Yemen-+MeghanDa&Sean

Yemen is the southernmost country in the Middle East. It is surrounded by Saudi Arabia to the north,Oman to the northeast, the Arabian Sea to the south east, Gulf of Aden to the south and the Red Sea to the northwest. 23 million people make up Yemen’s 203,369 square miles. (MD)

Life expectancy is the average number of years members of a population are expected to live.Yemen’s life expectancy is 63 years. It is the lowest life expectancy rate compared to the other Middle East countries. Israel has the highest life expectancy rate at 80 years. That is 17 years higher then Yemen’s. With such a low life expectancy rate, perhaps people in Yemen don’t have nice medical attention. (MD) "Muslims Visit The Graves On Eid Al-Adha In Jerusalem." //UPI Photo Collection//. United Press International, 2010. //Gale Student Resources In Context//. Web. 26 Mar. 2012.

Literacy is the ability to read and write effectively. The approximate literacy rates in Yemen are 70% for men and 25% for women.Yemen’s literacy rate for men and women is very low compared to the other Middle East countries. In all the countries except for women in Yemen 50% of the population are literate. Maybe in Yemen girs don’t have as many rights to go to school compared to the boys. (MD) "Literacy in Yemen." (Illustration by XNR Productions/Cengage Learning, Gale.) //The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World//. Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

Population density is the average number of people per square mile. 23 million people inhabit Yemen’s 203,369 square miles. In all the countries of the Middle East Yemen has the second lowest population density. Saudi Arabia has the lowest population density at 34.9 people per square mile. Lebanon has the largest population density at 952 people per square mile. It seems the smaller the land mass a country has the more crowded it is. (MD) "A Christian Zionist Pilgrim Plays The Bongos In The Annual Jerusalem Parade In Jerusalem." //UPI Photo Collection//. United Press International, 2010. //Gale Student Resources In Context//. Web. 26 Mar. 2012.

Language is the vocal sounds and words common to a particular nation or group of people. Yemen's official language is Arabic, Arabic is a lot of other countries's official language. But it is most similar to Saudi Arabia because they only speak Arabic, so that makes them different from all of the other countries in the Middle East because they only speak Arabic. Yemen and Saudi Arabia might be similar because the countries are right next to each other. (SC)

Religion is a system of beliefs and worships, often involving a code of ethnics and a philosophy. Yemen's primary religion is Islam/Muslim Shi'i. It is similar to Iran and Iraq because their primary religions are Islam/Muslim Shi'i. Yemen also practices Islam/Muslim Sunni, which makes it similar to all of the countries because they all practice at least a little bit of Islam/Muslim Sunni. Maybe almost half of the religion in Yemen practices Islam/Muslim Sunni, because Saudi Arabia practices almost all of Sunni and is right next to Yemen. (SC)

Urbanization is the percent of industrialized areas (cities) in a country. Yemen, as a whole country, is only 32% urbanized. It's urbanization out of all of the countries is the lowest. All of the other countries are at least 40% urbanized. Yemen is most like Egypt because they are both under 45%. I think Yemen is the least urbanized country because it is by the ocean and isn't very close to a main land like Iran, which is 93% urbanized. (SC)

Yemen is unique compared to the other countries in the Middle East. Yemen's urbanization is the lowest out of all the countries with 32%. It's population density is the second lowest with 101 people per square mile. Yemen's life expectancy is the lowest with an average of 62 or 63 years old. It's literacy percent is the lowest for both men and women with it's men's percent at 70% and it's women's percent at 30%. It's GDP Per Capita is the lowest out of all the countries with 2,500 and it's Oil Wealth Per Capita is 0. (SC)

Peer Feedback for Meghan: Celina B I noticed that there are some small spelling mistakes through out your writing. I appreciate how you mixed the wording up, and didn't stick to the same thing. I understood everything, it was very clear.You use the fount style very well. The picture that was most effective was the pie graph. You could clearly see the parts. All the pictures mad esence.

I saw that there were a few spacing and spelling mistakes. You made your font and colors look very good. I understood everything very well and was not confused with the paragraphs. I also liked your visuals. The most effective picture was the urbanization picture because it showed how Yemen is not very urbanized.I saw nothing that needed improving. You did a great job. (Amen A.).

Sean I noticed you used many specific percents and details to show what you were trying to say. I enjoyed the great pictures you found for each of your paragraphs. I thought that you did a good job with your text size and font. Another thing i realized is that there were very limited spelling mistakes which made it very easy to read. I thought that you did a very good job. - Tyler P

Sean i think you and Meghan did really good job on all the details, i find it very easy to understand. One thing that i think you guys could have been ,more careful about were the easy spelling mistakes. But ireally like the pictures, they go reallly good with you detailed paragraphs. I especially like the picture for languages because the poster is in a different langauage and it shows the hard work you guys put into this great job both of you - JAmes ARSENAULt

After receiving peer feedback on my rough draft and wiki, I made the following three changes:

1.) I went back and checked for spelling errors and couldn't find any besides the names of religions. 2.) I went back and re-read my details to make sure that they were all clear enough for the reader to understand. 3.) I went back and made sure that I had enough back up evidence to support what I was saying.

From the feedback process I learned that thanks to the re-reading that my peers did, it showed me that from their perspective there were many things that I could change to make them better, so that is exactly what I did. - Sean C.