Today in Human Geo, we worked on our powerpoints once again.
Arianna and I finished the power point today with only 6 slides but Mr. Schick told us that we didn't really need any more slides.
My laptop was also dropped... but we won't talk about that.......
And basically we just sat and waited for the bell after ward.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Powerpoints Continued
Today in Human Geo we continued with our power points about our country, Germany. Arianna and I found out more things about the history and how the Chancellor and Presidents job work and how they are elected.
For the President, the power to impeach him is if the Bundestag impeaches him for violating the Federal law. The Chancellor can also be impeached by the Bundestag if they do not elect her to be Chancellor of Germany.
Some of the history of the President and Chancellor office. We aren't finished with that slide yet, but I found out that The President office was established by the Weimar Constitution after World War I. After the first President, Paul Von Hindenburg, died out of office the President and Chancellor's offices merged. And that's as far as I got before the bell.
I also found out that the Chancellor has to be nominated by the President after he is in office, then there's a secret ballot from the Bundestag. If they don't like the nominated Chancellor then they have two weeks to find their own and that will be the new chancellor.
Germany's officers are very interesting.
Auf Wiedersehen (:
For the President, the power to impeach him is if the Bundestag impeaches him for violating the Federal law. The Chancellor can also be impeached by the Bundestag if they do not elect her to be Chancellor of Germany.
Some of the history of the President and Chancellor office. We aren't finished with that slide yet, but I found out that The President office was established by the Weimar Constitution after World War I. After the first President, Paul Von Hindenburg, died out of office the President and Chancellor's offices merged. And that's as far as I got before the bell.
I also found out that the Chancellor has to be nominated by the President after he is in office, then there's a secret ballot from the Bundestag. If they don't like the nominated Chancellor then they have two weeks to find their own and that will be the new chancellor.
Germany's officers are very interesting.
Auf Wiedersehen (:
MONDAYS CLASS OOPS
Monday in Human Geo we were told to go search facts about a certain country with our partners.
At first I wasn't going to have a partner because I'm not good friends with a lot of the people in that class...... but then my partner became Arianna (: so anyway, we had to take a country 'Germany' but Germany's my heritage and awesome ! ;) so we looked up the kind of government and then we had to define the kind of government Germany had.
Germany is a Federal Republic, and that means that it is a form of government with a constitution and it's self-governed.
Next we had to see how long they have had their own government.
Germany has been independent since October 3, 1990. After World War I, West and East Germany were separated by the Berlin Wall. But East and West Germany reunited on this date.
Finally, we had to figure our ways of how the President or Chancellor or whatever would we able to be charged for to get them out of office.
Arianna and I thought it was a good idea to give the President and Chancellor Joachim Gauck and Angela Merkel of Germany's background.
We only did a little bit but it was really interesting. President Joachim Gauck is a pastor over a Protestant Church and Chancellor Angela Merkel used to be a scientists.
We have not gotten to the part about how to get rid of them but we will do that Today.
At first I wasn't going to have a partner because I'm not good friends with a lot of the people in that class...... but then my partner became Arianna (: so anyway, we had to take a country 'Germany' but Germany's my heritage and awesome ! ;) so we looked up the kind of government and then we had to define the kind of government Germany had.
Germany is a Federal Republic, and that means that it is a form of government with a constitution and it's self-governed.
Next we had to see how long they have had their own government.
Germany has been independent since October 3, 1990. After World War I, West and East Germany were separated by the Berlin Wall. But East and West Germany reunited on this date.
Finally, we had to figure our ways of how the President or Chancellor or whatever would we able to be charged for to get them out of office.
Arianna and I thought it was a good idea to give the President and Chancellor Joachim Gauck and Angela Merkel of Germany's background.
We only did a little bit but it was really interesting. President Joachim Gauck is a pastor over a Protestant Church and Chancellor Angela Merkel used to be a scientists.
We have not gotten to the part about how to get rid of them but we will do that Today.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Post 18
Today in Human Geo we took a pop quiz about the Presidents of the countries..................
It wasn't hard but it took me off guard.... Chika got a better grade then me but that's because she's the smartest person ever.
But I guess my grade won't change that much.
I got suggested to go into an honor class today because of the class, I will consider it.
Until next time..
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Post 17
Yesterday in Human Geo we had a shadow and continued talking about the history of the Presidents of different countries. We found out really interesting things about the Presidents that we would've never known. The presidents of the country had really interesting lives before presidency.
I found out that Vladimir Putin was very poor before he became President. He once said he remembered chasing rats out of his small apartment. His apartment was very small and had three families living in it.
And then another had a very wealthy family, so it shows that the Presidents were "people too".
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Todays Class
Today in Human Geo we talked about the history of the Presidents that we had to post in the previous post.
There were actually very interesting facts that we heard today in class like:
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, was imprisoned for a fairly long time for standing up for her country. Coming out of the prision, Dilma acquired thyroid cancer. With treatment and medical help Dilma over came the cancer and is now a cancer survivor.
It turns out that Vladimir Puttin is quite cocky. Whenever he goes sporting, or hunting, or swimming he almost always has photographers with him to take pictures of his manliness. He does this because he wants to show his people that he is a strong man and no one with mess with his country.
Vladimir Puttin is also a black belt in karate.
The Prime Minister of Germany actually has the most popular in their government, she was rated five of the most powerful women in the WORLD!
President Simon Peres is 91 years old!
A lot of great facts for told today in class, we definitely learned a lot about the countries leaders and their background.
There were actually very interesting facts that we heard today in class like:
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, was imprisoned for a fairly long time for standing up for her country. Coming out of the prision, Dilma acquired thyroid cancer. With treatment and medical help Dilma over came the cancer and is now a cancer survivor.
It turns out that Vladimir Puttin is quite cocky. Whenever he goes sporting, or hunting, or swimming he almost always has photographers with him to take pictures of his manliness. He does this because he wants to show his people that he is a strong man and no one with mess with his country.
Vladimir Puttin is also a black belt in karate.
The Prime Minister of Germany actually has the most popular in their government, she was rated five of the most powerful women in the WORLD!
President Simon Peres is 91 years old!
A lot of great facts for told today in class, we definitely learned a lot about the countries leaders and their background.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Countries & Forms of Goverment
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| President Joachim GAUCK Germany Government: federal republic |
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| President Pranab MUKHERJEE India Government: federal republic |
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| President Francois HOLLANDE France |
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| President Bashar Syria Government:
republic under an authoritarian regime
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| Prime Minister Shinzo Abe China A parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy |
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| President XI Jinping China Government: Communist state |
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| Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Canada Government:
parl. democracy,federation,constitutional monarchy
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| President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN Russia Government: federation |
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| Dilma Rousseff Brazil Government: federal republic |
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| President Shimon PERES Israel Government:
parliamentary democracy
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Friday, October 17, 2014
Sick Day
Today in Human Geo, I wasn't there because I have a viruses. But I looked on the Mr. Schick's website and I happen to know who that woman is.
She's Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold a high office like President. She's the 36th President of Brazil.
I only know this because I'm a big fan of the Brazil National Soccer team! ;)
She's Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold a high office like President. She's the 36th President of Brazil.
I only know this because I'm a big fan of the Brazil National Soccer team! ;)
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Post 16
Today in Human Geo, the people that were not here on Friday for the test re-took their test. Myself included because of freshman retreat.
I think that the test was a little tough, especially because of the ten minute thing we had to do with the CIA World Fact book. We had ten minutes to answer 12 question about different things on the world fact book. At one point I thought that I wasn't going to have enough time because I couldn't find on of the questions, but literally at the last two minutes or so I was looking under the wrong thing and finally found it.
The population pyramids were a little hard with trying to figure out what country the pyramid was representing. But other than those things it was a pretty easy test although I don't have a clue what I'm going to get.
I guess we'll just wait and see......
I think that the test was a little tough, especially because of the ten minute thing we had to do with the CIA World Fact book. We had ten minutes to answer 12 question about different things on the world fact book. At one point I thought that I wasn't going to have enough time because I couldn't find on of the questions, but literally at the last two minutes or so I was looking under the wrong thing and finally found it.
The population pyramids were a little hard with trying to figure out what country the pyramid was representing. But other than those things it was a pretty easy test although I don't have a clue what I'm going to get.
I guess we'll just wait and see......
Friday, October 10, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Chapter Review Time....
Today in Human Geo, we reviewed for our test that's on Friday. Here are my fabulous notes I took.
So basically we have to get familiar with the CIA World Fact Book. On the day of the test we will have about 10 or a little more minutes to complete the questions given on the test- all searched in the CIA World Fact Book.
Next we have to study our notes, blogs, and also the teachers blog.
This will not be an open-notebook kind of test or "open-blog", we are going to have to memorize everything we learned like a normal test.
REVIEW:
So basically we have to get familiar with the CIA World Fact Book. On the day of the test we will have about 10 or a little more minutes to complete the questions given on the test- all searched in the CIA World Fact Book.
Next we have to study our notes, blogs, and also the teachers blog.
This will not be an open-notebook kind of test or "open-blog", we are going to have to memorize everything we learned like a normal test.
REVIEW:
- Memorize the terms: life-expectancy, crude birth rate, crude death rate, developing nations, developed nations, rate of natural increase, net migration rate, immigration, emigration, push forces, pull forces, and total fertility rate.
- If you know the crude birth rate then it shows you the rate of natural increase
- Crude birth rate: places were people are dying then being born- exs: Japan, Germany, Italy etc. (The places were the crude death rate is a higher number then the crude birth rate which brings that countries population number down.)
- Developing nations are countries that are not doing well economic wise, or health wise etc. (pre-industrialism)
- Developed nations are countries that are selling and buying a lot of things, economy is decent etc. Like the USA. (post-industrialism)
- You can figure out the birth rate of natural increase by subtracting the CBR by the CDR
- How to get the migration rate: subtract the emigration from the immigration and if the number is positive then the population is growing and has more immigrates, but if the number is negative it's the opposite.
- Immigrants: people that are traveling to go to another country permanently
- Emigration: people leaving their country to come to a new one
- (example: someone from France comes to America- they are immigrants to America but emigrants to France.)
- push force: something that causes one or more people to leave their country. Like something acts like it forces them too. (ex: health issues, dictatorship, wars etc.)
- pull force: things that's make people want to come to that other country. (ex: America. the land of opportunity)
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Spotify!
Today in Human Geo Mr. Schick told about this project Spotify is doing with schools.
Spotify is going to be teaming up with teachers and students, and they are trying to find a way to relate music on Spotify with the lesson you are learning in your classes.
For example, say you're talking about migration in your history class. You can search songs about moving on to another country, state, etc. It could help you remember what you learned and what you're learning about.
I think this can be a very affective thing for us students because we listen to a lot of music- I know I do.
So basically today we only made Spotify accounts if we didn't have one and Mrs. Schick gave us a code for a three year premium with Spotify and we got to listen to music for the rest of the class.
Overall, it was a good class
Spotify is going to be teaming up with teachers and students, and they are trying to find a way to relate music on Spotify with the lesson you are learning in your classes.
For example, say you're talking about migration in your history class. You can search songs about moving on to another country, state, etc. It could help you remember what you learned and what you're learning about.
I think this can be a very affective thing for us students because we listen to a lot of music- I know I do.
So basically today we only made Spotify accounts if we didn't have one and Mrs. Schick gave us a code for a three year premium with Spotify and we got to listen to music for the rest of the class.
Overall, it was a good class
Friday, October 3, 2014
America: not the best country in the world?
Today in Human Geo we watch a video about newsmen (and women) having a discussion about political problems and issue, it was a TV show so obviously it was not real but it did have a point. Throughout the video this guy was listening to the two other people talk.
This guy was asked political questions and he played it off as a joke because he did not want to express his opinion. Finally, I woman that was at the college these three people were at, asked a question.
What makes America the best country in the world?
Now the obvious answers were about things like having freedom opportunity etc. When the man was asked what his opinion was he joked about the best thing about the country was the New York Jets. The host I assume, was fed up with his jokingly answers and demanded he'd answer a legit answer or consequences.
There was this woman that was in the audience. She had a sign up saying "IT'S NOT" as in America is not the best country in the world.
Finally the man basically lost it. He ranted some pretty good points about the how America definitely use to be the best but is now, not that great.
After we watched the video, Mr. Schick asked our thoughts and comments. There were opinions like "maybe it's the congress and president fault" "we aren't a united country as we used to be."
I don't really have a "good" opinion but here's mine that I said in class and more that I just came up with.
First, I think that instead of complaining like little helpless people about the President or Congress, we should basically do something about it (if you don't "like" him) and actually vote for who we want. We has a people have the power for these kind of things. Plus, don't you think the President is doing all he can? I mean this whole stupid mess is not all his fault, he walked in a mess with this country that I'm sure he's trying to clear up the best he can. Don't you think we've had worst presidents? But the point is, if you want a certain person or party to be in office, stop being lazy and get out there and vote.
