2017 Benchmark Project by dayanara diaz https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl Diaz, Dayanara en-us 2017-06-12 02:19:28 UTC 2026-01-23 21:54:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Lesson 01 : Five Themes of Geography ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032624 Location : 1.3733 degrees North, 32.2903 degrees East. Surrounded by Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Demographic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda.

Place : Some physical features in Uganda are Lake Victoria, Rwenzori Mountains, Mount Elgon and Lake Edward. Languages spoken in Uganda are English and Swahili.  

Human-Environment Interaction : There are a lot of sugar factories in Uganda such as Kakira Sugar Works, Kinyara Sugar Works Limited and Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited. The environment gets harmed by pollution emissions from the factories. Uganda’s average annual temperature is about 78 degrees fahrenheit. Rainy seasons are from March to May and October to November. Humans have to be accustomed to the weather. 

Movement : Taxis, cars, trains, busses, newspaper, tv, phones. 

Region : Eastern Africa
]]> 2017-06-12 02:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032624 Lesson 02 : Geographer's Toolkit ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032683 This is a climate map of Uganda. ]]> 2017-06-12 02:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032683 ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032820 This is a physical map of Uganda. ]]> 2017-06-12 02:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032820 Lesson 03 : Identity ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032904 Uganda’s beliefs consist of religions like Christianity and Islam. Uganda’s culture consists of customs such as the main language spoken, Swahili. “The largest group in Uganda (around a fifth of the population) are the Baganda, who live in the Kampala region and speak Luganda” (http://www.our-africa.org/uganda/people-culture “Our Africa” by unknown). The main sport played in Uganda is football. “In Uganda, the kanzu is the national dress of men in the country. Women from central and eastern Uganda wear a dress with a sash tied around the waist and large exaggerated shoulders called a gomesi” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Uganda “Culture of Uganda”, by Wikimedia Foundation on May 14, 2017).]]> 2017-06-12 02:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176032904 ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033068 2017-06-12 02:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033068 Lesson 04 : Migration ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033145 Push Factors : One push factor might be the climate and temperature of Uganda. Uganda’s average annual temperature is about 78 degrees fahrenheit. This might be too hot for some people. Another push factor might be that their economy is very poor. There are very little job opportunities there. 

Pull Factors : One pull factor is Uganda’s agriculture. Uganda specializes in crops such as sweet potatoes, beans and corn. Another pull factor is their major industries. Some of the major industries in Uganda are sugar, tobacco, brewing and cement.
]]> 2017-06-12 02:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033145 Lesson 05 : Industry and Labor ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033265 Some major industries in Uganda are sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement and steel production. They mostly work on stages one and two. They work on extracting the products from the farms (cotton, sugar, tobacco) and producing them in factories (cement, steel).

