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Tower Garden Photo Journal

Posted by Samir Smith in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2:12 pm
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This project has been very meaningful to this group. We have been able to care for and watch plants grow as if they were our children. We literally checked on them everyday to see if they were growing. Our plants didn't grow as much as other groups but we tried. Factors that may have affected the growth of our plants could have been over watering, not enough sunlight, too much or too little vermiculite or they were just growing very slowly. The conclusions from these factors and this project that we can draw are to make sure that we place our plants in perfect or close to perfect conditions so that they are fit to grow and grow healthy at that. This project has really been amazing and we would love to do it again. We will still check in everyday to make sure that our plants are doing well

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-3D7VFucAgl0xfjVCaxTlyFqmQksXzG6ipjLSyhQM9c/edit


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Australia vs. Costa Rica: Child mortality rate and income per person

Posted by Samir Smith in Statistics · Isakowitz · B on Friday, January 27, 2017 at 8:38 pm

How Does Income Affect the Child Morality Rate In Australia and Costa Rica?


The country of Australia is known as one of the most highly developed, new world countries, especially when you compare it to a country that’s not as developed like Costa Rica. Since the country of Costa Rica, and all that it has to offer is less developed, we see that there is a higher infant mortality rate opposed to Australia. Mortality, otherwise known as death, is the measure of the number of deaths which belong to a specific population, which also counters the population, and amount of time in which people died. Since the general income per person increases at a daily rate, the child morality rate decreases for both countries, however it’s decreasing at a faster rate for Australia. The generalization leads one person to think that the more developed country is, the more likely they are to have a constant decrease in negative statistics such as the child mortality. This is a study and interpretation of information received and graphs created in order to answer the essential question. How Does Income Affect the Child Morality Rate In Australia and Costa Rica?

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Since the year 1990, the world has cut its infant mortality rate down by nearly 50 percent. This is great progress but it still falls short from the goal that is trying to be achieved, which is a reduction of two thirds. “Since the beginning of the age of the Enlightenment and over the course of modernization, the mortality of children below 5 years of age has declined rapidly. Child mortality in rich countries today is much lower than 1%. This is a very recent development and was only reached after a hundredfold decline in child mortality in these countries.”(Roser, Child Mortality). The previous graph is a representation of the world Infant Mortality rate compared to the average income in each country. As you can see, as the annual income per person increases, the infant mortality rate decreases In the year 2015, about 11 children died per minute which promotes the idea that the survival of children should be a top priority. Bigger countries such as Russia or Canada have have a high decrease of  Below is a list of the world’s countries with the highest infant mortality rate from the CIA world factbook, on this list Costa Rica is number 151 and Australia is 188 which doesn’t seem to be that much of a place difference but the numbers hold a significant difference from each other

 


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In the graph above, the X axis is represented Income per person and the Y axis is represented by child mortality rate. The data was collected by an international census, each circle is represented by the total population. The Y value decreases as the X value increases, this is a negative correlation. There doesn’t seem to be any sharp increases or drops. The highest point is at 8K and 160 and the lowest point is at 80k and 2.5. The colors represent the region and I am choosing to represent Costa Rica and Australia. The scale doubles on the X and Y axis. The countries compare to be very close.

Costa Rica has an infant mortality rate of roughly 8.3 deaths per one thousand births and and an annual GDP of approximately 16,100 dollars per person. Australia on the other hand has an infant mortality rate of 4.3 deaths per one thousand births and an annual GDP of 48,800 dollars per person. As you can see in the graph above, as time goes on while the income per person continues to increase, the infant mortality rate continues to steadily incline despite some minor spikes throughout history.

High infant mortality rates could be a result of improper childcare. A population of people with unhealthy and disease ridden children who will grow up and become sickly adults prone to sickness, halts the economic progress of a country. An increased fertility rate could result in a health decline for the mother. Pregnancies later on in the life of a physically ill mother will result in malnourished and sick children with little chances of survival both before and after birth. It damages the later generations by decreasing the enrollment rate of children in school and it increases the cost of medical care, taking away needed resources from clients.

