My opinion about the film Blade Runner

I don´t understand this film so much, but it´s a future film that shows the following years in the Earth where there are replicants. A man called Deckard was a policeman that is going to kill all the replicants, but they have hidden. I don´t sure but I think he loves than one replicant who finished died like the athers replicants. In the middle of this exciting film Deckard should kill a replicant that wants live more time. Finally the policeman win and kill the replicant . It´sa film very fantastic and interesting that shows the future Earth.

 

My opinion about the 21 days in the mine

It´s the story of a woman thatlives in Spain and she worked during all the day with a woman miner who works for feed her children and the worst is that she receives little money.The first day, both women worked all day on a mine. The reporter stoped to work in the mine because she didn't  work during that time, instead she helped other women to find the mineral on the remains of the mine. Every day she worked except when they visited a "town" where they spent a lot of money and they buy necesary things like books or shoes.There she and her children can have a shower and are funny (little time) It´s a sad and true story that makes you thing about the luck of live in a developed society. Their living conditions are poor and they have just to survive, but they love themselves, this is all that they need. I think that is injusted because some people have a lot of money and other haven´t got anything. 

My opinion about the orphanages of China

In China, because of the new law of one child, Chinese people started to abandon their babies in orphanages. Most of the babies are girls because their parents thought that is better have a boy than a girl. The orphanages are dirty and without the necesary things for care children. There are places were babies are not cared and they die, this places are called dying rooms. There are no enough personal who attend the children, so most die and nobody help them. This is a true story, that occur nowadays. I think that is a wrong idea have a law of one child because there are other ways for reduce the natality and the population growth. It is a terrible form to reduce the population. It is better raise awareness all people to start to have few child. The orphanages are abandoned, the goverment should help they with more money and people who work on it. If this measures will be enforced, orphans will have a better live in this country. It´s very sad.

Developed Nations versus Underdeveloped Nations

A developed country is a state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less developed nations. Most commonly the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product the per capita income, level of industrialization, amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living. Which criteria are to be used and which countries can be classified as being developed are subjects of debate.Developed countries have post-industrial economies, meaning the service sector provides more wealth than the industrial sector.  

An underdevelopment country is when resources are not used to their full socio-economic potential, with the result that local or regional development is slower in most cases than it should be. Furthermore, it results from the complex interplay of internal and external factors that allow less developed countries only a lop-sided development progression. Underdeveloped nations are characterized by a wide disparity between their rich and poor populations, and an unhealthy balance of trade.^[1] Symptoms of underdevelopment include lack of access to job opportunities, health care, drinkable water, food, education and housing.

Economic development around the world

Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymarkers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area. Economic development can also be referred to as the quantitative and qualitative changes in the economy.  

For and against tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes. 

FOR:

• Generates employment in the terciary sector
• Profits may leak aboard from the country 
• Cultural exchanges between people-leading to gre undrerstanding
• Locals may benefit from improved infrastucture and facilities

AGAINST:

• It can destroy the enviroment because of the excesive construction of buildings
• Some tourists don´t respect the places they visit
• Attracts people who prey on tourists

Factory location influences

        There are seven factors that influence the location of a factory and they are the following:

•  Energy source
•  Water source
•  Distance to get materials for production
•  Distance for workers to drive
•  Distance to send out products
•  Enough space

 zoning and other laws of the area

Ligh Industry

Light industry is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented. Light industry facilities typically have less environmental impact than those associated with heavy industry, and zoning laws are more likely to permit light industry near residential areas. It is the production of small consumer goods. The characteristics of light industry are:

• Require only a small amount of raw materials, area and power. 
• The value of the goods are low and they are easy to transport. 
• The number of products is high. 
• While light industry typically causes relatively little pollution, particularly when compared to heavy industries, some light industry can cause significant pollution or risk of contamination.
• Electronics manufacturing, itself often a light industry, can create potentially harmful levels of lead or chemical wastes in soil due to improper handling of solder and waste products.

Map of the main international political organizations

International Political Organisations are broad organisations used to group together certain types of political parties. Parties join so to gather interest from onlookers and also to allow people to gather an idea of what their politics are.

