Exam Review and Last Blog

 

Today in human geo we looked over what was going to be on our exam that we have next week. Our exam is the last one of Thursday. I’ll be able to get a few extra days to study for it which is good. That is all we did in class and apparently we have a huge essay at the end going over everything we learned which I am not really excited about, but if I want to pass this exam I have to do it. We went over infrastructure, population pyramids, everything. He explained to us what everything was and some people took notes on things that he was saying and I didn’t take notes because I am going to look at all the power points and get everything together. I don’t know whether or not I’m going to do well on this exam or not, but I hope I pass. This is also the last blog before the break so I'll see you when I get back!

Noisy Class

Today in human geo class we got yelled at a lot because people wouldn’t stop talking. Today was a really short class because we had gone in two hours early because of the snow storm that had happened over the weekend. We also missed Monday and Tuesday because of it. So our class today was only like twenty six minutes long which, isn’t enough time to get really anything done. Our whole class today was a little bit over one of the mods from 3 to 8. Those mods are like twenty two minutes long. Either way we barely had any time today.  What we did in that class though was we got our tests back that we took on Friday. I was really happy with my grade and it didn’t move my grade up that much only a point, but that’s okay. I am just happy with the grade I got and I am happy that I passed.

Test!!!!!!

Well today we took a test and it was probably the first test I was actually confident with. I knew all the answers and it was pretty easy. I studied, but just not that hard so I’m glad that I knew everything and hopefully I did well. We didn’t get them back till a little later in the class because some people were still working. Right now were sitting in class and he gave us the option to do our blog so I am writing in now. He hasn’t graded the test yet, but I hope he does soon because I really want to know what I got on it. There is one kid left working and I hope he finishes soon so we can get our grade back! We’re getting into a lot of trouble today so I don’t even know if we will get our grades back today. He said were getting under his skin and he said he might just postpone the date he puts them in and I’m sad I really want them back.

Test Review

Today in human geo we had gone over a power point on microfinance and microloans. We had also got to hear and answer the questions asked for the academic team. We have a test on Friday which I hope I do well on. I am going to study really hard for that test and I am going to pass. Otherwise we went over the power point. It was stuff like the problems with microloans and other topics like that. He hadn’t finished the whole power point so it hadn’t been posted yet to his blog, but that is what I am going to use to help me study for the test. There was only a few slides and we finished a little while before class ended so we just talked about different things. There wasn’t much we talked about, but we went over the test, and what is going to happen for the rest of the week.

Questions for Test

 

 

1.) What is microfinance?

A: a general term to describe financial services to low-income individuals or to those who do not have access to typical banking services.

 

2.) How many people die each year from malaria?

A: 655,000 people

 

3.) What are the benefits of microfinance?

A: saving accounts, fund transfers, loans, and insurance.

 

4.) Name three problems in developing countries that can be helped by microfinance.

A: droughts, malaria, polluted water.

 

5.) How do loans affect small businesses?

A: loans help small businesses to get a kick start with their business.

 

6.) In what year did scientists discover the real cause of malaria?

A:1880

 

7.) What is malaria?

A: a life threatening disease transmitted by mosquitos

 

8.) Are there any cures to malaria?

A: No

 

9.) How can we improve microfinance?

A: We need to think of a solution to give people the chance to have a better life

 

10.)  What is a micro lender?

A: It is an organization that makes business loans to individuals who are not able to obtain financing from traditional lenders.

Going Over the Power Point

So today in human geo we went over the power point project thing that we all had done the other day. I wasn’t able to help out my group that much because I had forgotten my computer so I just watched the power point today. The power point was on microfinance and microloans. Some people had to look up the definitions to those two words and others had questions they had to answer. Some of the questions were like what does microfinance do for people, or how do loans affect small businesses. It was little questions like that that led to all those facts in the power point. There were also some about malaria and some other stuff. That was basically what we did in class today. We just went over the power point and asked some questions. It was a really long mod today so we got through it all.

Funny Stories!

So the other day in human geo we got to hear all of these funny stories of Mr. Schick when he was young. I thought they were pretty funny. There was one where there was this green guy and he and his friend would toss it around when the teacher wasn’t looking and one time they were tossing it, it went right into the teacher’s cup of tea. I don’t think you were a very good kid when you were younger. Otherwise that was what we did the whole class. We shared funny stories about each other and did nothing else the whole class. It was a fun class that day. I hope its okay that I turned this in today because you check the blogs on Sunday mornings so I waited to do it today. Thank you and hope you had a great Thanksgiving because I did!

