The Lost Boys Of Sudan

Today for Human Geo, Mr. Schick wasn't even here today.  I don't think anyone knew where he was at the time.  Instead we had Mrs. Stathes for a substitute.  Even though she didn't know what we were doing she still gave us work on the video.  She made us write a few sentences about the video and about the lost boys of Sudan.  While we were working on this she went to go find Mr. Schick.  When she came back she said she has no clue where he could be, so we continued to watch the video.  At the end we started to talk about how one of the lost boys added people in my class.  I wanted to add him but I didn't exactly know how to spell his name right.  Once the bell rang and the school day ended I started to do homework.  I had just been given my old computer back and I noticed all the stuff was there.  I looked in y folder and found my three essays that were due last week.  

Human Geo Project

To start off class we had to finish our project.  My email didn't go through because I was sending it to their JC patriot email and not their g mail email.  I really didn't even know there was a difference between the two.  So after we finished sending the email we put all the information into our project.  Then we started to present our project and right when I came to our turn we went up there and the bell rang.  Now we have to finish it the next time we have Human Geo, which i don't remember when.  

        

Human Geo Project

Today for class we worked on our own little project.  We were each assigned a number 1-5 and given a group to do the project with.  Once your group was assigned we were given a country and some questions to answer.  One out of the four people in your group was to receive all the information from you group and put it together in a nice and neat paragraph.  The other three people in the group are to research and answer 4 questions each.  After you've answered the 4 questions you email them to the person who is choose to create the power point.  Then the bell rang and we changed classes.

Important facts about our world

Today in class Mr. Schick told us how he had planned this to be the most boring class we’ve ever had.  He made a little presentation on all the important facts we can use in the future.  For instance there are over 7 billion people in the world.  There are over 22 million babies born each year.  It took over 10,000 years to get the first billion and eventually it only takes 12 years for a billion people to be born.  Now because of the overload of babies, all over the world people have cut back on making themselves pretty and smelling nice.  Now it will be another 12 years sense one has already gone by to get to 8 billion people on Earth.  The life expectancy for men and women in the U.S. is 76.05 for men and 81.05 for women.  The TFR for an average women is 2.1 babies, what this means is if a women has over 2.1 the population rises and if  a women has less than 2.1 the population decreases in which some ways could be good.  The TFR in U.S. is 2.06, in Nigeria its 5.38, and last but not least Japan with the TFR of 1.39.  It’s amazing how the country that is having so many problems is having 5 babies per women.  If anything they should not be worrying about babies.

Technology of the future

Today to start of class we started talking about how most of the kids lost there blogger account but of course I didn't.  Then we started talking about future robotics and technology in the video we watched.  That took up almost all of the class just talking about what is being invented and what already has been invented.  Mr. Schick told us about a little box that can hook up to your computer and make a hologram of a computer keyboard and you could type it with any flat surface.  I already knew about this little duh icky because of a site called "This is why I'm broke".  This site has everything from nerd stuff to future technology and that little box is in that site.  After we talked about the technology we started to talk about chatting site online.  We learned that Mr. Schick went onto chat roulette, a site where all the dudes tend to do their stuff.  It's really weird what people do on there to be remembered and most of its either disgusting or just plain odd.  So that's pretty much what we did today so now I'm going to go watch a movie.

Did you know?

Today for class we finished our questions and Mr. Schick showed us a video about the world and what is has come to.  It said that all the Indian honors kids outranked all the kids in the united states.  it said every minute 53 babies were born and over 200 in china.  583 million people have made a facebook account.  There are around 50 million tweets per day.  If facebook were a country is would be a little bit smaller than china.  There is 600 tweets every second.   There is 31 billion searches in Google every single month.  The first text was in December 1995.  I could go on and on about all of the things happening in the world and most people don't even notice it.

