Exams next week

Yesterday in Human Geo we received two of our test, Cultural geography test, Feat. Five major religions and Political geography- the test. On the political geography test I got a 91 and the cultural geography test I got an 85. We reviewed over the two test and Mr. Schick said most of the exam questions would be from the tests that we had from in class. People who received a grade lower than 70 had a chance to retake the tests on Monday to get a better grade in the class. Monday in class we will be reviewing for the exam

Test tomorrow

Today was Mr. Schick's birthday and he gave everyone cookies. He was only in class for a little bit because he had an academic team tournament, So we had Mr. Kimble for a sub. Since tomorrow is our test we were allowed to either do homework or study for tomorrows test. I finished up some of my homework and studied during the class period.

Five religions

Buddism
-Four noble truths
*There is suffering
*Attachment to desire is the origin of suffering
*There is cessation of suffering
*the eight fold path will lead to the cessation of suffering
-The Eightfold path
Right view
Right intention
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right dedication

Judaism 14-18 million(ninth)
called Jews
Location Israel
founded by Abraham
Holy book Talmud Torah
Monotheistic
Ten commandments
13 principles of faith

Cultural characteristics

Examples of spatial divisions
-political alliances
* North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO)
* Commonwealth of Nations
*Organization of American States(OAS)
Five Religions

Christianity is the biggest in the world
Called Christians
2.2 billion
Multiple denominations for Christians
Location: Europe, The Americas, southern Africa
Founder: Jesus Christ
Abrahamic
Clergy : Pope is the head of the church, Priest local authorities

Islam
1.5 billion
Muslims
Location Indonesia, Middle East, north Africa
Denominations: Sunnis Shiites
Founder  Muhammad
Abrahamic

Hinduism
1.1 billion
Called Hindus
Location India, Nepal
No founder
More like a way of life instead of a religion

Buddhism
500 million-1.5 billion
Called buddhist
South east Asia, China, Nepal, Japan( 1.2 million Buddhist in United states
Founder Siddhartha Gautama
Denominations: Tibetan Zen Theravada Amidist

Cultural characteristics

One example of cultural characteristics is Religion
- there are five major religions in the world today-- Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
-they have millions of followers all believing the same thing
-Religion can united people but can also be a dividing force around the world
Hindus and Muslims fight in India and Pakistan
Most of the major wars in the world are over religion
there are conflicts between Catholics and Protestants (two forms of Christianity) in Northern Ireland
-Jews, Christians and Muslims all claim Jerusalem as their religions holy site. They are constantly fighting over the land
-Spatial divisions are how we divide the livable space found on the earth by establishing social, economic, and political control
You can be a member of more than one spatial group
spatial divisions can also cause conflicts or cooperation
Examples of Spatial divisions
-Counties
-Economic alliances
European union EU
organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)

Cultural geography powerpoint

Today we continued on with our cultural geography unit.
-cultural characteristics
-Examples of cultural characteristics would be language, religion, and ethnic heritage
-Ethnic heritage fades off after two generations
Language
-Arabic unites the Arab world
-Spanish unites the Hispanic world
-Brazil is the only south american nation which dos not speak Spanish, it speaks Portuguese
-Canada is a bilingual nation. French and English are their official languages
Examples
- Switzerland has multiple languages but very little conflict between the groups
-English is now considered the world language and is used for most business transactions around the world
Ethnic heritage
- In Yugoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country ( Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians)
- when strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have separate countries
In the countries of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa, Two ethnic groups are dominate the Hutus and Tutsis, different places in Africa are ruled by the other and the groups persecute each other group in the land that they are dominate in
- the United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
- Korea, China, and Japan have one ethnic group
- on the island of Cyprus, the Greeks and the Turks try to gain control

Ending... again

 Today in Human Geo since most of the students did not see the ending of the movie, we went and finished watching it. Jamal went back on the show for a chance to win 20 million rubies. At the same time, Latika was given car keys and got away from the gangsters house. Jamal called his brother and Latika picked up the phone because he needed help on the last question. she did not know the answer so Jamal chose a at random and won the 20 million rubies. After winning he went to the train station and waited for Latika. Then they kissed and the movie ended. But not without a big dance scene for the credits.

Ending

Today we watched the ending of Slum-dog millionaire. Jamal found his brother and found out that he worked for an important gang member. After following his brother he shortly found out that Latika was in sort of a relationship with the gang leader. Then Jamal went to go finish the final question for who wants to be a millionaire. The question was who was the third musketeer in the three musketeers. Jamal laughed because he considered Latika as the third musketeer. He then used his phone a friend option and Latika finally answered. She did not know the answer to the question. I had to leave for this part because I had to go to jazz band so I don't know the ending.