Forgot my Laptop!

So today was sort of an interesting human geo class. Well first off I was in a rush to get in the car today and I forgot my laptop at home. Today we had to use our computers which was a disappointment because I had to look at someone else’s computer the whole time. It was okay though we did group work so I just sat with my group. We all had to say what our emails were so we would get emailed the power point.  I thought it was a really fun class today though. We didn’t do much, but it was still fun. It was better than last Friday’s class because last Friday we didn’t do anything. It’s okay though not every class is fun, but not every class is boring. Tomorrow we will probably do the same thing and get in our groups again. That was pretty much our human geo class today.

                                          Games !!

Yestersay in Human  Geography  our teacher wasnt't there so we had a substitute. What we were supposed to do was play a game that was put on his blog. I forget the name of the game, but I really didn't understand it. I didn't really get what the point of it was, but that's okay it was sort of fun. I pretty much just played the fishing part of the game the whole time. That was the best part of the game and the only part I really understood. Otherwise I didn't get what the point of the game was. That was pretty much what we did the whole class and I think we were supposed to do some of that worksheet we got, but I don't know our substitute didn't mention doing that so I pretty much played the game the whole time. So that was our class im human geography on Friday. 

                                                      Worksheets and Vending Machines

Today in Human Geography, well in the beginning I asked to go buy something out of the vending machine because I didn’t get to eat at lunch because I had forgotten my lunch. So I walked upstairs and I bought something and I walked back downstairs to the classroom and apparently my class did something to it while I was gone. I was a little bit scared. Then we just talked about the tests and some videos we had watched. Like naming a couple Did You Know? And Shift Happens. I don’t know if they were together, but we have watched a couple of videos. Otherwise we didn’t do much today we just kind of talked about human geography topics. Also again we went over our test and we also answered a few questions from a worksheet, but we only got to two of the questions because we started talking about other topics. That was what our class was like today.

Today in Human Geography we got our tests back that we took on the world leaders. I didn’t do as well as I thought I did, but then again there were some that I couldn’t find so I had to guess on them. I thought I had just done a lot better, but I guess I didn’t. The thing is, is that we got to use our blogs on that test and yet I still didn’t do well. I’ll do better on the next one though and I am going to study really hard because I want to get at least get an A on one test before the quarter ends! I am also happy because I got 3 extra points on the test because one of the answers that was marked wrong was wright so therefore, I moved my grade up a couple of points. I was really happy about that.

 

Test!!

Today in class we took a test. I thought it was unfair to tell us the day before about it, but then I realized why he did that. He did that because we were allowed to use our blogs on the test! I think I did pretty well except for on a few. I didn’t really finish, I did though, but I had to fill in random answers because I was told that if I didn’t write something down for them they would be marked wrong. I wonder what is going to happen if I did mark it down and it’s wrong. The ones that I didn’t get to answer was the ones about the countries on the last two pages. Those were the ones I didn’t get. There was also another one on the back of the first page because I couldn’t find the answer. I really hope I did okay on it though.

Leaders

Well the past couple of days we have been going over the leaders, about them, and there backgrounds. Then today we finally finished it only to realize that we have a test tomorrow. I wish I would have been able to know in advance when the test would be because there is a lot of facts about each person and we have to memorize that all tonight. Not everyone checks your blog so you need to tell us. Plus everyone has some others tests and quizzes that they have for tomorrow. Tell us in advance because I don’t check your blog every day and I need to know that stuff so I can study in advance. Memorizing this stuff all tonight is going to be really hard and it’s not fair. I also have other homework and another quiz tomorrow. I just really hope I can pass this test tomorrow.

Updating My Blog

Today in class we had a really long mod so we got a lot done. We updated our blogs on all of the leaders of the 12 countries we looked up. We then went through a power point and took notes and facts on each of the leaders.

