today in human geography we had our christmas party i brought a 14$ pack of cookies and so did everybody else i gave the leftovers to my advisory it was fun but james farted in my desk so i shall never sit there again so i sat in front of reece we also did review for the human geo exam thats all we did

today in human geo we didn't do much we discussed the christmas party on friday and i have no idea what I'm going to bring because i have syria i have no idea other than that we took a test which i know i failed probably thats it bye

today in human geo we discussed the christmas party and we went over some notes for the exam. we also did a little bit of review for the test that is Wednesday  or tomorrow it was at the end of the day so i was very tired and i wanted to go home and sleep so a normal day thats all that happened

today in human geo we were talking about having a christmas party and review for exams. we looked at and copied down old notes and new notes about the relations between countries, ethnic groups, immigration, and a lot of other facts about certain countries. a main thing we paid attention to is the main language of counties like how quebec is the french speaking art to canada. that is all that happened today

today in human geo we finished up the movie slum dog millionaire it is about a boy living in the slums of mumbi. and how he got to be a millionaire by winning money on a tv show. we ended up discussing the movie in detail and we told our thoughts about the movie. it was a good movie overall considering the amount i was laughing in my head after calling all the indians carpet flyers that is all that happened

human geo

differences between my culture and the culture in india shown in slum dog millionaire

i grew up in a peaceful culture and not a violent one
i live in a large home these people live in small shacks
i have running water and plumbing they have a hole that they drop their waste in and wash in a river
they have no technology i have a lot of technology
they grew up with a struggle i didn't
they have a shorter life span because of conditions we have modern medicine so we can live longer
the police in the slums are corrupt but where i live they are not
the schools there don't provide a good education the schools here do

today in human geography mr. schick is not here so that means we have a substitute not much went on in class he said to check his blog for the class assignment which is to do our spottily assignment to find songs about moving away or arriving somewhere

so far my list contains

welcome to paradise (green day)
the great divide (The Mowgli's)
come back to texas (bowling for soup)
move along (all american rejects)
learn to fly (foo fighters)
highway to hell (ACDC)
going away to collage (blink 182)
fly away (lenny Kravitz)
don't worry be happy (bob marley)
crazy train (ozzy osbourne)
boulevard of broken dreams (green day)

spotify asignment



Syrian national anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy5QYo_K3KA

Defenders of our home,
Peace be upon you;
The proud spirits had
refused to subdue.
The lion-abode of Arabism,
A hallowed sanctuary;
The seat of the stars,
An inviolable preserve.
Our hopes and our hearts,
Are entwined with the flag,
Which unites our country 


This national anthem kinda sounds military but also classical.

i forgot my blog yesterday but we took a test and thats about it. today in human geo we rant doing much since we just took the test we talked about the test a little bit but thats about it. reece was sitting on a window sill because he said it would cool him off. mr. schick scared tucker by acting like a cat before he could ask to get a drink. the only other things we did in class is a spottily assignment

today in human geography we didn't take the test because chris is a super hero because while he has been studying he noticed there was a problem getting into the power points so we are all saved. also we talked about the slides and whats in them and studied for the test in class there is not many other things that when on in class accept i did watch jc tv which has a special report about mr. Maynard and his cancer everybody is very shocked at it. that is all tat happened in class today.

class notes

brazil
 dilma rousseff is the current leader
 she already served a term and was reelected in 2014
 4 year terms
 you can impeach the president
 imeachable offenses are treason, war crimes, crimes, not being a good leader and bribery
canada
 parliamentary democracy and a monarchy
 the prime minister is the top dog
 the king and queen are just figures
 stephen harper is the prime minister
 he wants to make it easier for new families
 in 1931 canada became one of the common wealth countries
 stephen harber has been in power for 8 years
 he was elected in january 23, 2006
 he has been in parliament since 2002
 he can be empeached

class notes

Germany
 federal republic
 the federal government has the individual sovereignty
 current leader is angela merkel- chancellor
 germany has a president but he dosnt do much
 every four years a new chancellor is elected
 can be empeached by the bundestag by violating the law
 merkel won 41% of the vote
France
 leaders of france can serve a five year term
 couldn't impeach anyone until 2002
 francois has been president for 2 years so far
united states
 leader is barack obama
 4 year terms
 2 terms
 he can be taken out of office by assassination revolution or impeachment
 impeachable offenses
 treason
 bribery
 high crime
 not enforcing the laws of the united states