India vs U.S. 2

Today in Human Geo we continued to watch Slum-dog Millionaire. We saw people taking young children and they gave them food. If the children could sing good the people would blind them because the children could earn twice as much money. Jamal ran away with his brother on a train an they grew older. They ended up at the Taj Mahal and made a business there selling peoples shoes and giving fake tours. After awhile they were able to go back and find the orphaned girl that they meet earlier in their lives. Jamal's brother had a gun and after killing someone he was not scared to kill anyone else. This showed of and then got him a job.

India vs. U.S.

Today we watched Slum-dog Millionaire and Mr. Schick asked us to compare what to our daily lives in America. In India there is just piles of trash every where, in the river and all around there town, more than America. They was there clothes in the river with the trash and the trash and children was themselves in the river.There schools are over crowded and the teachers are abusive. The police torture people to get information and treat their citizens poorly. the children will give anything to get small amounts of money(showing how poor they are he sold and expensive autograph for two coins). All in all India s far more corrupt when compared to America.

Sub

Today we had a substitute teacher so we did not learn anything today. Instead we were supposed to finish our extra credit assignment for the Spotify songs. I already found songs yesterday so I was allowed to work on homework. I finished some homework during class and added some more songs for the spotify assignment.

Songs for spotify
*Movin' out Billy Joel
*Leaving on a Jetplane john denver
*Moving Travis
*Ticket to ride Beatles
French National anthem

Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

Refrain

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings,
What do they want?
For whom these vile shackles,
These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!
What emotions that must excite!
It is us that they dare to consider
Returning to ancient slavery!

What! These foreign troops
Would make laws in our home!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would bring down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brows would bend beneath the yoke!
Vile despots would become
The masters of our fate!

Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors,
The disgrace of all groups,
Tremble! Your parricidal plans
Will finally pay the price! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to fight you,
If they fall, our young hero's,
France will make more,
Ready to battle you!

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare these sad victims,
Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
But not these accomplices of Bouillé,
All of these animals who, without pity,
Tear their mother's breast to pieces!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Sacred love of France,
Lead, support our avenging arms!
Liberty, beloved Liberty,
Fight with your defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, let victory
Hasten to your manly tones!
May your dying enemies
See your triumph and our glory!

Refrain

We will enter the pit
When our elders are no longer there;
There, we will find their dust
And the traces of their virtues. (repeat)
Much less eager to outlive them
Than to share their casket,
We will have the sublime pride
Of avenging them or following them!

Refrain

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lislewas the composer of the French national anthem

The name of the anthem is  "The Marseillaise"

The song has a lot of brass instruments playing in the song

The anthem has a cheerful and happy tone

The anthem is different from our national anthem because it is more triumphed then Americas Anthem 

The lyrics are well written and show Frances power

New Unit

Today in Human Geo we got to see what its like to be on an academic team. Mr. Schick told us that john carroll won 1st place in the tournament and then we did a little tournament in class. After that was over we received our test back and two people got A's. One of the people who got an A was me, I got a 90%. After everyone got back their grades, we began a new unit on cultural geography. We began it by looking at a map of the United States and it showed what Soft drinks are called in what regions of the united states. Some of the students thought it was weird that Soft drinks were called coke in the south. Then Mr. Schick talked about how weird it is to do crab feast and eating from a crabs carcass instead of just getting the meat already taking out of the crab.

Test today

Today we had a test in Human Geo. It was on all the governments and the information on the leaders. I don't think that I did good on that test because I did not know some information on some of the country leaders. I hope that I did good on this test along with everyone else in my class. There was multiple choice questions along with an essay at the end of the test. The Essay question was "why is it wrong to kill the president in a democracy like the US's. I thought this was kinda funny because Mr. Schick was expressing all week that killing is not always the answer. Also people continued to say it was the quickest way. I think that is why it was an essay question. The multiple choice had questions about the leaders of countries and how they run their countries, along with questions about things that went on in certain countries.

No test

Today we were supposed to have a test but the links on the slide were not working. Since we did not have the test we continued presenting our projects. The group that continued presenting was Russia. --Dmitry Medvedev is the prime minister and was the president when Putin was the prime minister.
-three branches of government-legislative,judicial, executive
-legislative/bicameral federal assembly of Russia
Brazil was the next group to present.
-federal republic form of government
Dilma Rouseff
4 year terms
re-elected 2 times
4 year break after being president
Dilma Rousseff was the first female president of Brazil
before republic there was a military jaunta everything was ran by the military
Last but not least we had Mexico present the project.
-president Enrique Pena Nieto
Drug war is very serious problem in mexico.
There was not a lot of information throughout the power point. We do not have class tomorrow so I hope everyone does good on the test.