 

Hamid Karzai – backround

·         He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime

·         He is well versed in several languages including native Pashto, Persian, Hindi, French and English

·         Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the united states that the Taliban were connected

Brazil – Dilma Rouseff

·         She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960’s and 70;s and served three years in prison, were she was repeatedly tortured

·         She has been divorced twice

·         She has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eight- biggest economy in the world

·         She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission

China – Xi Jinping

·         Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party’s founding fathers

·         He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987 to many in china, Ms. Peng was the better- known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the communist party

·         The couple have a daughter who is studying at Harvard

France – Francois Hollande

·         Hallande has no previous experience in a national government position

·         The mother of his four children is Segolene Roysl, with whom he shared 30- year relationship

·         He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme- right physician father and progressive social worker mother

Germany – Joachim Gauck, Chancellor Angela Merkel

Angela

·         Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in phyics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the Germany Academy of Science in Berlin in 1986

·         Has been Chancellor since November 2005

·         Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES List of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years

India – Pranab Mukherjee

·         He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics

·         Mukherhjee was rated one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997

·         He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi(who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started jis own party- Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress

Iran – Khamenei and Ruhani

·         Theocratic republic

·         In 1963, took part in street protests against the U.S. backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khmenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran

·         Was selected President of Iran in 1981 and re- elected in 1985.  Became Iran’s Supreme Leader in 1989

·         Hasan Ruhani

·         Has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council

·         Was just elected President of Iran – June 2013

·          He has been openly critical of the outgoing president, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s “careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks” have cost the country dearly.

 

Israel – Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu

Peres

·         Shimon peres was born in Belarus. His family fled to Palestine in 1934 to escape the persecution of Jews

·         When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad

·         Later he organized Israel’s nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel’s atomic bomb.

·         As Israel’s minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli negotiations during peace talks with the Palestinians. In the autumn of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

 

Religions

Today in class we got our tests back on the religions. I did okay, but then I got three extra points because there was a wrong answer on the sheet so when they put it in the machine to grade it they marked it wrong. That then moved my grade up to a B and I am really happy about that. I then moved my whole grade up to a B. Also we just did a blog so that will also help me move my grade up. I am starting off much better than I did last trimester. In the end of class we went over the blogs we had to do the other night. We had 12 states and we had to find what kind of government they have and there leader. We then had to get a picture of the leader. I thought it was a really easy way to get points and it was for 60 points. That is pretty good for a blog.

Brazil - President Dilma Rouseff

• She has been married two times and divorced two times and one of the only lasted at least 4 years.
• She got an education at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Mexico- President Enrique Peña Nieto

• He had 3 kids while being married to Monica Saenz. While still being married to Monica he had another son with Marita Hernandez and he had another one that died as an infant, they don't know who that was with.
• He was the fifth member of his family to serve as the governor of the State of Mexico.

France- President François Gérard Georges Hollande

• He is the first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.
• In 1981 he was defeated by Jacques Chirac for French parliamentary seat.

Germany- President Joachim Gauck

• His father was a distinguished naval officer and ship’s captain.
• At the time of the revolution in 1989, Gauck joined the New Forum, which was a democratic opposition party to the socialist party

Venezuela- President Nicolás Maduro

• He worked as a bus driver before being named foreign minister of his home country in 2006.
• Maduro won the Venezuelan presidency in a close election against candidate Henrique Capriles

China- President Xi Jinping

• He was born in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province
• His wife is a famous folk singer in China

United Kingdom- Queen Elizabeth II

• She was not declared the Heir Apparent when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated because of the possibility of a male heir.
• She is the sixth female to ascend to the British throne and at 60 years and counting hers is second longest reign of a British monarch, after Queen Victoria (1837-1901) 63 years, seven months.

Saudi Arabia- President Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

• They do not say if he has a wife, but he is only allowed 4 wives.
• He is one of 37 brothers

India- President Pranab MukherjeeZ

• He holds a Master of Arts degree in history and political science and also a degree in law from the University of Calcutta.
• Mukherjee began his career as an upper-division clerk in the office of the deputy accountant-general (post and telegraph) in Calcutta.

Iran- President Hassan Rouhani

• His birth name is Hassan Feridon
• University of Tehran, B. A, 1972.; Glasgow Caledonian University, M. Phil., 1995; Glasgow Caledonian University, Ph.D., 1999

Afghanistan- President Hamid Karzai

• Karzai was educated in India and is fluent in several languages, including English, Pashto, Dari, and Urdu.
• He is a member of the Popalzai clan, part of the larger Pashtun tribe.

Israel- Shimon Peres

• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in 1994.
• In 1984-1986 he was the First Prime Minister of the new National Unity Government.