today in human geography class some people were not here because they were sick or had to practice for the play. also today everyone is sharing their google slides on one of 13 countries from a project we did a long time ago. Reece and I are doing our project on syria we have it all done we just have to present the project. we incorporated some funny stuff into the slides because we wanted it to not be boring

notes

Russia
 5 federal services
 30 government agencies
 1n 1991 the U.S.S.R broke up and the new government formed
 federal republic
 vladimir putin took office on may 7, 2012
 current leader is vladimir putin
 dmitry medev is prime minister
 he was president in 2008- 2012
 the government ensures implementation of a uniform state policy in the areas of culture, science, health, and ecology.
 to get rid of a leader you can overthrow them, protest, impeach, start a revolution, or assassinate him
Japan
 Japan has been around since 660 bc
 has a parliamentary government with emperor Akihto
 akihto has acceded to the throne in 1989
 they have a prime minister named shinzo abe
 the prime minister calls all the shots
 the emperor has less power than the prime minister
 only emperor
 shinzo is the president of the liberal democratic party
 elected in december 2012
 all men and women at the age of 20 have the right to vote
 if the public dosnt like the prime minister then he can be thrown out

today in human geography we continued our project that we started monday i am working with reece on the project. The project is on syria. like what kind of government and the leader. also it is about how to get the leader kicked out of office without killing anyone or anything. we have to give information like what kind of government and when the leader came into office that is everything i did in human geo today

today in human geo class we had to take a pop quiz which was terrible. for the first half of the class he was not here he was doing something. for that time i played games for the most part. the class average was 68.7 and thats why it was horrible. no one got an A. the two shadows in the class had to take the quiz as well. i hate pop sizes so much. mr. schick used it to get a grade in to power school before the end of the quarter. thats all was did and now he is giving us time to write our blog. it was a boring class again.

today in human geo class we are talking about the same stuff as yesterday and the day before. still just talking about the leaders of different countries and their backgrounds. the prime minister of england  david cameron, his son died at the age of 6. today also i played a voice from my computer saying to be quiet or mr schick will beat you on the head with a desk. other than some of those things we did not do anything else for the rest of the class.

Today in human geography we talked about the facts of the leaders of the countries we looked up last night. Angela merkel is the 5th most powerful person in the world. She also is the most powerful person in germany. we had to write these facts about the leaders of these countries because the night before we had to write some things for 12 different countries like who is the leader, what kind of government, and a picture of the countries leader. we were also going off topic allot but thats about all that was said in class today it was same old stuff for the most part.

dilma rousseff : 
1. was arrested for revolting against the brazilian government
2. she was tortured in jail
Enrique Pena Nieto:
1. he was a lawyer 
2. he was the governor of mexican state 
vladimir putin:
1.was appointed one of three first dusty prime ministers
2. he was later appointed main prime minister
Stephen Harper:
1. was in the house of commons in 1993
2. harper was the leader of the conservatives in canada
Bashar al- Assad:
1. no intention to be a political figure 
2. was the third child of Ḥafiz al-Assad, a Syrian military officer 
Xi Jinping:
1. he was a military chief 
2. he was a general secretary
francois hollande:
1. head of the socialist party in france
2. elected in 2012
shinzo abe:
1. second time as prime minister
2. leader of the liberals in japan
narendra modi:
1. uses violence to revolt against his people
2. At the age of eight, Modi came in contact with RSS
david cameron:
1. he went to oxford
2.descendant of King William IV.
Binyamin Netanyahu
1.went to collage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2.Spent his teenage years in the United States; went to high school in Philadelphia.
Angela merkel:
1. most powerful person in the world
2. 5th most powerful person in the world

country: mexico
leader: president
name: Enrique Pena Nieto
form of gov: Republic











Country: russia
leader: president
name: Vladimir Putin
form of government: republic

Country: Canada
leader: Prime minister
name: Stephen Harper
form of government: Monarchy

