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Gina Dukes- Egypt vs. Thailand 'Collapse'ibility Q3 BM

Posted by Gina Dukes in Globalization - Laufenberg on

Egypt vs. Thailand-Which will collapse? on Prezi

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  • My countries- Egypt and Thailand

    The two countries that I selected were very interesting because they both posses a rich cultural history and are currently growing economically due to similar features such as tourism. Strikingly, just as they share the same characteristics of countries that are expanding their financial and political power, they both suffer from the same environmental challenges such as water shortages, pollution, and drought. Luckily, the two countries have the advantage of having many friendly trade partners. Overall, through research I've concluded that both countries are relatively stable and aren't in danger of collapsing.


  • My process was extremely scattered, and if I could do it over again I would definitely not procrastinate. I would say that researching Thailand for the Wordpress project, prepared me a great deal for this benchmark and made the process a bit easier.  


  • I felt that the 5 point framework was actually easily applied to my two countries. Because I have a good understanding of the framework, and I chose countries in which there was a wealth of information to research, I was able to find many connections that could be used to explore Jared Diamond's 5-point framework.


  • I loved exploring these different countries and found this project to be an exciting opportunity to learn more about my election country, and a beautiful country (Thailand) that I may have otherwise not have done. 





Madagascar and Mongolia

Posted by Rafiq Robinson in Globalization - Laufenberg on

www.wix.com/rrobinson4/whowillcollapse

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Madagascar is the 4th largest country in the world and is an island off the coast of South East Africa and Mongolia is land locked country located between China, Russia and Kazakhstan. The five point framework was actually pretty straightforward in my opinion. It just encompasses what it said it would the hard part was probably finding the sources. By finding the sources I mean if I had a score in my head I would need convincing evidence that would prove that score or change the score. I would change the effects on the website to show the scale better, for example I had thought of my original scale from something light to volcano and since I had certain highs and lows I was thinking it would be cool to show the eruption when certain things attained the score.

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Globalization Benchmark : Collapse'ibility

Posted by Tariq Smith in Globalization - Laufenberg on

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Here is a link to my benchmark

The countries that I selected were Russia and Democratic Republic of Congo. I was given Russia as my country for an election project where I had to get someone in another country to perform an interview on someone who was currently voting that year. My country for my region project that I chose was the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC is located in Central Africa and was formerly known as Zaire. For my benchmark I chose to a Google site because it was something that could easily be accessed by everyone in the viral world. The 5 point framework for my countries was relatively  simple to explain because both of my nations are very popular nations throughout the world for various different things. If I could change one thing about my product, I would add more visuals and add more interactivity so that my audience would be more compelled to stay on my site and would have more to do than just read information.

Madagascar And Liberia Collapse 'iblity'

Posted by Lauren Gore in Globalization - Laufenberg on

The Collapse Possiblities on Prezi

This is my project on the collapse probability of these countries collapsing.

Reflection:
I have selected Madagascar and Liberia. Madagascar is a island of the coast of Africa. LIberia is a costal city around Sierra Leone in Africa. 

The process I went through the process of creating a prezi.I picked a format to capture the audience attention and made it colorful.

The 5 point framework was easy, I could easily figure out the countries' standing in them. The only exception was that I had trouble find hostile neighbors for my countries.
I found this benchmark to be easy and fun to do. I like the fact I chose a prezi instead of anything else

"Collapse"ibility - Q3 Benchmark

Posted by Bach Tong in Globalization - Laufenberg on

The project is also viewable online here.

The countries of my project are Egypt and Greece. The research on information about these two countries was not as hard. However, it became really difficult to find information about "Society Response to Environmental Problems", due to the overshadowing presence of other current issues like financial crisis, Egypt's revolution, etc. It was fairly easy to find an approach of presenting the information. I chose to compare Egypt and Greece side as I go through each of the 5 points framework. Jared Diamond's 5 points framework was an interesting theory to assess a country's collapse'ibility. On the other hand, the framework was reflected based mostly on past civilization that does not seem to adequately apply to today world. The main reason was due to the hyper connected world as a result of today technology. Therefore, it is hard to single out a country to examine whether it is going to collapse. The process for this benchmark could have been much better if I began a bit sooner! I guess I never learn the lesson of procrastination. I should make my product more interactive and some graphs.



