Blog Topic #5

This is an image of the number of aircraft flights in the world. As you can see the U.S is the biggest by far, with most people in the U.S flying sometimes to the state that is right next to the one they are in. The thing that really stands out is that Africa and Southeast asia have the least, even though they are the farthest from things. Lots of people in these countries and other LDC's have never even been on an airplane before. Globalization is the increasing interconectedness of people and places through converging proccesses of economic, political, and cultural change. So this map really shows that if we want Globalization to really increase I think that we are going to have to start going to these LDC's more and trying to develop them. World Mapper said that in 2000 civilian aircraft flew a total of 25 billion kilometers, that means if one person flew this themselves they would circle the world 630,000 times! Wow, I can't stop wondering how far I have flown on an airplane and never even left the states!

Blog Topic #3

The main reason that I chose this video is that it really shows the geography of Cambodia. This video is about the Prey Lang forest and how it is being destroyed by deforestation.

Prey Lang is a massive forest that is full of trees and large companies are going in and destroying it. Deforestation is a major problem in Southeast Asia especially here in Cambodia. All of this deforestation is taking away the natural resources that the Cambodians live off of, and making their lives much harder to live. One thing that it really is taking away is the animals, by knocking out where they live the animals start to die and the population goes down. With the population of the animals going down, food is much harder to come by for the people that rely on them for food.

Blog Topic #2

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/people-smuggler-avoids-jail-term/story-fn6bfm6w-1225972902673
          This article was about how a 20 year old and his father were smuggling Afghans and Pakistanis to Australia from Indonesia. They were charged with nine months in prison but got it suspended and in that time the father died six months after being arrested dying by mysterious circumstances.
          Our book states that 25 percent of the population in Australia are immigrants, and the major cities in Australia offer some attractive possibilities for these immigrants. Up until 1973 Australia had a White Australian Policy which promoted European and North American immigration at the expense of other groups. Now it is different, the migration trends have flipped and now more diverse immigrants are giving the country a more multicultural character. Kanakas, or Pacific Island laborers, who are imported as inexpensive workers usually from the Solomons and New Hebrides, these laborers diversified Queensland's "Sugar Coast." Currently there has been a big change and lots of immigrants are starting to escape from Africa because of civil wars and starvation and have made a new home in Australia. Now, around 70 percent of the immigration quota for Australia is filled by Africans. Australia is also a home to lots of Asians, more and more immigrants are coming from Asia, so many that 40 percent of Australians immigrants are from Asia, and cities like Sydney have a Asian flavor to fullfil the immigrants needs. Found on page 646-647

http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-celebrates-australia-day-20100126-mv5b.html
This article talks about the festivities that were held on Australia day in Syndney. The reason for Australia Day is to celbrate the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. They arrived with 750 prisoners in Botany Bay which is now known as Sydney. I could not find anything on Australia Day itself in the textbook, so i went off of the arrival of the British to Australia and how Europeans started to move to Australia. So now Australia celebrates the arrival of them as Australia Day. Found on page 640