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=Statistics= USA || $47,200 || 36.9 || 78.37 || 99% || 2.06 || (Guam) || $15,000 || 29.4 || 78.34 || 99% || 2.48 || (Peru) || $9,200 || 26.2 || 72.47 || 92.9% || 2.32 || (Fiji) || $4,400 || 26.9 || 71.31 || 93.7% || 2.61 || (Togo) || $900 || 19.3 || 62.71 || 60.9% || 4.69 ||
 * = Country || Income Per Capita || Median Age || Life Expectancy || Literacy Rate || Total Fertility Rate ||
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=High Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: Interviewed In Person Person Researched: Josh L. Story/Description: In Guam, life is pretty well off. A lot of people have cars and almost everyone is educated. There is college on Guam. Family is a very important part of life for the people of Guam. What people eat differs. There are businesses on Guam. The people are very athletic and love to hear stories. They also have some very funny names. They speak their native languages and some of the languages from the surrounding islands and English.

Paragraph Analysis: The people of Guam work hard and live in their own ways. They put extreme value on family in their society. Also, education is a very key element for the people. They also love sports like basketball. They have names that are native to their country and also words in English that don't sound as if they should be names like "Allstar".

=Middle-Upper Income Living Conditions:= Secondary Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=yyneWivMEvQC&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261&dq=teen+life+in+peru&source=bl&ots=L4ZeiQWwLY&sig=DBr9IqNzWAtDJdHzZlAi6i957EQ&hl=en&ei=ynOUToe-Fqbb0QHMrdGwBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=teen%20life%20in%20peru&f=false

Person Researched: General Upper class teen

Story/Description: Normally teens either go to high school or university. Schools are much more strict, closing doors when class starts and not letting any late stragglers in. Prayers are common before classes even though religious freedom is in all schools. No matter how rich or poor, all teens go to school and usually poorer teens have jobs besides. Most Peruvian teens are responsible for chores around their house. Soccer is a very popular sport among boys and volleyball among girls. Basketball is also popular. Both parents are generally working. There is no minimum drinking age and can drive when they are 14. Cars cost a lot, so very few teens own them.

Paragraph Analysis: In Peru, education is valued. Freedom of religion is widespread in schools, and sports and jobs are popular. Few teens own cars, and they have a very low drinking age. The story supports the numerical data because of the high literacy rate and the value emphasized on schooling. Also, the income matches the fact that few teens have cars. ==

=Middle-Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://www.escapeartist.com/efam6/living_in_Fiji.html

Person Researched: Jacqueline D. Brown

Story/Description: In the city, it is crowded and there are a lot of people. Depending on which part you live in, the price varies. Foods, and imported foods from New Zeland for example, that can be found in grocery stores are usually very expensive, however locally grown foods are much cheaper. Methodist is the widespread religion. Jobs are very hard to find.

Paragraph Analysis: The story does not match up to the numerical data. In the story, it was crowded, implying a high fertility rate. However, the fertility rate of Fiji is lower than other countries. Also with a lower income per capita, it does not make sense that a basic necessity such as food would be extremely expensive in easily accessible places. Jobs being hard to find does match up with a low income per capita.

=Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://catewayne.blogspot.com/

Person Researched: Cate and Wayne (Peace corps volunteers)

Story/Description: School is very important, very disciplined and in order to move up a grade, you have to pass a test. Because of failing, graduates ages range from 18 to 20's. Contrary to in times past, girls education is valued and they stay in school more although not as much as boys. Water is sometimes hard to find for everyday use; finding it is the task of the mother and kids. Often they have to walk a long way to find some, especially in the dry season. They speak french. Malaria is a common disease due to the amount of mosquitoes.

Paragraph Analysis: The story matches up with the numerical data. The literacy rate is only in the sixty percentile, which matches the story since people only stay in school for some of the time even though it is valued more than it was. Their life expectancy is lower, which is logical because they are often at war and diseases like malaria are common. Also necessities such as water are very hard to find.



=Conclusion:= Emily L. researched Italy for her upper class country. In both Italy and Guam they place a major value on the family. They also enjoy sports and education is very, very important. She researched Mexico for her upper-middle class country. Both Mexico and Peru have a lot of urban areas and education is very important. Mexico is much more economically unstable than Peru. In her lower-middle class country, Iraq, the widespread problem is lack of necessities like food and water. In Fiji, there is not a specific lack of food but the prices of food are sometimes very expensive. In both Togo and Kenya, disease is a problem. Also many people are in economic turmoil and have to live on a very small amount of money. Water is difficult to find. Generally, the countries fall into the stereotype of the categories of countries. Steven G. researched Australia as his upper class country. Contrary to Guam, Australians are "americanized" and do not retain their native roots. He researched Brazil as his upper-middle class country. Both Brazil and Peru have a poplar parallelism of the love of soccer. Brazilians have more freedoms like Peruvians within society and under the law. His lower-middle class country, the Marshal Islands, has a lot of nature and wild life on it. That is similar to Fiji, which is also an island, which has a thick density of nature in parts of the country. In his lower class country, Chad, mostly boys go to school. This is similar to Togo. The family is a big responsibility in both countries, and besides school children help out with their family.