12/10/14

today in class we took our test. it was a very very hard test not many people passed and if people did pass they did not get very high scores it sounded like. we then had the rest of class to ourselves and talked about final grades and the exam.  my class is taking the exam with mr.schick on tuesday

December 9,2014

today in class everyone listened to music and studied for the test tomorrow. mr.schick was at a quizbowl tjing i think and it was his birthday so we all got cookies

December 8, 2014

more buddhism:

• four noble truths 
• there is suffering
• attachment to desire is the origin of suffering 
• there is a cessation of suffering 
• the eightfold  path will lead to the cessation of suffering 
• eightfold path 
• right view 
• right intention 
• right speech 
• right action 
• right livelihood
• right effort 
• right mindfulness
• right dedication 

judaism

• location isreal 
• founder abraham 
• holy book
• talmud
• toraah first five books of the old testament 
• beliefs : ethical monotheism - god is one and concerned with the actions of human kind
• ten commandments 
• 13 principles of faithdecebe

december 5

spatial divisions:
political alliances

• north atlantic treaty organization 
• commonwealth of nations
• organization of american states

5 major religons

• christians
• europe the americas and southern africa
• denominations 
• founder jesus christ 
• bible 
• jesus is both human and divine : he led a virtuoues life crucified died buried resurrection, he ascended into heaven where he reigns with god the father
• clergy: the popeis head of the church priest are local 
• muslims
• islam
• indonesia, middle east, north africa 
• denominatios: sunnis(75-90%) shiites 10-20%
• beliefs:monotheistic, abrahamic
• five pillars (testimony, prayer, alms-giving =, fasting, pilgrimage) 
• muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to allah and observing islamic law
• hinduism 
• located in india 
• holy book veda
• no district founder it is a series of intellectual or philosphical points of view
• buddhist
• founder siddhartha guatama 
• denominations: tibetan,zen,theravada,amdisit
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12/3/14

examples of cultural characteristics
religion can be both a unifying force
there are five majors religions : hinduism , buddhism , jujudasim, christianity, and islam
they all have million of followers all believing the same thing
examples of cultural charactristics
religon can also be diving force around the world.
hindus and muslims fight in india and pakistan.
there are conflicts between catholics and protestants in northern ireland
jews, christians and myslim all claim jerusalem as their religons holy site. they are constantly fighting over land.
spatial divisions are how we divide the livable space found on the earth by establishing social, econoic, and political control.
you can be a member of more than one spatial group
spatial divisions can also cause conflicts or cooperation
economic alliances
european union
organization of petroleum exporting countries

December 2, 2014

cultural characteristics are pats of a group everyday life. they are the ideas and themes which the troup will teach to all members. these same characteristics can also link or divide a region. you pick up your cultural characteristics because everyone teaches them to you.


examples:language, religion, and ethnic heritage

language: arabic unies the arab world; spanish unites the hispanic world

brazil is the only south american nation which does not speak spanish it speaks portugal

canada is a bilingual nation. french and english are their officuial languages

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 yuloslavia many ethic groups were made into one country

when strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have seperate countries

ithe hutus are dominant in one and they persecute the tutis and the tutis are dominant in the other and they persecute the hutus. it has led to almost constant war between the tribes

the united states and Switzerland have peacefully merged groups in their countries

korea and japan and china have primarily one ethnic group

December 1, 2014

today in class we watched the end of slumdog millionaire for the second time. since many students on tuesday were unable to actually finish the movie. the movie ended by jamal not knowing the final answer on the game show and so he called his brother but latikahad his phone and then latika and jamal found eachother and had a big love scene and i think are running away now.

novemmber 24,2014

today in class we continued with the movie slumdog millionare. the movie was very interesting.the boys in the movie become gangsters as children and learned to scam people very well. jahmals brother kills the man that tried to make jahmal blind. The boys finally found latika. then jahmal left

Friday, November 21,2014

Today in class we watch slumdog millionaire. The children have very different upbringings than  the way most american children are brought up. India is covered in trash and there is trash in the river and everyone is bathing in the river. Everyone runs away alot because they have alot of mob violence. Hindu's would come in and kill most muslims and chase them down. Most of the children try to scam people and make as much money as possible. The police beat up most of the children. The police are very corrupt. If someone is being questioned they really get tortured. The classroom was very over populated and there was alot of mayhem. teachers hit children.

november 19, 2014

today in class everyone really just finished their homework and extra credit since today mr.schick was not here. he did not give us real assignments so that is what we did today in class.

extra credit novemember 18

coming home-skylar gray this city- patrick stump 5'oclok somewhere boston- augustina

November 18, 2014

Lyrics Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution! No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust": And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/usanationalanthemlyrics.html the national anthem of america is sung at many places and events in america it is very important. it is not a song i would listen to personally unless i have too. it is our national anthem. it is based on getting frredom. yes the lyrics are very well written

november 17, 2014

today in class we started a new unit called cultural geography. we talked about how different places in the united states had differen cultures. For example how baltimore has crab feast all the time people not from here apparently find it odd that , that is what we do as a social event especially since it takes us so long to eat them. in chicago there is a lot of pizza that is their thing they eat alot of pizza. also many places in the us call soda different names. and they are weird names like coke or pop.