Test tomorrow

Tomorrow we will have a test in Human Geo. This test is on the leaders of the main countries and what type of government the country has. Mr. Schick put some information into his study guide power point, but he put on the links for the projects. This did not help a lot because we did not have access to the power points and we did not have the information that did not learn yet. For the class most people looked throughout the power point and listened to music. I spent most of class looking over the power point and trying to access the information on the links. I hope everyone gets a good grade on this test so that our average grade is not bad (like past test /grades).

presentations 3

sdpDay 3 of presentations was today, the first group to present was Syria.
-Syrians are forced to live how the government wants it to.
President-Bashar al-Assad
Had a poor family
He became a prime minister by joining a party,
1941- has been under an authoritarian regime, the government is in control of everything and has republic to make it seem like they have rights.
Most of Assad's votes came from threatening voters
Assad can stay in power until 2021
The next country that was presented next was Germany
-Federal Government
German government has been in place since October 3, 1990
 Berlins was came down 25 years ago yesterday
president Joachim guack-independent political party
Chancellor Angela merkel- - leader of christian democratic union
President can nominate the prime minister
elections are held every four years
Political parties,
-CDU SDP CSU linke
The next country was the united kingdom
Under a constitutional monarchy where the king/queen acts as the head of state, but the prime minister has more power.
-common wealth realm
Has 3 branches of government, executive, judicial, federal
this government has been around since 1066 developed over several centuries.
Prime minister stays in power as long as he/she wants
Prime minister- David Cameron
Became prime minister on June 2nd 2010
leader of conservative party
Prime minister is the principal government figure in the house of commons
He has created a good government and economy
the next group to go was the United States
President Barack Obama
Constitution based government
President will stay in power two more years
Multiple possibly candidates for 2016 elections
the last group was Russia
-federation government-Political parties merging
Vladmir Putin is the president/ prime minister from 1999-2000 not allowed to serve another term/be elected,

presentations 2

Today we continued with presenting the power points. The group who continued with their projects first was China.
-the president of China is  Xi Jinping
-presidents serve for 8 years
-he has run for 2 years
-he can be overthrown by being impeachment, re-election, assassination.
-Xi Jinping got a total of 2937 votes for delegates voted against him, for abstained , and 38 did not vote
-On We-bio (a Chinese version of twitter) people talked about the election but then the posted comments were deleted.
-The people of China like Xi Jinping, but the government says that they do because the government watches over all the social media in china.

The next country that was presented was Canada
-Has a Parliamentary democracy, party with the greatest representation in the parliament forms the government.
- constitutional monarchy
-5 main parties in Canada
-Bloc Quebecois
-Conservation party of Canada
-Green party liberal party
-New democratic party.
-Leader of government is Prime minister Steven Harper
-Can be elected at age 18 for Prime minister
-Steven Harper is 22nd prime minister
-can stay prime minister as long as they want
-Steven Harper has been prime minister for 8 years
- can stay prime minister until they resign are dismissed or dies

The last presentation was japan
-Parliamentary system /constitutional monarchy-prime minister/ emperor
-Shinzo abe is the prime minister
-legislator vote for him
-Can be impeached, re-elected,
-Emperor Akihito
-small amount of years in power for usual prime minister

Presentations

Today in Human Geo we had Presentations. My group went first for the presentation and we did a good job in my opinion. we were the first ones in the class so I hope that we set a good example for the rest of the class. Other people presented there power points and talked about their country.
China
-the government sets all prices in China
-China is a communist state and this makes all people equal
-Communism does not usually the way that is should.
The presentation was cut short because people were talking about poor people and that they are poor because it is their fault. then Mr. Schick stood up and told the class about homeless people and said that this was a very Harford county thing to say because, most of the people in our class can have back up support from our parents and poor people do not always have that.

Adventure

Today in Human Geo we were supposed to present our projects but instead we went on an adventure. This adventure was to go look at the cancer tables in the hallway. The tables showed weird things like lungs that smoked and didn't smoke. Also they had a machine to show the oil on a person's face to show if they needed to wear sunscreen more often or less. They also had two more tables, one for breast cancer and one for testicular cancer. The people who were there talked about how important it is to know about cancer and how it can be stopped. They gave out packets about different cancers and how they can affect the body. After every body went through all of the tables and used the skin cancer machine we went back to the classroom. Mr. Schick let us do our blogs at the end of class.

