answers

We answered the questions on the homework we had, and that was pretty much the only thing that we did.  I got a few of them wrong, but I fixed them while we went over them.  we are going to watch a movie tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure we are going to do that for the whole class.  Some of  the questions that I got wrong were not that hard to do.  To be honest, I wasn't trying that hard because I was tired the night I did it, so I didn't get every single question right.

scavenger hunt

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

5.     What is the unemployment rate of Zimbabwe?
95%

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 proved 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 country in any given year

14.     What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it?
Qatar, $103,900

15.     Is the US in the top 10 GDP per capita?
no (#14-#11 one year ago)

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 in which continent?
Africa

18.     What other country is in the top ten?
India

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

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

21.     What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic?
23.9%

22.    What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic?
82.7%

23.     What is Net Migration Rate?
the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population).  An excess of persons entering the country is referred to as net immigration (e.g. -9.26 migrants/1,000 population).

24.     Does the US have the highest Net Migration rate in the world?
   no - #26  (3.64/1,000)

25.     According to the factbook, what is the population of the world?
7,095,217,980 (July 2013 est.)

power point

We finished the power point, and we went over what we think on immigration.  Most of us think that immigration is helping both the US and other countries, because the immigrants are working as hard as they can, and that is why they are doing mostly the outdoor work, like landscaping and construction.  I said that the immigrants are grateful for coming in and getting jobs that are paying for their food and families. 

testing day 2 and power point

We finished the test today, having 20 minutes and all I had to do was the last essay.  I got 30 out of 30 for the bubble-in questions, and I was pretty proud of myself.  I'm not sure how I did on the essay questions, but I think I did pretty good on them.  After the 20 minutes we had to finish the test, we went over the power point that Mr. Schick had for us.  We got new definitions, and we got a new unit.

testing

We started to take a test, and we had a fire drill so we went outside on the football field, and we were outside for about ten minutes.  Then we went back inside, and kept going with our tests.  I got  to the last essay, and then we had to leave class.  We had the fire drill about two or three minutes after class started, and we were outside for about half the class, like I said.

presentation

Today we presented our power points, and my group was first.  We all read our slides, and Grace explained all of them.  When we were done, the other groups went.  This was not for a grade, but to get some knowledge on globalization.  After we all presented, we talked about globalization and what we all think about it.  For the last three minutes of class, we had free, so I went on my email and checked that.  After that we left to go to the next class.

Nike

today we watched a 20 minute long video about how Nike is abusing Indonesia and making the workers work for $1.50 a day and in horrible conditions.  I know this because a guy named Jim Keady went to Indonesia and lived off of the wages that the Nike workers are living off of and he lost 25 lbs. in one month, which I think is ridiculous, because he is a very athletic parson, being amazing at soccer and all; Jim bought a cheap razor and the smallest shaving cream at the store, and he didn't eat for the rest of the day.  The girl he went with, Leslie, got sick off the conditions, and if Jim bought medicine, then he would not eat for the rest of the day, but he bought the medicine anyway, because she was sick and she  needed it.  After we watched the video, we went back to our groups and did more research, then we left class.

research

We started to do a slideshow for globalization.  We did research for the definition of globalization, and we started to find out whether we are against it or on the same side of globalization .  I'm not sure what side we are on, because we are still looking at data.  We have Devin, Matt, Grace, Grant, and me in our group, and I feel that we sort of work together well.

google drive

Today we went on Google drive, and set up an email chat where you can work on the same document at the same time without physically being in the same room.  My group is me, Grace, Devon, and someone Bataglia, I don't know his first name.  After we had that class, we went to Mass, took a picture for the 50th anniversary for in the yearbook.  after that, we all went home.

The Video

In class, we looked at a video that used to be a slideshow, and it was connecting us to human geography more.  It was about how India and China might be two of the biggest countries in the world that have good education.  What I mean by that is China might be the largest English-speaking country in the world, and India might be one of the smartest countries in the world.  India has more honors kids than America has kids! 

Seria being bombed

Today I was late to class, because I was thinking of a different class.  Anyway, we went over the Greeks, and the painting The Death of Socrates.  We went over what is happening in Seria, and if Obama sent troops over there to help.  What Grace said made a lot of sense; she said that if Obama sent troops over to help, then Seria would just turn around to bomb us.  If they  do bomb us, it might be nuclear bombs, and we would all die.  But, I don't think that we will all die, because if our troops do go over there, I believe that we will stop the bombing, and prevent from the U.S being bombed.