students will be thinking about home while they are in the classroom and their distracted concentration will influence how much attention they will give to my lesson plans.
Although this story did not demostrate it the social context of my student family will influence their physical development. I have been able to realize this in the obvious examples such as cocain babies. This time when I thought about the social context influencing my student’s physical development I realized that if the family exersises at home that student will be physically effected.
I have to be fully invested in the culture my students come from because it influences their social and emotional, educational, and physical development as much as the individual child, and what I know about general child development influences my students. This story illustrated to me that the as a teacher I do not simply consider the family and social context of my students because I am trying to be polite. I will be able to apply this golden nugget to my classroom.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Geog Benua

Joy Prior
Geog 120H
Otterstrom
Geography 120 H Benua

Benua# is a hypothetical continent (assume there are no other continents or countries) with geographical characteristics similar to those found throughout this world. Your assignment is to analyze and synthesize all of the available data in order that you can then use that information in making valid geo-political analysis. You are encouraged to work together in groups to analyze the material but you must write and submit your own answers.

A. Go to http://www.geog.byu.edu/faculty/benua/
B. Analyze the various maps and tables. Try different combinations. For example: combine the resource and ethnicities map to see what minority groups might be sitting atop precious resources.
Answer the following questions. Typed responses are encouraged. Be sure to use correct geographic terminology!

1. Which country is most likely to experience balkanization? Why?
I believe that the country most likely to experience balkanization is Kome. Geographically Kome is a fragmented country. It is composed of three different islands near each other. Each island has a dominate ethnicity although on the most northern island there are a few areas were the other two minority ethnicities are present, but not dominate. The southern island has a more tropical agriculture than the rest of the country while the northern two islands share a subtropical agriculture. These islands also have large mountain ranges that make convenient trade more difficult. There are no major transportation roads or canals or rivers that cross between the three islands. The islands population is concentrated on the coastal regions. There is one major city on each island and all of the cities are facing away from each other and towards other countries.


2. Which countries are landlocked. What could these countries do to have access to the sea.
Sopka and Timah are both landlocked. To gain access to the sea Timah could travel on the exotic river that runs through Pula. Timah could also travel on the river that crosses Oro and Nagy. Both Oro and Nagy have more rivers and consequently water would not be as dramatic of a natural resource to the Nagy and Oro people as water would be a dramatic natural resource for the people in Pula, because Pula only has one river and the rest of the country is a desert. This would make is so that Timah would probably have an easier time traveling through Nagy than through Pula. After looking at the Timah cities it would also seem wise to use the river that runs through Oro and Nagy because there are multiple cities along the river route that the Timah people could trade with before reaching the sea port. The country of Sopka could also travel along rivers to reach the sea. There is a river that originates in Sopka that goes through Nagy that Sopka could travel across.

3. Assuming that the wind over Benua flows from east to west, explain why Pula is mostly desert.
Pula is mostly desert because the rain falls on the east side of the mountain range. It would then be a rain shadow desert because the mountain range in Oro and Timah create a barricade for the rain clouds. After looking at a map of the major rivers it appears that the runoff for these mountain ranges is also on the east side, because besides the one exotic river in Pula the remaining rivers from the mountain runoff are one the eastern side of the mountains in Timah and Oro.

4. Based on the transportation layer, which countries are likely to form an economic union? Why?
The three countries Zeit, Lale, and Weizen will form an economic union. Although the country Lale is an island it is just off the coast of Weizen, and Zeit. There are major roads in all three of these countries. One of the major roads travels near the boarder of Zeit and Weizen. Along this road there are several major cities. There is a concentration of people for all three of these countries at the point were all three of the countries boarders. The countries have unique natural resources that would benefit each other. Zeit has an abundance of petroleum, a little Iron, and some coal. Weizen has an abundance of coal, some tin, a little gold, iron, and also bauxite. While Lale has coal and petroleum. Each of the three countries has unique agriculture. Weizen has a prairie, and Lale has Dairy, while Zeit is mostly nomadic herding. Because Lale and Weizen have more agricultural benefits, but they are depended on the natural recourses of petroleum in Zeit the countries can trade food and livestock for petroleum between one another.

