Salah’s Blog

What is the issue ?

 The issue is that an international aid had arrived in Bolivia, in which it had seen its worst flood in 25 years. The floods killed nearly 40 people and worst of it, is that tens of thousands of people had to be forced away from their homes. Many diseases had been spread in the flood which causes a major effect on the civilians that live there. One of the diseases that was thought found, was dengue fever. During this terribly horrific nightmare, landslides had stopped the evacuations of civilians from there flood zones. The flood had caused a major impact on the people’s homes and families, with having 350,000 people effected and having 1,600 cases of dengue fever and 1,400 of malaria.

Who is involved ?

 President Evo Morales is involved for he is the one who blames the floods on some certain developed states that are failing to fight the forces of nature. Meteorologists, because they are the ones that believed that El Nino, which is a form of weird unpredicting weather is what caused all this catastrophe, and Health officials for they the ones that help the poor hearts that are in need of a rescue. 

Who is Affected and How?

 The very civilians of Bolivia are affected because they are the very ones that may have lost maybe loved ones or their very lives and their homes and shelter. We all know that losing a loved one can really haunt our lives forever and that is why it is important to care for each other and work independently and collaborativley.

What would you do if you directly involved ?

 If I was directly involved in this situation of the flood in Bolivia, I of course  would find a cure for all the diseases that effected the very lives of the civilians and try to have accurate predictions on weather so that I am able to evacuate the people of  the certain area or country that is going to be effected by the forces of nature.

Link of Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6392847.stm

Flooding in Bolivia

What would you change about the final product (wiki you created) if you were to do the assignment again?

What I would change about the final product if I were to do the assignment again, would be to clean up a few little mistakes and make some adjustment so that my wiki looks nice and organized and easy to understand, this is so that viewers are able to find certain information and get to there immidiatly so they won’t have to get to this page and then this one and then the next just to find a fact. So I would do that and make loads more colorful things so that my wiki looks very striking and so that I can attract more viewers and they can get what they needed.

Look at some of the other wikis from any class and find a few that you think are done exceptionally well. Tell me the name of the empire and the block, and then explain what you like about their wiki.

Kongo Kingdom: Block D

I liked the way how they organized the work it really brings out a lot of their talent in researching and their attraction of their ability to think as well

What did you learn from this task?

What I learned from this very task in completing the wiki project, is that there is a lot more to know in our past than we thought. I have learned how people have fought in wars and sacrificed their many lives, and also how the empires of Africa’s life-style has been going on and on and on. I have learned how we humans first started off from the very continent of Africa and travelled through the rest of the world to bring a diversity of cultures, life-style, and many other things that brought how we became today to use many technologies as well. When completing this task I have learned that it is very, very important to get a job done at the right time, because if you don’t bring in work at the right time, then what sense does it make to even bring it in if your grade is going to be marked in late. So as I finished my last wiki I realized that there is more to us humans in the past than we thought. This task was very mind bowing for me as well.

Did you find this difficult or easy? Why?

Well through this task I have not found this too difficult nor too easy, this is because I found it just fine and perfeclty alright for me to complete and get the job done. Through this whole project and though all the researching I did, it seems that in some areas information on the Internet was not that much clarified and specified into the exact information and facts that I needed to complete this project. So therefore at that very point I found it a bit difficult to back up my information, and in most areas it was very simple for me to get to the right section and area to retrieve the type of information which I needed. So this seemed like an ok project to me.

What would you change about the process you went through to complete the wiki if you were to do the assignment again?

What I would change about the whole process of this project if I were to do it again, would be that I would make certain and particular times to make certain things for the wiki. Ex: I would make these couple of lessons for researching, this lesson for pictures, this lesson for links, and this lesson for cleaning up the wiki and making little changes and switches. This is so we can organize the exact time to complete each and every thing so that we can get the job done in just a flash.