Friday

On Friday we continued the movie "God grew tired of us." John gets three jobs, two of them are in the factory and the third one is at McDonald's.  Sometimes they are stuck with 8 hour shifts that get them home at around midnight then they have to wake up at 6 in the morning. Also in Sudan they could walk up to one of there neighbors houses and ask them how to get somewhere or anything. In America if some random person walked up to your door you could get the cops called on you. Panther is doing pretty good in America because he got a job at as a waiter in a nice restaurant. Daniel wants to go to college but he cant afford it so he joins a program that will help him get in to college. Then he gets a letter from his family that is in Uganda and it is not the best news because his sisters and brother has a disease.

9/27

Today at class we continued to watch our video about the refugees who left Sudan and traveled to Kakuma a refugee camp in Kenya. Some of the refugees got shipped off to the United States from Kenya because of the United Nations. But there was only a  few of them that get chosen to fly on this plane to go to America. There plane first travels to Europe which then takes another plane to Pittsburgh where Daniel and Panther are going to be staying in a apartment with two others. When they got there, since they were used to there culture and having no electricity or bathrooms or anything they didn't know what a lot of the stuff in the apartment was. Also are foods are a lot different so they didn't know what was food like ketchup or mayonnaise and others. Also at there apartment they had to learn what the types of household items were and what they do like a washer, dryer, microwave, refrigerator and others. they really like it in America but the only problem is that they feel bad for there friends and family in Kakuma. They were remembering about what they did in there tribe and how they celebrated Christmas by singing and dancing around camp. The tribe that they are in is called the Dinka tribe.

Test day

Today we took are first human geography test. It was pretty easy until I got to the second page which some questions were hard. Some of them I didn't know we were exposed to know for the test. Anyway I think I did decent on the test well I hope I did to secure my A in that class because right now I got a 91. After the test a video called "God grew tired of us". It was about the Sudan civil war between the north (Muslims) and the south (Christians and anonymous) two million people died in the war in 1983. The survivors turn in to refugees and run away with 27000 people to go to Ethiopia. In Ethiopia after three years there government collapses and they are pushed out. So they travel on another journey to a city in Kenya called Kakuma. Only 12000 people made it to Kenya but the ones who made it are safe because Kenya is part of the United Nations. The refugee camp in Kenya had over 80000 people. There were stories told by Panther, John, and Daniel.

9/20

today at class we went over my presentation which was about Indonesia. Also we went over three other groups presentations also, but we didn't get to finish the third one. Making are power points were kind of different because we were using Google drive. Google drive is like an average power point maker but is online so are whole group could work at it at home. Even though me and Ben did pretty much everything are power point turned out decent. I hope we got a good grade on that even though Austin didn't have his shirt tucked in which might have cost us 5 points... We will see how we did next time Mr. Schick updates power school which he hasn't done in a while. if I get over an A in this assignment then it will bring my grade up from an 89 to an A which will be good. In class I learned that not that many countries are developed in the world.

9/19/12

Today we started are project in class and I am going to work on it now.

9/17/2012

Today Mr.Schick was telling us that the population back in his day was half of what it is today. Which I think is crazy because United states now reached two more billion people in 24 years. Sadly for my generation if this rate continues then we will probably hit 10 billion people when I get older! Next we learned about crude birth rate which is the number of births per 1000 then divided by 10. Then the crude death rate is the same thing but with the deaths. If you subtract the number of the crude death rate by crude birth rate will give you the rate of natural increase. If a countries Rate of natural increase is 2.1 that would mean there population is staying the same. If it is over then the population is rising and if it was under the population is decreasing. The U.S is currently under 2.1 but there net migration rate is high. The net migration rate which is the difference between immigrants and emigrants over a certain period of time. Then we talked about push and pull forces that effected the net migration rate. Pull forces like better economy, freedom of persecution and others. Push forces like war, persecution against your religion or ethnic group and more. Lastly we talked about total fertility rate. This is the average number of children that would be born to a women over her lifetime. We figured out that countries in Africa like Nigeria had a TFR of around 5 and countries like japan had 1.7. Then we ended class.

9/13/12

Today we talked about the rest of are 25 questions from the cia website. We talked about how are GDP per capita isn't that high because we have a lot of homeless people even though we make a lot of money. Then when we were talking about how Africa is the continent with the highest birth rate we started an awkward conversation about sex. We talked about that the people in Africa end up with a lot of babies because they don't have birth control's. Then some how we started talking about men being able to have babies if they sex changed from a women to a man. Then we talked about how Mr.Schick worked in movie productions like home alone but switched jobs to teaching to spend more time with his family. He started teaching at this school because one time he substituted for french i think and taught a kid something which he thought was cool. There were 5x more English words in Shakespeare time then there is today. Also, china wil soon be the number 1 english speaking country in the world. Also it is estimated that a week worth of new york times is more information the a single person in the 1800s will come across in a lifetime!

