Saudi+Arabia-+Haley&Eric

Saudi Arabia is a large country in the Middle East. The Red sea borders the west side of Saudi Arabia, and is touching the Persian gulf on the north east. The population of Saudi Arabia is 28.1 million people and has a low population density in comparison to other countries in the Middle East. Language is the vocal sounds or words common to a particular nation or group of people. In Saudi Arabia, the official language is Arabic. Unlike many countries, Saudi Arabia only speaks Arabic. when it comes to Language, Saudi Arabia is not very diverse. Maybe Saudi Arabia's government wants everyone to speak the same language. Literacy is the ability to read and write effectively. In Saudi Arabia, about 82% of the men are literate. About 71% of Saudi Arabia's women are literate. Saudi Arabia is about average compared to the rates of literacy in the other Middle Eastern countries. I think that women are less literate than men because they are not presented with as many learning opportunities as men are.I think that the government might, or used to, discourage the education of women. Religion is a system of beliefs and worship,often involving a code of ethics and philosophy. 95% of Saudi Arabia's people are Islam/muslim. Many of the other middle eastern countries religion are Islam/Muslim, it seems to be a very popular religion. I notice that many countries around Saudi Arabia also are Islam/Muslim so possibly, Saudi Arabia, got their religion from trading goods with neighboring countries.(HM) Ethnicity is a gorup based on a common cultural heratage. In Saudi Arabia the Ethnecity is mostly Arabian but some other religons are mixed with the bunch. The percentage of Arabian in saudi Saudi Arabia is 99% but there is 1% other. Compared to other countries Saudi Arabia hes the most percentage of Arabian.(EW)



Life Expectancy is the advradge number of years a person in a country is expected to live. The Life Expectany of Saudi Arabia is 75 years. Saudi Arabia has the highest overall Life Expectancy.(EW)

Urbanization is the industrialized areas in a country. The Urbanization ror Saudi Arabia is pretty low in 4th greatest. The percentage of Urbanization is 75%. Also it is tied for 4th with Lebanon but it is better by far.(EW) In total Saudi Arabia has a pretty decent status over most of the subjects. But it still isnt perfect. it has some flaws to it in the end.(EW)

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I would suggest that you go back and check the spelling because their were a couple errors. I noticed that you put the definition at the beginning of the para. witch was good I would challenge you to put a little more information into your paragraphes because they were kind of short It was good that you made the font a different color witch was good because it made it easier to understand who did what. THe picture of the city for urbanization was really good because it really showed you how much people there really are living there. I was kind of confused about the picture for ethnicity because that is talking about religion and it was just a picture of a guy. Zack H.

After reading the wiki and consulting the Peer Feedback Checklist on pg.10, I noticed how you described how the language and literacy was in the Middle east. I understood what you guys were trying to say in all of the paragraphs. I apreciate how the author worded the literacy paraghraph you had a lot of good info in it. I like how both of you guys used the fonts the right way, spaced it the right way, had a good color, and the size was good because I was able to read it clearly. I think the most effective paragraph is all them they all describe what you guys are trying to say and tells you all about them. I dont think anything on here is confsing everything is just right.

-Tess O'Regan-

I noticed that your paragraphs were kind of short so you might want to add more information about you country in the paragraphs. I remembered how small the population density was there after reading yours because I did Saudi Arabia also and I forgot that the population density was extremely small in Saudi Arabia. I would suggest to go back and check for spelling and grammar mistakes. You used the visuals, font, space, size and colors effectively to deliver your message because the pictures fit good with what you were saying, the colors were fine and the font space and size all fit very well in your paragraphs. The most effective picture was the literacy picture by far because the graph emediatly showed what you were talking about. The only confusing picture to me was the language picture because I don't think it fit very well with your language.(Christian T.)

After receiving peer feedback on my rough draft and wiki, i made the following three changes: 1) In my paragraph about language added more opinion and support to back up assumptions. Before I revised my writing i just said " Saudi Arabia is not very diverse" but after revsing i went on to explain why it was not diverse. 2) Also after editing and revising i changed the wording in the last paragraph that I wrote. Some of the sentensis sounded ackward and did not flow very well together. 3) I read over my writing and noticed that there were many typos, especially in my intro paragraph. often when I typed the Middle East I would leave the M and E lower case. Through this feedback process i learned that i need to read my work over several times, and that your work can always be improved. One person who gave me feedback was really honest and i really appreciated this because it told me what I need to do to improve my work and this helped me to write coments for other people. (Haley M.)