5. What country is involved for mono-crop production?
Mangkut is a island to the south. This island has only tropical agriculture, and no other agriculture. It’s boundaries do not spread far south or high north and so the longitude and latitude is relatively condensed so the island does not have that as variation. Although there are a few higher areas in Mangkut there the island is not overwhelmed by mountain ranges and attitude variation giving most of the island the same climate. According to the climate legend the climate on Mangkut is completely Tropical Rainforest, and there would be mono-crop production due to the single climate, agriculture, and relatively limited latitude and longitude variation.

6. Calculate the agricultural density of Nagy. What does this agricultural density mean for Nagy?
The agricultural density of Nagy is rather high. According to the agricultural of Benua download data is 43%. The fertilizer amount is 19,773,802 is the second highest, in the continent of Benua. It also has 45,970 of sq. miles of irrigation. The urban population in Nagy is 73% which is exceptionally high. The agricultural density is about the number of farms in a given area over the amount of agricultural land within that area. That means that just under ¾ of the population is living on just about 2/5 of the land. This high of an agricultural density could be devastation for the nation of Nagy, because most of the population lives on a limited area and they are using up the natural resources as the farm and harvest yearly. The entire population of Nagy is 226,701 and fortunately the country is rather large with 6,320,021 square km of land. The population density is 28 people per sp. Km. Compared to the other countries this population density is not drastically high, but sense most of the population lives in urban and farm land that means that a lot of land is needed to support the farmers of the country. The entire northern part is covered in mountains, and the little arable land the nation has for farming is filled with just under ¾ of the nation’s population. The country is running the risk of over expending their soil and agricultural ruin.

7. Which country most likely has swidden agriculturalists? Why?
Swidden or slash and burn is practiced mainly in tropical regions. Reen, Mangkut, Agni, and parts large parts of Oro, Carvao and Kome are tropical climate regions. According to the agricultural chart all of these countries have a few areas for tropical agriculture, but agni and mangkut are entirely depended on tropical agriculture. Mangkut has a much higher population to support than Agni. More so the agricultural download data sates that Mangkut has 207,000 sq miles of irrigation and 1,660,863 fertilizers despite the fact that only 27% of the land is arable. Roughly 33% of the population of Mangkut lives in urban. That is a lot of people trying to live in a tropical climate, and farm a small area of land. With the large amount of fertilizers and extensive sq miles of irrigation I assume that this country has no fear of imposing the influence of humans on their farms and would be the most likely country to use swidden or slash and burn.

8. What country has an exotic river running through it?
Pula has only one river running through it, and this is an exotic river that originates in the mountain ranges surrounding the country. It has head waters in North in Zeit, a head waters towards the east in Timah, and at the southern end a head water in Oro. This is an ideal example of an exotic river.

9. Which river basin would be most contentious? Why?
Something that would contribute to a contentious river basin is a valuable river. Although there are lots of rivers there are only a few that are considered Navigatable Rivers. One of these major rivers runs along the boarder of Oro and Carvao. This river runs into a direct sea port, and at the sea port there is a major network of cities and road ways for both countries. According to the politics of Benua download data the political corruption index of Carvao is 6.7 and Oro is 7.2 which puts both countries in the top five highest corrupted countries in Benua. The political stability of Carvao is -.35 and for Oro -.04 which puts both countries in the lowest 7 most stable countries in Benua. Both countries have distinct ethnicities Oro major ethnicity O and Carvao being C, but in the city 107 which is in the river basin I am describing there is a mixture of the two ethnicities. With Oro’s O population being the dominate and Carvao’s C population being the minority. Along this river there is the high population. The ethnic, political unrest, possible use of trade and transportation along the river, mixed with large amount of people living in the area makes this river basin a possible contentious river basin.