Declining poverty rates and increasing knowledge and service in the health sector, child mortality worldwide is facing a rapid decline: Global child mortality fell from 18.2 percent to 4.3 percent in between 1960 and 2015. 4.3 percent is still high but it is very progressive. In the year 1990, 7.6 million children died before the age of five, this number then decreased to 3.7 million in 2013. This decrease happened when there was a global baby boom. Bigger countries have decreased their child mortality rate 10 times over the past 40 years. Other countries, mainly in Africa, continue to have high infant mortality rates. On the other hand, these countries are still making progress, like in Sub Saharan Africa where the infant mortality rate has been at a steady decrease for the past 50 years.

To conclude, income is a crucial factor pertaining to majority of things in the world. But, especially that of the child mortality rate because the higher your income, the more likely you are to be able to get the proper healthcare and medicine. Australia is clearly the richest country in a comparison with Costa Rica, so it is only natural that Australia would have the lowest child mortality rate and higher income. Australia is simply a more developed country, even with the fact that both countries are equally beautiful, but when one carries beauty it my lack the proper income to sustain it.
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Samir's digital Artifact

Posted by Samir Smith in ART ADV - Hertz - C1 on Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 11:12 pm
Art Reflection 2015-2016 (2)
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Spanish Book

Posted by Samir Smith in SPANISH 2 - Moran - X on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 12:21 pm
CopyofSpanishBook
This was the Spanish book that Jada and I worked on. We wrote our book about a boy that didn't want to go the doctors.
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Eulogy Sugar Skull/Mask

Posted by Samir Smith in SPANISH 2 - Moran - X on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 11:59 am
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This was the sugar skull/mask project. We had to make a sugar skull/mask for a deceased person in our family for the Mexican day of the dead. Then we had to write an explanation. 
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News Channel

Posted by Samir Smith in SPANISH 2 - Moran - X on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 11:54 am
SpanishbenchmarkWeather-Fashion
This project was to create a news channel, this was the weather part, I cannot find the video. The news forecast consists of the weather, the fashion and the health update
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La Poesia y Mi Reflexión Proyecto

Posted by Samir Smith in SPANISH 2 - Moran - X on Monday, April 13, 2015 at 11:08 am
La Poesia y Mi Reflexión_Proyecto
This project was to choose a poet and give background information on a poet and myself. We chose a specific poem and we had to create our own interpretation
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Viajar

Posted by Samir Smith in SPANISH 2 - Moran - X on Monday, April 13, 2015 at 11:02 am
TravelToPanama
https://www.wevideo.com/hub/#media/ci/349785569
Agencia de viajes urbana
http://cbrown691.wix.com/angenciadeviajes
This project was basically to create a travel agency that is for one country. The country that my group chose was Panama. 
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A Day In My Life- Samir Smith

Posted by Samir Smith in WORLD HISTORY - Roy - D on Monday, February 9, 2015 at 6:26 pm
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Oral History: Samir Smith

Posted by Samir Smith in African American History - Roy - E on Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 12:22 am

Abstract

In this interview my grandpa and I discuss what was happening during the 60’s and what he experienced in Philadelphia during the civil rights movement. It is hard for him to recall the exact dates and his exact age, but he has a vivid memory and remembers exact events. He provides info about other peoples feelings and what they experienced.


Research

The civil rights movement was an international series of political movements for equality before the law that reached a peak in the 1960’s. It often took the form of campaigns of civil resistance such as “The Montgomery Bus Boycott”. There were many civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. In this interview my grandfather references his experiences and the assassination of MLK and the feelings of people older than himself.


Sources

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movements_for_civil_rights


Transcript

SS- What was it like for you during the sixties? Like what did you experience?


GP-I didn’t particularly have any difficulties as a youngster at that age, but I could see some of the struggles that my mother was experiencing but I think having 5 or should I say 4 other siblings at that time, you know I think it was pretty much carefree because there were no responsibilities or obligations that we had to really attend to being that young but I think we were pretty safe and happy being that young where our parents pretty much took on the strife of everyday living.


SS-Ok so like was there any racial tension or anything while you were growing up?


