The Relationship between CO2 emissions and the new Lung cancer cases

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The two elements I chose to compare in my graphs were the CO2 emmissions in tonnes compared to the new cases per 100,000 men of lung cancer. There was a very clear trend showing that the more CO2 emmisions, the more cases of lung cancer. In the left, with the lowest lung cancer and CO2 emissions we can see the African nations, and to the right, with the highest CO2 emissions and the newest cases of lung cancer we can see east european nations like Hungary or Croatia. In this graph there are a few countries that do not follow the trend like Qatar or Kuwait, but this is probably due to the small populations of these countries.

It is known that emissions of CO2 are a main cause of lung cancer, as is demonstrated that china is the country with the most deaths caused by lung cancer and also at the same time the country with the highest CO2 emissions. As shown in our graph living in a country with many CO2 emissions is very hurtfull for ones health. Even though the cause of lung cancer is not only affected by CO2, there are other causes like genetic factors, radon gas, asbestos, smoking or second hand smoke.

 One of the problems of this graph, is not only that lung cancer can be caused by many factors not involving CO2, but that also that the CO2 emmisions are measure by tonnes per person and instead, it would be easier if they would be measured in a whole country, this way showing the countries with actually the highest CO2 emissions like China or India instead of countries like Qatar, Kuwait, Australia or Canada.

Relation between total fertility and infant mortality rates

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First, I will start by explaining what gapminder is. Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

Basically, by the use of statistics, the Gapminder software enables us to make graphs or charts to compare information and find trends.

The two elements I chose to compare were the total children per women and the infant mortality rate. There is a very clear trendin my graph. This trend shows that the higher the fertility rate, also the higher the infant mortality rate, which means that the more children die the more children are born.

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The top countries that lead both the infant mortality rate and the fertility rate are the African countries and one Arab nation like Afghanistan. We can deduct that the economy of these nations has a great impact in these statistics. Africa being the poorest continent, has the worst health care and also, is infested with the worst diseases causing a low life expectancy and a high infant mortality rate. The reason for a high fertility rate in these countries is the need of the children to help the parents to work in their farms and to help the family with the economic situation, and also in a way, beacause of the high infant mortality rate, then more children you have the more that will survive.

Between the richer countries like those in Europe or north America, we see that even though they have a low infant mortality rate because of the high level of health care and their advanced medical treatments, these families are not having as much kids as other families from Africa, Asia or Latin America. There is a couple reasons to demonstrate this. The wealth of countries affects our data, because of the amount of money used in health care, or education too, can affect if women stay in home and have kids or work. Also, living in a city, people don’t have many children, this is why the most rural countries like the African nations are in the bottom.

This graph shows us that the relation between fertility and infant mortality is that the higher the infant mortality rate, also the higher the fertility rate.

Lemon Tree Blog #5

Bashir is beleived a terrorist and is put in prison for 15 years. HE is beleived to be one of the men that did the bombings. Dalia is very mad, they send each other letters to talk to each other. After this, Bashir’s mind and thoughts of Israel become worse and worse, Bashir hates Israel. During his life in jail, he is beaten and tortured very badly many times for fifteen years. Then, he was exiled to Lebanon. When he met with Dalia, they organized a school, that was made for both arab and jewish kids, which would be where the oled house in al-Ramla was. This was both of theirs dream, and finally the preschool was created for the benefit of jews and arabs.

The Lemon Tree Blog #4

Chapter 6 – Refuge Zakia and Ahmad seek refuge in Gaza and there, they find a job. Ahmad works as a carpenter and is able to win some money. After some years they have enough money and they decide to return back to Ramallah. Here Bashir goes to the UNRWA school. When the classes in the UNRWA school started. All the students would rrecite the same things when school started.  “The Jews expelled us, we have a right to return, Palestine is our country our aim is to return, death does not frighten us, Palestine is ours, We shall never forget her. Another homeland we shall never accept! Our Palestine, witness, O God and History, We promise to shed our blood for you! These maybe lead the young children to forge what the relationship between Israel and Palestine is today. Each day there are suicide bombings and qassams that are shot into Israel.  Probably what these young arabs were teached back when they were young made many to be how they are now.

The Lemon Tree Blog #3

Chapter Three Rescue

We are readying the story of Moshe Eshkinazi, a poor jewish salesmen in the Bulgaria of 1943, and this is the story of how he and his family left Bulgaria before the Bulgarian plan to deport Jews. 

“There in plain view, just at his feet, lay a wallet filled with money. Moshe did not hesitate… He made the best decision for him. He took the wallet to the police… at one point, the policeman decided to reveal to Moshe a states secret. There is a plan to deport jews — soon, Settle your affairs, take your family and clear out of here.”

Moshe needed no more warning, after he heard this coming from the policeman he asked for no more and he and his wife Solia left to Sliven, in the east coast, next to the black sea, where they thought it would be safe. Even though, they really weren’t, many Jewish families in cities like Plovdiv were being arrested, as their Rabbi’s. Because of this, soon after it, The Eshkenazi left towards al-Ramla, where they hoped to have more and better luck.