 

Brazil

• Federal Government
• President Dilma Rouseff

 

 

Mexico

• Federal Republic(United Mexican States)
• President Enrique Peña Nieto

 

France

• French Republic
• President François Gérard Georges Hollande

 



 

 

Germany

• Federal Republic and a Democracy
• President Joachim Gauck

 

 

Venezuela

• Federal Republic
• President Nicolás Maduro



 

China

• Communist state, Socialist state, Single-party state
• President Xi Jinping





 

 

 

United Kingdom

• Unitary state, Constitutional monarchy, Parliamentary system
• Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron



Saudi Arabia

• Unitary state, Islamic state, Absolute monarchy
• King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

India

• Federal republic, Constitutional republic, Parliamentary system
• President Pranab MukherjeeZ

Iran

• Unitary state, Islamic republic, Theocracy
• President Hassan Rouhani

 

Afghanistan

• Islamic Republic
• President Hamid Karzai

 

Israel

• Democracy, Parliamentary system
• President Shimon Peres

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test!!

Today in Human Geography we took a test. We were supposed to have the test last Friday, but we couldn’t because class was shorter because of an assembly. I thought it was pretty easy. It was the same questions we had, had on our last quiz. The hardest part of the test was the end where we had to match up what went with the religion. There was a bunch of facts and the five religions were up at the top with a letter next to them, and the fact that matched which ever religion you would put that number next to that question. There were some things that I didn’t know, which are probably the ones that I had gotten wrong. Those questions were the ones that I think got me the grade I got. I did ok on the test, but I could have of don’t better. In the end of class we then started a new chapter and started a new power point.

No Test Today!

Today we had a mass and all the classes were shortened. We were supposed to be taking a test today, but since all the classes were shorter we didn’t have time. Our test was on cultural geography and the religions. Such as Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism. Why we didn’t take the test was because we were reviewing things for the test. We were going over the facts that were going to be on the tests about the religions. The facts were like how many people follow the religion, the leaders of it, and were most people are that follow it. Christianity has the biggest amount of followers and Judaism has the least. Christianity has 2.2 billion people and second is Islam who has 1.5 people following it. Then we have Hinduism in third, Buddhism in fourth, and the last one is Judaism. We are now having the test on Monday, and I am going to study this weekend, and I am going to pass this test.

More Power Points

In the beginning of class today we tried to watch a video of a baby, but the volume wasn’t working so we couldn’t. I want to see it so hopefully we can watch it some other time in the week. Otherwise, we were back to presenting our power points and Grace had finished hers on Hinduism. Then we moved to Grant, Caroline, and Alexa’s presentation. They did there’s on Judaism. They told us some facts on there’s and we wrote down some notes. Turns out there is 14 million people following their religion, but apparently that isn’t that much. There’s wasn’t that long and they had finished quickly so Ryan went next. He did his on Buddhism, but we didn’t get to finish it so he will finish his tomorrow. I don’t know when I will go and Daphne wasn’t there today, but I’m sure well go within the next two days.

Power Points Continued

     Today in class we got our quizzes back that we took the other day and I was not very happy with my grade, but this quarter I am going to do much better. Then Grace presented her power point. Her topic was Hinduism. She made the power point, but not only did she make the power point she also made us notes. She didn’t make us write everything she left blanks in the paper for us to fill in. It was stuff like Vedas which is made up of hymns and descriptions of Hindu rituals. Bhagavad Gita is a poem that describes the belief of Hindu afterlife. That is the most important Hindu text. I actually did learn some things and I am really happy Grace made those notes so I can study off of them. That is all we did in class today and Grace didn’t get to finish presenting her power point so we will finish that tomorrow and maybe others will represent.

PowerPoint

Today in class we all got into different groups to work on a power point. It was on some of the different types of religion. What we did was we picked out numbers out of a hat and there were numbers on the board one, two, three, four and five. Each of the different religions were by one of the numbers. Then whichever number we picked is the religion we had to look up and research. We were given some questions to answer and then we made our power point and planned it out. My group got Christianity so we answered the questions that were given to us to look up on our topic. My group had finished our power point, we had answered all of the questions, we had made it just how we wanted it and then tomorrow we are supposed to go up in front of the class and present them.

                                                                One lap, three to go
      On Friday I had a shadow in class. We took a test that no one really knew about and we didn't even ask for a test so I thought it was unfair to have one because it moved my grade down.
Still if it had moved my grade up I wouldn’t have cared. You need to tell us if we are going to have a quiz or not because some people don’t check your blog. It’s not fair and it’s also not fair because we didn’t even ask you for a quiz. The other class did. Next quarter I am planning to do much better in your class though and I am going to get a better grade then what I got in your this quarter and I will never get that grade again. I just have to step it up and work hard. I also need to work hard because I am playing sports. Therefore, I have to keep up with my grades.

