9/30/13 - CIA Answers

Today in human geo class we went over our CIA world book answers. That took up all class because our class likes to discuss things a lot. We also talked about why Mr. Schick included some of the questions that he did. Mostly it was because they all had some relation to the United States. We were told to do the scavenger hunt only using the CIA world fact book website. So then we will get used to navigating our way around the CIA website for further research in the future. We also learned that our next class, which is tomorrow, we will learn about the video called “God Grew Tired of Us”. And honestly, I have no idea what to expect. Only that it will something to do with the world and everything that consists in it. Tomorrow’s class will be interesting considering we will watch a video and I don’t know what to expect.

9/25/13; CIA 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, U.S, Indonesia, Brazil

3. What is the population of Pakistan? 193,238,868

4. What kind of government does the United States have?Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition

5. What is the unemployment rate in 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? U.S

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 - The value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a 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 ten for GDP per capita? no

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 found

in which continent? Africa

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

19. Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths? 18

20. Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones? no

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 a year per 1000 persons

24. Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world? no

25. According to the Factbook, what is the current population of the entire planet? 7,095,217,980

9/24/13; Migration

Today in human geo class, we continued our discussion about population and migration. For about half the class we talked about the story of Mr. Schicks wife that worked for a landscaping company and how the Mexicans that were hired did a way better job than the college Americans. We also talked about emigration and immigration. And we learned that the number that determines if the population of a country is growing or declining is 2.1, the USA’s number is above so their population is increasing. Along with immigration, we talked about how immigration can happen in any country. Also how Canada has a very high number with immigration. I think that immigration isn’t as big of a deal as other people make it, but I think illegal immigration is the real problem that were facing. Because we are still just getting into the new section, we will most likely still be talking about population and migration tomorrow.

9/23/13; Population and Migration

Today in class, it was half test day and half new chapter day. The new chapter is about population and migration. Today we mostly talked about how the population of the world is at seven billion, and how the population has been growing a lot more faster as the 1960’s came. At first, it took 33 years to reach a population of 2 billion, but now it only took 12 year to reach a population of 7 billion. Then someone made a good point about China’s one child law, so then you would have to figure how many more people would be on this Earth if the Chinese were allowed to have more than one child. Another surprising fact was that 90 percent of the population growth takes place in developing countries. We also talked about life expectancy, USA being number 50 of the list of highest life expectancy. The first is Monaco, a city with a lot of rich people, the life expectancy for men are 80 years and 93 years for women. The lowest is Chad, were the average age to live is 48. A huge difference. We will finish talking about this tomorrow.

9/20/13; Test Day with a Fire Drill

Today in Human Geo class was test day. But that got pushed back because of a fire drill, but it wasn’t actually a drill at all. The sprinklers we on, on the football field, and I thought we were going to be out there for the whole class. But we were only outside for about twenty minutes. I didn’t finish my test, because of the fire drill, but we have about twenty extra minutes to finish the test on Monday. I found the test pretty easy, I studied and everything that I studied was on the test. The multiple choice questions were very easy and not the main point of the test. The true point was the three essays that we had to write about in the end. The three questions each talked about globalization, infrastructure and Socrates’ famous quote. Overall to me, the test was easy but I just didn’t have enough time. We will finish the test on Monday.

9/18/13; Review for Test

Today in class, we presented our globalization power points and went over the things that are going to be on the test Friday. The test will consist of ten multiple choice questions and three explanation questions covering everything we have talked about in class so far. Including; globalization, Socrates, Socrates’ method, the Greek words and phrases, developed countries, and developing countries. For the developed and developing countries topic, we should talk about the qualities that distinguish the developed countries from the developing countries. Those qualities include; cell phone use, cell towers, living conditions, job rate, and any other living needs. The USA is by far a developed county, part of that example was that today in class, Mr. Schick said that we have all the qualities that a developed country needs, right in our classroom. An example of a developing country is Indonesia, as we saw from the video, Behind the Swoosh, the living conditions were worse than imaginable. No class Thursday and the test Friday.

9/17/13; Little Change is Good... Right?

Again in class today was a continuation of yesterday’s topic, Behind the Swoosh. But today was talking more about if anything was done to change the conditions and pay in Indonesia. The video was created in 1999, and there was a website made for it. But ironically a “hacker” hacked the website and said that if you continued to the site your computer would get a virus. But after a few minutes of research, I found that the supporters of helping Indonesia, created a new and up running site! Also today in class, it was brought up that their pay was increased, from 1.25$ to 4$! Which is a start to everything that needs to be changed! But because Nike has the military on their side, the force the Nike workers in Indonesia to work for 3.75$ or possibly less. So yes it is extremely good that their pay was raised 2.50$ but it still is nearly not enough change for the workers to have a stable and fair living condition.