{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"46102406","dateCreated":"1321024586","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sewen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sewen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1256135246\/sewen-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ewenclass.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/46102406"},"dateDigested":1531975906,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Armed and Underage","description":"1. How many child soldiers does the first part of the article say are still being used?
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\n2. Why is a child the perfect weapon?
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\n3. The article says Africa is the worst offender\u2026what type of countries does the use of child soldiers usually happen in?
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\n4. The article says that many of the groups in Africa that are fighting and using child soldiers are fighting for, "gold, diamonds, and other resources" Since we as Americans are the ones who want to buy their gold, diamonds and other resources, are we, in a sense, supporting child soldiers and making the situation worse? Explain
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\n5. How do you think a child who has been through years of war will turn out as an adult? How will they be different from a child who spent that time with a family and in school?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"46103360","body":"1. The article says that there are 200,000 children are used as combatants worldwide.
\n2. Children are perfect weapons because they are easily manipulated, intensely loyal, fearless, and, most important, in endless supply.
\n3. These countries are using still using the children Sudan (both southern Sudan and in Darfur), Chad, the Central African Republic, and Somalia, and until recently also in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
\n4. Yes because we are buying it from them when we aren\u2019t supposed to be buying it from them thus making it worse for the children in Africa.
\n5. They won\u2019t be as smart and they will always be aggressive towards others. Plus keeping guns in their houses is the main thing.","dateCreated":"1321025353","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mbains1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mbains1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103480","body":"1) There are roughly 200,000 children being used around the world
\n2) Because they are easily controlled and fiercely loyal.
\n3) Poverty and cause driven struggles intensify the need for more soldiers and children are sometimes the only thing that the regimes can fall back on
\n4) yes because it is driving cetain groups to fight one-another in order to have contol over the resouces.
\n5) i believe that they are almost always going to either have a violent crime filled life or, a short life staying in the mlitary","dateCreated":"1321025516","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"alexfarmer1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alexfarmer1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103498","body":"1.The article says that more than 200,000 children are still being used, most of them against their will.
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\n2.This article states that a child is the perfect weapon because, they don\u2019t complain, they don\u2019t expect to get paid, and if you were to tell them to kill they would kill.
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\n3.The use of child soldiers happens in poor countries where there aren\u2019t many adults to take the risk at war. Somali for instance says that they picked children because they were just looking for anyone who could carry a gun.
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\n4.In a sense I believe that we are, because if we truly wanted to get these resources, without making the matter worse, we could easily get gold, diamond, and other resources somewhere else. I\u2019m sure there is something we could do to put a stop this, but I don\u2019t see that happening because in my opinion our government is selfish.
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\n5. A child that spends his life at war from being forced into being a soldier at a very young age would most likely turn out vicious as an adult. Now, if he spent his days in school and going home to a loving family for support for his own decisions he might turn out better than a killer.","dateCreated":"1321025533","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"kbellefeuille1995","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kbellefeuille1995","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103616","body":"1. There are more than 200,000 children worldwide are still being used as combatants, usually against their will. Girls are also used as cooks or messengers.
\n2. A child is the perfect weapon because they are easy manipulated, intensely loyal, fearless, and most importantly, in endless supply. They don\u2019t complain they don\u2019t expect to be paid and if you tell them to kill, they will kill.
\n3. The countries that force children into joining the army are countries that have a lot of children, usually in a very poor country, no strong government to help them out, and in places where they need a group to defend themselves.
\n4. Yes and No because we are not supporting the children but only to their resources are the things we need but yet again we are giving them reasons to fight over things that they believe in.
\n5. The child that has been in the war will turn out different because they will be used to fighting and will want to keep fighting. The child that went to school will be different because he is use to the things they really different from the war child.","dateCreated":"1321025653","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"zochoa1995","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/zochoa1995","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103668","body":"1; there are estimated more than 200,000 children being used as soldiers.
\n2; A child is a perfect weapon because they fallow orders. If you tell them to kill they will kill and they are an endless supply. They don\u2019t complain and don\u2019t expect to get paid.
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\n3;Countries using child soldiers are usually very poor countries in need of moe people to help them seve in the army to kill and work to find resources for money for other countries. Also some countries don't have a very good education.
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\n4; I don\u2019t think that we (Americans) are supporting the child soldiers, because we still want and need the diamonds and we buy them but, they shouldn\u2019t be putting the children at work. Older men, like husbands that have a family and need the money to support their family should be the ones at work, looking for diamonds and other resources. Children should be at school and that\u2019s it.
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\n5; a child that has been put through war will most likely turn out to be a very violent person once he\/she is an adult, because of all the killing and suffering that they have been put through or seen in their childhood and in most cases what happens to someone during their childhood can or will scar them for the rest of their lives. Also they could encourage and put their kids to be child soldiers as well.","dateCreated":"1321025693","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ddelatorre1995","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ddelatorre1995","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103704","body":"1. The article says that 200,000 children are still being used as soldiers.