Egypt vs. Brazil

Posted by Fangda Luo in Globalization - Laufenberg on

I worked on the comparison between Egypt and Brazil. As far as what I get to know, this is kind of a comparison between social incongruity and stability. I first did the whole thing wrong and did neither the framework or the grading. I happened to be working on the industry and economy facets at the beginning so I have to do it all over again. If I would do this again, I have to work harder on the citations, which is always something I am confused with. Also I have to read the requests more carefully. This benchmark is not hard but really took a lot of effort. I would be searching more data and information about the topic. Some information is not that evident, but it still explains a lot of things. While doing the project, it is really hard to find reliable sites and official explanations.

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/presentation/d/1CfX5ASsswwoiveZLv057CjzaoNc9bPMuav0GOr-XU6s/edit#slide=id.g328ab7e_1_49

France vs Romania

Posted by Maria Hernandez-Pico in Globalization - Laufenberg on

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Based in the theory of Five point Framework from the book Collapse by Jared Diamond, this project above was made with the propose of evaluate and grade (0-10) the collapsibility of two country by comparing each other.

 

The first country France, officially called the French Republic. It’s the second largest country in Europe (with 65,350,000 of people). The capital is Paris; the official language is the French, and the currency the Euro. They have a unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic government. 

 

In the other hand we have Romania, a Southern European country, with a smaller population (just 19,042,936 people). The capital is Bucharest; the official language is Romanian, and their government is unitary semi-presidential republic. Like France, Romania also has as currency the Euro.

 

Both part of the European Union and they are in a very good condition of life in general. Those facts make harder the job of evaluate collapsibility and the criterion to grade it. Also my knowledge in cybernetics is poor, this I would like to change in a future presentation.

 

Overall by the process of making this project, I enjoy it and learned a lo about those two countries, and I was very impress with how those five point framework apply to any community, and even those that we think are very advance, had their point where they are weak. 

5 Point Framework, Collapse - Gonzalez

Posted by Gilberto Gonzalez in Globalization - Laufenberg on

I decided to try and cover all of Sub Saharan Africa. That didn't work out to well but I also covered south korea. Sub Saharan Africa consist of many small countries, and it's a desert area where the outcome of everything basically depends on the weather. If they don't have rain they will not have crops and they will go trough a drought. South Korea has no real problems other than North Korea being north of it and the pollution in the air from all the industry in the general area. It is surrounded by water and is relatively close to china and japan. 

If I where to change one thing about the project I would change my work ethic and how much I payed attention to deadlines. I totally forgot that this project was due until monday morning when it was brought up in class. So next time I plan on looking at moodle more often. As the project progressed I choose to use the research from my other projects and summarized it based on the five point framework. To me if you read collapse the five point frame work is very easy to understand. Because of the fact that it gives a few examples while the first chapter goes on. 

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Collapsibility- France vs. South Korea

Posted by Kate Pepple in Globalization - Laufenberg on

My project focuses on France and South Korea.  Both countries have their strengths and weaknesses, although France has considerably more strengths.  South Korea is a relatively new country, which mean they have more challenges to over come than France.  France has experience and stability that results in a very low chance of collapse.  My project is an interactive PowerPoint that puts France and South Korea head to head on Jared Diamond's five-point frame work.  Each slide focuses on one of the points a gives a rating to each country between zero and ten, in the end the points are tallied and the country closest to 50 is the least likely to collapse.  Some of the points are straightforward, such as "Climate Change" and "Citizen's Response to Environmental Damage" while others were more complex such as "Hostile Neighbors" and "Friendly Trade Partners".  Relationships with neighboring countries and trade partners are constantly changing and need to be evaluated on different levels.  One difficult part of the project was finding useful, reliable and, interesting sources.  While my project includes hyperlinks some of those do not lead to the most interesting sites. 

World of 100 Analysis

Posted by Sean Moss in Globalization - Laufenberg on

I chose to look at Age, Gender, and Geography. Looking at the actual data i noticed i was far off on gender but relatively close with the other two. But when i think about it i shouldn't be surprised that there's more females than males. That makes more sense than the other way around. Even just looking around the city there's more chance of seeing women and girls than men. Even in the school.

When i look at age tho i was close. There's 30% of children which is about 0 - 17 and above that is adults. Which i had written. When looking at the geography i was off in certain places. Like America and Europe  i had 10's for both and they were 12 each. But i thought Africa and Asia would have closer numbers than to America. Africa also has close to 12 people and Asians take up 61%.

Here's the link to My Blogger if you cannot see the pictures.

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