Finishing the assignment

Today in Human Geo we reviewed over the last pop quiz that we had. After we finished going over the quiz we were supposed to be ready to present our projects but no one was ready to present them. After finding out that  no one was fully done the project, Mr. Schick gave us one more class to finish the assignment. In my group we were mostly done but we had to put on more facts and and work on some slides. Luke was not in class today but we still we able to get more information. We found the possible candidates for the 2017 presidential election in France.There were ten possible candidates that possibly will run for president in 2017. We also found out what the second most powerful party is in France which is UMP, Union for a popular movement. I hope that we will get a good grade on this assignment.

Assignment part 3

Today was the last day to put the finishing touches on our power point assignment. In my group, we tried to find more information on the leaders and some government related facts about them. Although, our group was off track for a little while we were able to get more facts about the prime minister and the president of France. For most of the time Luke showed us pictures and told us about his horrific nose bleed last night. Even though most of the project was almost complete we still could have added some more facts instead of talking about bloody noses. I think that we did some what good on our assignment and I think that we will get a good grade on it. The next time that we will have class will be next week on Monday and we will have to present our projects to the class.

Assignment part 2

Today in Human Geo we continued on our country projects. Along with completing the projects we received a new student, Kelsey. We started out with waiting for her to pick a group to choose. She chose to join mine and Lukes group. On our project we thought that we were close to finishing our project but we were not as close as we thought. We spent the class period finding out more important details about Frances government, such as how long the president can stay in office for, reasons for him to go out of office, and how long France has had a republic for a government. I did not have WiFi today so i had to help the group by looking at their computers and suggesting things that could go on the slide show. We continued to make slides that went along with Mr. Schick's comments on his blog.

Assignment

Today in Human Geo we were given an assignment. We were allowed to choose our own partners and once we chose our partners we were given a country. The assignment was to pick a country and to explain that country's government, and to talk about the leader and how they could possibly be thrown out of office. I paired up with Luke and we were given France as our country. After researching we found out that France had a republic government. We also found out that France is on its Fifth republic, since the past forms of government were changed multiple times. it was cool to learn about how France had so many different forms of government throughout special events such as  Napoleon Bonaparte turning France into an Empire than continuing to change even after Napoleon taking over. Learning more about France has shown me a different part of history in this country.

Yesterdays class

Yesterday in Human Geo we had to take a pop quiz. As we entered the room everyone saw the scan trons on the desk in the front of the room and new that we had a pop quiz.After Mr. Schick entered the room he made a popping noise and everyone groaned. This quiz was based off of the past subject that we have been studying which is Government leaders.We had three shadows in the class yesterday and Mr.Schick wanted them to take the quiz. everybody was talking about how they would get a bad grade on the quiz and their grade would go down.Mr. Schick handed out the scan trons and the quiz and everyone answered the questions. After everyone finished Mr. Schick left with the quizzes and began to grade them. After he finished he came back and then told everyone their grades. On my quiz I got a 80%.

More Interesting Facts

The first five most powerful people in the word are

1-Vladmir Putin

2-Barack Obama

3-Xi Jinping

4-Pope Francis

5- Angela Merkel

Vladmir Putin is allowed to serve another six-year term which can allow him to stay in office until 2024.

Chancellor Angela Merkel education was  Master of Science, Leipzig University and a Doctorate, Leipzig University.

She was also the first woman to serve as Chancellor, a position she has held since 2005.

LI Keqiang is fluent in English. He also was the son of a minor party official in eastern China's poor Anhui province.

Prime Minister Stephen Joseph HARPER worked in oil industry, computer operations and programming in his earlier years of his life.

Xi jinping wrote a  'I had a dream' speech alike to the one of Martin Luther King Jr.

Interesting facts

Today in human geo we talked about interesting facts about world leaders such as...

~ President Enrique Pena Nieto had an affair with a women whom he had children with before presidency.
~ President Dilma ROUSSEFF survived cancer and being tortured before becoming president.
~Putin received a black belt in judo at age 18, also he often tries to do manly type things to give him a better image as  President.
~ Joachim Guack’s parents were both part of the Nazi part.
~ he was also  a former Lutheran pastor
~Li Keqiang's father-in-law was once the deputy secretary of the Communist Youth Central Committee.
~Chancellor Angela Merkel actually became a chemist before she became the first female chancellor.

