World Leaders

Today in class looked at World Leaders.  We did a project on 12 countries. The first country we did was Mexico.  Mexico has a Federal Presidential Republic government.  Their leader is President Enrique Pena Nieto.  Second we did China.  China has Communist state government.  Their leader's name is President XI Jinping. The third country we did was India.  India has a Federal parliamentary republic government.  Their president is Pranab Mukherjee.  The fourth country we did was Russia.  Russia had a Semi-presidental federation government.  Their leader is President Vladimirovich Putin. The 5th  country we did was Germany.  Germany has a Federal parliamentary republic government.  Their leader is president Joachim Gauck.  The 6th country we did was the U.K.  The U.K. has a Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy.  Their Leader is Prime Minister Theresa May.  She is the only female president on this list.  The last country I'm going to talk about at that we did is France.  France is a Semi-presidential republic.  Their leader is President Francois Hollande.

Political Geography Notes

Today in class, we looked at a few things.  We first looked at the rest of the side from yesterday.  We talked about transportation.  There are a lot transportation in each country.  In the United States there are a lot of long roads called interstates.  An example of a road like this is I-95.  I-95 runs all the way from Maine to Florida.  There are places on the road the you have to stop at or go very slowly to help pay for the roads.  Across the other side of the country there are no tolls.  This is because there are less people over there.  There are also Airports and runways that are paid for so we can travel across the country and the world.  We also looked at a video from Animaniacs.  The video showed all of the countries. They didn't include Antartica because it is not a country.

Political Geography

Today in class we looked at Political Geography.  First in the class Mr. Shick told us the Cubs are in to the World Series.  Now I'm not a huge baseball fan but the happiness  from the Cub fans is amazing.  They haven't made it to the World Series since 1945.  This is a true accomplishment and I am really happy to hear it.  Now into Political Geography.  The world is organized into 3 things.  County, Nation, and State.  A country  is an identifiable land area.  A Nation is a population with a common culture.  A state is a population under a single government.  We also learned about independent states.  Independent states have space or territory which has recognized boundaries.  Has people who we there on an ongoing basis.  Has economic activity and a organized economy.  It has the power of social engineering , such as education.  It has a transportation system.

Getting the Test Back

Today in class we received our test back.  I love how Mr. Schick rings the bell when you get a good grade because it creates tension and make me nervous.  For some reason I really like that.  I was really impressed on how I did on the human geography test.  I got a 98% on it.  I was really happy because I got the two bonus questions on the back right which helped my grade.  The best part about is that I know have an A in this class instead of a B.  Hopefully I can do my blogs and maintain the till the end of the quarter. So far if I had to review this quarter I really enjoyed this class.  It is usually good and fun to learn.  On the test I think I got two wrong but I got two bonus question which levels out to a quality 98.  Thanks Mr. Schick

Quiz on CIA.gov and Population Pyramids

Today in class we took are second non-pop quiz.  I thought it was going to be very hard but it turned out to be really easy and I really enjoyed taking it.  I only really studied for two minutes but I still feel like I did good on the test.  I think I was paying good enough attention in class to know what we were doing and what was going on.  The first bonus question on the back confused me.  It was what the migration rate was for the world.  No one lives outside the would as human go I think, but who knows.  Then I thought I was taking it a little too far and just said zero.  Second off I am happy there wasn't any short answers or else I would of done bad.  I also really like we got to work the rest of the class on whatever we want

Test Tomorrow on Population Pyramid

Today in class we reviewed for our test tomorrow on population pyramids and the Cia.gov website.  He said we will have the test on a few things.  We will have to know terms like total fertility rate, pull and push force, and mortality rate.  The test format will be some matching terms, and short answers.  There is one more format we will need to know.  That format is a question that is given that will have to be searched up online.  We will use the site CIA.gov to get answers on those questions.  There will be questions on the population pyramid.  These questions could include what is the population divided into to and what shows what the population is doing.  For example, if the population has a really small gap in the pre-reprodcuton section the population is lowering.  If the population is fairly even the population is probably staying the same or slightly going up.  If there is a huge amount of people in the pre-reproduction section, that means the population is increasing rapidly.

More About Popolation Pyramids

Today in class we reviewed the rest of the population pyramid by TED.  I personally really enjoy watching ted talks which is when successful people talk about things.  In the rest of the video they where talking about how some of the parts in the pyramid represented their history.  For example, when the population in china made a rule that the only one child per woman was allowed.  It showed a fairly large gap in the pyramid.  Later we reviewed countries like Qatar and Saudia Rabia.  There is a huge amount of more men then women. I think this is because of the oil.  Also one thing about the Pyramid was that if there was a huge amount of people in the 0-4 age range and a lot less in the others the birth rate is goin up really high.  The United States is increasing slowly. Although it would probaly be going down if we didn't have so many immagrants.

Class

TED ED Video

Today in class we looked a really cool TED ED video.  They talked about the population and its growth.  But what mostly was talked about was a population pyramid.  A population pyramid is a graph like representation that shows a few things.  It is divided in to two parts and three sections.  It is dived between make and female.  Then it is divided in three sections called pre-reproduction, reproduction, and post-reproduction.  Pre-reproduction is through ages 0-14.  Reproduction is age group though 15-44.  Post reproduction is from 45-100+.  If the pre-reproduction group has a huge majority of people compared to the very little amount in the other groups it is most likely that the population is rising very fast.  If there is very little people in the 0-14 range there is a good chance that the population is decreasing.  TED is really great.  I like to watch their TED talks from the people I really like.

Missed Class

I was not in human geography due to an away sport.

JCTV and the Last Day of the PowerPoint

Today in class we first look at the JCTV video.  It was pretty good for their first production but i thought they could change some things.  I really think they should invest in a better microphone.  The Audio wasn't the best. Also I think it could be less staged and give the people in the video some of their own thought.  I can really see it improving really so they did a good job.  We also continued to work on our powerpoint project.  We first made it cleaner by adding better and calmer colored so it would be easier to see.  We also had one more thing to do which was the christian religion rate in 4 countries.  Those countries where USA, China, Canada, and Mexico.  I knew China wasn't going to have that many Catholics because I knew they were mostly about something else.  Mexico, USA, and Canada where around the same.

PowerPoint and the World

Today in class we reviewed our powerpoint.  Our powerpoint was about the Cia fact book.  Mr. Schick was talking about the unemployment rate.  A lot people in The United States think our unemployment rate is very high where it is actually isn't.  The United States is 68th in the world.  There are countries where over half of the people cannot get a job.  There are also countries that have really low unemployment rate like Qatar.  There unemployment rate is around 2%, thats unbelievable.  Also in Qatar there is an inane amount of immigrants entering the country.  They are all looking for jobs because they are almost guaranteed to get one.  They are also extremely high in oil which is also good for us so we can invest in it.  Another thing we talked about was the number of Airports.  Its crazy on how many airports we have compared to another country.

Pop Quiz and PowerPoint

Today in class, we  took pop quiz.  I got a 7 out of 10 sadly.  Anyways we went back to doing our powerpoint.  In my opinion our power looks pretty good so far.  Mr. Schick added a few more things to it.  He added obesity, GDP, GDP per Capita, Literacy, and Primary English.  Obesity is the percentage of people that are overweight in the country.  GDP is the Gross Domestic Product.  Its the monetary value of all the finished goods.  GDP per Capita is the average persons income.  Literacy rate is the percentage of people that can read and write above the age of 15.  Primary english is the amount if people that speak English in the World.  So far I really like Human Geography class.  Mr. Schick is a great person and a great teacher.  I really like how everything is unstructured so it is more interactive and fun

The Newsroom - The Opening Scence

Today in class we mainly talked about our country and our opinions on it.  There where some people who though the country is the best in the world or at least was.  Then there are other people who didn't think the country was the best in the world, and one of the persons was me.  We are not number one on everything in the CIA fact book, in fact not even close to it.  I think there is no greatest country.  Every country makes their mistakes therefore no country is prefect either.  Every country is good at different things.  The video we watched in class was a show on HBO called The Newsroom.  The episode showed a part where a man on a new report channel was talking about one of the questions from the audience, why is the United States the best country in the world.  He didn't like that question. He went off on everyone he would think this is the best county in the world while speaking many great points.

Cia Factbook

Today in class we reviewed the CIA fact book.  The CIA fact book is full of facts.  It includes every country in the world and all the facts about them. Today we started a project about the facts.  We are supposed to put down the top three countries, the bottom three countries, USA(if not included already), and two other random countries of choice.  I am working with Garrett McNulty and Dean Dugan.  Some of the things we are doing are population, birth rate, death rate, Crude Oil Production, and imports.  We are also doing Net migration rate, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate, unemployment rate, and the number of airports per country.  This site is great for human geography class and geography in general. There are a lot more topics then that.  I think it is really cool that the CIA can let us access this information publicly.