10. Weizen troops have just invaded Pula. Why is there a war between the two countries? Who else might get involved? Who will be victorious? What does Weizen hope the outcome of the war will be?
Up until this point Zeit and Weizen have been political friend in their own form of the UN. The relationship between Zeit and Weizen has been developed Weizen’s need for oil. As the country of Weizen has developed so has their need for oil. Currently though the country of Zeit has been having an increase in their political unrest and the country is on the edge of civil war. Zeit has been experiencing unrest because of the two different emerging cultures. The first being the ethnic Z which lives mostly in the densely populated coastal region and the second group the minority population in the east with the ethnicity I in that practices nomadic herding lifestyles. In short this two groups are have been causing political unrest in the country Zeit. Due to the political unrest in Zeit the amount of petroleum being shipped to the country of Weizen has dramatically decreased. Weizen still exports a large amount of its supplies to the country of Zeit and does not want to decrease economic relations with this country, but the country does need oil. Due to Weizen’s need for oil the country has decided to invade the country of Pula in an attempt to obtain more petroleum.
Lale is also a part of Weizen’s economic and political organization and because of these connections this country is sending financial support as well as technology to help Weizen with the war.
Wiezen will win the war. Weizen has a larger population than Pula by over 10,000 pc which means more troops and more people to support those troops. Weizen also has a greater economic stability over Pula’s because Weizen has %15.40 imports and %17.2 exports compared to Pula’s %1.3 imports and %1.6 exports. This not only means more economical power, but it means that there are more countries depending on Weizen’s imports and exports than Pula’s imports or exports.
The country that will be victorious will Weizen, and the country will get what they wanted, petroleum. This was the country Weizen’s intent when attaching the country. In short the country of Pula will turn over cities 78, 5, and 93 and their surrounding areas to the country of Weizen. Although Weizen want’s the petroleum they do not want to take the population of Pula on as a “burden,” because most of the country of Pula’s population is on the far eastern side of the country Weizen would like to avoid taking on as many of Pula’s citizens as possible. In short the country of Weizen will only try to obtain these cities mentioned (which are close to the petroleum) and avoid taking responsibility for the other cities.

11. Which country is a likely candidate to have been colonized? Who would have colonized it? Why?
The country of Reen colonized an area that was once apart of the country of Mangkut. The island shared between Reen and Mangkut was once owned entirely by Mangkut. The main population of Mangkut is M and the main population of Reen is R. On the island shared between these two countries both of these ethnicities are present, but the R ethnicity does not cover the majority of the population and remains a minority in the western side of the island. There is also one major city on this island which is next to a copper resource. The Reen people needed copper and so they began to colonize the island that once belonged to Mangkut in order to obtain the copper in this particular area. As the Reen people began to colonize the island for copper the R ethnicity began to move into the island and after some political disputes half of this island is now a part of the country of Reen.

12. If there were a Cold War in Benua, what two countries would be the superpowers and what countries would be on each side? Why?
The cold war would be between Nagy and Weizen. These populations have high exports and imports; which would give both countries great international and economic power. Weizen’s imports %15.4 and exports %17.2; it is also in an economical agreement with Lale with exports %15.8 and imports %15.6; and despite Zeit’s current political unrest Weizen is one of the countries economical allies. The country of Zeit imports %7.3 and exports %8. In contrast the country of Nagy imports %46.5 and exports 38.70.56 (I am not sure what typing error occurred here) The two countries of Nagy and Weizen both have substantial economic control in Benua.
The Weizen and Nagy countries both have distinctly different ethnicities, and that would contribute to cultural practice and ideal beliefs. Although there are two distinct ethnicities that run along the countries boarder there is no geographical reason. For example there is not a large mountain range that divides the two countries. Infect the countries share a boarder that is mostly flat, and has the same agricultural crops. Usually when there is not a large physical barrier between countries the two ethnicities will merge. Yet, the two ethnicities of Weizen and NAgy have not merged and remain along the political boarder indicating to me that there is a political reason or turmoil that keeps the two ethnicities from merging together.
Both countries have relatively equal natural resources. The arable land for Weizen is 48% while the arable land for Nagy is 43%. Weizen Oil 776, Nagy oil 585. Iron-ore weizen 40,579, Nagy Iron-ore 74,017; coal Weizen 431,455, coal Nagy 88,295; Bauxite Weizen 10,398, Bauxite Nagy 0. This abundance of natural resources has lead both countries to have higher populations Weizen over 180,000 and Nagy has over 226,000. Not to mention technological growth and infrastructure. Weizen is in the top ten for the trans/comm. index with 40,826 rail; 565,140 roads, 2,812 waterways, airports 85, and specifically at .30 trans/comm. index. While the country Nagy 240,000 rail, 3,732,747 roads, 41,009 waterways, 5174 airports, and the highest trans/comm. index of .48.
Both of these countries have economical power, they are distinctly different ethnicities despite their physiological similarities, and they are highly populated and developed making them the two powers in the cold war.

