Anyone good at history?

[ibreakthings]

My teachers a bad teacher. But anyway I am supposed to do a powerpoint project by wednesday with 9-12 slides. The only info we got was "focus on one or more country and analyze how resources and location have led to cooperation and/or conflict". He also gave us a world population data packet and it has charts and graphs about countries' population over time.

I dont get how we are supposed to use population data to tell what the culture is like and what kind of resouces the have. ANd im not good at history at all and I have no clue howw start.

any ideas would be great.

[Whos Carl]

NO!

[Awill3449]

Hmm...you could talk about cocaine or coffee/banannas in south america and how other countries (ie the US) have intervened, putting in ruthless dictators to either (try to) prevent coke from being made or allow the countries to still trade (aka a "bananna republic). Good examples of that are Nicaragua, Chile ( think), and maybe Columbia.

You could also do oil in the mid east, but thats an obvious one.

I don't know too much about oil, but I can help you out with Bananna republics, esp Nicaragua. I'm actually writing a thesis on it right now.

edit: I reread the question and you would probably need to do your own research besides just the charts.

[Johnny Hempseed]

It's not just for porn! ;)
You can find alot of good info on the CIA website actually...
They have details on all the countries in the world (GDP..resources..mortality rate..political info etc etc..)
lemme see if I can get you a link here..
Hereyago! :)
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

[BobBong]

hmmm this sounds like social studies to me..and i really think you're asking the wrong crowd..

[ibreakthings]

Id do research but i have to have like site 8 charts, 6 pictures and 4 something else from the data sheet and i just dont get how i can say population had anything to do with oil or bananas or cocaine. Imm jus confused so ill prolly just make up a bunch of bullshit like i alwaay do and laugh when my teacher gives me an a

[BobBong]

Id do research but i have to have like site 8 charts, 6 pictures and 4 something else from the data sheet and i just dont get how i can say population had anything to do with oil or bananas or cocaine. Imm jus confused so ill prolly just make up a bunch of bullshit like i alwaay do and laugh when my teacher gives me an a

Sounds like you do a lot better in your Gym class.

[ibreakthings]

yes, and science and honors math and honors english and a 102 percent in spanish and other classes

i guess i dont do well in history because first my teacherr seriously has no clue what he's doing and second i dont see much point to most of it. yeah we should remember our past but when they tell u a bunch of shit why should i learn it?

[litespeed]

It all in the way the teacher presents IT...