CIA Factbook Yet Again

Once again, it was another sleepy Monday in Human Geo. The class is always so tired first period on Mondays. To get us awake, Mr. Schick would have us answer questions from our CIA Factbook scavenger hunt, and if we got the question wrong, he would throw a foamy apple at us. I didn’t get hit with it which was good. After we went over all the answers from the scavenger hunt, we started to watch a movie called “God Grew Tired of Us.” It was about a refugee camp in Kenya. It’s hard to really tell you about it, because we didn’t get that far into the movie. This was about a country, Sudan, which has entered a civil war. The leaders of Sudan would do terrible things to the Sudanese people. For example, they would take people into huts, and then they would burn them down. How awful is that? This caused the Sudanese people to take off and start a journey to a safe place, otherwise known as a refugee camp.

CIA Factbook

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, and 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?

          95.00

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?

          United States

11. What country has the second largest proven reserves of crude oil in the world?

          Venezuela

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

           Yes

13. What is GDP? 

          Gross Domestic Product all goods and services produced in a year

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

          Qatar  103,900

 

                                       **** PER CAPITA PER PERSON****

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

            No we are 14

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?

            India

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

      62

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

          No, China is

21. What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic?

           23.9% roughly a quarter

22. What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic?

          82.7%

23. What is Net Migration Rate?

    Net migration is the difference between immigration and emigration in a certain area      during a specified time frame.

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

        No, we are 26.

25. According to the Factbook, what is the current population of the entire planet?

    7,095,217,980

The Great CIA Fact Book

Today in Human Geo, we went over the Power Point, that we took notes on yesterday. After that, we went to the CIA Fact Book. It basically knows everything about every country! It’s pretty crazy when you think about it. I learned that there is a country with only 48 people living in it. That is so crazy to think. The freshman class alone is a lot bigger than the country itself. I do not think I would be able to live in that small of a country. I also learned that China is the largest country, then India falling at a close second. Then there is us the United States of America at third. We went into detail on the birth rate, death rate, population, and the total fertility rate. The country with the highest fertility rate is Niger with 7.03 children born per women. That is crazy to me!

Lots of Notes

Today, Human Geo was the first class of the day. Everyone was extremely tired, and I’m not going to lie, I just wanted to sleep. We took a ton of notes today about Population and Migration. We took notes on several vocab terms including, life expectancy, crude birth rate (CBR), crude death rate (CDR), developing nations, developed nations, rate of natural increase (RNI), net immigration rate (NMR), immigration, emigration, push forces, pull forces, and last total fertility rate (TFR). We also learned that there are over 7 billion people living in the world. It’s crazy to think that there are 145 babies born per minute. That’s pretty crazy!!! It’s also pretty crazy that it only took 12 year to get from 6 billion to 7 billion people! I also learned that in some countries the life expectancy can be up to 93 years old, but as low as 47. Overall, today we took a lot of notes, but it was a fine class.

Test Day

Today in Human Geo class, we took our first test. On the most part, I thought it was pretty easy but I didn’t know what Socrates was being accused for. I also wasn’t that clear on the term infrastructure, but I thought I kind of figured it out.  I really hope I did well on the essays because they are seventy percent of our grade!! I’m pretty sure I got most of the multiple choice questions right. Now I know what the tests will be like, which is good. I know what to expect when a test comes up. A couple multiple choice questions and some essays that are about 20 points each. 

Getting Ready for the TEST!

Today in Human Geography with Mr. Schick, some of the groups presented their power points. Even though we weren’t done, he made us get up there and present. Out of all the presentations I think my group’s was the longest. I thought most of the power points were pretty good. After that, we went over what was going to be on our test on Friday. There will be things about a letter to Garcia, Greek terms, Socrates, the Socratic Method, globalization, and things from the “did you know” video. I’m kind of nervous for the first test because I don’t know what to expect! Hopefully I do well! 

September 17

In Human Geography class today, we talked about Nike again, and the sweatshops. We didn’t continue our work on the power points which was kind of disappointing because my group didn’t finish. We talked about how outrageous the prices of shoes can be. I think if a shoe is over $200 it seems a little outrageous. It seems ridiculous to spend all that money on a pair of shoes. I feel like people who are wealthy just buy the shoes to flaunt their wealth. I personally think that is wrong. Think about all the people in Indonesia working at the sweatshops, making next to nothing. Someone in great poverty made those shoes, and only got paid about $2. I know I am guilty of buying Nike shoes, but now that we have talked about this in class it has really made me think about other people in the world.