Country: Syria
leader:president
name: Bashar al- Assad
form of government: unitary state

Country: China
leader: president
name:Xi Jinping
form of government: communist

Country: Germany
leader: president
name: Joachim Gauck
form of government: republic

Country: france
leader:president
name: francois hollande
form of government: unitary state

Country: japan
leader: prime minister
name: shinzo abe
form of government: unitary state

Country: india
leader: prime minister
name: narendra modi
form of government: republic

Country: united kingdom
leader:prime minister
name: david cameron
form of government: unitary state












Country: brazil
leader: president
name: dilma rousseff
form of government: republic

Country: israel
leader: prime minister
name: benjamin netanyahu
form of government: parlementery system

today in class we took a test. it was really easy and short. james' brother is shadowing today so he showed up after a little bit. when he got here james was out of the room. every time someone wanted to come in i had to open the door. it is the 1st mod of the day so i am and was very tired while taking the test i think i did alright on it though. nothing else really happened because not many people are in class because there are on the last freshman retreat of the year.

Today in class we when over the test and what material we would need to know mr. schick explained the timed portion of the test. he told us not to use google for our answers he told us to use the factbook. we wouldn't be able to to use the via fact book on the rest of the test. i couldn't get the beginning of the class because mrs. heflin pulled me into her office. also we watched a video of a guy making small burritos for a small hamster he recreated a small resturaunt. also mr. schick showed us how population pyramids work and how they are affected by events currently happening and push and pull forces.

today in class mr.schick he is at a wedding in main and was not here we had mrs. amato as a substitute instead. we learned about population pyramids today. we watched a whole video on these population pyramids. we learned how they work and they had shown what they think the pyramids will be in 2050. we had to answer some questions about the video.
1). b
2). d
3). b
4). c
we are aloud to work on this blog and other things once we are done. overall not much of anything to talk about today.

today in class we went over facts about different counties around the world. we found all these facts through the cia fact book. mr. schick  was working on getting a plain ticket so he can choose where he sits. he has to go up to a wedding in main he is flying to Boston soon. he says he is scared because he wants to be able to choose his seat on the plan so he "dosnt have to sit in the 2 square feet of space because the seat is in the middle of two 300 pond people." that is all we did in class today it is not much to talk about.

today in class we talked about death rates and birth rates for different countries. We talked about how these rates affect the total population of a country. the birth rate in the united states is 2.06 but in order to keep the death and birth rate even it must be 2.1. even though our birth rate is only 2.06 we still have people immigrating to the united states there for the population remains steady in the united states. We also talked about the push and pull factors for countries. An example of a push factor is in Syria people are leaving at a large rate because of all the war that is going on there. an example of a pull rate is people coming to Canada because the health care there is so good, no terrorism, reduced crime, and they don't get involved with war often. that domes up todays class.

today in class we received our tests back. mr. Schick rung a bell every time someone got an A on their test. not many people were there today because of the freshman retreat. we went over the test and explained all the questions incase someone didn't understand. over all we did not do much in class due to the fact that half of the class was not there. there is not much else to talk about in this blog because almost nothing happened today.

yesterday friday september 19 i learned that france is 15th in the world for life expectancy at 81.66. The migration rate in the united states is at 2.65. The united states is number 42 in life expectancy. The united states last year had a migration rate of 3.65. One year ago the migration rate in canada was 5.65. A crude death rate is a number of deaths per 1000 of the population. A crude birth rate is a number of births per 1000 of the population. that is all my notes from class

Durring class today we were studying everything for the test. We went over ancient Greece and all of the definitions for the vocabulary and all of the extra things like dates or people. We also talked about globalization and americanization in other countries. Now there are mcdonalds in other countries because of americanization. We went over did you know 3.0 which basically has the same facts from americanization and globalization accept for a few facts that have to do with population and technology. We then talked about A message to Garcia and all the facts we need to know for the test on Wednesday.

class notes: *globalization is the connection of the world, the expansion of international, cultural, economic, and political activity.
*Globalization is the americanization of other countries
*globalization can include the spread of religion
about class: we talked today about how the united states affects foreign countries because of religion, war, the way they eat, and their life spans. We talked about how the terrorist group Isis is trying to take power in Syria because they are having a civil war and Isis thought it was a good opportunity slide into power of the country. We talked about B.C.E and why they changed it from B.C to B.C.E.  

