Chapter 9: Global Stratification

 In this chapter I'll be mostly talking about poverty since it interested me the most. The United States says relative poverty  is with an income of $21,203 per household (starting wages for teachers). United Nations measures absolute poverty when a person lives on $1 a day, and Extreme Poverty is when someone lives with less then 75 cents a day. I could not live off live off $1 a day, I wouldn't have any of the things that are around me now. It would take you such a long time to save up simply for fabric to make a blanket to stay warm, for hospital care you know you need, and especially for food when you have a family. When they say ignorance is bliss, I feel selfish.

While in middle school I attended a science/outdoor camp in Wyoming called Teton Science Schools, you typically stayed there for a week, and at the beginning of that week you would scrape off all the food you wasted on your plate into a bucket. We didn't know why we did this the first day till after dinner. When the day was done the staff would show us all the food we wasted, and like you know, how others have none. So the goal of the week was to never scrape food into that bucket. I've worked in the food service industry and every time I see food wasted in bulk amounts it makes me sick and I also think of the lesson I learned at Teton Science Schools. Like our book says, "Growing more food will not end hunger. If systems of distributing the world's food were more just, hunger could be reduced."

Please go to this website below, its fun, super quick, and easy to start out with! answer a question and they will donate 10 grains of rice for every question you get right! Someone just got 4855 questions in a row right, that's so much rice!
www.freerice.com

Below are some articles on global stratification.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=21626

https://globalsociology.pbworks.com/w/page/14711295/Theories-of-Global-Stratification

 I personally suggest watching sometime ( available on netflix) Blue Gold: World Water Wars, and the movie The Age of Stupid. Both movies about the same thing in general but it also shows the effects on poverty.

 

"Mad World"

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
 

This is a link to a trailer for a documentary called The End of Poverty? I haven't seen the movie but thought it looked interesting and wanted to share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZnEBFYNS0