Other Countries

In class on Friday we talked about how we were going to have a test on what we have learned so far in class! In the beginning of class we went over the final presentation which was on the United States Of America! They had a good presentation and I enjoyed it because it gave me a perspective on how America was doing in the categories we had went over in class. The people who presented in that group were Caroline and Erin. IT was funny because their code to move on to the next slide was for Erin to cough. So about the test I am not looking forward to it, but I have been paying attention in class and getting my blogs done so hopefully I will do well! I am going to have to review a bit on Sunday, but I think I should be fine. We went over stuff that we should know such as the video and Socrates stuff.

My Presentation

Today in class I went over my presentation on the country of Nigeria! My group picked me to present the presentation we had created in my group of our country. It was fun doing the presentation. Also there were two other groups beside mine that went up and did their presentation! It was a chill class and while the person was presenting the other group members would have to be on the cia.gov website looking up facts that Mr. Schick would ask. We went over the simple facts that we learned in human geo about the world such as population and tfr. A point of the assignment was to get to know and be familiar with using the factbook where there is countless information on countries. The football player groups were suppose to go up first because we had to leave early for our game which we sadly had lost! Stoots and Gregs group were the other ones to go up they did it on the countries of Italy and Thialand!

Presentation

Today in class we were doing our project on our country the entire time. We used google drive then presentation to do this and we have to finish it tonight for homework. The country which I have is Nigeria.

Rates and TEST:(

In today’s class we first of all figured out that we were going to have a test later this week. We mostly took notes today about rates. Some of the notes we took were about the birth rate and the death rate. We also talked about the world population and how it was continuing to grow and there are about 7 billion people in the world. Most of the world’s population is growing in developing countries such as the African countries. Also there was a chart on how rapidly the world was growing in billions it ended up it took about 12 years to have a billion more people in the world. Now however the world is not growing as rapidly because the world’s biggest population producing country has cut down on how many people it creates they are trying to have a ZPG(zero population growth). We learned about a TFR which is the total fraternity rate which means the average number of children per women. Also about crude death and birth rate. The CBR is the number of births for 1000 of the population. The CDR is the number of deaths for 1000 of population. Also learned about the NMR which is the number of people coming in subtracted from number of people leaving the country. 

Reviewing 3.0 Video

During this class we went over a video that was posted on youtube called "Did you know 3.0" In this class it was mostly about getting everyone involved and talking about the video. It was interesting to see what type of things our generation in America is like. Such as in Indian there are more honor students then there are students in America combined. There were many interesting facts that the video taught us. Another thing I found intriguing is that the ipod had over 50 million users in just the span of 3 years. Also that Apple was the leading technology seller however 72% of its sales are from the ipod and iphone which have only been around for 5 years which is astonishing. There are so many advancements that we have in the world and how fast things move in the internet such as how many people are on the internet posting. The world is advancing for the better or not, but it is happening at a rapidly fast pace just think how it will be in a decade or two from now!

3.0

I was surprised that 840 million people used facebook. This was a very surprising fact that so many people are on facebook. That is a lot of people connecting to it. Facebook has come almost addicting and like a drug to most people. It keeps some people from doing their homework like it does to me. Also that India has more honor students then America. This is surprising knowing that America had some of the best universities and education systems in the world. However it shows how much less emphasis we put in education unlike other countries who are starting to put more emphasis. Also how many more jobs a single person will have by the age of 38 years which is 10-14 which is an astonishing number compared to my parents time. Also how much people are on the internet on twitter, facebook, and search engines such as Google. China will have more English speaking people than America will is crazy in my mind that Chinese is still going to be the national language. Also that so many people are becoming millionaires off of music, but still over 600,000 songs were downloaded illegally in a four minute span. 

Reviewing Questions

Today in Human Geo class we were talking to about reviewing the questions we had to do in class while Mr. Schick was absent. The answers to the questions we had were suppose to come from the CIA fact book. While I was answering the questions I received knowledge however today in class with the conversations Mr. Schick started we learned so much more and thought about it diligently. After this class I came out with more of an understanding of the world and how America compares to the rest of the world. We think 8.1% unemployment rate is pretty bad(which for us is), however there are some countries in the world such as Zimbabwe who have 95% which is utterly disappointing.  America imports the most oil in the world which is no surprise at all however we could be using alternative ways of energy to support our life style. Also we need oil so badly we even buy oil from Venezuala who hates us and they are not secretive about it. They called our president the devil and yet we can do nothing because we need them for oil or the prices would go unbelievably higher. Also we talked about how we could be able to create our own products, but the cost would be considerably higher because in America we have a minimum wage however in other countries there is no such thing and there is so much poverty. In today's class it was fun like usual and it was also very informational and gave me a greater perspective on the world and America.