November 12, 2014

Russia continued
dmiitry mededev - served as a third president of russia ; now prime minister ; united russia party
legislative branch- the bicameral federal assembly of russia ; adopts federal law , declares war' approves treaties ,
similar to us the difference is putin abuses power and many people are scared of him
president is the head
putin made the military strong and aggressive

brazil
federal republic
4 year terms
re-elceted 2 times or more have too take 4 years of though.
dilma rousseff is the president
in 1970 roussseff was arrested for participating in a polotical guerilla riot. she was arreste and tortured and released three years later when she got into local politics
most people in brazil like her

mexico
enrique pena nito
member of institutional revolutionary party
supreme commander
they are a federal republic
mexico drug war

November 11,2014

today in class we studied for the test tomorrow. we went over all of the countries that we have learned in the past week. Mr.schick has given us a study guide so we can be able to study correctly.

november 10, 2014

syria

• president is bashar al-assad 
• rose through the ba'ath party to take of syria
• had threatnned to bomb anyone who  doesnt vote for him
• very little people that vote for him are actually supporters. 
• i syria they run a 7 year term and he was just reelected so it will be until 2001

Germany

• federal republic
• german gov has been in place since 1990
• berlin wall seperates east and west germany -after world wartwo had been broken apart in two countries in 1990 they came back together as one 
• president- joachim guack - been in office since march 23,2012 , an independent politicl party
• chancellor - angela merkel - been in office since 2000 
• to replace the government:
• impeachment on the president 
• the president replaces the chancellor
• officesin germany are elected by the bunestag
• elections held every 4 years
• the bundestag has many different types and groups

united kingdom

• they have a king and queen 
• prime minister has more power than them
• constitutional monarchy has been around sinc e1066 
• common wealth of nations has 54 members with one suspended and dates back to mid 20th century 
• prime minister has no term limits. he is appointed by the monarch and stays in poffice as long 
• david cameron is prime minister became prime minister in 2010
• leaderof conservative party
• youngest prime minster since 1812
• over sees the opperation of civil service and the goverment agencies
• has house of commons and house of lords
• people get to decide if they want to reelect david cameron or not

Russia

• type of government is federation
• official name for russia is russian federation
• governened under constition of 1993
• vladimur ptin has been president since may 7, 201 
• in united russia pary 
• has been in power for 6 terms

november 7,2014

1. china

how to get rid of a president:

• re-election
• impeachment
• assassination

     2. Canada

• five political parties 

Canada's leaders

• leader prime miister is stephen harper 
• anyone over age 18 can be elected for prime minster
• no time limits
• can be prime minister until he resigns or dies
• next canadian election in 2015 unless they decide he is a terrible job as a prime minister and gets thrown out

3. japan
             gov:

• prime minister does most of the work 
• monarchy does not do much
• does not directly vote for prime minister
• legislature= diet members elect priime minister
• in power until resigns
• impeachment can also get the prime minister out
•  

november 5,2014

today in class many people presented

1. French Government:

• france has a republic government and a semipresidential system.(government with a president alongside a prime minister who are responsible to the legislature of a state.)
• republican from of gov in france was made in 1958
• president francois hollande and prime minister manuel valls are the leaders of france
• gov. of france is divided into executive a legislative and judicial branches    

hollande

is in socialist party
2012 ran against sarkozy and won.
 became president on may 15,2012
shares executive power with prime minister

republic gov.

• supreme power is in the citizens and allows the represenatives chosen directy or inderect by them

republic

• gov has exsisted 56 
• presidents term is 5 years
•  can be president until 2022 if he wins election in2017

people can effect a change in leadership

• new election
• boycott
• revolution
• assassinate 
• cabinet can be revoked globally by national assembly through a censure motion
• censure motion: a vote that states a person in superior position no longer deemed to hold that position

union for a popular movement

• the ump is most powerful political party in france
• formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre right parties under president jacques chirac 
• nicholas sarkozy former leader of the UMP was elected president of france but was defeated by socialist francois hollande
• leader of the ump is now jean francois cope

election 2017

• hollande will run for president agai for second and final term
• potential runners for the next election are : sarkozy , valls, le pen, jupe, many other

