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=Statistics= USA || $47,200 || 36.9 || 78.37 || 99% || 2.06 || Netherlands: || $40,300 || 41.1 || 79.68 || 99% || 1.66 || Mexico: || $13,900 || 27.1 || 76.47 || 86.1% || 2.29 || Pakistan: || $2,500 || 21.6 || 65.99 || 49.9% || 1.45 || Haiti: || $1,200 || 21.6 || 62.17 || 52.9% || 3.17 ||
 * = Country || Income Per Capita || Median Age || Life Expectancy || Literacy Rate || Total Fertility Rate ||
 * = Baseline
 * = High Income
 * = Middle Upper
 * = Middle Lower
 * = Lower Income

=High Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/akidslifein.html Person Researched: Chantal

Story/Description: The story describes a boy living in a village in the Netherlands. He tells about how his day goes and about what his village is like. He also talks about what he enjoys. Finally, he tells about what the climate and weather is like in his area of the Netherlands.

Paragraph Analysis: The Netherlands is a country with a mild climate and a decent amount of agriculture. There is a lot of wind in some areas that powers the many windmills throughout the country side. The people of the Netherlands are also a mostly Christen and celebrate Easter and Christmas similar to us.

=Middle-Upper Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/akidslifein.html Person Researched: Carmen

Story/Description: The story describes the life of a girl that lives in Mexico. She lives with her parents and 10 siblings. She tells about what kind of things she likes to do and what kind of things there are to do for fun. She also tells about what responsibilities she has because of her large family.

Paragraph Analysis: Mexico is a mostly Catholic country located to the south of the United States. The diet of its people consists of a lot of corn and fried foods. The people of Mexico also enjoy playing and watching sports, including bull fighting.

=Middle-Lower Income Living Conditions:= Primary Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/akidslifein.html Person Researched: Krishna

Story/Description: The story tells about a girl who lives in Pakistan. She is a Muslim girl, which means that some of what she does and eats are limited by religion. She tells about what she likes to do in her free time, what the climate is like, and what people do to make a living.

Paragraph Analysis: Pakistan is a Muslim country in southeast Asia. Its climate is very hot and they get little rain, so the mostly agrarian culture has to damn rivers to get water for their crops. There is also a lot of wildlife and a poaching problem, so the government is responding by creating wild life reserves.

=Lower Income Living Conditions:= Secondary Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/27/world/la-fg-haiti-tents28-2010jan28 Person Researched: Haitian Tent City Resident

Story/Description: The story describes the poor living conditions that Haitians are currently living in due to the earthquakes and tsunamis. It shows how people of Haiti went from having very little and barely scraping by to having nothing and living in poorly constructed tents and living off of government aid from their own and other countries.

Paragraph Analysis: Haiti is a small island nation that is currently trying to recover from a large natural disaster. The living conditions for a lot of the people is currently very poor and a lot of people are currently homeless.

=Conclusion:=