Today in class we went deeper into a video of facts about the world in 2012. We analyzed all the data from the video. Mr. schtick yelled at some kids who were talking again. We were also talking about the new apple watch and the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. We talked about the features of the apple watch like how it had apple pay. With apple pay you can pay at a restaurant just by swiping a chip over it. After that mr. Schick said that some day we will look back at iPhones and think they are pathetic be cause we will all have chips in our heads to send messages i thought that was reely funny

My initial reaction was that these facts were kind of interesting. I think some of the changes mentioned in the video were bad for me, but most of them are fine. Technology plays a large roll in my life i use technology for my homework, tv, games, communication, and music

Today in school we were assigned seats for human geo. We voted not to keep them because a few people including me, gave a speech. I gave the best speech ever. I know sit next to my friend jack. We talked about democracies and republics. we learned that the united states was a republic. Mr. Schick fought us a few other things about Greece and other places in the world. It was a short class because it was at the end of the day. We did not learn much but it was fun because we voted to change seats.

UPDATED DEFINITIONS BLOG

agora- a public open space used for public assemblies, center of athletic, artistic, spiritual, and political center of life ; http://www.ancient.eu/agora/
arete- excellence in any way, moral virtues, living up to full potential; http://randalvegter.com/what-is-arete/
polis- a ancient Greece city state, the city everybody wants to live in, an ideal city to live in; http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polis
508 bc- democracy came to Athens, Clisethenies grants men full rights; http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/access/greek/timeline_greece.htm
Socrates- a philosopher from Greece, founder of western philosophy; http://www.columbia.edu/itc/lithum/wong/Socrates.html
death of socrates- he died in 399 bc he was sentenced to death by a court, he was charged with corruption of youth and introducing new ides about the gods; http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/socrates
Socratic method- discussion between individuals by asking and answering questions
If a greek person calls you an idiot it means you are a private citizen and someone that does not participate in political discussions

agora- a public open space used for public assemblies; http://www.ancient.eu/agora/
arete- excellence in any way; http://randalvegter.com/what-is-arete/
polis- a ancient Greece city state; http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polis
508 bc- democracy came to Athens; http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/access/greek/timeline_greece.htm
Socrates- a philosopher from Greece; http://www.columbia.edu/itc/lithum/wong/Socrates.html
death of socrates- he died in 399 bc; http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/socrates
Socratic method- discussion between individuals by asking and answering questions
If a greek person calls you an idiot it means you are a private person

Today during class we talked more about a story called Message to Garcia. It is about a guy who needs to bring Garcia a message from the president. Garcia was in Cuba fighting in the spanish american war. The story was a rant saying that if this man was not chosen to deliver the letter it would not be delivered because everyone from the newer generation is lazy. Also today Mr. Schick check if we had our books. I did today was a fun class overal

My 5 points for a succesful freshman year at john carroll

#1 have everything organized and ready for class
#2 Organize and Finish homework
#3 find time for homework
#4 study and plan for upcoming quizes and tests and take good notes
#5 stay on-time for all classes  

       Today in class we did not do much. I did a lot of my spanish homework.we had to talk to mr. Schick about our blogs. Some kid pulled up a video of football. Friend and I talked the whole class because all we did was talk to mr. Schick about our blogs. I checked my email and just waited for the class to end for the mostpart but i got to do my homework so something good came out of the class.
i worked on my paragraph for my summer reading book too. It was not a productive class for me because i was distracted the whole time.

8/25/14 

My first full day at john carroll

     On my first day at john carroll i was brought to school on a bus the driver was nice his name was jeff. I first went to advisory to meet everyone in my advisory and get my locker assignment. Once i had my locker i put all my books in it and i went to the lower gym with all freshman boys to talk to some teachers about rules and what to expect. After that i went to the brown room then the auditorium then the gym to get my pictures taken. After everything was done i went to my normal classes the rest of the day was fun i got to go to lunch and meet a lot of new people. Over all it was a fun first day at john carroll