Lemon Tree Blog #2

While the author is presenting Dalia, she explains what Dalia was told by her parents when she was small and it resulted very interesting for me. 

” Dalia’s family had been spared the atrocities in Bulgaria by acts of goodwill from christians she was raised to admire and remember. Now, she believed her people had a destiny on the land of Israel . This was partly why she believed what she had been told: The Arabs who lived in her house, and the hundreds of other stone homes in her city, had simply run away.”

This quote is very interesting, especially when Dalia mentions that she had been told that all the hundreds of Arabs that lived in al-Ramla had left because of their own will.When, as said by Bashir earlier:

“For nearly two decades, since he was six years old, Bashir was being prepared for this journey. It was the breath, the currency, the bread of his family, of nearly every family he knew. It was what everyone talked about, all the time, return. In exile, there was little worth dreaming of”

This shows us that what Dalia was told and what the children of al-Ramla were told was not the truth, that Arabs were forced out of al-Ramla and only dreamed of coming back to their own village, the one that Jews thought was theirs.

Lemon Tree Blog #1

    From the beginning of the Lemon tree,  the story introduces us to a young arab man, called Bashir Kahiri, who is about to catch a bus with his cousins Yasser and Ghiath. They were going to leave Ramallah, where they were living as refugees after being forced out of their home in al-Ramla. They were scared because they were Palestinians and they were around Jews, so they were scared that if anyone knew their true identity anything would happen to them.

      After these three arab men reached to the bus, we are introduced to Dalia Eshkenazi, a young jewish girl that studied in Tel Aviv. She was in her summer break and she was living in al-ramla with her parents.  The Eskenazi was a family that originated from Sofia, Bulgaria. Then they moved to the east of Bulgaria to end up in al-Ramla in Israel. The Eshkenazi moved due to the threat of the Nazi and the Bulgarian Government aimed to Jews.

    In the beginning of the Lemon Tree we can already see that Dalia is not a very religious girl, because first, her family was never very religious and also, because she even questions herself why terrible things happen to her own people and why God doesn’t help them.

“Dalia’s parents had never been religious. They  had grown up in Bulgaria, married in 1940, survived a pro-nazi government and moved to Israel after the war. Dalia was eleven months old when she arrived.”

“She had been carrying a silent dialogue with God that she began as a child. Why, she thought, would you allow Israel to be saved during the Six Day War , yet not prevent a genocide during the Holocaust? Why would you empower Israel’s warriors to vanquish its enemies, yet stand by while my people were branded and slaughtered a generation earlier.”

Third Cabbies strike in 10 days in China

In China there has already been three taxi strikes in 10 days. For a “Communist” country like China this is very crucial. The last strike was at Chonqing, where 9000 taxi drivers participated. Over 100 taxis and 3 police cars were destroyed and smashed during this event. Other taxi strikes occured in other cities like Sanya. The cause of these cab strikes in both cities, has been the same one. Prices. Overly high price charged by the taxi companies that are questioned to be monopoly, and the unfair competition with unlicensed taxis. Police reported that in some places the strike upgraded into violence. Cab drivers who refused to join in the operation were said to be beaten, and 28 have been arrested. Representatives from each side, the government and cab drivers, were negotiating for a solution. The mayor apologized to the drivers for the loose regulation, and promised an all-in effort to give a satisfactory response.

This is a great step for China. Chongquin has made a great beggining that hopefully should spread through the country. These strikes demonstrate that each time China’s government has less control over the people, and that the country is starting to modernize and start to become a democracy. Each time people in China have mroe freedom and this starts so demonstrate this.

Worlds largest cibercafe in Lagos, Nigeria

Chams City is a new subsidiary of chams Plc. This ciber cafe will bne expected to be the biggest cibercaf’e in the world. It will have 1000 new computers. This cibercafe will be located in Lagos, Nigeria. This cibercaf’e will have more computers than the one that is currently the biggest in the world. This one is in NY, USA and it has 850 available computers. Soon the guiness world of records comissioners will come to check for the computers to see if the record is broken. Also, this cibercafe has a very sofisticated security.

I believe this is a great jump for technology. Apart form that it is very interesting to know that this is cocuring in one of the most poor countries in the world and in the poorest continent of all. Nigeria and Africa. It is good for this country to improve and if it is even by this it is just still fine.

Lebanon: Migrant Domestic Workers Dying Every Week

The Human Rights Watch dictated that the high death toll of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, from unatural causes, which demonstrates that there is an urgent need to make the Lebanese working conditions a  lot better and safer. Since January 2007, at least 95 migrant domestic workers have died in Lebanon. Of these 95 deaths, 40 are classified by the embassies of the migrants as suicide, while 24 others were caused by workers falling from high buildings, often while trying to escape their employers. By contrast, only 14 domestic workers died because of diseases or health issues. (Human Rights Watch) The people In Lebanon are asking themselves why there is such high death rates. Between them Nadim Houry “Domestic workers are dying in Lebanon at a rate of more than one per week”.  Some commit suicide or try to escape and die.

This is terrible and the human rights watch and Lebanon have to do something about it. So many workers should not die. It is terrible that workers are locked up and forced to work like in Lebanon.