{"id":224,"date":"2010-02-25T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:19:46","slug":"the-state-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/02\/25\/the-state-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2010\/02\/State-of-the-World1.pdf\">learning activity<\/a> that can be used with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/winter-2010\/the-scarcity-fallacy\/\">The Scarcity Fallacy,<\/a> by Stephen J. Scanlan, J. Craig Jenkins, and Lindsey Petersen (<em>C<\/em><em>ontexts,<\/em> Winter 2010). \u00a0Click on the links to obtain a pdf of the learning activity or to read &#8220;The Scarcity Fallacy&#8221; online through <em>Contexts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>1. How many people live on less than $2 a day?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 2.5 billion<br \/>\nb. 2.7 billion<br \/>\nc. 3 billion<br \/>\nd. 3.2 billion<\/p>\n<p>2. What percentage of the people who live in extreme poverty are women?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 50<br \/>\nb. 60<br \/>\nc. 70<br \/>\nd. 80<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Someone dies from starvation every ______ seconds.<\/p>\n<p>4. Approximately how many people do not have access to safe drinking water?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 100 million<br \/>\nb. 500 million<br \/>\nc. 750 million<br \/>\nd. 1 billion<\/p>\n<p>5. How many people are hungry every day?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 200 million<br \/>\nb. 600 million<br \/>\nc. 800 million<br \/>\nd. 900 million<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0_________people lack access to basic healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0How many children die from malnutrition before their 5<sup>th<\/sup> birthday every year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 3 million<br \/>\nb. 4 million<br \/>\nc. 5 million<br \/>\nd. 6 million<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0A woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth every _______<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 1 minute<br \/>\nb. 2 minutes<br \/>\nc. 3 minutes<br \/>\nd. 4 minutes<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0How many people die from malaria each year? _________<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0Approximately _______ people are homeless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">a. 50 million<br \/>\nb. 75 million<br \/>\nc. 100 million<br \/>\nd. 125 million<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Answer Key:<\/p>\n<p>1. B<br \/>\n2. C<br \/>\n3. 3.6<br \/>\n4. D<br \/>\n5. C<br \/>\n6. 1.3 billion<br \/>\n7. D<br \/>\n8. A<br \/>\n9. 3 million<br \/>\n10. C<\/p>\n<p>All answers can be found at the UN Millenium Project website.\u00a0 See the websites of the following organizations for more information: UN Development Program, World Bank, UNIFEM, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a learning activity that can be used with\u00a0The Scarcity Fallacy, by Stephen J. Scanlan, J. Craig Jenkins, and Lindsey Petersen (Contexts, Winter 2010). \u00a0Click on the links to obtain a pdf of the learning activity or to read &#8220;The Scarcity Fallacy&#8221; online through Contexts. 1. How many people live on less than $2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[64,13,837],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-globalization","tag-inequality","tag-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}