Kuwait-+Pat&Lily

Kuwait is a small country in the Middle East. It is 6880 square miles and has a population of 2.5 __million__ people. It is located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf. It is south of Iraq and north of Saudi Arabia. Kuwait is a unique and highly advanced country. (PD)

Religion is a system of beliefs and worship often involving a code of ethnics and a philosophy. Kuwait is all muslim. But, it is a mix of Shi'i muslim and Sunni muslim. It is similar to the other countries in the Middle East because every country has muslim in their country. Kuwait is 80% Sunni and 20% Shi'i. Kuwait's religion is not diverse because it is 100% muslim. (PD)
 * Source Citation:** "Major Religions in Kuwait." (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. []

Urbanization is the industrialized areas (cities) in a country. Kuwait is the most urbanized country in the Middle East. It is 94% urbanized. It is 1% more than Iran. It's urbaniztion is not very diverse because it is mostly urbanized. (PD)
 * Source Citation:** "Kuwait." (Corel Corporation) //The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World//. Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. []

Ethnicity is a grouping based on a common cultural heritage, distinguished by customs, language, nationality, or race. Kuwait's largest ethnic group is Arab but they also have South Asian, Persian, and others. % of Kuwait is Arab. It is like most other countries because it's largest ethnic group is Arab. Kuwait's ethnicityis diverse because there are many different groups. (PD)
 * Source Citation:** "Kuwait: Ethnic Make-up." (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. []

Language is the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combinding them used and understood by a large group of people. Kuwait’s official language is Arabic. It is similar to most of the other countries in the middle east,because they speak that language as their official language too. Some other people __speak English__ in Kuwait. People in kuwait probably learned their language from people that have traveled to Kuwait and probably taught other people there how to speak their language. They speak the laguage that they were tought.(LT) __Life__ expectancy is the average number of years a population is expected to live for. Kuwait’s life expectancy is 77 years old. The difference between Kuwait and Israel is 4 years more, the difference between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is 2 years less, Yemen and Kuwait’s difference is 8 years less, one more difference is Kuwait to Iran which is 6 years less. They probably live a long time because they might have good food supply so they stay healthy and they might have a good amount of money so they can have good health care and be healthy.(LT)
 * Source Citation:** "Egyptian Picture Writing." (Corel) //The Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science & __Invention__//. 4 vols. Blackbirch Press, 2001. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits ||
 * Source Citation:** "People of Romania." (Corel Corporation) //The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World//. Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. []

Literacy is the ability to read and write affectively.96% of men is in Kuwait, there are 90% of woman in Kuwait are literate. Kuwait comes in second for having the highest percentage of literate, men and woman. I think they are able to read and write because they have really good education. They probably had good __learning__ at school when they were younger.(LT) Source Citation: "Literacy in Kuwait." (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. []

Kuwait is a unique country compared to the Middle East neighbors. The people in Kuwait speak English and Arabic. Unlike many countries, Kuwait is one of the highest oil per capita. Also at 55,000, is they have the highest GDP and oil wealth in the Middle East. If you didnt know what GDP meant it is basicly just an estamate of how welthy your countrie is.Kuwait seems like a pretty good country to live in for the most part.(LT)

===After reading your wiki I noticed that in your intro you start a lot of sentences with "it". I think that you might want to come up with better sentence starters in your intro and also throughout your body paragraphs. I liked in your Ethnicity paragraph you include the specific types of Muslim that is the official ethnicity in your country. Also in your last paragraphI suggest you spell the word neighbor right because it is spelled "nabor". You might want to consider getting more pictures because not every paragraph has a matching picture. I like the picture/example of Arabic writing it really goes along with what you said in your language paragraph. All of you pictures are good you just might want to get more of them. Nice Job. :) ===

===After reading your wiki and consulting the Peer Feedback Checklist on p. 10, I noticed that you did a really good job describing the location of Kuwait in the Intro paragraph. I was very surprised by the life expectancy of Kuwait, I the way that you concluded that Kuwait has a lot of money to buy food so they can stay healthy. I understood that you thought that the people from Kuwait who spoke English were travelers and came over and tought us, but maybe you could word it differently, it was a bit hard to follow. You used the font and size and color very effectively, I liked how you underlined important points. I think that the picture for the language paragraph was most effective, It was clear that that was the way that they wrote. I was a bit confused about the last picture it didn't really have anything to do with literacy. Anyway Good Job, ===

Hannah C
i noticed that you should fix your grammer. some of your sentences just didnt make sense. show more examples for like the life expectancy. i want to know more than one countries life expaancty. i wondered about the other cardinal directions? you only put 2. it might be a water coast so i could be wrong. i like how the pics really make sense, except the old person wich is mean. literacy is reading and writing good, so why is the pic food? my favorite picture was the old man except that he is from romania. overall great job pat and lily. AC


 * I went back and changed my grammar on all of my sections. I also added more information and made it clearer. For example I found a new defanitoin for language. For life expectancy I made it clearer that some life expectancys are lower than others including Kuwait's. in my conclution i made it clearer what GDP meant and that Kuwait's the welthyest countrie. Lily tyler **


 * I went back and put in pictures that fit the topic better. I also changed some spelling mistakes that I made. I did not change the times I used the word "it" because I could not find any other substitute because I think I would use the name "Kuwait" too much. I thought that my definitions were good because they tought the reader the meaning of the word so they wouldn't get confused. **