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=Statistics= USA || $39,945 || 36.9 || 77.9 || 99% || appx. 2.3 births per woman ||
 * = Country || Income Per Capita || Median Age || Life Expectancy || Literacy Rate || Total Fertility Rate ||
 * = Baseline
 * = High Income: Italy || $30,500 || 43.5 || 81.7 || 98.4% || 1.39 ||
 * = Middle Upper: Brazil || $7,800 || 25.7 || 75.73 || 91% || 2.42 ||
 * = Middle Lower: Armenia || $5,700 || 32.2 || 73.23 || 99.4% || 1.37 ||
 * = Lower Income: Madagascar || $900 || 18.2 || 63.63 || 68.9% || 5.02 ||

=High Income Living Conditions: Italy= Primary Source: N/A Secondary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/madagascar.html Person Researched: Mario

Story/Description: Mario is 10 years old and lives in Sicily, Italy. Pretty much everyone speaks Italian, but there are some areas where they speak French and German. Mario has 2 brothers and 2 twin sisters. Mario's family, like most Italian families love to cook and their main meal is eaten midday and always with a pasta course.

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=Middle-Upper Income Living Conditions: Brazil= Primary Source: Secondary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/madagascar.html# Person Researched: Messias

Story/Description: Messias is 10 years old. In Brazil, kids go to school from 7-14 years old, so in 4 years, Messias will graduate. Also, they only have 4 hours of school per day. Messias family is of the Roman Catholic religion. Like most people in Brazil, Messias loves to play soccer. They have a soccer stadium in every city! Like most Brazilians, Messias lives in the city, most of which are by the coast. 60% of Brazilian homes have no toilets or drains, 52% have no waste collection, and 70% have no running water. On Messias way to school everyday, she passes by many food vendors selling pineapples, melons, grapes, Brazil nuts, and locally grown palm fruit.

Paragraph Analysis: Brazil is not that fortunate when it comes to the necessities like running water. Messias is just like other Brazilians, living in the city. She also loves to play soccer like most kids and goes to school every day for 4 hours until she is 14.

=Lower Income Living Conditions: Madagascar= Primary Source: N/A Secondary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/madagascar.html Person Researched: Noah

Story/Description: Noah lives in Berivotra, Madagascar. In Madagascar, the main language is Malagasy but they also speak French. Farming plays a major part in their lives. Like most people in Madagascar, Noah's parents are farmers. They raise rice, bananas, sweet potatoes, cassava, and herd cattle. Your status depends on how much cattle you have rather than your fancy cars and how big your house is. In Madagasar, the houses are made out of logs and grass, the logs being the walls and the roof being of grass. Also in Madagascar, they have much respect for their ancestors. They visit their ancestors by going to the graveyard, they also make their families tombstones very ornate and extravagant.

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=Middle-Lower Income Living Conditions: Armenia= Primary Source: Secondary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/madagascar.html Person Researched: Dalita

Story/Description: Dalita lives in Servan, Armenia. Dalita has a brother named Ohannes and a dog named Claire. In Armenia, they only eat animals that chew their cud, they also eat lake or river fish. Dalitas favorite food is grapes dipped in honey. Dalita goes to H. Hayrapetian and right now the students are learning poetry and just recently got new computers. At that school, they begin to learn French, English, and Persian in third grade. It is not uncommon to come out of school knowing four languages. There are only three grades in the school. Popular sports to play are soccer and Taekwondo. For fun, Dalita enjoys rock climbing, ice climbing, and skiing.

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