\n2. They said that kids are the perfect weapon because they don\u2019t expect to be paid, they don\u2019t complain, and that if they tell the kids to kill, they kill.
\n3. The countries that child soldiers are usually used are in the countries that have really big gang leaders, countries that are in poverty, and any country that has been in a civil war.
\n4. Yes, a little bit because the more gold, diamonds, and other resources, the more they will send child soldiers to get them. So in a way we are supporting child soldiers. This is because we are technically paying the army to send kids into battle to get what we want. So more money equals more resources for us which equals more child soldiers for them.
\n5. That child will be completely different from a child that was raised with family and school because all they know is war. All they live for is war and nothing else. That child is built to kill and nothing else. The child who grew up with school and family will grow up to want to do something great with their life and nothing to with war or killing itself.","dateCreated":"1321025739","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jcarrasco1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jcarrasco1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103706","body":"1: The article says that thier is 200,000 child soldiers.
\n2: Because they are easily to manipulated, intensely loyal, fearless, and, most important, in endless supply
\n3:The countries that have use of child soldiers are Colombia and the Philippines.
\n4:we are supporthing child and making it worse by buying thier gold and other things.
\n5:i think he would through out with hard feeling. not feeling bad about what he has done.They would be different from a child that has time with family and in school Because they wouldnt act the same way as others.","dateCreated":"1321025742","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"aalmanza1993","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/aalmanza1993","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103752","body":"1. There are more than 200,000 children
\n2. They are the perfect weapon because they are easily manipulated and if they are told to do something they do it.
\n3. They usually happen in poor and desperate countries.
\n4. As we Americans buy more gold and diamonds from Africa we are basically paying for child slavery.
\n5. They would probably grow up as a really bad adult he would try to kill everybody. And the kid that grew up in a safe environment would be a good grown up","dateCreated":"1321025796","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"igonzalez1995","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/igonzalez1995","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103762","body":"1. They are saying that more than 200,000 children worldwide are still being used for war today.
\n2. A child is the perfect weapon because it says that they don\u2019t get paid, they listen to you when you say something, They don't complain and there is a lot of them.
\n3. The country\u2019s that are the ones usually using children for soldiers are the poor country\u2019s like Chad, the Central African Republic, and Somalia, and until recently also in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
\n4. In a way we are an aren\u2019t because we do want their resources and that is causing them to fight for it but we are still helping them by buying them because where giving them there money and where not saying to use children to fight.
\n5. I think they will be different because they wouldn\u2019t trust anyone and would have to depend on themselves and would have many problems. And not a good education.","dateCreated":"1321025807","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"adelosrios1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/adelosrios1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103786","body":"1. They said there are more than 200,000 child soldiers being used.
\n2. A child is a perfect weapon because there is a lot of them, they barely get paid, and they do what there told to.
\n3. The countries that use children soldiers are the countries too poor to afford to pay actual soldiers so they use children because there cheaper.
\n4. We are not supporting child soldiers because we are not the ones telling them to use children as soldiers we just want their diamonds and gold.
\n5. Yes they will be different because they will probably have many problems, not much of an education, and have a lot of hate.","dateCreated":"1321025831","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"aborn1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/aborn1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103804","body":"1. The article says the government is using hundreds of children young as 9 years old.
\n2. A child is the perfect weapon because they are easily manipulated, they don\u2019t have to pay them, they do what they are told like killing someone, and their parents sell their children for money to live off of.
\n3. The issue of child soldiers usually happens in Sudan, Chad, The Central African Republic, and Somalia.
\n4. I think that could be a reason why but on the other side the US doesn\u2019t like how they use children for war. But Africa can also be selling their resources to other countries that don\u2019t have them.
\n5. I think a child that has been in the war for all his life will become very violent because they have been exposed to killing ever since they were kids. And if they ever have a family when their older they will mistreat them and won\u2019t give any love like any other person that was raised in a home where family and school were important.","dateCreated":"1321025848","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dtorres1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dtorres1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"46103816","body":"1. Experts estimated that more than 200,000 children worldwide are being used as soldiers.
\n2. Child soldiers are the \u201cperfect weapons\u201d because they don\u2019t need to get paid, they are easily brainwashed, they are loyal, fearless, and they don\u2019t complain. It\u2019s easier for them to train children because they are weak, they can threaten them and never pay them. It\u2019s a lot easier than training adults. And it\u2019s cheaper.
\n3. It happens in 1 country after another. Child soldiers are used in countries that want to end colonial rules or criminal drives led by warlords.