Another thing the video brought in was that no, we are not the only country with freedom. Places like China, Japan etc. have freedom, they are doing better than us economic wise. I agree with this point the video brought out.
But to conclude, we said in class today "You can like your favorite football team, but you can still say your comments on them."
I love my country, sometimes I do think we could do better in a lot of things, but the point of this freedom and the amendments is to give us these opportunities that a lot of countries do not have, so we have to take that and run with it.
This guy was asked political questions and he played it off as a joke because he did not want to express his opinion. Finally, I woman that was at the college these three people were at, asked a question.
What makes America the best country in the world?
Now the obvious answers were about things like having freedom opportunity etc. When the man was asked what his opinion was he joked about the best thing about the country was the New York Jets. The host I assume, was fed up with his jokingly answers and demanded he'd answer a legit answer or consequences.
There was this woman that was in the audience. She had a sign up saying "IT'S NOT" as in America is not the best country in the world.
Finally the man basically lost it. He ranted some pretty good points about the how America definitely use to be the best but is now, not that great.
After we watched the video, Mr. Schick asked our thoughts and comments. There were opinions like "maybe it's the congress and president fault" "we aren't a united country as we used to be."
I don't really have a "good" opinion but here's mine that I said in class and more that I just came up with.
First, I think that instead of complaining like little helpless people about the President or Congress, we should basically do something about it (if you don't "like" him) and actually vote for who we want. We has a people have the power for these kind of things. Plus, don't you think the President is doing all he can? I mean this whole stupid mess is not all his fault, he walked in a mess with this country that I'm sure he's trying to clear up the best he can. Don't you think we've had worst presidents? But the point is, if you want a certain person or party to be in office, stop being lazy and get out there and vote.
Another thing the video brought in was that no, we are not the only country with freedom. Places like China, Japan etc. have freedom, they are doing better than us economic wise. I agree with this point the video brought out.
But to conclude, we said in class today "You can like your favorite football team, but you can still say your comments on them."
I love my country, sometimes I do think we could do better in a lot of things, but the point of this freedom and the amendments is to give us these opportunities that a lot of countries do not have, so we have to take that and run with it.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Population Pyramid 2.0
Today in Human Geo we finished the rest of the video about the population pyramids.
The second half of the video talked about:
The birth rate:
The USA birth rate is lower than it should be, we learned that we get more of our population growth from immigrants.
Birth Rate:
-2014: 8/1000 births
Death Rate:
-2014: 9/1000 deaths
We learned that a population pyramid is not just useful for keeping track of the present and furture populations, but it needs track of the past as well.
For example, the United States population pyramid still has it's effect in the pyramid from the baby boom stage. Mostly people in the 50-60ish ages are very high in number because at that time the increase of the population in the baby booming stage.
Also about the past, China still has effects from there "one child" rule, where the government made it a law that there was too be only one child per family. This rule caused a sex-selective abortions. Sex-selective abortions was when the mother of the one baby she was having aborted the baby if it was a girl because man were more preferred for things like jobs to take care of his family. Woman on the other hand were not offered many jobs to made a business or a good living. So the mothers felt that if they could only have one child, then they should have the baby that was going to end up more successful and support his family. This caused more population in men then woman so it effected their population pyramid.
Finally we learned that it is very important for scientists have some kind of explanation or demonstrating of the populations because all of the poor countries with less food etc.
The second half of the video talked about:
The birth rate:
The USA birth rate is lower than it should be, we learned that we get more of our population growth from immigrants.
Birth Rate:
-2014: 8/1000 births
Death Rate:
-2014: 9/1000 deaths
We learned that a population pyramid is not just useful for keeping track of the present and furture populations, but it needs track of the past as well.
For example, the United States population pyramid still has it's effect in the pyramid from the baby boom stage. Mostly people in the 50-60ish ages are very high in number because at that time the increase of the population in the baby booming stage.
Also about the past, China still has effects from there "one child" rule, where the government made it a law that there was too be only one child per family. This rule caused a sex-selective abortions. Sex-selective abortions was when the mother of the one baby she was having aborted the baby if it was a girl because man were more preferred for things like jobs to take care of his family. Woman on the other hand were not offered many jobs to made a business or a good living. So the mothers felt that if they could only have one child, then they should have the baby that was going to end up more successful and support his family. This caused more population in men then woman so it effected their population pyramid.
Finally we learned that it is very important for scientists have some kind of explanation or demonstrating of the populations because all of the poor countries with less food etc.
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