 

Videos and Opinions

Today in Human Geography class we watched a video about this guy telling his opinion about our world. It wasn’t a long video so then after we all talked about our opinions on nationalism. In the video there was a girl and she asked what makes the United States the best place on earth. Someone said freedom and freedom and I forget what the other lady said, but the other guy disagreed. He had his own opinion and he stated it why the United States was the best place on earth. That’s what we started talking about, people’s opinions on whether they thought America was the best place to live. No one in the class thought it was the best place, everyone thought it was one of the top ones though. Just no one thought America is number one. Personally I don’t think it is, it used to be, but things have changed since then.

Stories and Notes

Today in Human Geography we were told a story about how our teacher went to go visit his daughter in Boston and got to them the Red Socks Baseball Team win their game. When he went to the game her met some of the TV people and got to go in the truck and he showed us a picture of him sitting in the truck. We also got to see a video of the crowd going crazy over the win and they were all singing in the streets screaming and singing. Then the last thing we did was take some notes on language, ethnic groups, and religions. It was facts about each of them, but we didn’t get to finish the slide. We won’t finish it for a couple of days. That’s pretty much all we did in class today and today was a really long mod so we got to go through a couple of slides when we were taking our notes.

Stories and Notes

Today in Human Geography we were told a story about how our teacher went to go visit his daughter in Boston and got to them the Red Socks Baseball Team win their game. When he went to the game her met some of the TV people and got to go in the truck and he showed us a picture of him sitting in the truck. We also got to see a video of the crowd going crazy over the win and they were all singing in the streets screaming and singing. Then the last thing we did was take some notes on language, ethnic groups, and religions. It was facts about each of them, but we didn’t get to finish the slide. We won’t finish it for a couple of days. That’s pretty much all we did in class today and today was a really long mod so we got to go through a couple of slides when we were taking our notes.

Testing

      Yesterday during class we took a test. It doesn’t count for anything though, but it is to help us and apparently were supposed to see that test later in the year. I thought it was really hard and I didn’t understand a lot of it. Mostly because I haven’t learned any of it yet, which I hope I do so that I can do better on the next one. That is why we took that practice test so that we can see if we will do better and improve. I hope I do better on the other test because I know I didn’t do well on the practice one because again I didn’t know or understand anything on the practice test. Also I didn’t even get to finish, so I really hope that the next time we get that test it is much easier because I would learn and know more.

                                                                 Population Quiz

      Today we got our quizzes on population back and I didn’t do as well as I had hoped, but I had studied really hard so that’s why it was a disappointment. We went over what the definitions were, what the grafts were, we went over the push and pull forces, and the different questions about our world’s population. That is pretty much all we did in class today was go over the answers. We had taken such a long time going over all of the answers on the quiz that we couldn’t get anything else done. I mean I still learned something in class today. Tomorrow we have PSAT’s so we don’t have class tomorrow so then we don’t have to write a blog.  Tomorrow we pretty much don’t have school and on Thursday we don’t have your class so I guess you’ll see my next blog on Friday or Saturday!

Quiz!!

      Yesterday I stayed up really late to study for the quiz we were going to have on today Friday. I thought I did fairly well on it, because I had studied. Our last quiz I did not do well on so I hope on this one I did better and I move my grade up. There were some questions about the pyramids and total fertility rate and a whole bunch of other questions. There was a push or pull questions and it was name two pushes and two pulls. I think I got that question because I studied really hard on that one. Overall, I hope I did better than what my grade is in that class so I can move it up, and hopefully I will. I thought it was a decent quiz and since I studied a lot I think I did pretty well on it. I just hope it is enough to move my grade back up!

Populations and Surprises

      Today in class we got our quizzes back and then started writing our notes on population. We talked about all different countries. Some countries had low birthrates, and some had high birthrates. Some had people live to higher ages then others, but it was very rare for a country to have people live over 80. There was only one country that only had people live up to 60 and under. No one really made it past there, and I think the reason was that people decided to go to war to fight. It really amazed me how so many countries there were people that could live to a really old age, but there were some countries that barely had woman having children. There are so many differences in population, birthrates, and deaths in so many different countries. It’s insane to know what age some people live till in our world that it’s amazing. Then at the end of class we found out that we have a test on Friday, so hopefully I will do better on this one then last time.