Class today

Today at class we went over are 25 questions that we did yesterday. We figured out from those 25 questions that when people complain in america about not having a job they should see some other places. Especially Zimbabwe that has 95 percent of all people do not have jobs which is every 19 out of 20 people do not have a job. Even during are great depression we only went down to 25 percent people without a job.  Then we talked about all of what america uses oil for which is a lot of stuff because we are the number one user of oil. Then we talked about China being the number 3 of the most airports and U.S.A being number 1 cause were awesome. Also because almost everyone in are class raised there hand from traveling out of the country including me. Americans all over are traveling a lot more and it is easier to travel because we have over 15000 air ports!

cia questions

1. In July 2012 the estimate of the United States population is 313,847,465.

2. Number 1-5 in greatest to least in population is: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil

3. The population in Pakistan is 190,291,129

4. The United States constitution based federal republic; strong democratic tradition

5. The unemployment rate in Zimbabwe is 95 which is the worst in all of the world.

6. Russia is the largest country in the world by area.

7. Mexico is the third greatest amount of airports.

8. China has the worlds greatest number of exports.

9. Saudi Arabia has the greatest number of oil exports.

10. The united states has the greatest number of oil imports.

11. Also the United states consumes the most oil then any other state.

12. Yes the women in china can serve in combat roles in the military
13. GDP is Gross Domestic Product.
14. The country with the highest GDP per capita is Liechtenstein.
15. No the united states is actually number 11.
16. The continent with the top birth rate is Africa
17. 11 of the 12 top countries with highest birth rates can be found in Africa.
18. The 12 country is India which is number 3.
19. United states is the 11th country in HIV/AIDS.
20. U.S is not the number 1 cell phone user China is.
21.United states is 23.9% roman catholic
22. Mexico is 76.5% roman catholic.
23. Net migration rate is the difference of immigrants and emigrants over a period of time.
24. U.S does not have the highest Net migration rate Qatar does.
25. The current population of the entire planet is 6,973,738,433.

The two most important questions are:  What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it? because it lets us know about the country that per capita makes the most overall products and income which is surprisingly Liechtenstein. Next important question is: 1.    What is the current population of the entire planet? which a lot of people do not know but it is approximately  6,973,738,433 which is a pretty cool thing to know.

class...

Today at class Mr. Schick read us a short story about Illinois. This is what I got from it: Illinois has the more people in any mid west state in the United States. Illinois consists of mainly farmland which is called prairie state. After that Mr. Schick talked about when he was born. He was born in December 9 in sub degree weather where his mom couldn't find a hospital. Until they found some sketchy hospital in a bad neighborhood where Mr. Schick was born. After that I figured out that the classroom clock is off by around 10 seconds. After that we learned about good note taking skills that we should use in college. Then Mr. Schick had one of those "back when I was a kid" moments and told us about his college class that he got a B+ in. He got a B+ because his teacher was so mad he got stroke that he took it out on his students because he couldn't play tennis or mountain bike. We ended up having a really long class today and it kind of seemed forever but it's over now anyways.

class

Today at class we learned that Wikipedia is such a great site. Wikipedia is such a great site because it gets proofed by thousands and thousands of people all across the world. Also it is always updated at least once a week. Next, in the page that you click on it cites all the sources they used to find the information.Next we figured out how to make a link list on your blog. First u click on the design button, then  you click layout where you can also make your blog look fancy. Then you click add gadget which will make a list pop up and you scroll down till you see Link List. When you find Link List you hit the little plus button which then you can name it. After you name it you can add links which are pretty much short cuts that you can add to your blog. After those easy steps you have officially completed making a link list!

Essay #3

My first point of my action plan is to get good grades. So far I am doing pretty well besides Spanish because I am switching classes to a lower class. But in all my other classes so far I have been doing good  My second point is to have a fun year so far my freshmen year has been pretty cool and fun. I hop it continues or gets better as the year goes on. The third point of my action plan is sports. I will be on the wrestling team at John Carroll and I have a shot at varsity. But I am going to wrestle in the 106 pound weight class this season. Next point is my musical career at John Carroll. I will be in the Orchestra probably every year playing the up-right bass. My final point for my John Carroll career is looking forward to college. Even though high school just started I am going to try my best to get in to good colleges. I am thinking about setting a goal for myself and seeing if I can get in to the University of Maryland.

Essay#2

If Socrates and Elbert Hubbard time traveled to today they would think society is pretty bad. First I think Hubbard would talk to people and figure out no one today will be like rowan and deliver a message to garcia. Also he will think people are even more lazy and will not do a hard task without asking questions. Socrates will learn that no one today defines the true meaning of arete like he does. Also he will think the people today do not stick up for their own opinion and express their opinion. I think both of them will be disappointed about today's future.

essay 1

Essay #1

Arete simply means excellence of any kind, the word came from the Ancient Greeks. Socrates displayed artete by standing up to what he thought was right. Also when he had the chance to say i am sorry to the court and admit that he will never do it again he didn't by standing for what he believed in. After that Socrates students wanted to bust Socrates out of jail and had a perfect chance to but he denied it. Instead he drank the hemlock which put him through suffering until he died. I think what Socrates did really displayed the true meaning of artete.