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.