Quiz

Today we had a quiz on the movie. In the beginning of class though we got cupcakes because it was Erica’s birthday. Otherwise, we therefore had a quiz. It was kind of hard but not too hard. I knew some of the answers and some I didn’t know but we got to use our blogs to help us out on the quiz. I hadn’t written down all of my notes on my blog so that is what made it a little extra hard for me. I hope I did well and at least decent on it. Then when everyone was finished we took some notes on population we didn’t get very far because it took me and some others a little time to finish their quizzes. That is pretty much all that we did in class today and tomorrow we will probably take some more notes on the population.

Finished!

      Today we finished the movie God Grew Tired of Us. I thought it was a really good and inspiring movie because of how they survived and how they kept on going knowing that they were going through a life or death situation. I thought it was so touching in the end the way John’s mom and sister greeted him, it was so cute. I also thought it was touching how Panther went back to Sudan to marry his girlfriend and how in the end he was planning to build a school. John also was going to open up a medical center down in Sudan. In the end of the movie they all end up having great futures. John is pursuing his Bachelor’s degree, and Panther got his, and Daniel still works at Job Corps and is at a community college. It is so amazing all the things they have all accomplished in their lives.

Reviewing and Watching

On Friday we got our tests back and reviewed the answers to it and then we watched some more of the movie God is Tired of Us. In the movie the lost boys have been in New York and Philadelphia for over a year now. I don’t think there liking it as much as they thought they were going to. One of the reasons is, is that people are misjudging them and back in Sudan you could go up to anyone if you were lost and could ask them for help and everything. They realized that you can’t do that here in the United States. You can, but people would think it is really weird, especially since there huge seven foot men.  I hope they make it through and like it overall. After all they have been through they all deserve a much better life than what they had before.

God is Tired of Us

      Today we watched God is Tired of Us again. We had left off yesterday when some of the people were saying goodbye, and getting on the plane. It was really sad that they had to leave everyone that they had lived and grown up with, but I think it’s good for them that they get to start a new life. It was really funny how they didn’t know what anything was and how fascinated they were in some of the things like a lamp, and the refrigerator. I thought it was also funny how they didn’t know what food they were eating. They were eating butter, and jelly instead of putting in on their bread! I thought they were very funny trying to figure out how things work. I know they’ll soon learn what everything is and I’m pretty sure they know that there going to learn what everything is.  

 

Watching a Movie

     In class today we watched a movie about the Sudan war in 1983. During the war two million people lost their lives. Then there were twenty seven thousand people who had escaped Sudan and when they got to Kenya there were only twelve thousand people who had survived. This was a terrible war and the way those people died made it even worse. Many died from starvation and many some were killed by lions and hyenas. This war was awful, but as we got more into the movie it got a little better for some people. There were some people who were going to move to the United States. Some were going to New York, and others were going to Philadelphia. It was funny because they didn’t know some of the things that we have like a shower, an apartment, and they said that there was only one wife so that was going to be a big problem for them!

                                                              Reviewing the Questions

       

        Today in class all we basically did was go over the questions that we had to do the other day. Mainly the questions were about population and things that are going on in our world. There was a question that if the United States was number one for most used cellular devices. Truth is were are not number one we are number three. That really surprised me because I thought we would be number one. I also found out that we are number eighteen for most deaths by HIV/Aids. That is really sad and it really surprised me. With all our education and medicine we have I wouldn’t think we would be number eighteen. I would think that we would be way down farther. I really found out a lot of new and interesting things while doing that blog because some things really surprised me. I really did learn a lot from doing that blog.

                                                                Scavenger Hunt!
1.) What is the population of the United States?
                        316, 668, 567
2.) What are the five largest countries in the world, by population?
             China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil
3.)  What is the population of Pakistan?
                        193,238, 868
4.) What kind of government does the united states have?
   Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition
5) What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe?
                            7.6%

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) Which country imports more oil than any other?
                                US

11) Which country has the second largest proved reserves of crude oil in the world?
                          Venezuela

12) Can women serve in combat roles in China's military?
                                Yes

13. What is GDP?
GDP - This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year

14. What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it?
                   Capita – Qatar 103,900

15) Is the US in the top for GDP per capita?
                              NO

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

17) 11 out of 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?
                             India

19) Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths?
                               18

20.) Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones?
                               No

21.) What percent of the US in roman catholic?
                               23.9%

22.) What percentage of Mexico is roman catholic?
                              82.7%

23.) What is the Net Migration Rate?
This entry includes the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons

24.) Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world?
                                  No

25.) According to the factbook, what is the current population of the entire planet?
                         7,095,217,980