Bar chart of the number of internet users in the world

The term internet users includes subscribers who pay for internet access and paople who have access without paying directly, either as a member of a household or from work, school, library or internet café. Therefore, the total number of internet users can be two or three times the number of actual internet subscribers. English, Chinese and Spanish are the languages used most often on the internet. The percentage of people using the internet arund the world continued to grow.

Map of the world’s gross domestic product

Gross domestic product is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living.

Map of the main tourist areas

The main tourist areas of the world are: Paris in France, New York in the USA, Megico, Spain, London, China, Japan, Australia, Italy and Greece. There are other but they aren´t the main tourist areas. 

Map of world trade

Trade Map was developed by the International Trade Centre  to answer these and related questions with the objectives of facilitating strategic market research, monitoring both national and product-specific trade performance, revealing comparative and competitive advantage, identifying the potential for market or product diversification and designing and prioritizing trade development programmes for both firms and trade support institutions.

 

Physical map of Asia

Political map of Asia

Oil:for and against

Oil:for and against

An oil is any neutral, nonpolar chemical substance , that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures, and is immiscible with water but soluble in alcohols or ethers. Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and slippery. Oils may be animal, vegetable, or petrochemical in origin, and may be volatile or non-volatile.

Importance of Water

Importance of Water

Water is an essential production factor in agriculture, both for crops and for livestock.Climate change will have a significant impact on agriculture in terms of water quantity and quality. This will be exacerbated by the increasing demand for food worldwide as population and real incomes increase.European agriculture is already dealing with the consequences of extreme events such as floods, storms and drought, which might imply excess water or scarce water availability, that are 

likely to become more frequent as a result of climate change. European farmers, who manage more than 50% of land in the EU 27, are essential players in ensuring that water resources are sustainably managed. They have and will continue to adapt their practices to manage water more efficiently. For centuries, farmers have controlled the water cycle locally, either through irrigation or drainage. As an integral part of the climate system, the hydrological cycle can be positively influenced by using adapted agricultural practices. Solutions allowing greater production using less water are a critical future priority. If European agriculture is to continue to deliver social, environmental and economic benefits, access to adequate water supplies is essential.

Water is an essential production factor in agriculture. The 

production of biomass is inextricably linked to the need for 

fresh water, and livestock depends on water to drink. 

Plants capture water in their biomass and put it back to the 

atmosphere by means of transpiration - a process which 

positively influences micro-climatic conditions. Plants are 

able to convert “blue” water into “green” water captured 

in the biomass. Soils covered with plants have higher 

infiltration and soil moisture rates, and thus reduced runoff. On abandoned land, especially if desertification occurs, 

the capacity to retain water is much lower and completely 

lost once the soil is sealed.

Agriculture depends on the climate and on natural 

conditions. Changing climatic conditions lead to imbalances 

between rainfall and crop needs during vegetation and have 

a strong impact on yields and the quality of agricultural 

products. The increased frequency and severity of extreme 

weather conditions will increase the vulnerability of the 

European farming sector .

Agriculture as a system

Agriculture as a system

Agricultural Systems is an integrative discipline that tries to combine our understanding of the parts of the farm into a larger understanding of how the parts interact with each other and the wider worlds of nature and economics. Ag systems research and teaching has a long history at UNE, with the visionary, pioneering work by Prof Bill McClymont laying the ground work for our modern understanding of “agro-ecosystems”.Agricultural enterprises-crop or livestock-deal with such concepts as labor supply, marketing, finances, natural resources, genetic stock, nutrition, equipment, and hazards. While it is possible to effectively manipulate each mechanism of successful farming individually, better results can often be obtained by treating the farming operation as a system. The interactions, then, among system components may become more important than how each component functions by itself. Treating production operations holistically offers greater management flexibility, provides for more environmentally and economically sound practices, and creates safer and healthier conditions for workers and for farm animals. NIFA staff provides leadership to land-grant university partners and other grantees as they conduct research, education, and extension activities in programs related directly and indirectly to agricultural systems.

Crop Farming

Crop Farming

 A crop farming is a volunteered or cultivated plant (any plant) whose produce is harvested by man at some point of its growth stage. Plants which have not been cultivated but whose produce are harvested, are not really classified as crops. The same goes for plants which have been planted, but are never harvested. Flowers are classified as crops because when it has been cultivated, its harvesting also include the aesthetic purpose it serves. Crops refer to plants of same kind that are grown on a large scale for food, clothing, and other human uses. They are non-animal species or varietiesgrown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder,fuel or for any other economic purpose (for example, for use as dyes, medicinal, and cosmetic use).

