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=Statistics= USA || $47,200 || 36.9 years || 78.37 years || 99% || 2.05 children born/woman || Japan || $34,000 || 44.8 years || 82.25 years || 99% || 1.21 children born/woman || Jamaica || $8,300 || 24.2 years || 73.45 years || 87.9% || 2.17 children born/woman || Vietnam || $3,100 || 27.8 years || 72.18 years || 94% || 1.91 children born/woman || Zimbabwe || $500 || 18.3 years || 49.64 years || 90.7% || 3.63 children born/woman ||
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=High Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://www.janetsinfo.com/oema97.html Secondary Source: N/A Person Researched: Janet Murray  Story/Description: Murray explains her living conditions on the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. She mentions that Japan is not as big as advertised and that streets are rarely named which makes travel more difficult. Japanese crafts are varied as well as beautiful and play a big role in Japanese culture. Housing in Japan is small with limited storage space with the norm being a 900 square foot building with a bedroom, an office, a "tatami" room, living room and dining "el" as well as a kitchen. Other noticeable tidbits include that Japanese drive on the left side of the road, cicadas create a noisy environment, and most of Japan is actually well taught in the English language.

Paragraph Analysis: Murray explains her trip to Japan and most of the living conditions that she had to deal with during her stay. She mentioned Japan as a more compact place, but yet not extremely crowded like many people think. The housing is small and compact, yet designed to have as much space as possible. Driving might be more difficult to a foreigner because of limited street names and signs plus the fact the Japanese people drive on the left side of the road. Because of how crowded Japan is, that might explain the low fertility rate.

=Middle-Upper Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: N/A Secondary Source: http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/intro/typical_family.shtml Person Researched:<span class="bmc_byline"> Margaret Bailey <span class="rg_ctlv"> Story/Description: The most important part of Jamaican culture is by far family. By nature, parents in Jamaica are usually very strict yet still loving and very involved in every aspect of kids lives. Children in Jamaica are taught togetherness and are expected to do chores on a daily basis. Families do not cut ties with each other after they have grown up and have family get-togethers quite frequently. Housing in Jamaica might not be as nice compared to American homes, but still offer the same general utilities. Jamaica's cities, such as Kingston, are just as busy as any normal city in the world with rush hour traffic and people scrabbling to catch the metro.

Paragraph Analysis: Bailey briefly describes what Jamaican culture is like, focusing on family life in particular. She mentions that Jamaican families are extremely close and tight knitted and will do anything to support each other. Later o in the article Bailey talks about how although parents are generally easy going on their kids, they still expect them to complete basic chores and do well in school. City life in Jamaica is more or less the same as any other major city in the rest of the world. Since people in Jamaica are family oriented, that explains why the fertility rate is higher then most of the other countries.

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=Middle-Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://www.younglives.org.uk/where-we-work/vietnam Secondary Source: N/A Person Researched: Nguyen Thang and Young Lives group <span class="rg_ctlv"> Story/Description: Nguyen Thang, Co-Director of the support group Young Lives, explains the improving, yet still inadequate living conditions of Vietnam. He describes Vietnam as a "medium human development" country and that it is now ranked 116 out of 182 countries in the Human Poverty Index. He goes on to elucidate how the almost 30 million children are not receiving the newly acquired benefits. Access to adequate water and sanitation, to health services and to education, especially secondary education, are major issues currently. Although the government has made substantial efforts to improve health care, Vietnam still ranks 125th in the world for under-5 mortality.

Paragraph Analysis: Thang describes many of the issues in Vietnam regarding the children of the country. He briefly describes the living conditions of the poorer Vietnamese and how the country has improved. However, he explains that over 30 million children are not receiving the new benefits and that Vietnam is one of the lowest ranked in the world for under-5 mortality. Overall, life is tough in Vietnam, but is improving day-by-day.

=Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: N/A Secondary Source: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/zimbabwe504/video_index.html Person Researched: Alexis Bloom <span class="rg_ctlv"> Story/Description: Bloom describes the conditions of life in Zimbabwe as terrible. People wait in lines for weeks to fill up their cars with gas and people who can't afford this luxury use a donkey to get around. She noticed people scavenging for food alongside baboons in trashcans which was a sign for her that food shortages was a problem. Bloom also explained how bad the currency issue is at the moment in Zimbabwe with inflation up to 1000%. Worried citizens who were interviewed said that they couldn't speak the truth about Zimbabwe because they would be killed,

Paragraph Analysis: It is quite obvious that the situation going on in Zimbabwe is getting worse and worse. Food shortages and inflation have completely crippled this country and those items alone have effected countless other things as well. Inflation has ruined the the average income per capita, $500 being the average a person makes. The above mentioned food shortages have also effected the life expectancy with the average only being about 50 years.

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