9/30/14

Today in class we talked about population pyramids. We talked about the video we watched during yesterday's class. We discussed how different have different amounts of people grouped by age. Some countries we dicussed were Rwanda, Canada, and Japan. We also discussed the three phases countries go through which are pre-industraialization, industrialization, and post-industrialization. Lastly, we talked about technology and how technology is helping us to live longer.

September 29

Today in class we didn't have a teacher so we had to watch a video. The video was about the population in several areas and how it was predicted to grow or fall in the upcoming years. There was a link after the video where we could click. The page that it took us to showed the death's and birth's today and they were increasing every second. It was wierd that so many people are being born and dying every minute...So far this morning, ther have already been 132,780  babies born just today. The number of death's today is already 54,812 but is increasing at a slower rate then birth's. This shows that our population is changing every second. 

9/26/14

Today in class we discussed the CIA worldfactbook website. We learned how to further navigate aorund the website and learned some new facts about the United States government and learned where we could find defenitions if we ever needed them and they had to do with the world. One fact I found interesting that is on the website is that the US in in debt for 300 billion dollars. Another fact I found interesting was that China educates more men then women. Another fact I found interesting was that Haiti's literacy rate is 48.7%. Also, the United States has a $52,000 average income for an adult, which is 14th in the world...and 15% of the population lives below the poverty line.

9/24/14

Today in human geography we went over the test that we took last week. I got an 84. I thought that I did much better than that, but now I have more of an idea as to what Mr. Schick's tests are like and what I need to study more. One mistake I made was not studying my journal of class ntoes and studying my blogs instead. I noticed that I didn't put the dates in my blog that I needed and that was a big mistake. Another thing I did wrong was not be detailed enough in the long answer questions. In the future, I know what I need to work on more and what I am already prepared for.

9/22/14

today's class notes

1. crude birth rate - number of births per thousand of the population 
2. crude death rate - number of deaths per thousand of the population
3. rate of natural increase - produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate 
4. this gives us the annual natural growth rate (in percentage form for a country or region)
5. net migration rate - the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year 
6. an excess of persons entering a country is net immigration
7. written as a positive number. example - canada has 5.65 migrants per 1,000 population 
8. US - 3.62
9. an excess of persons leaving the country is net emigration 
10. written as a negative number. example - mexico has 3.11 migrants per 1,000 population. (it was -3.61 two years ago. 

9/19/14

Today's notes from class.

• right now there are 7 billion people on the earth
• the number is increasing by over 73 million per year
• per day - 201,000 people
• 8377 people per hour
• 140 people per minute
• 2.3 per second
• 90% of the population growth takers place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America

Population - 

1804 - 1 billion people 

1927 - 2 billion people

1960 - 3 billion people 

1974 - 4 billion people

1987 - 5 billion people

1999 - 6 billion people

2011 - 7 billion people

Life Expectancy - the average number years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year

highest - Monaco 

          average - 89.68 years

#50 - United States

          average - 78.49 years

Lowest - Chad 

          average - 48.69 years

9/17/14

Today in Human Geography, we took a test. Before we took our test, Mr. Schick told us it was openbook and we could use our blogs on our computers. I think it was pretty easy. There was only one question I know for a fact I didn't have the answer to in my blog. All of the other facts I remembered discussing in class. I think I got somewhere between a 90-95. I couldn't remember one of the answers to the questions and then I went to answer one of the short answer questions and it was right there in my short answer question. To be honest, I thought the test was going to be much harder then it actually was. I actually enjoyed taking that test. It wasn't hard but it wasn't easy, and it made me really think.

9/16/14

During today's class, we studied for our test tomorrow. We used a website called "Quizlet" that had online flash cards. We made flashcards using yesterday's class notes and questions Mr. Schick told us were going to be on the test. I re-watched the Did You Know 3.0 and went over class notes from this week. Next, I re-visited the websites on globalization. We had a sub and we were allowed to quietly work in pairs. She also let us listen to music as we were working. I worked with Sammi and Alayna.

9/15/14

Today in Human Geography, we discussed the topics that are going to be on the test on Wednesday. On the test, there is going to be questions on Globalization, the "Did You Know 3.0" Video, A Message to Garcia, and other things we have covered in class such as the Spanish American war and the Baby Boom. We reviewed these topics and then went off topic and discussed technology now and what we think it's going to be in the near future. We discussed what kind of technology is being invented now and what is to come. We talked about new watches made by Apple that have your credit cards hooked up to them and how Mr. Schick thinks that they are going to be the new wallets. We talked about things such as toasters and microwaves and about what they used to be to what they now are. We also discussed how roads and cars are changing and modes of transportation are even changing too. Lastly, we talked about how how eventually people will most likely we able to fly places and go in cars that fly and such.

9/12/14

9/12/14
Class notes from today -

• Globalization - the connection of different parts of the world.
• Results of globalization are - expansion of international, cultural, economical, and political activities. 
• Franchises such as McDonalds and KFC are spreading are spreading around the earth. 
• Life expectancy is higher in Japan because they eat healthier ex: fish, vegetables., they live together as a family, they have more and better hospitals, and their economy is better.  
• Countries can influence other countries about health and much more through globalization
• America sends stuff over to China because there are so many people to buy our products. Example - Cigarettes 
• Globalization is as old as civilization example - silk road, (first century BCE)
• Globalization has spread religion such as christianity -> Philippines 
• Globalization was influenced by the rest of the world to farm and purchase customer goods. 
• Globalization brings cultures into direct contact. 