~Francois Hollande he gained French citizenship after being left behind on a school exchange to Russia.

Country leaders

Today during Human Geo we went over the project that we had for the weekend. Some people did not understand how to do the assignment so we spent the majority of the class learning about how we were supposed to do the assignment. we also learned that even though queen Elizabeth is the queen, she does not control the government , the prime minister controls most of the government. For homework tonight, if you did the project correctly, then you were supposed to find facts about the some of the country leaders.

~Peña Nieto was governor of Mexico City, the country's most populous region, from 2005 to 2011. This helped him go forward into presidency.

~Chancellor Angela Merkel actually became a chemist before she became the first female chancellor.

~ Prime Minister Stephen Joseph HARPER became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the 2006 federal election.

Assignment #1

Mexico
Federal republic
President Enrique Pena Nieto








Germany
Federal republic
Chancellor Angela Merkel








Syria
republic under an authoritarian regime
Prime Minister Wael al-Haliqi







China
Communist state
Premier LI Keqiang







United Kingdom
constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm
Prime Minister David CAMERON









Canada
a parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister Stephen Joseph HARPER






India
federal republic
Prime Minister Narendra MODI






France
republic
Prime Minister Manuel VALLS







Japan
a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister Shinzo ABE









Russia
federation
Premier Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV







Brazil

federal republic
President Dilma ROUSSEFF

 Israel
parliamentary democracy
Prime Minister Binyamin NETANYAHU 

Getting Test Back

Yesterday in class we received our tests back. Before Mr. Schick said my name to give me my test, he rang the bell signifying that I got an A on my test. For my test I received a 90% because I answered one off the extra credit questions right. I was one of three people to receive an A on this test in our class. Not a lot of people did well on this test, but at least we did better than Mr. Schick’s prediction for the classes average. I’m glad that I got an A on my quiz because on the last quiz I was one point away from getting an A. This weekend we were given an assignment to find the name of the leader of a country and to find the form of government for the country. 

Not a lot today

Today in Human Geo the three students that had to complete the test took the test and finished them during the mod. For the rest of the students who already finished the test, they were able to complete homework. During the mod I finish my math homework so that I would not have a lot when I got back home. The rest of the students finished their blogs for the day, finished homework in their other classes, or did other things that didn't relate to homework. For the first part of the test when you only had 10 minutes to finish the section, students would go up, ring the bell, and say how much time was left. At first it was funny, but then it began to get a little old. I am thankful that Mr. Schick gave us time to do our homework because I had a lot of homework to complete.

Test #2

Yesterday in Human Geo we took our second test. This test was on population and migration. For the test the first 12 questions we had, we had to use CIA factbook to find out the questions. But we only had 10 minutes to use CIA factbook, so I was trying to finish that section as fast as I could. These questions were about the total fertility rate, crude birth/death rate, and the population of certain countries. I was very familiar with CIA factbook so that part was easy for me. The rest of the test seemed very easy to me and I think that I will receive good grade for the test. I hope that Mr. Schick will ring the bell when he gives me my test during class. I also hope that my classes average test score will be better than it was for our last test or what Mr. Schick expected our test scores will be.

Studing for the test

Today in human geo we reviewed for the test on Friday. We reviewed over words terms and concepts in class which are the following.

·        Life expectancy

·        Crude birth rate (CBR)

·        Crude death rate (CDR)

·        Developing nations

·        Developed nations

·        Rate of natural increase (RNI)- crude birth rate- crude death rate=RNI

·        Net migration rate (NMR)- immigration-emigration=NMR

·        Immigration

·        Emigration

·        Push forces

·        Pull forces

·        Total fertilization rate(TFR)

Infrastructure- what a county needs to communicate with the outside world.

The test will also be on population pyramids, and facts on the CIA factbook. Most of the terms above can be found through the information on CIA factbook. The video on population pyramids can also be used for studying for the upcoming test. The test will be one hundred points.Along with studying today we talked about the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in America, who was from Texas under high monitoring. He recently died earlier today. 

