Inequality for all

What is happening with the distribution of wealth?

The distribution of wealth is being a big problem in the whole world, the distribution of the money between people is unequal. The wealthy people are getting more wealthy, the middle class are getting poor, and the poor people are having so much trouble with getting money and food and a place to live. Also they are getting trouble paying taxes to the government. Also they have to pay another stuff that they need in the house. This has been a big problem for poor people.

Why is this happening?

This is happening because the government is being unequal with rich people and poor people, the rich and the wealthy people are paying a low percent of taxes, but the poor and the middle people have to pay a high percent of taxes to the government.

Now the poor and the middle class  have to work way harder than how they use to work, so they can make more money or just to have some food on the table. The education of the poor and the middle class is getting less and less, this people are now less educated and this is make in it harder for them to find a job without being educated. The only people that are educated are the wealthy people

 

Is this a problem?

This is a big problem because some families can't afford  to much money and they have to borrow the money from another person, or from the government, and some times they can't pay it and they loss part of what they have like for example their houses, or cars, or jewelry and that could be dangerous for them because they don't have enough money to buy another one, this is called debt . The wealthy gap is  the distribution of money between the poor and wealthy, this is being  unequally and this is affecting the notions of equality, equity of outcome, and equality of opportunity. Now the plutocracy is dominated by a small group of the wealthiest citizens.

Virtuous cycle vs vicious cycle

Virtuous cycle is good things happening and each having a positive effect, like for example,
a fair distribution of money between people, education for everyone, same opportunity of work, the growth, low prices. Virtuous cycle has a favorable results, but Vicious cycle has a detrimental results like less distribution of money between people, less opportunity of education, less opportunity of work, and high prices. In vicious cycle people waste their money faster because of the high prices and also they have to work more, so they have enough money to buy what they need.

Lobbyists 

Lobbyists is a person hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to support that business or cause. They are paid to influence policy-markers at the local, state and federal levels. They represent special interests in the decision-making process in the legislative and executive branches  of government. lobbyists play an important role in American politics.

Democracy

I found this information in Anji's link. Democracy is the freedom to elect our own dictators and i don't think we need dictators to help our world. i think that that if many people got together, they can make their own decision and cooperate with each other more.  A lot of people say that democracy is like freedom, because they can vote for who they want to win, but i personally disagree, because freedom does not represent voting for someone to dictate and make decisions for us. we as humans beings should learn to make our own decisions, because it's an important life skill to have . we need to start with having connections with people to change the problem.

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DEBT

Debt is when you borrow money from another person, or a bank. This is what some poor people do to get money when they don't have enough to pay something, but the thing is that they borrow to much money and when is time to pay all the money they borrow from  another bank, or they ask a friend for the money. They do this all over and over again until they don't find a way to resolve this, and some people kill themselves because they have trouble paying the money they borrow, this is what happen to Sandra Harris. She was a worker in the university of North Carolina Wilmington, she was also honored as employed of the year. Her husband had lost his job as a chef, so they had to live with Sandra's work but the thing is that it wasn't enough. Sandra had and idea of payday loan, that means that she could borrow money and pay it later with some fees on. She did that for a long time but she start to borrow bigger amounts of money, and she couldn't pay so her car was repossessed and she ended owing thousand of dollars.  

This is a video about Canada's economy, people think that every one has money and lives well. The thing is that life in Canada it's getting worst. Thousand of people are losing their works, middle class is getting poorer and poor people is just losing everything they have. This is because of the distribution of wealth, this is something that should not happen, because every one need jobs and money to live. The rich people are the only ones that can have a good job or a good life without doing nothing, and the people that work hard they are still having trouble making money and having a place and food to live.

December report card self assessment.