9/10/14

Today in class we discussed the video we watched yesterday and yesterday's homework. We talked about how China is going to be the number one English-speaking country and how english is the main language in business. We talked about A Message to Garcia a little bit and also discussed what the facts in the video meant to us and to our nation. We also discussed how one out of eight couples meet on an online dating website. This means that the world is mainly focussing on Technology and further explains how much we depend on it in our daily lifestyles. We also discussed how minimum wage has risen so much from only being 7.25 an hour to now being 10.10 an hour.

9/9/14

The three facts I picked out :
1) China will be the number one English Speaking country in the world.
2) the number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000
3) during that 4 minute video, 67 babies were born in America.

My initial reaction to the video we watched was that wow, so much can change in so little time. In the course of 4 minutes, our population can expand so much. But there were so many facts that wowed me especially the technology ones.

The changes effect our lives because they are about how the world around us is constantly changing, affecting our lives. Between the changes in technology and the changes in people, the world isn't ever staying the same.

Technology plays a huge role in our daily lives because we depend on it. Everyone owns a laptop that is mandatory for school and everyone has a cell phone in which we are constantly on. Technology is the reason in which our nation isn't very good with social skills.

9/5/14

agora- a central spot in ancient Greece city-states. meaning a "gathering place or assembly". The agora was the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora
arete- it means excellence of any kind or moral value. In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion's excellence was bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: living up to your full potential.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete
polis- means city in Greek. Polis is normally used to indicate Greek city-states, like Athens and its contemporaries. It was the ideal place to live (central urban).
Philosopher- someone who studies how the mind works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis
508 B.C.- in this year, democracy began in Athens. Cleisthenes granted male citizens the chance to vote in order to see how city-states should be run. 
http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/access/greek/timeline_greece.htm
Socrates- a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western Philosophy along with Aristotle and Plato. Thought that virtue was based on knowledge. Said that "The unexamined life is not worth living"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
The death of Socrates- condemned to death or exile by the Athenian government for the corruption of youth and introducing strange gods. Socrates rejected exile and accepted death from hemlock. 500 jurors were there to decide his fate. During his trial he compared Athens to a horse and himself to a horsefly. A man who stood behind his beliefs and died for them.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/neocl_dav_soc.html
The Socratic Method- is a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
what the ancient Greeks meant if they called you an idiot-

Idiot or Idiots in Ancient Greek was used to mean a private person or someone not interested in politics. Because of the word’s negative connotations now a days, ‘idiot’ slowly molded into the terminology used today.

http://www.omgfacts.com/Language/The-word-Idiot-has-a-completely-differen/47661

9/3/14

          Today in Human Geography we discussed "A Message to Garcia" a message written during the spanish-american war in Cuba given to Rowan to deliver to Garcia. President McKinley had written this message. We learned that this message was a metaphor, and we learned that a metaphor is a comparison without "like" or "as". We also learned about voting and how everyone should vote. We learned that only three out of every five people will vote. We learned that most people that vote are older and if you don't vote then you don't have the right to complain about election results.

9/2/14

          Today in Human Geography, we talked about blogging. A new thing we learned is that all of your blogs need to be on one main blog and not on a ton of different ones. Another thing we learned about was how to add links to our page. We also learned how to change the formatting. Mr. Schick challenge us to the ice bucket challenge and said that that was our homework. We talked about the ice bucket challenge and how important ALS is. Mr. Schick told us about his family reunions and how he comes from a big family. Another thing we talked about at the beginning of class was checking our grades online. Mr. Schick told us how to do this and we were able to check our human geography grade daily.

Day 3

Yesterday in Human Geography, we had our first official class. We learned about the people born around the year 2000, and how they are called millenials. Then we learned about how millenials are extremely lazy and self centered. We also learned about the baby boom and how that was a high increse of population around the time when world war two ended. This was around the years of 1945 - 1960. Around this time, this was when dishwashers, dryers, and toasters were being invented. We then read a letter that was in a magazine called "A Message to Garcia." This article was written about the time during the spanish american war which took place in Cuba. This article was mainly complaining about how people are so lazy that you can't count on them for anything.

5 things I can do to be a better person and succeed in high school :

• pay attention in class. 
• find a quiet place to do my homework and study so that I don't get distacted. 
• not sit with people in class who can distract me easily. 
• keep my locker organized with all of my papers and books so that I don't forget them for cla

Day 2

Today in Human Geography we spent the class covering many things. First, since most of us did our blog wrong last night, Mr. Schick further explained our blogging problems. Then most of us were able to send him the URL to our blogging page so he could view our blogs. During the second half of class, we covered many topics. We went over the syllabus and Mr. Schick stressed that he does not give extra credit. He also told us about how he grades and his grading methods. We then discussed the materials you'll need for class and we looked at a calendar that lied out the entire semester. Today went very well by starting off the class by properly learning how to use our main homework website and learing his rules and expectations of and from us.