September 16

To start off Human Geography today, we watched a video about globalization. It was about Nike, and their sweatshops. It’s awful to see how businesses can treat their workers so terribly. The workers in the sweatshops only make a $1.25 a day!! This is crazy to me. They are putting so much time in effort making shoes all day, and in return they are being paid next to nothing. I really believe that this needs to change. It angers me how companies can get away with doing this. After that, we broke off into our groups and continued to work on our power point presentations. The whole class was kind of off today. It was awkwardly quiet most off the class, which is weird because it is usually pretty loud because everyone is talking. 

September 14

Yesterday in Human Geo, we talked about globalization yet again. We broke off into groups and worked on a presentation for globalization. We used Google power point, so we could all access and work on it at the same time! Even though none of the groups that far, it’s a great thing to use. Mr. Schick also talked about Wikipedia, and how he thinks it is a very reliable source. He said that it is like a blog that has millions of editors that are constantly monitoring it. When you think about it, it I very useful, and if something on there is incorrect, someone can go on and make it correct in a matter of seconds. 

September 11

Today in class, we continues on with our talk about globalization. WE talked about McDonald’s for a good amount of time, but then moved on. I think Mr. Schick is teaching us about globalization to show us how fast the world is changing. Years ago, people had to do trading through talking or trading different products. They used to use something called the Silk Road. This helped the trade and globalization begin. Towards the end of class, we started to talk about North Korea. Mr. Schick told us that North Korea is probably one of the most secluded countries. He also told us that all of the TV. show they watch are from the government, telling them what to believe. The same goes for newspapers, and other documents. I’m so glad to live in America and not North Korea I can’t imagine what life would be like.

September 10

Today in Human Geo, we talked about globalization. Globalization is basically the connection from different parts of the world. We mainly talked about McDonald’s and how it has become so popular worldwide. I learned that in other countries they serve a couple things that is native to them. Like in china, they may serve sushi and call it the McSushi, as Mr. Schick said. We also talked about how a man made a documentary called, Supper Size Me. This man at McDonald’s for thirty days straight for breakfast lunch and dinner. All of his doctors tried to tell him that this was not a good idea and wanted him to stop, but he kept doing it. His weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol got so high. It was terrible. I honestly cannot imagine eating McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. After one meal of McDonald’s it makes me feel sick!

September 9

To start off class today, we sang happy birthday to John. Mr. Schick gave him a glittery birthday hat to wear all period. After that, we broke off into groups of three to work and learn about google documents. It’s really cool how a couple people can be working on the same document at the same time. This is a great way to do projects and to work on group assignments. It’s also a great tool if you are on a newspaper or something and you need someone to proof read it. They don’t even have to be in the same state maybe even country as you and they can help you with it. I think that is awesome. The class was working on questions we think could be on a test Mr. Schick would give. We typed up a bunch of questions with their answers. 

September 7

It’s crazy to think that if you’re one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you. This goes to show that there are so many people in China, and even if you are one in a million there are still a ton of people just like you.  Another crazy thing to think about is that in India, they have more honors kids that we, the United States, have kids. It’s so crazy to think that India is so smart that the amount of honor kids is more that the amount of kids that are American. The last fact that is really crazy is, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world. This is honestly so crazy to think that that many people use Facebook. All of these facts really made me realize how big the world actually is.

September 4

Today in Human Geography, we talked a lot about the Socratic Method. We started off by having Mr. Schick ask us a lot of questions on our thoughts about same sex marriage. Our class had a very long discussion about this that led to some pretty strange topics. A girl in our class somehow came up that there is a law in Texas that a man can marry a horse. We went on and on trying to see if this statement was factual. There were some pretty bad sources out there like, “gizzardboy” and “uglygrog4.” The class today was pretty fun. There were a lot of laughs about what people found on the internet! There was one post we found about a person finally marrying there horse and they are planning their honey moon and she is excited to be able to ride him wherever she wants! This really made me realize that you cannot always trust what you find on the internet.

September 3

For a couple minutes in the beginning of class today, we all figured out how to log on to PowerSchool to access our grades. For the rest of the class, we went over our previous blog on Greek terms. We covered and discussed what most of them mean, and we talked about how Greeks and Athenians voted on specific things. A civilian would step up on agora and voice their opinion on a certain topic. After all the people who wanted to speak spoke, they would vote. They didn't do this electronically. They did it simply by raising their hands, saying “I”, or putting a black or white pebble in a basket if they could not see the majority of raising hand or voicing “I.” I also learned that the Greek and Athenians were the first people in human history who over threw the government. They made the government a democracy.

Terms

Agora- “gathering place” or “assembly”

Arête- thin, almost knife-like ridge of a rock

Polis- means city in Greek or citizenship and body of citizens

the year 508 BC- the Athenian democracy was established

Socrates- Greek philosopher who was one of the founders of Western Philosophy

the death of Socrates- he was poisoned

the Socratic method- asking many questions that will reveal the truth

what the ancient Greeks meant if they called you an idiot- someone with low intelligence

Source: Wikipedia.com