I have become more knowledgeable about the World.

I have explored the current issues of Turkey. Turkey has a major issue containing the issue of unemployment. Without a growing economy there is no room for the people to be focusing on getting new jobs. It is evident that a decrease in unemployment comes hand in hand with the increase of economy. The economy boom between 2002 and 2007 in Turkey allowed 3.2 million people to have employment. However in 2007, the businesses were being very competitive with each other. With this distraction of competitiveness, the economy went down. Currently Turkey has relatively around 70 million. However without the focus on the economy growing to increase the employment, the country will fall further behind as a country. I have learned that for there to be an increase in the employment of a country, first you must gain the economic strength to employ these people.

Turkey business building

The history of the twentieth century has shaped our world in many ways today. Just take a look around and you will see improvements in the medicine, technology, and government. The first time the influenza outburst came out, which was in 1918, and more than 20 million people died from it. Now, the flu is still around but today we have the flu shots. We have learned from the past of when these people were infected and advanced enormously. This is only one example of the advancements that we have in our technology. The technology from the past 100 years advanced mostly after World War I. Technological advances such as airplanes, poison gas, submarine, machine gun, and U-boats made their appearance during the war. Many forms of government came out during the past 100 years such as, Fascism, Democracy, Nazism, Communism, and Totalitarianism. Fascism is when individual rights and freedoms are secondary to the power of the state. Democracy is the government by the people; the people vote on matters and the government works to keep up with the wants of the people. Nazism is oldest form of government that predicts that the "have-nots" will take over the "haves". And lastly, totalitarianism is the single party of dictatorship with strict censorship and use of schools and media to influence. As you can see, the twentieth century introduced many new ideas that today we have built on.

Flu Vaccine

Human diversity is everywhere in the world. There is not one place that looks just like another. I learned that race is not just like something you can point to and state a person's race. Because most likely, you will be wrong. Race is not an understood concept, it is more like an idea brought out that has different branches of what type of race you are. These branches could be Asian, African American, Caucasian, Latin American, etc. In class we took a quiz having us look at pictures and guess what they believe their race is. I got only four out of the twenty correct, I learned that you cannot just look at a person and determine what their race is. Not only would you be wrong because of what they look like but also because that person may think of them as a different race then what you would guess. Race is an idea that causes issues because people will get all defensive about getting their race wrong and also people suggesting that they are a certain race when they really could be a mix. All in all we are all the same. We are all people aren't we? Why is that not good enough? We all just need to realize that we are all the same.

Races Coming Together

I learned how people react with nature from a movie. This movie was of different people going on a hike up the Summit. I noticed that all of the hikers had different reasons for wanting to hike the Summit. One guy went because his father went, so he wanted to go also. It was a place for him to go and be close with his father again, since he past away. Another had pure curiosity of what it would be like up the Summit. They just wanted to see what it would be like to stand up on the Summit and say, "Yes, i have hiked the Summit. I made it all the way to the top." And finally, another saw it as an opportunity to explore something that they had a passion for. They love climbing so they wanted to challenge themselves to hike the Summit. We all react with nature differently, but we all go toward nature eventually. Whether you are the one with the desire to feel close to a family member, curiosity for what is there, or to have a passion for, we all turn toward nature for some reason or another.

The Summit

Each country has its own culture. This culture is based off of the people and what they believe in. I am going to compare Japan and the United States just as an example. In Japan family, religion, and politics are sensitive topics that may embarrass them. But in the United States, it is completely normal to talk about how so and so child is doing, what faith you practice, or what you think of the government. In Japan, if they scratch their head that means that the conversation is distasteful and they are starting to get embarrassed. Whereas in the United States, a person scratching their head means that they are thinking. The different cultures have different actions and thoughts that we do. This makes us different in our own unique cultures separating us from other countries. Other countries cultures interest us because they are very different from our own.

Japan etiquette