Panama & Japan

Japan is a huge potential country and I think that it is interesting and embracing to study the collapsing probabilities of such country. One of my regions was East Asia; at first I thought about choosing China but the media is now all over Japan and I thought that it would be much easier to find information about Japan. The other reason of why I decided to analyze the collapsing possibilities of Japan is because, I was really interesting in learning and comprehending the reaction of society (not only in Japan but the entire world). In this kind of situations is when you really see how the world can come together or separate.
Panama is a small country in North America. I’m concern about the way that their system works when it comes to preserving their forest. It was difficult to find information about Panama, because of all the other events that are occurring now.

I think that my five point framework was fine. Sometimes I had way too much information about something and some other things were just too difficult to find. I think that if I had a little bit more time I could have done a better job in terms of research.  If I could change one thing about my product it would be the design of the website. I think that it would have had help a lot more if I had some pictures for each category.

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I did my project on Japan located in East Asia and Australia which is located in Oceania. Furthermore, the process of creating my website was simple. It was difficult to find current reliable resources for Australia for some topics. For Japan, however, there was an abundant of information regarding the 5 point framework.

If I could change one thing about my website, I would add more media including images, videos, podcasts, etc. I feel like that would make the website more appealing to an outside audience and provide viewers with an easy way to digest information.

I enjoyed this project. Considering I am part Japanese, I was very interested in learning more about the country. Even more, I never knew a lot about Australia and this project allowed me to educate myself about the country.

I compared New Zealand and Ireland, two separate and well-to-do nations.  They are both islands, and have english speaking residents, which gives them some similarities even though they are far apart.  

I focused mostly in the research aspect, which brought me to tough place at the end.  I decided to create a google doc to record all the useful information I found, divided by country and "point."  By the time I had enough information, the project was due and I was left with just a google doc and not a website as planned.  Retrospectively, I should have gone straight to the website after each section. If I could change it, I would definitely fix the entire product.  I'm displeased with the result, and wish I had chosen a different process to get there.  

The five point framework in itself was not too complex.  However it was harder to find good information that was more in depth that a general overview of each nation.  One of my difficulties was separating some of the information.  While researching, I found certain pieces that I thought could be part of more than one point in the framework.  Distinguishing them was sometimes tricky, especially with environmental damage and climate change.  Over all, it was not my best benchmark to say the least, but I still learned a lot about Ireland and New Zealand.  

Here is a direct link to my iWeb presentation of my Globalization Benchmark.
Quarter 3 Globalization Benchmark

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The countries that I have chose for my project were Cambodia and Libya. The process of going about the iWeb was tedious. I gathered images and links first, then I read over my links and if they weren't beneficial for myself then I discarded them, after that I used the "good" links and the information I knew to create an iWeb.
The five-point framework that we had to base our countries' status was something to guide me. Personally, I felt like it was straightforward with a challenge. It gave me a point to search for and actually think about what I was doing. But if I were to change something about the project itself, I would have possibly done it in a different way other than an iWeb. I would've done a video of some sort to see how I can get the point across to show how these countries are struggling.

Here's my 3rd quarter benchmark website.

My two countries were Ethiopia and Chad. Ethiopia is a poor country facing many problems such as famine, poverty, and drought. It located in North Africa. Chad is a poor country as well and deals with similar problems such as poverty, drought, and war.  It is located in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I did a lot of research which it was difficult for me this time around. Sometimes I had toruble finding sources of information relating to the countries five point framework today. Many of my sources talked about either hostile neighbors and friendly trade partners in previous years rather than in the present year. My other problem consist of the exact opposite. I found various the websites that had all this information on environmental problems and climate change for both countries. I had so many sites and information I was overwhelmed and struggled in grasping the important information.  I even faced the problem of deciding where to use my sources for the climate change and environmental damage, but int he end I kind of combined the two sources (without repeating myself) since climate change caused environmental problems. After I had all my information organizing it was quite simple but then I had to give each country a rating, which I also had some trouble doing. After I rated my countries "collapse'ibility", I then had people overview my website and check to see if I gave an accurate rating. Overall, the whole process was difficult for me. Finding sources was problem, the overload of information was difficult, and rating the collapse'ibility of my countries.

It was difficult to find information on hostile neighbors for both Chad and Ethiopia. Both countries have had huge wars in the past between neighboring countries, but it was difficult to find news sources discussing their relations with those countries they have now.

If I could change one thing I would compare two different countries. I felt liek Chad and Ethiopia were to similar to each other based on the five point framework and I would have liked to have compare countries that deeply contrast from one another. Sometimes I felt like I was reading the same thing for research on both my countries.

I think this project could have more exciting.