13. Name three countries in the early stages of demographic transition. Name three countries in the late stages of the demographic transition. Choose one of these countries and describe what their current demographics might mean during the next twenty years.
first stages of demographical change (a large young population, and each mother has many children)
Timah because of the exceptional high TFR of 6.43 and the %<15 from '75 at 50 and %< from '95 at a still very high 43
Agni because of the high TFR of 4.6 and the %<15 from '75 at 45 and %< from '95 at a still high 40
Oro because of the TFR of 3.13 and the %<15 from '75 at 41 and %< from '95 at a constantly high 36

last stages of demographical change (these three countries have the lowest %<15 for both '75 and '95, not to mention the lowest TFR as well)
Weizen low TFR 1.302 and the %<15 from '75 at 24 and %< from '95 at a still lower to 18
Valkea low TFR 1.531 and the %<15 from '75 at 22 and %< from '95 at a still lower to 19
Lale low TFR 1.72 and the %<15 from '75 at 23 and %< from '95 at a still lower to 20

In the next twenty years the country of Lale will have an even greater decrease in the percent of people under the age of 15, and there will also be a minimal decrease in the TFR. Although the death rate will probably decrease, or remain relatively the same. The economy will probably evolve into a post modern economy passed on service and technology which will decrease the amount of factories in the country resulting in a decrease in the amount of exports.

14. Give an example of each of the following types of states.
a. Fragmented: Agni
b. Elongated: Reen (although made of islands the main land mass is long and thin)
c. Prorupt: Zeit (there is a small part near Lale which is the same ethnicities as Lale, and relatively isolated from the remainder of the Zeit country)
d. Compact: Timah

15. Click the checkboxes next to cities and population density.
a. Which Country is most highly urbanized? Why?
The country of Lale is most highly urbanized because as I look at the population of Lale I can see that over half of the countries land mass is dark purple which indicates that there is 200-1500 people/sq. miles. Not only that but the remaining half of the country is rich purple which means that 50-200 people/sq. mile. There are large cities across the entire country, and there is not a single space that is light pink which would indicate a low population density. This country is the most urbanized.
b. Where is an example of a Primate City?
An example of a Primate City is city number 19 in Reen. This city is just off the coast of Carvao, and is surrounded by the dark purple color indicating that it has a densely populated area of 200-1500 people/sq. mile. Although there are other cities in Reen this city is larger then the others, and has more people living in the surrounding areas.
c. Where is an example of a Megalopolis?
There is a Megalopolis in along the boarders of Lale, Weizen, and Zeit. This area is entirely covered in dark purple. There are so many large cities in this space that the large pink dots overlap each other in some places. From the top of Weizen city number 56 to the middle of Zeit city number 18 ( I believe it is number 18 or 78) there is constant swirls of rich and dark purple to indicate that this is a densely populated area. Not only is this megalopolis highly populated, but to the surrounding areas have road ways into and out of this area. From Valkea to Pula there is a road way that stretches along the Megalopolis.