25 questions

1. What is the population of the United States?

313,847,465

2.            What are the five largest countries in the world, by population?

China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil

3.            What is the population of Pakistan?

190,291,129

4.            What kind of government does the United States have?

Constitution Based Federal Republic

5.            What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe?

24.9%

6.            What is the largest country in the world by area?

Russia

7.            What country has the third greatest number of airports?

Mexico

8.            What country has the greatest number of exports?

China

9. What country exports more oil than any other?

Saudi Arabia

10. What country imports more oil than any other?

US

11. What country consumes more oil than any other?

US

12. Can women serve in combat roles in China’s military?

Yes

13. What is GDP?

Gross Domestic Product

14. What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it?

European Union, $15,650,000,000,000

15. Is the US in the top ten for GDP per capita?

Yes

16. Most of the countries with the highest birth rates can be found in what continent?

Africa

17. 11 of the top 12 countries with the highest number of deaths from HIV/AIDS can be found in which continent?

Africa

18. What other country is in the top ten?

United States

19. Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths?

9th

20. Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones?

No

21. What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic?

23.9%

22. What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic?

76.5%

23. What is Net Migration Rate?

The difference between the number of people entering and leaving the country during the year.

24. Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world?

No

25. What is the current population of the entire planet?

7,021,836,029 = 7 billion

Notes on top of Notes

Today for class Mr. Schick we took notes on note taking.  After we learned you could take notes on notes, we learned a little bit about what Mr. Schick did for vacation every summer when he was a kid.  He read a story of little notes about Illinois and we had to take four notes on what he said.  Sense I’m terrible at taking notes I got zero and then I had to read it aloud and failed epicly.  After that little scene we learned about a site called SIRS.  If you need an example of a back ground of anything you can go to SIRS and find it.  It’s almost like Wikipedia, ya I said almost.  Once we learned about SIRS Mr. Schick told us this entire lesson was for fourth graders, and my notes had to be better than a fourth graders or else I’d feel pretty stupid right about now.  After class I learned about Microsoft 7 and now whenever I don’t use my computer for 1 minute this lagoon comes up with twenty fish and even though I know it will distract me I still like to show people how to set it up.

Evaluating Sites

Today for class we learned about evaluating sites.  We learned what legitimate websites look like and how to recognize them.  Mr. Schick also loves Wikipedia, which most teachers hate but today he showed us how helpful it can be.  Wikipedia can also tell you exactly where they get their information to prove they didn't just made up and put it on the site.  There was a NASA site for little kids and it had fun games on it. After that I tried out this game on my pc that was called Microsoft blackboard.  It looked like an amazing game and right when I start it, it doesn’t even work.  That was one out of three games that were on my computer.  I tried the other two and of course neither of them worked.  They’re look like they have potential until you start to play then it all just goes downhill from there.  It looked good and there are a lot of videos on how to play backboards but whenever I try to play it, it freezes and it just stops working.  

Socrates

            Today for Human Geo we learned about an interesting man named Socrates.  He would make people fight for what they truly believed in.  If you had a problem you would break it down into a serious of questions and then get the answer you need for you problem.  Socrates fought for he thought was true and had to pay the price.  Just because he didn’t worship the gods and pray to the heaven they sentenced him to death.  All Socrates had to do was say he was sorry and continue on without his beliefs but he said DEATH.  He chose to die by drinking hemlock.  It shuts down your lungs and therefore chokes you to death.  Yes it’s a horrible way to die but he fought for what he believed in and lost.  When they were deciding his death there were 220 people out of 500 that said that Socrates should give up and say that he wants to live and secretly share his wisdom.

      Arête was the goddess of excellence, goodness and valor

      Polis was a word used to indicate Ancient Greek city-states

      Socrates was a gifted thinker of ancient Athens who helped lay the foundation of western philosophy

      Socrates died for disgracing the god and believing what he thought was true

      The Socratic method is an approach to teaching and developing critical thinking skills

      In 508bc Democracy is introduced in Athens by Cleisthenes.  He establishes a constitution and is often called the “Father of Athenian Democracy”.  This is one of the great accomplishments of Greek culture.

      Agora was a central spot in ancient Greek city-states and was the literal meaning “meeting place”

      When the ancient Greeks called you and idiot was probably because you didn’t vote