Spotify for all

Today in Human Geo, Mr. Schick told us about Spotify’s school program. We were given a code for 3 free moths of Spotify premium. What we had to do was we had to make a playlist of songs that can relate to things that we are learning in school. The reason behind this was, Mr. Schick was asked by a teacher, who used to work at JC, to help him put together a group of songs that related to schoolwork to help students in school. We were given the codes for a 3 month premium Spotify account. We spent most of the class receiving our codes and entering them into Spotify. I am not sure that there are a lot of songs that can be used for the soundtrack but if we can get enough songs, I think it will be very useful. I hope that we are able to make a good and very helpful soundtrack 

Not So Bad

Today in Human Geo we went to CIA fact book and tried to defend the United States and show although it’s not the best country in the world, it still is good. Some facts like the US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $49,800. We are number one in the world for GPD (purchasing power parity). Also, the US is number one in the world for most airports. After finding the rankings for the United States, we began to compare the US and other countries. The top four countries on the import list, the money range was more than a million up to more than 2.3 trillion dollars. These countries that were the top four were, China, US, Germany, and the European Union. All these countries are highly developed and have begun to trade and borrow from other countries in the world. This shows how countries are after they reach their peak in the world.

Greatest Country in the World

In class on Friday we were asked if the United States was the greatest country in the world. The class watched a video from a TV show. In the video, the main character said how America was in many ways not the greatest country. When the video ended, most of the class was silent. Mr. Schick then asked the class if we agreed with the main character. Most of the class thought the United States wasn't the greatest country and explained why, such as the employment rate and the amount of people who voted. The rest of the people that said America was the greatest country in the world, they said that they cannot talk about U.S. because we were born and raised in the United States. In my opinion, America could become the greatest country in the world like it once was, back when it had a strong economy and people were proud to be Americans. 

Retreat

Today I missed class today for freshman retreat.

Population pyramid part 2

In Human Geo today we continued to go over the population pyramid video. In most population pyramids there is often more women than men throughout the population. Also women tend to live longer than men. There are three different stages that countries go through, these stages are pre-industrialization, industrialization, and post-industrialization. Developing countries such as Rwanda and other countries in Africa often are going through the pre-industrialization stage. After countries go through this stage they go into industrialization. This is often when the country’s economic growth is good and there population pyramid is very large. In countries such as Russia and America, the stage that they are going through is post-industrialization. This is where the countries’ population is slowly decreasing and the population pyramid is becoming well rounded. Right now I would say that the U.S is in between the industrialization and post- industrialization. I think this because the U.S.’ economy is not good and our population pyramid is now beginning to round more.

Population pyramid

Today in Human Geo we watched a video on the population pyramid. Most of the class did not have headphones so some people could not understand the video as well as people with headphones. In this video it showed what a population pyramid was and a few countries population pyramids. A population pyramid shows the amount of people still alive in a certain age group. Also it had two sides, one side was male and the other side was female. After I completed the questions that Mr. Schick assigned to the class I went on to his websites that he had for the class. On one website it showed the amount of the population of the world of people that died and of people who are being born in this year so far. It also showed the amount of people being born and people who died today. On the other link it showed the population pyramid of the world and the counties in the world.

More CIA Factbook facts

Today during human geo we continued to talk about the CIA factbook. During the class people would go up to Mr. Schick’s computer and show the facts that they found. JC found out that Antarctica did not have a military despite its open area to test weapons. On the CIA factbook it said that Antarctica had a treaty signed to prevent Antarctica from causing problems. As we talked about the possibility of nuclear test in Antarctica, MR. Schick told us about when he was a kid during the cold war. During the cold war Russia and the United States would show off the power and amount of bombs that they had. When Mr. Schick was in 2nd grade, the government made a video showing what to do if a nuclear bomb went off during their daily life. Most off the students thought that this was a dumb video since we know the effects of a nuclear bomb.

Handing back of the unit one test

Today in human geo we received back our unit 1 tests. For each person that had an A they received their paper with the sound of a bell. When my name was called there was no bell, but when I went to receive my paper Mr. Schick would not hand it over easily until I noticed that my score was 89. 1 point shy of an A. After handing out the graded tests, we began to review each question on the multiple choice part of the section I got the first question wrong that asked if Wikipedia was a good first source the answer was false. After this Mr. Schick told us a list of things that are unreliable for research papers and other things. After the first multiple choice I had all the other multiple choice questions right. I did a good job on the essays and thought over all that I did a great job on the test.

Terms and Concepts

Today in Human Geo Mr. Schick went over the power point again, but he also showed us more information on the CIA factbook. Crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 people of the population. Crude death rate is the number of death per 1000 people of the population. The rate of natural increase is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. Also migration is brought into this. Net migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving the country during a year. Some birth rates in countries are increasing in undeveloped countries such as in Chad, and some developed countries have low birth rates such as Germany and Japan. China along with Germany, and Japan, has a low birth rate which is caused from the unhealthy geography along with the pollution in the air causing multiple people to have diseases.

