Egypt-+Gustavo&Ethan

= **E**gypt is a country in the Middle East. Libya boarders it to the west, Sudan is to the south, the Red Sea is to the east, and to the north is the Mediterranean Sea. Cairo is it's capital. Egypt is known for the biggest river in the world the Nile River. Egypt is one of the best places in the Middle East to sight-see. It has ancient pyramids made circa 400,000 million years ago. (EB) = = = = Egypt's mother tongue is Arabic. Other languages are English and French. Lots of tourist who speaks English and French go to Egypt to sight-see. That also affects the people who live there because they need to communicate with the tourist that go to Egypt so they must learn how to speak French and English. (EB) = = = = = = = = Egypt's main religion is Islam (Sunni), but also a small portion of Christianity. Egyptians prays once a day for an hour. They also go to a big Muslim temple to pray every Sunday. There religion is very strict, they only let the men go to church and only the men can be taught how to read in write. Egypt also has different holidays because of religion some you can't eat until it is dark out. (EB) = = = = = = Egypt is a well educated country in the Middle East. The 83% of the men there are educated and 79% of the women are also. The men are more educated because of the religion. Some people who practice Sunni don’t let the women learn but the small part that practice Christianity let the women practice literacy. Egypt also has a small amount of schools for boys only and a small portion of schools let girls go to. The schools in Egypt are not like the ones here. Egyptian schools are small, little rooms with only one teacher. Egypt is a very smart country.(EB) = = = = = = = = = = Ethnicity is a grouping based on a common cultural heritage, based on customs, language, nationality, or race. Ethnicity is a big part of culture. Most people in Egypt are Arabic, more than 98% to be exact. Only 2% of the people are from other ethnic groups. Egypt’s ethnicity groups remind me of those of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. (GC) =

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=  Life expectancy is the average number of years a member of a population lives. The life expectany in egypt is about 72 years, which is an average number of years. That's about the same amount of years as Iraq, Iran, and Yemen. It is about a few years of of the life expectancy here in the USA. (GC) = = = = Urbanization is industrialized areas in a country. About 45% of Egypt is urbanized. Egypt's the second less urbanized conutry in the Middle East. Some of Egypt is desert with hot, dry climates. Compared to the urbanization in Kuwait and Iran, Egypt's very UN-urbanized. I would've thought that Egypt would be more urbanized than Iran. (GC) = = = =  Egypt is a bag of Chex-Mix. It has a little of this and that. In a certain ares, it's alike to certain countries. No countries can be exactly the same, but Egypt's definitively unique. From un-urbanized areas to life expectancy, Egypt's defiantly has its' own identity.(GC) =

I noticed that you added helpful connections about Egypt to the other Middle Eastern countries. I was confused about how Egypt was a smart country, but they only had ONE small room schools. I would suggest how Egypt was very smart with the the schools. J-Wagg

Gustavo: you did a very nice job on your paragraphs. I really like that your pictures were relavant. I think that you could have added a little bit more depth to some of the paragraphs, such as the conclusion. You could try to add an example or comparison to some of the other countries (if you don't have any I did Kuwait). You should also check for some grammar mistakes. I also happened to notice that in your paragraphs you didn't have a personal opinion. In your ethnicity paragraph you didn't give a definition of what ethnicity was. Your pictures were nice and helpful, but the most effective was the one for life expectancy. I noticed that your ethnic make up graph was not for Egypt, but for Kuwait. I know that on mine I had everything for Kuwait, but now some of the pictures are about Israel. (P.S. PURPLE IS MY COLOR!) Jackie (a.k.a. purple girl)

In paragraphs 2-4 there are no definitions. (Gustavo.C)