GP- I think that the racial tension for me being a youngster as I started getting older, say around 6,7,8, and 9 that 4 year span became more of a racially aware environment, especially hearing it from people, other African Americans in regards to the caucasian race at that point, hearing the disappointment and the exclusions and things of that nature and how we were so exempted from going in certain areas even in Philadelphia, I think that there was a border line of racism as I got even a little older around maybe 7 or 8 dealing with the Hispanic community living around 5th and lehigh at that particular time but racism I think was something that was becoming a very real and apparent part of my life between the ages of 7 and 9 so the experiences that I did have with racism as mainly of that hearing all of the ill treatment and difficulties that my parents and you know family and friends that were much older around my mothers age or you know in that age category of concern so that was pretty much the experience of racism during that time and at that time now you’re still talking about 67 to 69.


SS- So like Were you subject to any racial slurs?

GP- You know at that age if I was I probably wouldn’t have even known but being called things like, like the N word and things of that nature I think that it would only come from experiences with my hispanic friends when they got mad at me hahaha and if it came out it came out in that context and I think it made me angry you know at that particular point dealing with those who were my age and probably didn’t really have a sense of the intensity of what it was that they were trying to express either they heard things from racially charged individuals maybe family or friends of theirs or maybe heard it from other areas you know but as far as it affecting me to a great extent no.


SS- Did you see or experience any violence because of race?


GP- I never had an opportunity to really experience violence because of race at that earlier age during the 60’s it was still pretty much something that I think I might have been shielded from to a certain degree.


SS- So you felt safe?


GP- Pretty much yes I think I did my mother and my family did a pretty good job of keeping me safe from it.


SS- So when you were younger How did you feel about the civil rights movement?


GP- At the age of I guess maybe 9, 10, and 11 I didn’t really have a great sense of it but I do remember like maybe around the age of, I can’t remember how old I was i’m thinking I must have been somewhere between 10 and 12, I remember sitting in the living room of my mothers house and there was a big bang on the door and my mother came down hysterically because she had never heard anyone bang on her door with such urgence so she went to the door and asked who was it and it was my uncle, her brother Eddie and when she opened the door he was very distraught he had tears coming from his eyes he rushed in the house looked at my mother and said “they killed Dr. King”. My mother was very upset she put her hands on her face and immediately began to cry and she ran upstairs and my uncle he was distraught with anger and frustration seeing that and experiencing that coming from my uncle and mother I had a sense of what it felt like to be angry behind someone being assassinated especially at that caliber at that young age I knew that there was something that I was feeling that I couldn’t connect with the idea of rage being that young, 11 or 12 or more like 10 or 11 I might have been 9 if he got assassinated in 68 or 69 because every year I turn a year older but needless to say you know as you can hear there is a slight fogginess for racism for such a young mind between the ages of 8 and 11. So that was one of the first times I actually experienced frustration and anger and hostility at a young age so I would say racism introduced me to those extreme human characterisitics which I think are not the dominant human features but they have their place.


SS- So did you know who Dr. King was


GP- I did not know who he was to the extent that my mother and uncle did but in school his name was always mentioned and what he tried to do. And my teachers were very happy that someone like him had taken such a great stand so I felt hope that I knew i could identify at a young age, so knowing him to the degree that they knew and understand him no but I did have what I would say was a beautiful byproduct of what they had for him and what he was doing.


SS- Ok did the behavior and actions of certain people(Blacks or Whites) surprise you?


GP- Can you repeat the question?


SS- Oh did the behavior and actions of certain people(Blacks or Whites) surprise you?


GP- I think that at the age again that I was any strange behavior that wasn’t pure was was surprising that those who were adult could display such radical and inhumane behavior I think gave me an idea that there was something more that I had to look forward to in terms of dealing with people on different level so yes it was very surprising that kind of behavior coming from anybody of any particular race or color so yes.


SS- Did you have any white friends during the sixties?


GP- I can remember having absolutely not one single caucasian as a friend in my youth.


SS- Wow.


GP- The closest thing I came to having a caucasian as a friend were Hispanics who were of course I would say a close hue to that of a caucasian but Their behavior and interaction was nothing remotely close to anything I had heard to that of a Caucasian at that time.


SS- Well Grandpa thank you for your time this concludes our interview.


GP- Well thank you for having me and giving me this opportunity to express my viewpoint and history and to hopefully have implanted some idea and understanding and connection to what it was like having lived or being a child living in that era so thank you.


SS- Thank you too.



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Samir Smith: #JovenesDeFiladelfia

Posted by Samir Smith in Spanish 1 - Rosen-Long - X on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 10:42 am
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