New Unit

Our new unit in human geography is population and migration. In the world there are over 7 billion people right now. Also we are increasing by 73 million people each year. Although this seems like a high number, the population is also decreasing from natural causes or car crashes or from anything. 90% of this population growth is being caused in developing countries such as ones in Africa, South and East Asia, and in Latin America. In the year 1804, the world had a population of 1 billion. 123 years later the earth had a population of 2 billion. Then 3 billion 3 years later and about every 14-12 years the earth would gain another billion. Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. For the rankings of highest years of life expectancy the United States was placed at #50. Even though our country has the technology to protect people, we also have fast food and other unhealthy foods that some people tend to eat. This has made our country go lower on the scale then it should be.

Review for the Unit Test

Today in class today we had a substitute teacher for Mr. Schick who had an important event to attend. Our substitute teacher came into the classroom dressed as Daphne from Scooby Doo for her classes today. The objective for our class was to review for the unit test tomorrow with Quizlet. This is a website designed to help people create ways to study and review for multiple things. What I did to review for the test was I received a partner and created 10 online flash cards and we quizzed ourselves with our notes. Some of the questions that I had were How has globalization caused change in original traditions in countries? I also had What did Socrates method do when used? My group partner had a question that was what was Socrates famous quote? Most of these review questions for the test are helping me to prepare for the upcoming test.

Questions for the test

In class we went over questions that we could make for our test. We had to make questions about our past topics such as, A Message to Garcia, Globalization, Did you know 3.0, and Ancient Greece. For A message to Garcia, some of the questions that we made were Who wrote a message to Garcia? Albert Huberd. What war was going on during a message to Garcia? The Spanish American war. What was the meaning behind A message to Garcia? The meaning was to motivate people to work harder in life. For globalization, how can tribesmen in Africa receive cell phones with service in remote areas? Globalization has caused a vast spread in cell phones and service towers. Also you would need electricity to transmit calls. How has globalization caused change in original traditions in countries? Fast food has caused change in long traditional dinners in Japan and other countries. 

Globalization

Globalization is just about everywhere you go. Globalization is the connection of different parts of the world. Globalization is shown by the clothes you wear and the food you it. Globalization is often shown in clothing because your clothes are often made in other countries. Also, food chains are a great part of globalization. There are McDonalds and KFC's in China and multiple other countries. Along with food brands are religions.  Christianity began as a small religion in the Middle East that has spread all around the world. One very well-known version of globalization is the Silk Road. This was a long system of roads leading throughout the Middle East and Asia. Along this road multiple merchants from Asia and the Middle East would trade and buy silk because it was a very popular item in the world at the time. Globalization is a very important part of the world but this has changed many traditions throughout the world.

Did you know class dicussion

In Human Geo today the class talked about the Did You Know? Video. We talked about the fact that 1 in 8 couples married in U.S met online. There is a lot more websites and ways on technology then before and people now are using this more often. We also talked more about how in a few years China will be the largest English speaking country. The reason behind this is because China makes a lot of products used by American and other English speaking countries. But the main reason why China will soon be the largest English specking country is because English is the natural language of business. This can be shown because in America if you use a business like Verizon and I you call them you often would get a person from an Indian call center. The reason behind talking to people in other countries is the pay wage in other countries is lower compared to America, so these businesses hire people in other countries besides America but this means that the item that the business is selling would be cheaper compared to the price of the item if Americans worked for the business.  

Technology in this lifetime

-It is estimated that a week’s worth of The New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18^th century.

-There are 31 billion searches on google every month. In 2006, this number was 2.7 billion.

-By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capabilities of the human brain.

My initial reaction to this video was just being surprised by all of the facts about our future and just thinking about how it could be in the future makes me somewhat speechless. These changes are manifesting into our lives by effecting how we have to live to stay in touch with the world, like buying new technology to help us for most of our needs in life. Technology plays a great role in my life. I use technology to help me communicate with people and it helps me complete assignments for school.

New terms

Agora: An essential gathering place or marketing place in ancient Greece often used to trade ideas and buy items, was the center of artistic, athletic, spiritual, and political life in the city.

Arete: An excellence of any kind used to describe bravery, strength, and wit, or living up to ones true potential.

 Polis: A city-state, nucleus, or central urban area.

508B.C: This was the year of the first democracy ever. Cleisthenes agreed to be the leader but requested that he would not have to make all the important decisions.

Socrates: he was a philosopher who exerted a profound influence on Ancient Greece.

