9/24/12

Today is was not ready for class. I was not ready because we had a test and I really don’t like tests. Before the test Mr. Schick show us how we should not be the first one done and yell. Then get in everyone’s face and tell them you beat them c you got done first. Then he told us how freshman are always full of energy. He said that it is good, but he does not know why we are. He said once we turn in our test not to talk because the people around us will start to freak out because everyone else was done. Then they will not be able to cosintrate and they will rush through and finish as fast as possible. Then we took the test and it was a lot easier then I thought it would be. It was only 36 questions. After the test we watched a video called “God Grew Tired of Us”. This video is very interesting. It is also sad because a lot of kids died as they were walking from place to place. The things that killed them were bombings, animals, and starvation. I am looking forward to this video

9/19/12

today is worked on my USA presintation

9/14/12

Today was one of the funniest days of class yet. Today was so fun because it was kind of like an open discussion. It started out with us just stating a fact we saw in the did you know 3.0 video. Then once we stated the fact we would discuss how that is so different from the past. One of the facts was that if your one in a million, there are 1500 people just like you in China. This means that when someone calls one in a million it does not make you that unique because of how many people live on earth. This was very interesting to me. This was so interesting because it just shows me how many people are actually on earth. this was my mpost fun class of any other class in the whole year.

9/13/12

Today we had a very good discousion about the cia fact book. Today we learned about how it was a very good cite to find out facts about countries and continents. On there you can find out a lot of stuff. Some stuff you can find is information about their military, economy, the people that live there, their religions, and the lay out of the land. It cna also can tell us who has the higest infint mortality rate. We also found out we will be using this on projects in his class later in the year. todays class was fun.

9/10/12

1. What is the population of the United States?

313,847,465 people

2.            What are the five largest countries in the world, by population?

Russia, Indonesia, United States, China, and Brazil

3.            What is the population of Pakistan?

190,291,129 people

4.            What kind of government does the United States have?

Republic

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?

United States

11. What country consumes more oil than any other?

United States

12. Can women serve in combat roles in China’s military?

Yes

13. What is GDP?

Grand domestic pay

14. What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it?

Liechtenstein $141,100

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^th

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?

76.5%

23. What is Net Migration Rate?

The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change.

24. Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world?

No

25. What is the current population of the entire planet?

7,021,836,029 people

9/5/12

Today we had a really good time in class. We started with our saying, then Mr.Schick told us what we were going to do for the day. He said we were going to learn how to put links on our blog page, which is really not that hard but there is a lot of steps to it. Then we were going to talk about Wikipedia. For most of the class we learned about how Wikipedia is a very good cite to use. It is very good because you can trust a lot of the information. The way you can know if it is okay information to use is to see if the information is cited. If it is cited. Then you should go to the cite and see if it is a valuable cite. Now that i know how to do this i will most definantly use this in the future at least to find a cite to get info off of.

9/6/12

Today in class we worked on our note talking skills all class. Today we started class with our normal saying, which is "This is the day the lord has gave. Let us rejoice and be glad!". Then he told us what we were going to do today. After that Mr.Schick told us to get our composition books. Then he said to take
 notes on what he read. So I asked him what were were taking notes on and he said Illinois. However I thought he said elliniose. So i didn't know what to write on the top of the page so I just guessed. Then he told us bunch of facts like, its where he was born, half the people in the state live in or around Chicago, and Mr.Schick was born in a bad neighborhood because his moms doctor was busy. Then we shared our notes and Austin Smith had very detailed notes so Mr.Schick said if he had to get someone to deliver a letter to Garcia he would ask Austin to. That is just about all that happened in class today.

Essay3

I plan to have a very good future at John Carroll. My first step in doing so is to do all my home work. this is going to help me have a good future here because doing home work will help me understand what we are doing in class. The second thing i am going to do is keep up on my class work. This is very important because once you get behind it is hard to catch up. My third step will be to stay out of trouble. I want to stay out of trouble because I do not want to get detentions because it will get my in trouble with my sports coach and it will take more homework time away from me. My fourth step is going to be to make a lot of friends. I want to make a lot of friends so I can trust people for help and so i can have people to talk to if something bad happens in my life. My fifth and final step is to do my best at every thing I do this is going to help me because it will open my up to a lot of oppertunities that i wouldn't get otherwise.

Essay 2

I believe that if Elbert Hubbard and Socrates time traveled to the year 2012 they would be very ashamed. They would be so ashamed  because of how lazy everyone is now a days. I know they would be ashamed because people today are more lazy than people were back then. They are more lazy because now people have computers and machines to do every thing for them. For example if someone would have wanted to talk to someone who was fa away they would have to write a letter and take it to someone to hand deliver it. However now a days all you have to do is take 3 seconds and send a text message or call them.

Essay 1

My original definition for the word arete is to use your gifts to the best of your ability. This is some one who takes everything that god has given to them and uses it to be the best person they can be. They did this by taking over there government and making a new one from what the people had to say. I think that Socrates shows this very well. He shows this so well because he used his skills and created a theory. When he created this theory very one thought he was wrong and that he messed up young peoples thinking. When the town found out they said he could either say he was sorry for messing with ever one's heads or die.He did not want to apoligize because he knew he was right so he died and the town came to find out later that he was right.This shows arete because he used his gifts to make  theory that he know was right and he died for it.

8/30/12

Today I had a very good day. I finally got to ask Mr.Schick some questions about my blog and I finally got it set up and running good. Then Mr.Schick started telling us about the debate team that he runs he said you do a lot of work ,but you have a lot of fun while your doing it. When he was in the middle of telling us how it works Lexie called out and said "Mr.Schick can we have those donuts underneath your cart!". When he heard her he kind of ignored her and kept talking about the debate team. Then he changed topics and started talking about class. He said he had to take notes on what he read ,but I didn't know what to write about so I just wrote down things that sounded important to me. I was nervous when he got done because I didn't know what we were using the notes for or if I even wrote down the right things. Then I came to find out I wrote down the right thing and it was just to recite what he read. After that Mr.Schick gave everyone donuts and the class was over.

8/29/12

Today we all had alot of fun in class! We really didn't do anything either.

• Arete- people who used there skills to be the best person possible
• Polis- what people from ancient Greece called a state or city
• Socrates- ancient Greek philosopher
• The Death Of Socrates- when Socrates was sentenced to death by Posien 
• The Socratic Method- a debate between two people
• The Date 508BC- when democracy formed in Athens 
• Agora- the central gathering spot in a Greek city state
• Idiot- you are not social or professional 

8/28/12

Today was a really long day. It was long because my computer was messed up I spent a whole mod in the tech lag getting stuff fixed. I also could not do any work so I got behind, but by the end of the day I got my blog set up and had a good day. I did have a lot of fun in class today. I think i'm really starting to like John Carroll. There is a lot of really fun and cool people. One of the best things is that there is always someone to talk to no matter what you want to talk about or need help with. Human Geo is one of the most fun classes I have in the whole school. My class is the most fun class out of all of his classes because we have fun and still         learn. Today we started with prayer. Then we got our seats and Mr.Schick took role and talked about the syllabus.