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As people living with HIV rises, life expectancy rises.

As children per woman rises, income per person falls

PART 1:

a. I am comparing the number of people living with HIV (number, all people) to life expectancy (years). The human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Life expectancy is the average period that a person may expect to live in that country. I am also comparing the number of children per woman (total fertility rate) to income per person (GDP/capita). Children per woman is the average number of children a woman in a given country. Per capita income, also known as income per person, is the mean income of the people in an economic unit such as a country or city.

b. HIV affects the population and at what age the population dies out which is directly connected to economic development. If all the middle aged people are dying there is no working force. Also, the elderly have no one to care for them. Life expectancy is in direct correlation to economic development. A longer life expectancy results in a larger population, therefore having more opportunity for economic growth.  Just like HIV and life expectancy, the number of children per woman affects the population. If the population is small economic development is nearly impossible. Although, as child per woman rises, income per person falls therefore hurting our development. You need a balance between money and people.

PART 2:

a. In the global perspective development is higher in areas where there the total fertility rate is lower. The total fertility rate is high while the income per person is low during the early 1800’s for the world and as time goes on the fertility rate decreases and income per person increases. The countries in Africa and South Asia show the highest total  fertility rates with lowest income per person while the countries in the Americas and Europe/Central Asia have lower total fertility rates and higher income per person. Also within Africa the countries development gets higher as the total fertility rate decreases and income per person increases. The outliers in Africa are the very developed ones some of which that have lower total fertility rates and higher income per person than countries in the Americas. And in the Americas the least developed countries have higher total fertility rates and lower income per person. In the global perspective places with higher development have higher life expectancies which is shown in the Americas, Europe/Central Asia and East Asia/Pacific. The places with lower development, African and South Asian countries, have the lowest life expectancies. In the low development countries Cape Verde is an outlier with it’s very high life expectancy and in the high development countries Haiti is an outlier with it’s life expectancy closest to the life expectancies of African countries.

b. Poverty and lack of communication leads to no economic development which causes HIV to be high along with total fertility rate and income to be low. And lots of technology, modernization, medical advances, urbanization and workers in the tertiary sector leads to very high income per person along with a lower total fertility rate and longer life expectancies.

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Analysis

The new boundaries that were created are located Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Somalia could split into Somalia and Puntland.  Somalia then being split into two pieces, and Puntland in between.  The countries that have a possibility of merging are Afghanistan and Pakistan on their borders into the AfPak.

   

Somalia has many places where it could split, but one common theory is Puntland.  They both want different governments.  Puntland has a democracy (president and vice president), and Somalia has a federal parliamentary republic. Southern Somalia has faced a lot of conflict that Puntland has been able to keep away. Therefore, in order for Puntland to gain their independence from that chaos, they could break off.  Puntland had one of the only functioning governments in the country after warlords brought down Somalia’s central government in 1991.  Although, many regions may break apart inside Puntland, due to the government.

Afghanistan and Pakistan have a potential of merging at their borders, creating a place called the AfPak.  The US foreign policy wants to identify the two countries as a “single theater of operations”.  One boundary that brings them together is their religion, Islam.  Unfortunately they do not share the same official language or currency, but they share many regional languages.

Somalia and Puntland share two geometric boundaries.  Afghanistan and Pakistan share an anthropographic and cultural boundary; their religion, Islam.  By sharing a religion and many languages, it makes their boundaries anthropographic and cultural.  They also have mountains that go around  the AfPak, creating a physical political boundary.

If the AfPak comes together, it may help other countries like the US foreign policy said will make it a “single theater of operations”.  On the other hand, it will bring some struggle to Afghanistan and Pakistan finding an official language, common currency, and government.  If Puntland breaks off from Somalia, part of Somalia will become an exclave creating difficulty. 

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Census Data Mapper Map and Analysis - October 2013

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    I analyzed the percent of Black or African Americans in the United States. 14.8 - 85.7% of them are in the South. Other highly populated clusters are by the big cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, and Philadelphia. Parts of the West and Midwest are not highly populated. They have 4% or less.
   
    Much of the African Americans are in the South. This is where they first came to our country because of slavery. When they became free, this is where they knew there were jobs and a better climate. Many African Americans, just like many other races, are by the big cities where there are more job opportunities. You don’t see them in the West and Midwest because the climate is colder and there aren’t as many jobs.
 
     Many of the Southern states are democratic. This is because much of their population is African American, who tend to be democrats. This affects our voting. Their food has become part of our culture. They call it “soul food”. Just like how their music has. They made the blues, ragtime, gospel music, etc.

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