                           2.China

• communist gov
• controlls everything like prices but authoritarian party sometimes  wins and then the people can controll things. government owns everything
• 
  

november 4, 2014

today in class we went to the cancer awareness tables. there they gave you pamphlets to make sure we knew signs of cancer. we learned the possible causes of cancer. and a lady looked at our skin and told us ways to prevent skin cancer.

monday october 27,2014

today in class we started a project. i am partners with mallory and our country is united states of america. our project is a power point about american government. today i learned alot about how a president can be impeached. I also learned many people do not like their leaders.

wednesday oct 22,2014

today in human geo we talked more about the facts of the leaders. like how Enrique Pena Nieto is one of the wealthiest men in mexico because he is a drug lord and bribes the people that could arrest him. Also china's emporior never actually finished college. and isreal's leader Benjamin Netanyhu brother had died. In mr.schicks class i have learned that there are many reasons people get ellected.

tuesday october 21, 2014

today in human geo we went over the facts that we got last night about the leaders. therewere many interesting facts about the leaders that my classmates came up with. like how enrique pena neito makes sure that he has pictures of him showing that he is strong so that other countries are scared of him. also president dilma rouseff was tortured before being a president and survived cancer.

assignment #1

Mexico
Federal republic
Enrique Peña Nieto

Germany
Federal republic
President Joachim Gauk

Syria
Republic under an authoritarian regime
Bashar al-Assad

china
communist state
president xi jinping

United Kingdom
Constitutional monarchy and common wealth realm
Prime Minister David William Donald Cameron

Canada
A parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister Stephen Harper

India
Federal Republic
President Pranab Mukherjee

France
Republic
President François Hollande

Japan
a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone

Russia
Federation
President Vladimir Putin

Brazil
Federal republic
President Dilma Rousseff

Israel
Parliamentary democracy
Prime miister Benjamin Netanyahu

tuesday 10/14/14

today in human geo many people finished up their test. other people did homework and listened to music and got the class to relax. which many people in class were happy to take advantage of.

friday, 10/10/14

today in human geo we took a teston how to use the world factbook and what we have learned recently. Mr.schick put bonus questions on the test that he made us answer or we could not turn in the test. the test was not that hard except the bonus questions.

10/7/14

Today mr.schick gave us a code for spotify that allowed us to be premium members for 3 months. we will be experimenting if music can help in the classroom. For mr.schick we have to find songs involving human geo and leaving your home. We also need to find songs about migration. this could possibly be hard since i dont know of many songs that involve that but if the experiment works my class would have been a part of it.

10/6/14

today in class we went over the world fact book and descussed whether or not america really is the best country with satistics. We also went over facts in the factbook invoving other countries. China is the number one in technology usage. Mr.schick also mentioned that we might have a test on the factbook soon so we have to get used to using it.

10/3/14

in class today we talked about what we think about america. Mr.schick was verry interested in finding out about our opinions.He statted off the class with a video and in the video it said why do you think america is the best country. most of the class believed that america was the best at one time but no longer is.

10/1/14

today in class we learn that immigration adds to our population. the united states has a low birth rate so the death rate should even it out. but the immigration makes the population grow rapidly. in china the population grows much more rapidly than america so they zpg (zero population growth) and are only allowed one child.  illegal immigrants that are traveling can be caught and taken back but as soon as they get to america they are safe.many immigrants that come to america that we talked about today are cubans into florida. their push factor is the government is a communist dictatorship. we also talked about mexicans coming here.

9/30/14

Today in class we reviewed the video we watched yesterday. we talked alot about the population pyramid and why more developed countries have more people that are alive longer than the undeveloped countries. we also talked about what possible jobs the countries that are more developed will need from our generation since there are so many older people. we talked about why the past generation in our contry had so many more people than our generation did now. we also talked about the different fazes. one is preindustrialization, then industrialization, finally post industrialization.

9/29/14

today in human geo mr.schick was not here. so we had to watch a video. this video was about the population in the countries. reasons why the population could have gone down or higher in some countries. the video then took us to a web page this page told us about the births and deaths. as i am writing this blog there have been 143,525 deaths and 347,948 births today in the world.

9/24/14

today i was not in class becaus i was at retreat.

september22, 2014

Today in class we learned that when you measure the population you use the crude biving the rth rate and death rate. the crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 of the population. the crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1000 of population. we learned that the rate of natural increase produced by subtracting death rate from the birth rate. the rate of natural birth also gives us the annual natural growth rate for a country or region. the net migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering & leaving a country during a year. excess of persons entering the country is net immigration . excess of persons leaving the country is net emigration.