1.SOCIAL STUDIES

In social studies we are learning about what is happening around the world and also how to improve our writing skills, also how to blog and how to use it. Blogging helps us to improve our writing skills because if we have something that it doesn't make sense people that read our blog can helps and tell us how to fix it or were are we wrong, also we are learning how to create different types of sentences. Mr Bower is a pretty good teacher and he helps allot. Also he let us sit beside a friend but if we talked is because we are gonna ask something about what are we doing  or help the person beside us with their work. He let us sit beside friend because he wants us to communicate with the people that are sitting around the table, and ask them what we don't understand, because sometimes  we don't know how to do the work that he assigned to us, and sometimes the person sitting beside you might know so if we ask they might help.

The thing that I like the most is when we talk about what happens in the world for when we talked about the economy in the USA or when we talked about remembrance day or staff like that. Also I like when he teach us how to create sentences and how to fix what we write in our blog so people that read it, they understand what we are trying to say.

 2. WORK HABITS: MEETING EXPECTATIONS.

In my woks habits i think in meeting expectations, because I think i'm doing a good job, but not  excellent because sometimes I need more work in my writing and how to express what i'm thinking, because i'm not really good expressing my thoughts, but i think that my work is not so bad and i might not express pretty good what I think, but I know that when I write something in my blog, people that read my blog understand what in trying to said and also they like my links and  the pictures that I put on my posts. The people that sit beside me is Heather Harke,  Naheed Parsa,  Mahtab Mohammad, and Anji Yakusheva.

3. COMMUNICATION: MEETING EXPECTATIONS

In communication i think i'm meeting expectations, because i ask when i have questions and i help people when they need help, also i talk with the people sitting around the table were i sit and with other students sitting in another tables, i ask my teacher when i need help, or when i'm done and i need him to check my work.

When i'm searching of something i first read the information of the pages and then if i see something that i think is really interesting and then i link it to my post and when i'm watching a video or documentary i really like to watch it 2 times, because watching it 2 time helps me know what i'm gonna write about.

This is one of my favorite posts Halloween in 1960's I like this post because Halloween is my favorite part of the year, and watching this picture is really nice to see how different it used to be Halloween  in 1960's and how is Halloween now.


4. WHATS NEXT

In social studies I would like no know about what is happening around the world and also about the history of Canada and what I want to improve is in how to express my thought about what we are learning.

For richer for poor

This video is called For Richer For Poorer this video is about the difference between rich people and poor people. This video explains how rich people schools are different from poor people schools and also the different type of living houses, like a house of a rich person cost more than 2 millions of dollars and a house of a poor person cost is 40 thousand dollars. Calgary is the place in Canada with so much  difference between poor people and rich people.





This is a trailer that explains how the economy and the equality in USA has changed every year. Now the equality is now  unequal and no one is doing anything to change this. The USA is loosing the equality and is being more inequality with their people.




This video explains the difference of how people think the economy of USA is, and how is the reality. People think that every person has almost the same amount, but the reality is that the poor people don't have enough money, and the wealthy people have almost the half of the money of the USA, also  the middle class is almost getting poor.

Remembrance Day.

    Why do we remember?

Remembrance day is an important day for Canadians. This is to remember the members of their armies forces who died in the end of the World War I. Every November 11 Canadians pause in a moment of silence to remember the men and women that died in World War I, and also the ones that serve Canada in times of war,conflicts and peace.

We remember  more than 1,500,000 Canadians who have served throughout our nation’s history and  more than 118,000 who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. MORE INFORMATION...
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Remembrance Vignette 2014

Movember

 

Movember is a word composed by the words November and mustache. This word was created in 1999, this is a foundation that helps to raise awareness and fund for men's health issues for cancer. In 1999 a group of young men's created this word with an idea of growing mustaches during the month of November.
In November they do a competition were 21 men's all over the world are chosen to wear the crown and be the face of the company for all year long. The first winner was Mark Knight from London he won this contest in 2010. In 2011 the winner was Anton Taylor from south Africa,and in 2012 Chris Thwaites from new Zealand won the coveted sash.