\n4. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s our fault that there are child soldiers because we also do want to stop that kind of act. It\u2019s the way people there handle it. In the article, it says that the US is helping them pay their salaries. But I think that\u2019s different. We help them, but we don\u2019t support brainwashing kids and turning them into soldiers.
\n5. The kids that are affected by this won\u2019t have a good education and they won\u2019t be happy with their past. They would be missing a whole chunk of being a kid.","dateCreated":"1321025866","smartDate":"Nov 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mtolentino1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mtolentino1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":2}]},{"id":"44174098","dateCreated":"1318514564","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sewen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sewen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1256135246\/sewen-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ewenclass.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/44174098"},"dateDigested":1531975908,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Saving Venice","description":"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=saving-venice<\/a>
\nVenice is a great example of Human-Environment interaction.
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\n1. Please tell me in your own words how Venice was created.
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\n2. Then tell me the problems Venice is currently facing and how they might be able to fix them or if they can even fix them at all.
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\n3. Last, please tell me how you think we might be able to use the technology they used to build Venice here in the United States.
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\n4. How does this story relate to our class and specifically the themese of geography?
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\n5. After you have replied to this message, please read some of your classmates replies and then reply again, this time picking a specific classmate and telling them why you agree or disagree with part 3 of their answer.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"44176520","body":"I agree with him because to prevent flooding in the future we need to build dams that rise when water comes in and then the dam would pump out the water. Then when the flooding stops, the dam lowers.","dateCreated":"1318516514","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"asanchez1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/asanchez1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176604","body":"1. Venice is built on 117 small islands. It\u2019s a city on stilts. They used mobile floodgates to prevent floods.
\n2. Venice is facing many problems. It\u2019s sinking half an inch every century. Italian officials started Project Moses in 2002. But scientists say that it will harm ecosystems and the floodgates would harm marine life. And project Moses won\u2019t do any good to the economy. They estimated that the project would cost about $3 billion
\n3. They used 79 mobile floodgates to save Venice. We could also use mobile floodgates here in the U.S because we also have floods in other states next to the sea. People can use floodgates in other countries. It would help control flooding everywhere.
\n4. Venice is a great example of Human Environment Interaction because they are trying to help Venice stay standing. They use man made things to prevent it from sinking.","dateCreated":"1318516572","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mtolentino1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mtolentino1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176610","body":"Replying back to DTorres1996
\nI agree that it does relate to H.I.E and we could connect it to other countries we have learn so far and how they tried to use what they had to make more space or land.","dateCreated":"1318516577","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"alorbes1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alorbes1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176634","body":"I agree with number 3 about the florida","dateCreated":"1318516596","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"aalmanza1993","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/aalmanza1993","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176674","body":"I agree because if we use the stilts that Venice uses then we can make cities out on the water and expand our country.","dateCreated":"1318516636","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jcarrasco1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jcarrasco1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176686","body":"- i agree with the thing about florida because it is flooding and i think the things there doing in venice would help that problem.","dateCreated":"1318516646","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"adelosrios1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/adelosrios1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176714","body":"I agree because if we use the stilts that Venice uses then we can make cities out on the water and expand our country.","dateCreated":"1318516665","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jcarrasco1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jcarrasco1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176746","body":"1. I agree because if we use the stilts that Venice uses then we can make cities out on the water and expand our country.","dateCreated":"1318516697","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jcarrasco1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jcarrasco1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176774","body":"i think it would be pointless to even try anything with florida or lousiana because a hurricane that is strong enough can wipe any of this out which will probably happen again sometime during our lifetime","dateCreated":"1318516729","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"rhabura1994","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/rhabura1994","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1321025808\/rhabura1994-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44176836","body":"I disagree about creating a Venice of our own on an island because it would take more than just one island to create a Venice we would need 100+ like they did in Venice.","dateCreated":"1318516791","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"adrichas1994","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/adrichas1994","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1314110383\/adrichas1994-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44206986","body":"I agree with putting mobile floodgates in Florida because it floods there a lot. This would help lots of people.","dateCreated":"1318541741","smartDate":"Oct 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mtolentino1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mtolentino1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"44253646","body":"1. Venice was created by high tides so they are trying to keep flooding out and trying to keep it from going into Venice by building gates to keep water out.
\n2. Some problems that they are facing is that they don\u2019t know if the gates could hold the water because the tides keep on rising from global warming. Some scientist say that they cant fix the problem but others say it will be able to hold.
\n3. we can use the same technology that Venice use to save Florida from sinking later on in the future.
\n4. It relates to geography by human environment interaction because they build things so that they can change nature and make more land for them.
\n5. I agree with the thing with Florida because they are sinking more every year so if we build what they build in Venice than is might help that problem .","dateCreated":"1318599419","smartDate":"Oct 14, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"adelosrios1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/adelosrios1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":26}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}