Answering CIA FactBook Questions

Today in class Jevan was the teacher. He went over the questions that we had to look up on Wednesdauy on the CIA Factbook website. We also learned different things about many countries that we would not ever think would be true about the country or coninent like  Mexico is the 3rd country with the most airports. I was thinking a bigger country other than Mexico would be higher up on the list and way before Mexico.

Fun With CIA Factbook

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, United States, 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?

United States

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?

The gross domestic product. It represents the total dollar value of all goods

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

Qater & 100,000

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? Cameroon

18. What other country is in the top ten?

Nigeria

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

18th

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?

How many people leave a country

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

Settlement & Population

Today we started a new topic in class on population and settlement. Mr Schick gave us definitions and we had to copy down notes from the slide he showed us today. Also we learned some facts on the statistics on our population and whether it is increasing or decreasing. Also we talked about why people leave their countries to come to the United States or any other country and why people leave the United States to go live somewhere else. And we found out about the rate of deaths each day and the rate of how many babies were born.

Greece, A Message to Garcia & Globalization

In class today we took our first test on everything we have learned so far in our human geography class. We had questions on Socrates, about globalization, A Message To Garcia, and  infrastructure. Also we had to answer three essay questions on Socrates quotation "The unexamined life is not worth living" and tell what we thought it ment. We had to give elements that were most important dealing with globalization. And also we had to name elements that were most important that had to do with infrastructure.

Review Day!

Today in class we presented our powerpoints that we did with a partner. We had to explain the pros and cons of globalization and give examples for the pros and cons. We also review for what was going to be on our test tomorrow. Mr, Schick also gave us our essay questions so we could practice writing them and have good answers for them by tomorrow for the test.

Things You Don't Know About Nike

In class today we looked at a website dealing with the video we watched on the Nike Sweatshops. It showed that Nike still does and treat their workers in the sweatshop terribly. But the minimum wage in Indonesia is now $4.00 instead of $1.25 a day. This is a good thing because even though they have a terrible job, they're still getting paid more each day. But Nike is now starting to hire officers of Indonesia to force them to work a full day and get paid $3.70 instead of $4.00. Even though its 30 cents their saving they save so much money if they did this all over because they have so many workers and it will all add up.

Do You Really Know About Nike?

Today in school we watched a video in class on a man that was a professional soccer player and got asked to coach at St John's University. He accepted the job and loved doing it until he was told they were given a reward of cash if they let nike sponser them and wear their appereal. He did some research on nike and realized in the sweat shop where this appereal was getting made in Indonesia that the workers were only getting paid $1.25 a day. He then realized this was rediculous and went to Indonesia with his friend and tried to live on their wage of money they earned each day for a month straight. He went to confront the CEO of Nike and they had nothing to say to him and was okay with the way they were living.

Does Globalization Affect Us?

In class today we talked more about globalization and the pros & cons it has. We also went over why Wikipedia was a good source because it has a lot of helpful information and there are people monitering the website to make sure people do not post false information on the website. After we got a partner and started to work on a powerpoint on globalization and the pro's and con's it has and why or why not it affects us.

Globalization

Today in class we talked about globalization and we looked at picture of it. We spent a lot of time on this one picture with a man from Kenya on the phone. Mr. Schick asked us what things did he need for him to be able to use the phone. We listed that he needed money to pay his cellphone bill, a cell tower and electricity.

Remembering 9/11

Today in class we talked about the tragedy that happened 12 years ago on 9/11 where planes crashed into the twin towers. We talked about why it happened and where Mr. Schick was that day. It was a tragedy even for people that were students in John Carroll during that day. Their familys lives were impacted forever with a lost loved one from this incident or someone in their family who was in New York City that day. During class Mr. Schick also showed us a picture of a KFC & Mcdonalds built together and China and we talked about how their country is even up to date with our fast foods as well as everything else.

Google Drives Are Awesome

Today in class Mr. Schick showed us how to install Google Drive to our computers and showed us how to make a new document on it. It is like a microsoft word page but your in a group with classmates and you all type on the same page and can fix what each other wrote. I like it a lot better than microsoft word because every time you type something it automatically saves unlike word where you have to save before you ex out of the page or if your computer shuts down you loose all your work. I think microsoft word should be like the google drive and save automatically every time you type something new

Our "New" Teacher Carly

Today in class we first started off talking about the abortion signs we saw this morning as we were coming in to school and what was our opinion on them. Then a student named Carly taught us instead of Mr. Schick and she asked about our blogs last night and what we chose that we thought were interesting and shared it to the class. She also asked us why we chose the certain facts that were in the video and we have to explain them.

Interesting Things in the Shift Happens Video

The three things that interested me in the video we watched today in class were...

"The top 10 jobs in 2010, didnt exist in 2004" This interested me because the jobs that are there now are helping the economy didnt even exist in 2004 and now they do. I wonder what jobs are going to be availible when im older and what technology will be out.

" The U.S ranks 28th in the world in broadland internet penetration" This interested me because its would see to be Americans can get on the interenet everywhere because were always on the internet but there are 27 more countries ahead of us with more broadland internet than us.

"1 out of 6 married couples met online" This also interested me because this means that people are not going out and meeting people they are looking for matches online instead of having a face to face conversation trying to get to know someone.

Our Day with Steven as Our Teacher

Today in class we learned more about Socrates and why he was sentenced to death & what his method was. Steven was our "teacher" for the class period while Mr. Schick sat back and watched us answer and ask questions to Steven. We also looked at a painting of Socrates about to drink the poison and we had to describe what we thought was happening in the picture.

Learning about Greece

Today in class we learned that Greece was a democracy and basically made the term democracy. The olympics originated from Greece. And that Greece is a pennisula with mountains. We also went over vocab words that were important to know when learning about Greece. Also we learned who Socrates was and his method

Greek Vocab

agora - a place where people meet for assembilies
arete- means exellence
polis- the name for their city-state
the year 506 bc - people overthrow the government & tyrant. 1st time someone has ever rose up against a leader & overthrew them.
Socrates- philosopher, who questioned everything and asked why someone belived certain things.
death of Socrates- he "failed to ackowledge the gods" and questioned the tyrant so he was sentenced to jail and was forced to drink poison.
Socrates method - questioned his students and ask what they belived in and why.
idiot- means they didnt vote.