Humanities

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=Personal Geography of Barbados=

=Personal Geography of the World= Reflection: Overall I learnt a lot from this assignment. I've learnt about how much I've traveled so far in my life (which is quite a bit for my age). I found the actual making of the maps pretty easy but the part i found hard was drawing an actual world map as i haven't seen it before as much as one of Barbados. My drawing of North America isn't that bad but my Asia and Australia leave something to be desired so i think that reflects on my trips to that part of the world.

=Family Tree of 3 Generations= =media type="custom" key="6871621" width="221" height="221"= Reflection on Personal History: I think key points in my life were my brother being born and almost suffocating at a beach. Luckily my dad pulled me out of the sand and washed me off. I also think all the travelling ive done has made me a much more open-minded person to different cultures.

Reflection on My Family Tree: I asked my mum about her side of the family and she knew alot about it. I learned alot about my family that i didnt know and alot of people who died before i was born and i never had a chance to meet them. My mums dad shot the biggest deer in eastern Alberta until his record was broken 40 years later. I Think my grandmothers father who was a Searle came over from England but two of my aunts stayed and one is now dead. I think thats why i was born in Canada and not in Scotland or England. My dads grandfather (Anderson) had a Scottish father that came to Canada. The Anderson name originated in Scandinavia and the vikings came to Scotland.

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=Conclusion: Are People a Product of Their Own Personal History and Geography?= Yes they are. If my great great grandparents didn't come to Canada I wouldn't have been born there, thus, effecting my interests and hobbies. if my dad didn't get offered a job with RBC in Barbados then i wouldn't be in Barbados, I wouldn't know all my friends, I wouldn't be surfing. Also, events in my life may have effected my approach to life. For example, if i didn't' travel as much as i do today then i wouldn't be as internationally minded as i am. I would know less about the world outside Canada, i would be more ignorant. Experiences in my life would also have effected me. If i didn't try surfing then i wouldn't be surfing but because i did try surfing i love it and i wouldn't like living anywhere far far away from the coast. So yes, people are a product of their personal history. I am good at science and math so i will likely become an engineer of some sort. I think if all these things hadn't happened to me, I would be a completely different person.

=Development = Developed or Not? [] 

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=RESPONSIBLE GLOBAL CITIZENS =

"HOME" MOVIE REVIEW

The Movie "HOME" is renown for its stunning overhead photography and solid facts on our world resources, climate change and general global issues. The movie is about our overuse of our worlds natural resources and how we are forming our world and we are creating something unsustainable. "20% of the world's population uses 80% of the worlds resources", "In 2050, 1\4 mammals will be extinct". But it also says that we have the power to change and countries are setting examples such as Germany with its completely eco-powered communities and Denmark and the US being some of the largest consumers of eco-power. We know how to fix the mess we made and we know we have very little time to do it so what exactly are we waiting for? "It's up to us to write what happens next, together".

The combination of unforgettable photography and shocking and awakening facts that make this movie a must see. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it definitely contends with films like Planet Earth and An Inconvenient Truth (though it doesn't have the voice talents of David Attenborough and, at times, the female voice sounded patronizing). The film conveys a timely message about the climate change we are seeing on the news all the time and how people, with solutions at their disposal, are only now starting to solve this global issue. As an example, "If the ice in Greenland melts, the global sea level will rise by 7 meters, 11 out of the worlds 15 biggest cities are on the coastline and will be underwater." Tokyo with it's 12 million people, is the largest of these cities. The most enlightening part was about the greenhouse gas methane under Siberia's permafrost layer. 10 times worse than CO2 if the permafrost melts this gas will be released and have catastrophic results nobody can predict. We will literally enter uncharted territory. And the countries that will suffer most are the ones with the smallest input into all this, the third-world countries will pay for our carelessness. The video manages to be disturbing, enlightening and also at the same time give us hope by showing us many examples of countries trying to show the initiative and create sustainable environments. And I believe, that is where we must start the cleanup. If we are to save our world from the unknown, the unthinkable and the drastic consequences to our actions, then we must act now. NOTE* I was disappointed that they managed to get beautiful photos of every country EXCEPT CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am very disappointed with this because Canada has some of the most beautiful scenery the world has to offer. :(


 * ECOSYSTEMS **

World Map of Biomes
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=Serengeti Ecosystem Presentation=