9/24/12

Today's class was one of the most of the most memorable class experiences we have had in this school year. First we worked on the test. The test was not hard at all. Prior to the test I thought it would be very hard. But once I started I suddenly grew more confident. After the test we watched a documentary about kids living in Sudan. The kids living in Sudan suffer A LOT. The video really changed my impression about the World. I originally thought that the United States guarded the whole world and that no injustice goes unseen. Even though I still think that U.S is the protector of the world, I do understand that something’s really do go unseen. I really wish that these kids in Sudan get more help from the U.N.  One day I hope that I can indirectly help the children In Sudan. That is what I think about Today’s class.

9/21/12

Presentations

In Human Geography we continued to watch presentations. One presentation that really stood out in my mind was the presentation about Brazil. On the first slide they wrote “Eleanor Butt face". I found this slightly funny but when I saw Mr. Schick’s reaction my face resumed its prior expression. Mr. Schick looked at the presentation like it annoyed him. He then whistled as if something was dropping. But the presenters did not notice what was going on. They kept on laughing. After that slide there were a lot of mistakes they made but overall they did an alright job. All of the other presentation had a lot of mistakes (Grammatically).I don’t like to point out other peoples mistakes but Andy was not hesitant. It was a little funny the little mistakes every one made. Everyone did a good job in summary but you can tell when one person does all the work in one group. When one person does all the work, the project doesn’t look very good and no one gets a good grade. But luckily in my group every one pitched in. Another thing that I noticed was that Mr. Schick used Nigeria in the group assignment. I like that because usually Geography teachers always neglect African countries. But I don’t like the way they present Nigeria. They make it seem like such a horrible country. . In conclusion, Class is very fun and I can’t wait till the next one. :)

9/20/12

Wilfred Ikejiofor

Mr. Schick

 Today in Human Geography, The class presented their Projects. At the start of class Mr. Schick asked the class who would like to go first. Austin and I volunteered to start first. We could not reach an agreement so we played “Rock Papers, Scissors. I won the contest, so I presented with my group. I worked with Ricky, Avery and Maria. The night before when we worked on our presentation we wrote our names on the slides that we worked on. So when it was presentation time every one already knew what slide they were going to do. Maria & Avery did their slides first. When it was my turn to present I saw that the crowd was getting bored so I tried to present with a lot of enthusiasm. While I was presenting I said a joke and the whole class laughed. After I did this I was pretty confident because it is hard to make a large group of people laugh. After I, Ricky presented his portion of the PowerPoint. Personally, I think the audience should know a lot about Germany, after my presentation. A couple other groups went over their presentation with the class after us. Some were a little more organized than others but overall everyone did a great job. Not everyone in the class got a chance to present so tomorrow we will finish up the lesson. In conclusion I had a lot of fun today and I hope Tomorrow gets better.

September 17 ,2012

In class today we watched a PowerPoint with Mr. Schick. The PowerPoint touched on something’s that we will need to learn for this year. First I took some notes on Population and Settlement. According to Mr. Schick there are 7 billion people on earth. The population growth is about 77 million people per year. But strangely enough 90% of the population growth takes place in developing countries that are located mainly in Africa, South East Asia & Latin America. Then we went over life expectancy throughout the world. The highest life expectancy in the world is in Monaco. Monaco is pretty much an island where rich people relax and boss people around. I assume that it is not very stressful in this country, so the life expectancy is 80.57 for men and 87.43 for women. In U.S the life expectancy is 76.05 for men and 81.05 for women. While in undeveloped countries like Chad the life expectancy is 47.65 for men and 49.82 for women. Women are known to live longer than men because men like to take more dangerous jobs. I think it’s a social thing and an economic thing. Men sometimes feel like they have to be the one to carry the burden of the famly.Also, money is very important and sometimes you need a dangerous job to make money. We talked about other things in class, but if I cover everything we talked about I will be typing all day. In conclusion Human Geo is very fun and I look forward to next class. That is my summary of class today.

Did You Know 3.0

September 15, 2012

In class today we went over the Did You Know 3.0 video. 

We talked about “various details that were various students thought were very important or surprising. The first fact we went over was that fact that India has double the amount of honor students then we (U.S) has kids. When I heard this fact, I thought that it meant that Americans are stupid. But, Mr. Schick explained the fact and I found out it that it was supposed the fact that India has a lot of children. Then we talked about Facebook. Apparently if Facebook was a country then it would be the third largest country in the World. That shows that Computers have engrained themselves into Society. We continued to talk about Did You Know 3.0 until 1:30. At 1:30 I had to leave for a Cross Count meet. To go on, JC cross country won almost every single event except one.

 In conclusion I had lots of fun in class, but sadly I had to leave early. 

Did You Know This?? 3.0

There are two very important facts that I came across while watching the short YouTube clip “Did You Know 3.0”.

The first fact that I thought was very important was that “Digital music sales in 2011 outstripped physical sales for the first time.” This fact is a great way to visualize the direction that society is moving. The world if not already is going through the “Digital Age”. Imagine, the average phone can hold 100 times more space than the first computer.  This shows that technology has increased rapidly over the past 10-20 years.  This also shows that Society is keeping up with rapid technology advancements. In conclusion, I like this fact because it represents life today.

The second fact that I thought was quite intriguing was “There are 31 billion searches on Google every month”. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It is great because Google makes life much easier and the more users on Google the better Google becomes. However, it is also a bad thing. I believe that no one should depend on only one thing. In addition, Google has access to every single Google search you have ever made. This means that Google knows a lot about you, and I think that no one should have that information other than you.

 

In conclusion, technology is growing rapidly every day. Better and better tech is created and society is increasing in intelligence and worldwide awareness. Even though there is a dark side to this , the Pros outweigh the Cons.

September 12 , 2012

Today in Class, we went over the Homework. As we went over the Homework there were A LOT of questions. (I asked like half of them). We took almost 20 minutes to get question 5. But, Mr. Schick gave us a lot of important in, formation. Apparently the economy across the world is way worse than the American economy for example; in Europe gas costs around 7 dollars. Crazy Huh? As we went over the questions, we touched over some very delicate topics. Like in Zimbabwe the unemployment rate is 95%! Also, Mr. Schick told us about the tension surrounding India and Pakistan. Both Countries have or will have nuclear bomb capability. This means that if any country trips up, the other country will be eager to nuke them. While in class I thought About Nukes. Originally I wished nukes didn’t exist, but then I recalled that without nukes World War two wouldn’t have ended. Towards the end of Class we talked about the different countries that our class had been to. 60% of our class had been out of the country. This is very interesting when you think about it. IN conclusion Class, was very nice and I look forward to the next one.