Ethiopia Nigeria Kenya South Africa Sudan USA
Total Population 85, 237, 338 149, 229, 090 39, 002, 772 49, 042, 489 41, 087, 825 307, 212123
TFR 6.12 4.91 4.56 2.38 4.48 2.05
Crude Birth Rate 43.66 36.65 36.64 19.93 33.74 13.82
Crude Death Rate 11.55 16.56 9.72 16.99 12.94 8.38
Overall Life Expectancy 55.41 years 46.94 years 57.86 48.98 51.42 78.11
Infant Mortality Rate 80.8 deaths 94.35 54.7 44.42 82.43 6.26
Colonial Experience is the oldest independent in Africa, and one of the oldest in the world October 1,1960 12-Dec-63 31-May-10 1-Jan-56 July 4, 1776
Who did they gain their independence from, and when UK UK union of South Africas formed from four Brittish colonies: Cape colony, Natal, trannsval, and Orange Free State. Egypt, and UK England

God Grew Tired of Us

1. What Academy Award winning actress narrates the documentary?
○ Panther Bior, daniel, john bul

2. In what countries does the film take place?
○ Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia,USA

3. List the main characters of the film.
○ Panther Bior, Daniel, John Bul

4. Define refugee.
○ A person who flees to a foreign country or power to escapedanger of persecution, one who flees.



5. Define IDP.
○ Internationally displaced person




6. The film centers around a group of boys. What are they called?
○ They are called "The Lost Boys"


7. Track the movement of the boys after they leave their homes in their original country (the answer to number 2).
○ Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the USA

8. What are some major differences between the lives of the boys and your own life, specifically when they are living in the refugee camps?
○ Well they are much stronger in a sense. They have endured more then we will our entire lives. They are also living more as a whole instead of individually. They know how to work with one another, and be coroperitive.


9. What are some of the difficulties that they boys must deal with when they arrive in the United States? How are their lives different in the United States in comparison to their home countries?
○ They must deal with accepting our culture and how things are done and how to use things. They must focuse and get an education. In comparison they are more education oriented, rather than being a caretaker. They no longer have the responsibility of taking care of their own little group, they can deal with themselves.



10. Answer the following question only after you conclude the viewing of the film: The title of the film, "God Grew Tired of Us", seems to be somewhat ironic after hearing the account of the boys first hand. Explain why the title is ironic using specific examples from the film. Do the boys really believe that God had abandoned them? Or is their faith stronger than ever? Why? Give examples.

They title is ironic because they were in a good place when all of a sudden the is a was and they have to walk a long way to safety. Many people die, but then when they think it is safe, the are forced to leave again! And even more people die till they find a nice refugee place. Some of the boys might have really think that God has abandoned them, they think that God just wants to start all over again. But when they found the camp faith was restored. They were doing well, but they still missed their homeland. And even then America was going to let the "Lost Boys" to come and live in the USA. Some examples is when Panther, Daniel, and John Bull came to the US and started new lives and became successful.

Research notes

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• Past 40 years close to 20% of the amazon has been deforestized
• The increased rates of deforisation in the brazilian are do to the expansion industrial mining and logging
• The growthin corporate fams, developing new road networks
• The incidence of human- ignited wildfire, population growth
• The indigenous people are losing homes and are disapearing
• Loss of the rain forest is very critical to the biological diversity

• The cut and burned and the politicians are creating permanent settlement, slash and burn plots\
• Cutting has been motivated by searching for gold, coca leaf, and cocaine


• ANIMALS
• Howler monkey
• Golden lion Tamarins
• Three toed sloth
• Poison dart frogs
• Jaguars
• Hyacinth macaw
• Scarlet macaw
• Anaconda snake
• Manatee
• Piranha
• Tapir
• River dolphin
• Vampire bat
• Giant Amazon catfish

• Enviornmental agents have been patroling the amazon stopping illegal clearing
• The amazon rain forest acts as a sink/absorber of carbon dioxide
• But is also a major factor in global warming
• About 75% of Brazil's emissions comes from rain forest clearing
○ Vegetation burns and fallen trees rot
• Water vapor is very important to Brazil's rain forest, because of it's rainy climate
• The less trees you burn, the more money you save/tax break
• The government has confiscated about 230,000 cubic meters (8 million cubic feet) of wood. It has stopped more than a million acres of land has resulted in $1.6 billion in fines
• Sadly the area is to big to really take control over the area
• In Novo Progresso, the country the size of Maryland with 14,800 square miles and 21,500 residents, most of them make a living off of jungle clearing.
○ But they have recently dropped off the list of top deforesters
• There has been a decline in prices for cattle, soy, and timber.
• The destruction will go back to it's old ways once the profits again outweigh the risk of getting caught
• 75% is untouched rain forest
• Angry mobs have trashed agents field offices and physically run out other, none have been killed
• Policing along can not stop
• some logger that have been caught already, just move to regions were it is less patroled and less re-enforced


http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/agarman/jaguar.htm
http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/deforestation.htm
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://assets.panda.org/img/deforestationamazonas_markedwards16956_288419.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_forests/deforestation/&usg=__NNV6HPi1nqgi-hey7wBj-1aKcok=&h=361&w=700&sz=27&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=7iCPTQqIuOjSDM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Beffect%2Bon%2Banimals%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bamazon%2Bdeforestation%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rlz%3D1T4GPEA_enUS342US342%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
http://deforestationintheamazon.wordpress.com/facts/
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/forests-worldwide/the-amazon-rainforest/solutions-to-amazon-deforestat