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=Statistics= USA || $47,200 || 36.9 || 78.37 years || 99% || 2.06 ||
 * = Country || Income Per Capita || Median Age || Life Expectancy || Literacy Rate || Total Fertility Rate ||
 * = Baseline
 * = High Income: Canada || $39,400 || 41 || 81.38 years || 99% || 1.58 ||
 * = Middle Upper: Costa Rica || $11,300 || 28.8 || 77.72 years || 94.9% || 1.93 ||
 * = Middle Lower: Honduras || $4,500 || 21 || 70.61 years || 80% || 3.09 ||
 * = Lower Income: Haiti || $1,200 || 21.4 || 62.71 years || 52.9% || 3.07 ||

=High Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: []

Secondary Source: Person Researched: Rachel

Story/Description: Rachel describes a normal day for her in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Rachel starts her day by waking up at 8:00 to eat breakfast and get to school by walking with her brother Andrew at 9:00. At school they learn about the Native Canadians, and French since English isn't the only language. They also learn reading, writing, science and math. When school ends at 3:30, Rachel and her brother walk home for her to get started on her homework. For dinner, she has spaghetti with meatballs and a tossed salad. After dinner, she relaxes and does what she wants. Her favorite hobby is going for a boat ride with her dad, but sometimes she just likes to go to the park.

Paragraph Analysis: Canada is a diverse country, and the second largest country in the world. It's divided into 10 provinces and 2 territories. Since there's so much land, there are beautiful mountains, plains, rivers, lakes and waterfalls. People speak English or French. It's similar to the United States; they learn the same things in school, like the same sports and eat the same foods.

=Middle-Upper Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://www.infocostarica.com/retirement/moving_retire.html

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Paragraph Analysis: Costa Rica is a Spanish speaking country. The people are warm and friendly. Housing and cars are fairly expensive, but property taxes are lower than those of the rest of North America. The roads are poor, with several potholes, but the government is working to fix those. There is a fair amount of theft that goes on the country. The weather is nice and the sun shines year round, with an atmosphere a lot more relaxed than other countries.

=Middle-Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://silverinternational.mbhs.edu/V191/v19.1.05b.lifeinhonduras.html

Secondary Source: Person Researched: Elsa Reyes

Story/Description: Elsa describes her home country, Honduras. She eats mostly rice, beans, tortillas, chicken, and plantains. Elsa goes to school early in the morning and comes back at around 12. She then goes back to school from 1 to 5 PM. She claims that there is barely any violence at her school whatsoever. There are many intelligent students and teachers in Honduras. Elsa says it's helpful and they teach it well and seriously. They were uniforms at Elsa's school. She walks to and from school.

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=Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: []

Secondary Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html

Person Researched: Fatil and Eril

Story/Description: Fatil and Eril describes life in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Fatil quotes, "Life in Haiti is good when you are rich, but bad when you are poor. To be poor in Haiti is like being born into slavery and to know that you will never be free." He's lived in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, for 4 years. 2 million of its inhabitants live in the streets. Him and his brother, Eril went to the capital to look for a job, but found out it was near impossible to find work. They accepted an offer from a so called "friend" for a job in Port-au-Prince but later found out they'd been sold to a sugar plantation in Dominican Republic for 15 dollars. They were ordered to work or be put into prison. The brothers fleed back to Haiti after 3 months of working on the plantation and now live by begging and working small various jobs.

Paragraph Analysis: Haiti is a country in the Caribbean. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The country gained independence as part of a successful slave revolution in 1804. It has also had a lot of political violence that has gone on. French is the official language of Haiti.

=Conclusion:= I see how other countries are in severe poverty and how good my life is. It makes me appreciate things a lot more after reading these stories.