One situation factor to be able to develop a business between another LDC country is that we would have to look for a place where there’s a big population, so that more people can benefit from the business. Another situation factor is to build in a place where there’s more people who are in need of our business, in this case, a school. We want to help people in our LDC who are in need of an education, so it wouldn’t make sense to build a school where children don’t care for an education. One site factor is to build where there’s little to no schools around in the area. We want as much people to benefit from education, so we’ll build where people don't have that opportunity. Another site factor is to build somewhere where you can get to safely. We want safe multiple paths to and from the school (no criminal activity, wild animals, severe weather ect.) so that the children can get there safely and focus on the education.
]]> 2017-06-12 02:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033265 Lesson 06 : Identity Under Attack ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033627 Asians in Uganda were discriminated by the president of Uganda about fifty years ago. He said that he had a dream that he should get rid of all Asians from his country buy November 9, 1972. “[...] Allah had instructed him in a dream to expel all Asians from his country and to confiscate their homes and their businesses by 9 November 1972” (https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/racism-and-the-truth-about-the-ugandan-asians-172084.html%3Famp “Racism and the truth about the Ugandan Asians” by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown August 4, 2002). At first, the Asians thought it was just him making them feel nervous or worried, but Allah was serious. Asians made their way out of Uganda before November 9th came. ]]> 2017-06-12 02:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033627 Lesson 08 : Globalization ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033829 The United States is providing a significant amount of development assistance to Uganda. They’re also helping them achieve export-led economic growth through the African Growth and Opportunity Act. India has high commission in a Uganda city, Kampala. Uganda also has a high commission in New Delhi, India. ]]> 2017-06-12 02:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033829 Lesson 09 : Agriculture ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033865 Uganda’s agriculture consists of mostly crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, millet, beans, plantains and groundnuts. Some of their major cash crops are tobacco, tea, cotton, and coffee. Uganda’s main export crop is coffee. Uganda made several policy changes including the amount of export products aiming towards reducing ill-effects on inflation. They want to earn money to cure sickness. If they lose export partners, they won’t be able to achieve this goal. they won’t have enough money to continue this goal. Losing this goal means that their population will go down, since it’ll be affecting their health. More people will die sooner.]]> 2017-06-12 02:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033865 Lesson 10 : Population ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033966 Uganda’s population is 38,319,241. Their CBR is 43.4 births/1,000 population. Their CDR is 10.4 deaths/1,000 population. Uganda is in stage two. Most of the population is at the bottom of the pyramid, meaning there’s more young people than elderly. There’s very little, almost nothing, at the top of the pyramid. Very little people in Uganda aren't living after 60 years. This means medicine/technology isn't as developed in Uganda. My social policy is to have the Ugandan population only have up to two children per family. Since Uganda has a big population, and not enough natural resources for that much people, I wanted to slowly lower the population. We won’t do anything to any families who already have more than two children, but we will tell the future families not to have more than two children. In a few years, maybe a generation later, we will have a stable population and a more stable amount of natural resources. ]]> 2017-06-12 02:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033966 Lesson 11 : Development ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033991 Uganda’s literacy rate is 78.4% of total population. Their school life expectancy is 10 years. We can positively impact this by adding more schools in Uganda. Adding more schools will give more students a chance to be able to read and write. We will teach children how education is important and how they should stay in school. Uganda’s life expectancy is about 55 years. Their IMR is 57.6 deaths/1,000 live births. Their CBR is 43.4 births/1,000 population. Their CDR is 10.4 deaths/1,000 population. We can positively impact this by developing medicine and technology. By improving in this, we’ll have people living longer and healthier. The IMR and CDR will decrease while the life expectancy will increase. Uganda’s GPD per capita is $2,100. Their exports are $2,723 billion and imports are $2,677 billion Their labor force is 19.03 million, agriculture: 71.9%, industry: 4.4%, services: 23.7%.We can positively impact this by trying to export more items to get money in, and import less items to waste less money. We can also close down unnecessary industries/businesses to open up more needed/useful ones to add more job opportunities.]]> 2017-06-12 02:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176033991 Lesson 12 : Industry and Development ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176034018 Some major industries in Uganda are sugar, tobacco, corn, coffee, sweet potatoes, tea, and cotton. If they were to start losing amounts of these crops, their development will fall. They depend on these main crops to export and trade with other countries. They depend on the money that they make out of selling these crops to develop medicine to help diseases and sicknesses. If they were to lose crops, they'd lose export money, meaning they'll lose money to develop medicine, leading to more people getting sick/dying earlier. Our industry business proposal will help improve my LDC by giving children in Uganda a chance for education. Our industry business proposal is to add schools in Uganda in areas in need of education. With more children getting a quality education, they’ll learn how to develop medicine and technology. When they grow up, they'll be able to give back to the economy by helping their healths by knowing how to help them using medicine/technology. People will be able to live longer and healthier.]]> 2017-06-12 02:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176034018 Lesson 13 : Sustainability ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176034055 Our climate action statements will improve my LDC by helping their healths. One of our climate action statements is to lower factory pollution emissions by 10%. This will help pollution getting into the atmosphere, helping climate change and lung diseases. People in Uganda will be able to breathe in less pollution, lowering chances of lung disease. Another climate action statement is to start using more natural resources instead of fossil fuels. We will use technology such as wind turbines, hydropower, and solar panels. This will serve for the same purpose of helping climate change and lung sickness.]]> 2017-06-12 02:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176034055 ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176035825 2017-06-12 03:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176035825 ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176035899 2017-06-12 03:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176035899 ddiaz75 https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176035969 2017-06-12 03:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ddiaz75/2n7szrczcqgl/wish/176035969