Tunisia online article #3

Tunisia cares for its people. Tunisia looks at improving the education of its country. In order to do this, they even help handicap people earn an education. In particular, Tunisia helped blind people improve on their education. In order to help blind people read, Tunisia's government made books written in Braille. Braille is a written language that blind people can communicate through. With this technology, blind people can exceed in their lives and get jobs in certain areas. This cooperation led to putting computers in two primary schools and a college for blind people over Tunisia which also helped the education of Tunisia increase.

I think that Tunisia is setting a good example for the rest of the world with improving education for even handicap people. Spending money to help handicap accelerate their education and exceed their interests shows that Tunisia really cares for their people. I think that Tunisia helping blind people is developing it as a nation. I think that if Tunisia can help blind people develop, than they can achieve a lot with the entire population in the years to come.

Tunisia online article #2

Saving energy is becoming very essential in many places such as Tunisia because of the scarcity of our fossil fuels such as oil. Their many ways to conserve energy but the main way Tunisia is planning to save energy is with a Solar Plan using solar energy. The Solar Plan in Tunisia will be about 40 projects which will finish from the period of time between 2010 through 2016. The Solar Plan will cost over two billion dollars. Although the plan will be costly, it is designed to reduce the use of conventional energy sources by 660,000 tons of oil in Tunisia. With the Solar Plan, Tunisia will reduce the country’s total energy consumption by 22 percent by 2016.

Thinking Response: I think that Tunisia is making a mistake turning to Solar Energy in order to save money and save our fossil fuels. We do need to use renewable resources to save money and our planet but I think that Solar Energy is not a resourceful way of doing it.  When you add up the money to install solar panels and the money in the Solar Plan ($2 billion), it is not worth to go through the payment and trouble for the Solar Plan because it ends up being costlier than the money saved by the fossil fuels. Also Solar Energy is really cool but is not efficient. Solar Energy is based upon the sun which you cannot rely upon always (especially at night). I just think that using solar energy will hurt Tunisia’s government and its people. I don’t think that Tunisia should follow through with the Solar Plan.

Tunisia online article #1

In Tunisia, olive groves can be used do to many things. Olive Oil is one of the ways olive groves are used not only to support a job but is a calling in Tunisia. Olive oil is made in several ways. The old-fashioned way to produce olive oil is to cold-press the olives and then separating the oil from water and letting it rise up to the top of the barrel. The Mahjoubs’ company which produces a high percentage of the olive oil produces their olive oil in this way. The old-fashioned way is not the fastest way to make olive oil but is the purest way. This is why the Mahjoubs of Tunisia make olive at the production percentage they do. Olive oil is considered gold in liquid form in Tunisia. Tunisia is one of the largest olive oil producers in the world and the biggest in the Mediterranean. Olive oil is a good, efficient way of making money. Olive oil employs about 300,000 people in Tunisia and gives some income in some way to one million people. About 70 million trees in Tunisia are trees that produce olive oil. Seventy percent of the olive oil made from those trees is exported out of Tunisia. Tunisia’s main niche is olive oil.

Thinking Response:

            I think that even though the “old-fashioned way” of producing olive oil is not the fastest and best way to make money but is the purest way. I think that the purest way of producing olive oil will end up making the most profit. Also producing olive oil in Tunisia is a good employment type for the people and will help Tunisia reach the top.

African Essay

Africa suffers a great amount of poverty. Families go through money shortage, starvation, water shortage, no shelter, and etc... The government of countries such as Ethiopia and The DRC cannot support the people. Kids also endure pain from this. Many kids do not get education because the families can't afford to send them to school. The government of Ethiopia spends 1% of their budget on schools, so the parents basically have to pay to send their kids to school so they can get an education. The parents cannot afford to send the kids to school because they don't make a lot of money with their farming jobs. A farming job is not an accurate way to earn money. The amount of money earned is based on how many crops are grown. The amount of crops grown depends on the seasons, with droughts and monsoons in the African countries the families don't even know if they'll have enough to eat or to drink. let alone make money to send their kids to school. Also. the kids don't go to school because most of them have to stay home and help their parents on the farm. The guys go on the farm and the girls work at home. I conclude that girls get the least amount of education due to them working at home, making dinner, and more. I think farming life is the hardest way to live. Also African countries are most impacted by AIDS. Twenty-30% of the population is affected by AIDS. AIDS is the disease leaving kids on the street alone & elders with no one to take care of them Africa's government does very little to help these causes. I think that Africa's government has to help their people or their population will rapidly decrease.

Nectar in a Sieve

There are several detail in Nectar in a Sieve that show the importance of the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures and its impact on the people. One of the most important aspects showing East vs. West is Dr. Kenny. Dr. Kenny influences the book in many ways to show some differences in the Western and Eastern cultures. He shows that in the old times, the Westerns were more educated and wealthier and more protected by their government. Even though the Western could provide more for their residents, their world was only based on money, government, and business, not around the civilians.
When Dr. Kenny became more involved in the book, we could see that he lived better than Rukmani and Nathan. We could see that he was more educated, had a better job (Doctor), and was wealthier.  With this fact, it shows that Kenny being wealthy, gave him a reason on why he wouldn't starve. Without the money he got from becoming a doctor and living with his family, he would have starved just like Rukmani and Nathan's family. This shows that Western Culture was more educated and wealthier in some ways.
Living in the "New World", Kenny and his family must have witnessed the Britain government help the citizens when required. When he came to the Eastern part of the world to India, he sees the government of Rukmani's village and how they cannot support the village in anyway. An example is when there was the storm or the drought upon Rukmani's village, the government could not do anything to assist. All the hierarchy government such as landlords could think about was the payment made to them from their vassals. This shows that the Western government could provide and facilitate more for their citizens that the Old World's government.
As showed by the tannery, when Rukmani's son, Raja died, the managers of the tannery came not to show sympathy to Rukmani, but just to see if they wouldn't have a lawsuit upon them. This shows that the people of the tannery (who reflected the Western culture) cared more about their business than the people. Also even though the people from Rukmani's village were going through starvation, and the tannery had some meat to give, the tannery didn't give anything and continued their business as usual. This shows that the Western culture is more reflected upon business, government, and money, while the Eastern World is more based upon care and respect for the people.
To sum it all up, Western and Eastern world clash together to form very different cultures in past, in the present, and will be in the future as well. The tow world have different view points and different ideas on how to live life. In many ways the Western world could help out more for their citizens, but the Eastern world showed care, love, and respect in hard times. People in both ends of the worlds live different types of lives, but can still interact with each other as if they were family members.