9/18 people on the land

In Human Geo we learned that over 7 billion people are on earth. That our population is increasing by73 million a year. since people die, that is not just the amount of babies born every year either. the amount of babies born is more is more. 90% of population growth takes place in developing countries of Africa, South and east asia and latin america.

september 17, 2014

today in human geo we took a test on what we learned over the past 3 weeks. the test for me was very easy for me even if i was not able to use my blog but i am glad that we had that privilege.

september 16, 2014

today in human geo we had a sub that dressed as a daphne from scooby doo. we learned how to make a quizlet and a set to study from. for class we study preparing for a test tomorrow.

September 10, 2014

Today in Human Geo we discussed why other countries are learning english. We decided that because english was an international language and so many people in other countries will take jobs for less money than americans they have many reasons to learn english. Also we discussed how if it would really be worth it for companies to keep american workers because they still would cost alot. Then we started to talk about how when minum wage starts go up so will the countries income.

Did you know?

As i watched the video my reaction was surprised at how everything has been evolving so fast. My reaction also was concerned at the future. If india is having so many kids at such a rapid pace and they have already started to take americans jobs how much harder will it be for americans to get jobs. Also will america have to become over populated for the chances of them getting jobs to be higher. Or if they want to be the largest english speaking country will they become over populated and go into poverty. And what is going to be founded next? What will that be able to do will it help turn our generation into what as elbert hubbard said in message to garcia the lazy generation that does nothing. In my life technology plays a huge role. Technology is in everything. I am tuping this blog with technology. most of my notes for school are typed. I communicate with people through my phone. Finding something that technology is not involved in is going to be very hard.

Agora- gathering space in ancient greek city states. center of art, athletic and political life of the city.
arete- excellence & mortal virtue. THE ACT OF LIVING UP TO OWNS FULL POTENTIAL.
polis- central city area; body of citizens
year 508 BC-very first democracy ever where citizens got to vote about everything that effected them.
socrates-greek philosopher that taught pluto. was from 400 BC
death of socrates- socrates was put on trail after corrupting the young minds of athenians and founding new gods. his defense "i view Athens as a stupid sluggish horse and i am the horsefly that is here to prode them and get them moving. I am guilty as charged but you should be thanking me." then the jury decided death by hemlock and socrates had the chance to leave and not die but he decided to go along with what they decided.
socratic method- ask questions to help you decide what you believe in.

Definitions

Agora- a gathering space i ancient greece
Arete-excellnce of any kind; the act of living up to ones potential
Polis- means city or translated to be city state
The year 508 BC- the year Klisthenians came to power and placed foundations of athenians democracy.
Socrates-Greek philosopher taught Plato. The socratic method is named after him.
Death of Socrates-1787 painting by french painter Jacques-Louis David of how socrates made his death a lesson to others.
Socratic Method- is when you are having a conversation based on axing and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking
The word idiot in ancient greece means someone who is not interested in politics.
I found these definitions on wikiepedia.org

Day 5

Today in human geo we went over more about the message to Garcia. Message to Garcia is about how during the spanish american war president mckinley sent this man rowan to go find garcia. Garcia was the head insurgent. But it only tok Rowan a day to find Garcia and Elbert Hubbard wads so impressed with Garcia because at the time in age it seemed like Rowan's generation was lazy and never actually tried and Rowan showed Hubbard that not everyone in the generation was like that. We also learned that america is supposed to be the best country but we have very few americans that vote and most the americans that vote are the older population that have been through world war 2 and almost lost the chance to vote.

Day 4th

Today in human geo we learned several things. The students learned that they should start using google chrome. We also learned that Mr.Schicks niece's motor in law had als. So he explained to us that als is more than something on a social media. We also in Mr.Schick's class learned how to be able to get to links from our home of this blogger site. That way we can keep track of important things like readings. Also we fixed many peoples blogsthat weren't setup right.

To ensure I have a successful year at John Carroll there are five important points.

1. stay organized
2. study all the time
3. keep up with my work
4. take notes
5. pay attention

What we did today

Today in Mr.Schicks class he got us all caught up on our blogs.  To make sure that we all could be able to post on our blogs tonight. Then after that Mr.Schick went over his syllabus. We found out that he is going too give us pop quizzes and that he does not do extra credit. Also we found out about how our homework's are usually going to be theses blogs and that the blogs are due at 12 pm the night that we had class. We found out that Mr.Schick does not teach in his own room that he invades three different class rooms for every class, that if we need him we can go to his office in the tv room. We also found out that he does not really use the laptops for notes. We learned a lot about Mr.Schicks class today.

First day at John Carroll

My first day at John Carroll was very good. I managed to not get lost and figure out where everything is. I got to meet some of my teachers. I found out what they expect this year, what I need for the class and how that class is gong to be like. I have met many of my classmates and became friends with them. At John Carroll everyone is very friendly. I only managed to get locked out of my locker twice. I was expecting i would get locked out many more times honestly. My laptop was actually working for the first day of school which was a plus, since at freshman orientation it was not. So in all i am very pleased with how my first day of John Carroll went.