Death of Socrates: Socrates was sentenced to death because he was corrupting the youth and he was disrespecting the Gods. What he did to deserve this punishment was he was bringing science into the world by asking opinions of others and having them think outside of the box. He could have escaped but accepted his punishment of death by hemlock.

Socratic Method: Asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and illuminate ideas to help more questions to have a logical answer.

Meaning of idiot in Ancient Greece: used to mean a private person or someone who is not interested in politics.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Terms

Agora: A gathering place or marketing place in ancient Greece often used for meetings.

Arete: An excellence of any kind used to describe bravery, strength, and wit.

 Polis: A city-state in Greece or citizenship of people.

Socrates: he was a philosopher who exerted a profound influence on Ancient Greece.

Death of Socrates: this was an oil painting that was made in 1787 by Jacques-Louis David.

Socratic Method: Asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and illuminate ideas.

Meaning of idiot in Ancient Greece: used to mean a private person or someone who is not interested in politics.

508B.C: this was the year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Tricipitinus and the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Day 5

Today in Human Geo, Mr. Schick was telling us about recent topics discussed in Human Geo.  He was telling us more about A Message to Garcia and a little bit more of the background of the story.  Mr. Schick explained to us that A Message to Garcia was a metaphor that society needs a Rowan that will deliver a Message to Garcia.  This means that a person will get their job done, when it’s needed, without making excuses.  Mr. Schick also told us that this essay was in newspapers and became so popular that 80 million copies were made.  Some factories and other workplaces would use the essay in their brochures to motivate workers to send a Message to Garcia.  I enjoyed the story and how a Message to Garcia can motivate people to send Message to Garcia.  Mr. Schick also showed us the last elections for the United States and a few other countries.  I was surprised to see the United States had the lowest voting population then the other countries shown, even though America has a lot of freedom to allow people to vote.

Day 4

Today, for Human Geo, we started off the class by celebrating a birthday. After singing happy birthday, Mr. Schick told the class that some of the students had 100’s and some students had 0’s. The reason that this happened was that instead of students adding a new post to their blog, they would create a new blog. After Mr. Schick told the students about this, some students realized that they had done the blog postings the wrong way.  Mr. Schick helped those students and most of these problems were sorted out. Also, he told the students how to fix their blog’s title if they accidentley made it my first day, day one, etc. Mr. Schick showed us an easy way of accessing our recently used links so they can be useful throughout the unit and year. At the end of class, Mr. Schick told the students about the ALS ice bucket challenge and what the challenge is all about.  I had already done the ALS ice bucket challenge. One of my Mother’s friends from high school actually died from ALS so I was glad to do the challenge. 

My Action Plan

This is my five point action plan that will give me a great successful freshman year at John Carroll. First in my action plan, I will keep myself and my books organized. I will find a way that I can use to keep my books in the right place at the right time, not in my locker or at home. Second, I will try new and different things. This can help me grow into the person I want to be later in my life. Next, I will try to give my all when working, even for easy assignments. I will always do my homework and listen in class. Even though these things seem basic and easy, they matter a lot when in class and working on assignments. Last but not least, I want to have fun and keep school exciting. I want to do this because, in my opinion, if you are not having fun you are not going to do as well to succeed.

Second Day of School

Today, in Mr. Schick’s class, we reviewed our first homework assignment. I was one of the few people that had their work done and the assignment turned in around the needed time. For the first half of class, Mr. Schick was telling us that most of the students in the class did not send the site information correctly. So, we helped each other send the correct email to Mr. Schick and had our blogs checked and graded. After a little while, all of the students in the class had there blogs completed and checked. Afterwards, Mr. Schick explained to the class where and when they could find him for class questions and help. He also explained what we should do for our homework for tonight since we did not know what to do. This already seems to be a great class and I look forward to the wonderful year that lies ahead of me.

My first day

My name is Kyle Wedemeyer and this is about my first day of high school at John Carroll. I was looking forward to my upcoming freshman year, mainly meeting my new teachers, band and marching band, and volleyball. I was wondering how many faces I would recognize in my classes and how fast the day would go. My brother, Zach, drove me to school and I dropped off my instrument in the band room. My brother is an upcoming senior at John Carroll, so I knew that some teachers might be able to recognize me. Today for the first day of school, we had to go get pictures taken and listen to information. Afterwards, I had mods off so I sat with my friends in the cafeteria then went to class. It was a great first day. Tomorrow is going to be a long day because I only have one mod off, but I am will looking forward to my first JV volleyball game after school.