10/30/13; 5 Major Religions Notes

Today in human geo, we continued to talk about the five religions for our test on Friday. But we don’t have class tomorrow and we haven’t finished all the power points so I don’t know how that will work. Some notes from today’s class are;

·      Hinduism, Judaism, & Christianity are Abrahamic religions

o  There first five books are the same

·      Judaism’s holy site is Jerusalem

·      Buddha = Siddhartha Gautama

·      Most Hindu’s are in India

·      Most Buddhist’s are in Asia & 10% of India

·      Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions

·      (Judaism) call God El or Yahweh

·      (Judaism) The Temple; the center of Jewish worship, very sacred place to pray.

·      (Judaism) Holy Book is Torah

·      (Judaism) Official Language is Hebrew

·      (Hinduism) God is broken up into three parts; Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva

·      (Hinduism) believe deeply in karma and that one omniscient being controls everything

Most of this information and more will be on the test Friday.

10/29/13; 5 Major Religions

Today in human geo we went over the test we took that was supposed to raise our grade and started presenting our power points on religion. Apparently while I was absent we started to make power points on the five major religions. (Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism) because I wasn’t here on Monday, I don’t have to present a power point. But everything that is presented in the five power points are going to be on the test Friday, along with all the stuff from the last quiz. Today we started with the power point on Hinduism, created by Grace. And she had the very good idea of a fill in the blank type of power point. So instead of writing down her whole entire power point, we only fill in a few words. Sadly I don’t think that this will be the case for the other power points. But tomorrow we will continue with the Hinduism power point and advance to the others.

10/28/13

absent from class

10/25/13; ONE LAP DOWN THREE TO GO

Today in human geo, we took a quiz that was supposed to “help raise our grade” but it was very stupid because I did ok on the quiz. The quiz covered everything we have learned so far in the cultural geography power point. Sometime next week we are going to have a one hundred point quiz covering everything in the power point. Before the quiz we went over some of the stuff regarding it and that honestly helped me a lot. Some of the questions were about religion, language, and the organizations around the world. The religion questions included; what religion out of the important ones have the most people, which one has the least? And so on. Some language questions included; what is the main language in Brazil, which is Portuguese and not Spanish. Then the organizational questions included things like; the name for the oil company around the world which is OPEC. For the one hundred point quiz I think it will also cover things from this quiz.

 

10/23/13; The Best Country in the World

Again in today’s human geo class we continued cultural geography, but the new segment was nationalism. Nationalism is when you think would country is superior to all other countries. We watched a video and it was from a TV show. There were two politicians and one talk show host who were answering questions from college students. One girl asked “why is America the best country” and the talk show host answered “It’s not”. Which threw everyone off, but it lead us into our discussion for the day. Most of us agreed that there cannot be one supreme country over all. But each country can be the best at different things. I went on Wikipedia and found a section about the international rankings for each country and there was not one country. It truly showed how one country cannot be superior over all other countries in everything but it can be the best a certain things. There is no “best country” without using your opinion.

10/22/13; Cultural Geography - Religion

For today’s human geo class, we continued talking about cultural geography. Today was mostly about religion because it is a very important and lengthy topic. We also heard Mr. Schick’s six cup of coffee rant and you could defiantly tell how strongly he felt on this topic. Some of the notes include; Abrahamic religion; believing that you descend directly from Abraham, some example religions include; Jewish, Christianity, and Islam. Also, religion can be the start of deadly wars and fights in general, for example, the Catholics and Protestants fought in Ireland. Another example that is still carrying out today is that, Christians, Jews, and Muslims all claim Jerusalem as their holy city. Most of the fights that happen are between a religions that believe the same things yet disagree so much on one topic that they feel the need to split. And finally, spatial divisions are how we divide the liable space found on the earth by social, economic, and political differences.

10/21/13; Cultural Geography Day 1

Today in human geo, we had a very long class. So we got to listen to the story of Mr. Schick re-living his dream. And then we also talked about cultural geography, then tomorrow we will listen to Mr. Schick’s six cup of coffee rant on religion. The story that Mr. Schick told us was about him going up to Boston to visit his daughter and how he ended up being with these news crew guys. And also, Mr. Schick lives by the quote “Just walk in like you own the joint” and he is going to get that on his gave stone and on a tattoo. But after his story was over, we went into cultural geography. Cultural geography has to do with the people from different cultures. The three main groups are; language, religion, and ethnic groups. So tomorrow we will continue to talk about cultural geography and we will listen to Mr. Schick’s six cup of coffee rant on cultural geography and religion.