Today in Human geography class, we researched different places around the world and gave cool facts on them. At first I went to the wrong website and found out that you can legally marry a dead person, true or not, I think that's a really weird and interesting. When that fact was shut down I discovered that the school life expectancy was 17 years for girls and only 16 for boys. Is that weird? To me that seems weird. Why does gender matter when it comes to what year you can stop going to school? In the United States it is 16 for everyone. It makes me wonder what makes them think girls should have to be in an extra year before dropping out. But anyway, aside from today's class assignment, I found out that I got a 50 on your quiz, so not as good as I hoped.
Research Kiva.org . Describe your findings, such as their goals, methods, efficiency, and reputation. Research potential borrowers. Find at least two borrowers and describe their business, their reasons for wanting a microloan, their past history, etc. Look at the big picture. Check out the city and country they live in, and describe what effect their location has on their need to borrow. Write your findings in an essay and post it to your blog. This should be a well-written, informative, and possibly inspirational essay that shows how much you have learned about developing nations, poverty throughout the world, and ways of dealing with this difficult situation. Kiva.org is a site that is used by about a million people who lend money to those in need. When you go onto the cite, you will find different profiles on some one or a group of people and a biography of why they want the money you might be willing to lend to them. This cite seems to work very efficiently as y...
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