Papua New Guinea

-Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries on Earth. According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers.

-Strong growth in Papua New Guinea's mining and resource sector has led to PNG becoming the sixth fastest-growing economy in the world as of 2011.

-12 fastest growing economy in the world.

-Unemployment rate is 9th in the world

-More Imports than exports 

-They sell oil, gold, seafood, seafood, hardwood

-125,000 people online out of 6 million

-1 to 2% speak English 

-2 tv stations and one commercial station

My Participation Grade

For my overall grade, I would give myself a 85%.  I'm not asking as many questions as I am in other classes.  I think I ask a good amount of questions to at most get an 85.  I'm at least better then most people who just have their heads on their desks for the entire class.  I make people laugh, which keeps them from falling asleep. I'm like the assistant teacher for keeping kids awake to learn.  

Jared Diamond

For this blog, it will be a little bit longer covering all the information from today and yesterday.  We started to learn about Jared Diamond, the author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" a multi-award winning book.  The overview of the book is Jared's theory of how some economies survived and thrived when others stayed as they were for 2000 years.  Jared went to a place called Papua New Guinea.  At Papua New Guinea, the people have been so dependent on making food and housing, they haven't been able to thrive and discover other talents.  They are either hunters or gathers.  The men go out while the women stay back and cut down trees.  Not just any ordinary trees, these are called "Sego Tree".  This is a tree where you can get the material inside the tree which is all fat and calories. Nothing nutritious about it, just fat but easy to preserve for a long time.  It takes 3 to 4 days for the women to chop down the tree then gather all the food from it.  It very time consuming and get little from it.  Because the women are working with feeding people with the material from the sego tree and the men are all hunting, there is no time to invent anything else.  There's no one who makes clothing, no one who makes metal, shoes, watches, nothing.  They live with what they have and that's not very much.  Now leaving this topic and going on to civilizations and why they went extinct.  Like one of the oldest villages still standing.  The archaeologists have estimated that it is around 11,000 years old.  The oldest known village still stands.  Living within this little village was about 50 to 100 people.  The thing that interested the archaeologists the most was this thing called granary.  A granary is a hole dug to preserve the food from bugs and sunlight.  It’s almost like a refrigerator.  It's the oldest refrigerator known to man.  After that we started to talk about Animal Domestication.  There are over 148 animals you can domesticate but only 14 are needed.  Goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkey, Bactria camels, carabien camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, and Bali cattle. 

Kohe, My New Japanese Friend

Today was fun but even better because I finally got a shadow.  No, not because of my grades but because of how my schedule is made.  So when I first met him, he was shy, then again why wouldn't he be.  His name is Kohe.  He seems like an amazing dude, I just need to use Google translate more.  I didn't really think of that today but tomorrow i'll use it on my phone and computer to get to know him a little better.  At the end of the day he gave me an awesome pen, a little pocket calculator and a high-tech book mark.  Apparently I was one of the few that got gifts and most people only got one thing.  So when I got to Human Geo I hadn't really got to know him very well, all I knew was that His name was Kohe and he played table-tennis.  I wish I had gotten to know him a little better, because of all the gifts he got me I kind of feel bad that I hadn't gotten to learn more about him. In Human Geo today we went along with our projects.  For my group, we finally got a product but I don't really think we can get 10 slides off of it. I'll hope for the best.   

4 Interesting Words

Capitalism- is an economic system that is based on private ownership of the means of production and the production of goods or services for profit.  Profit is how people make money.  

Communism- a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.  Classless-  

Free Enterprise- An economic system where few restrictions are placed on business activities and ownership. In this system, governments generally have minimal ownership of enterprises in the market place. This system aims for limited restrictions on and minimal government intervention.  

Free Market- An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.

I Can't Remember Anything

Today in human geo we did absolutely nothing.  I don't know if we did do something important but I can't remember a thing.  Because I can't remember anything, which usually never happens I’ll go to talk about the rest of the day.  For science Mr. Perry gave us a test but it was open note.  Because it open note you're allowed to make it harder but the questions on this test were ridiculous.  Some of the stuff on that test, I've never even heard of.  Yes I read the textbook and no I didn't understand 80% of the questions.  Even the smartest kids in the class said the test was outrageously unthinkable.  Why make it open note when you don't have any notes.  I studied for the test with a week of preparation and at the end of this test I didn't have to be an ingeniousness to know I failed.  Now all I have to do is get good grades on the brain flexes.  F.Y.I I’ll make sure to take better notes on Friday. 

China and Their Cars

Today in human geo we continued on the cars in china.  We even watched over the old video.  Even though we've already seen it, we watched it for the second time. But I forgot to mention that at the beginning of the class Doori told three kids in the class about what we did yesterday.  After Doori explained what we did we talked about the Lilan.  I forgot what the car company was so I tried guessing.  We as a class refer to the owner as “Duck Face”.  This duck faced man supposedly stole from ford to use them for his own good.  3/4 of the cars in china will be American companies created in china by next year.  China has taken American companies, copied them and made everything cheaper, which makes the American store that was copied, go out of business.  This has happened several times.  For an example, China is the world’s leading steal company, when originally; Pittsburgh was the leading steal business.  Because of the business that’ how the Stealers got their name.  A strong metal that’s unbreakable to human hand.