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Microfinance

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Microfinance is financial services for the low income people and lending self employed. This idea is to help poverty its used in keva for example. It’s like credit services. it is a board category of services. Microfinance can make poor people to get financial services like any other business man.

kiva

Kiva is a new altitude and a new idea that is walking throw poverty to end it in a simple way. Generous people can loan kive so kive could loan other poor people and when the money is back they could give them to other people. The same amount of money is helping more than one man because it is keep going and going. Mohammed younis is man how came up with this idea. He started to loan the poor people by loaning them a small amount of money and when they give it back he give it to other people.

 

 

poverty

 

 

 

We are still fighting the poverty until now. The most shocking ideas is 59% of wealth is running by 6% of people on the whole earth. Homeless and poverty and cannot afford education and health care. People are suffering whereas other people are leaving in a wealth away from them. Countries are spending 1 $ trillion on military equipments and only a few millions on development aid. It’s sad to see the different between people got what the need and more and people don’t have enough to survive. 80% of humanity lives on less than 10$ a day so poverty is eating the world and nations are spending money on weapons and military stuff

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My holiday

 

Before one month my holiday started. On the first days I didn’t like to do anything I was tired and lazy. All what I needed is a bed and luckily I have one in my room so for the first week I didn’t do nothing it was a refreshing days. On the second week I went to Dubai. On my way back to Abu Dhabi I stopped in a patrol station and while I was buying soft drink a man stooped and he started by asking me “Is that GMC truck is yours?” I said yes it is mine so he told about his group which is only for CHEVY and GMC owners. They call them self Cyclones and he has asked me if I would like to join them. I accepted his invitation and I have registered in his group and on the weekend he call me and told that the whole group is going to Al Ain so I went with them and it was extremely great , there was like 48 of GMC and Chevy truck cutting the street together. It was incredible trip and I have known a lot more about my truck. On the third week I went to see what is showing in the cinema. I have seen The Mechanic and 127. I also bought some DVDs to watch it at home. So my third week was about movies evaluation. On my fourth and last week I went to RAK me and my friends. We camp in a place called Awafi. It is a good place to camp specially for people like me who likes sand dunes racing and the sound of 6.0 liter engine. My holiday wasn’t one of my best holidays but I have enjoyed it very much.

1. The 5 stages of the system of how stuff moves or “the materials economy” are:

. Extraction

  . Production

          Distribution

Consumption

  Disposal

2. According to Annie Leonard, extraction is a fancy word for trashing the planet

3. How many decades has it taken to use up 1/3 of our natural resource space? _

3 decades.

4. In this system, if you don’t own or buy a lot of stuff, you don’t have

Value

5. Why would people, especially women of reproductive age, take jobs working in factories where they can be pretty sure there are toxic chemicals?

Because they are looking for work.

6. What is an “externalized cost”?

You actually not buying the stuff, it costs less to produce, from the workers, clean air, factories

7. What percent of the items that you got for Hanukkah or Christmas will still be in use in June? _

 99%

8. President Eisenhower said that the American economy’s ultimate purpose is to produce more goods. Why is an economy based on producing more goods a problem?

 It make the new fashion to old fashion so people continue baying.

9. “Planned Obsolescence” is another word for

Designed for the dump

10. With “perceived obsolescence”, we think that something is no longer useful to us because

It breaks fast

11. On average, about how many advertisements do we see in one day?

  3000

12. Consumption mania exploded in the 1950s. According to the video, what started to decline at the same time?

National happiness

13. What has happened to the average house size in America since the 1970s?  

 Doubled

14. The average American produces 4 ½ pounds of garbage a day! What happens to this after we put it out on the curb for pick-up?

a. . Put it in hole under the ground.

b. Or burnt it then put it in hole under the ground

15. Why is incinerating or burning our garbage so bad?

Polite air and water and also changing the climate .

16. Why is recycling our waste not enough?

a. some garbage contain toxics designed not recyclable

b. ____the waste that is coming from our  houses is just a tip of the iceberg .

17. What does Annie Leonard suggest is a way that we can solve the problem of waste?

Changing the system from liner system to another system.

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MY N100 class

 

In the LSSC I’ve learned a lot of information that can help me during my academic life. What’s so important in our academic life? Writing essays and that’s what I’ve learned during the LSSC class. First I have learned how to do summaries and how to write articles. First it was difficult to write an essay of 300 words but know I can easily write 1000 word. They are a few simple steps that is helping me in writing my essays which I’ve learned in the LSSC class. However the more important than writing the essay is collecting the information and where did you get it from?  If you copy and paste words and put it you easy without writing the source that called Plagiarism which is unethical thing to do. You may get kicked out form the college of getting an F in the course.  Bibliography is the list of source that you collect the information from. To copy and paste a sentence and writing the writer name called inline citation. These things are what I’ve learned during the N100.

1) In the last 30 years, we have used ____1/3__ of the Earth's natural resources.

 

2) For every one garbage bag we throw away, __70%__ bags of garbage are made to make it.

 

 

3) ___51___ of the largest 100 organizations in the world are corporations, not governments.

 

4) __5__ times more fish are being caught than in 1950.

 

5) ___80%___ of the world's original forests are gone.

 

6) In the Amazon alone, ____2000____ trees a minute, or 7 football fields are cut.

 

7) In order to make one McDonald's hamburger, __9__ square meters of rain forest are cut.

 

8) The food with the most toxins is _human breast milk_.

 

9) ___30%___ of children in the Congo drop out of school to work in coltan mines. (Coltan is for electronic stuff)

 

10) Consumerism= The idea that _____happiness _____ equals buying and having things.

 

11) Planned obsolescence= you have to buy a new thing because your old one doesn't work with the new type of product. The old one may still work fine.

 

12) Perceived obsolescence= you have to buy a new thing because you feel your old one is ugly or not ______fashionable_______.

 

13) 6 months after buying something, only ___1%___ of those things are still in use.

Story of stuff

(summary)

Our world is working in 5 steps or at least that’s what we were been told. Extraction - Production - Distribution - Consumption - Disposal. However there are public unaware about unrevealed steps. Consuming the planet natural recourse although it’s a finite planet, we are running out of resource and we are using too much staff that we don’t need. Synthetic chemicals is been released in our air and our water resource as she says “toxic in, Toxic out”. Companies also are doing everything to make people keep buying stuff even if they use a bad ways like cutting workers salaries so they could sale it with a low price. We are also consuming to much we are actually consuming twice as much as we did 50 years ago. We are also throwing 80% of our stuff every six month so in conclusion we are consuming stuff and we don’t recycle and we are killing our planet resource and we live in a finite planet so you can figure what is going to happen in a decade.

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