Major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize, wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton. While the term "crop" most commonly refers to plants, it can also include species from other biological kingdoms. For example, mushrooms like shiitake, which are in the fungi kingdom, can be referred to as "crops". In addition, certain species of algae are also cultivated, although it is also harvested from the wild. In contrast, animal species that are raised by humans are called livestock, except those that are kept as pets. Microbialspecies, such as bacteria or viruses, are referred to as cultures. Microbes are not typically grown for food, but are rather used to alter food. For example, bacteria are used to ferment milk to produce yogurt.

Based on the growing season, the crops grown in India can be classified as kharif crop and rabi crops.

Physical factors affecting farming

Physical factors affecting farming


Climate: Temperature a minimum temperature of 6°C is needed for crops to grow. The growing season is the number of months the temperature is over 6°C. Different crops need a different growing season, e.g. wheat needs 90 days. Rainfall – all crops and animals need water.


Relief: Temperatures decrease by 1>°C every 160 metres vertical height.
Uplands are more exposed to wind and rain. Steep slopes also cause thin soils and limit the use of machinery. Lowland areas are more easily farmed.


Soil: Crops grow best on deep, fertile, free-draining soils, e.g. the brown earths found in lowland Britain. Less fertile soils prone to water logging are best used for pastoral farming.


Aspect: The direction a slope faces. South-facing slopes are best for growing crops.


Vegetation:Vegetation provides the soil with humus,so the more vegetation an area has,the more fertile soil will be.

The farming system

The farming system

A farming system is defined as a population of individual farm systems that have broadly similar resource bases, enterprise patterns, household livelihoods and constraints, and for which similar development strategies and interventions would be appropriate. Depending on the scale of the analysis, a farming system can encompass a few dozen or many millions of households.

The classification of the farming systems of developing regions has been based on the following criteria:

• available natural: resource base, including water, land, grazing areas and forest; climate, of which altitude is one important determinant; landscape, including slope; farm size, tenure and organization.




• dominant pattern: of farm activities and household livelihoods, including field crops, livestock, trees, aquaculture, hunting and gathering, processing and off-farm activities; and taking into account the main technologies used, which determine the intensity of production and integration of crops, livestock and other activities.

Types of farming

A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food (produce, grains, or livestock), fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production.

Types of farming:

Capital investment and labour

Collective farming: and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which member-owners engage jointly in farming activities.

Factory farming: is the process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density, where a farm operates as a business a practice typical in industrial farming by agribusinesses. The main products of this industry are meat, milk and eggs for human consumption. However, there have been issues regarding whether factory farming is sustainable and ethical.

Intensive farming: is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labour, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area.

Extensive farming: or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

Organic farming: is a form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation,green manure, compost and biological pest control. Organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides but excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured fertilizes, pesticides plant growth regulators such as hormones, livestock antibiotics, food additives, genetically modified organisms, human sewage sludge, and nanomaterials.

Food and feeding methods

Grazing livestock:animals feed or grass.This is an example of extensive farming.

Confined livestock:animals are kept in sheds and eat food.This is an example of intensive farming.

Mobility of livestock

Nomadic herding:herders and their families are constantly movingwith their animals in search of good pasture.

Transhumance:herders move their animals several times a year between winter and summer pastures.

Sedentary livestock farming:animals don´t have to move around to obtain food because farmers give them feed.

Primary Economic Activity World Map

Primary economic activities are those activities where natural resources are extracted from the earth.

There are some primary economic activities like:

• Agriculture
• Livestock farming 
• Forestry
• Fishing

Gross Domestic Product of Countries in the World

  The gross domestic product is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year.Several economies which are not considered to be countries (world, the EU, and some dependent territories) are included in the lists because they appear in the sources. These economies are not ranked in the charts here, but are listed where applicable.

Bar Chart of Income per Capita of the Countries E.U.

Political Map of America

Here is a political map of the North and South America showing all the countries and their teritories on the Western hemisphere.

Physical Map of America

Political Map of Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world, covering an area of 44,579,000 square kilometers (17,212,000 square miles), as well as the most populated, with over 3,879,000,000 people.

Physical Map of Asia