God Grew Tired of Us

Today in class we watched a video called God Grew Tired of Us. it was about the civil war in Sudan and how much damage it did to the civilians in the country. And we also went over our test that we took last week

Worked on our group powerpoints

today in class with my group you assigned me we worked on your country's powerpoint

group powerpoints

on Friday in class we went over our group powerpoints

class today

Today I took a test in today's and read that Sudan went through a civil war 2 times already and the death toll is one of the highest since World War II.

Did you know?

Today in class we watched a video on YouTube called "Did you know? " The video was about all the recent facts in the world today. Like one of the facts was that if Facebook was a country it would be the third largest country. And another fact was that China will soon be the number one country to speak English. Other then watching the video we talked about how Facebook can help us people out. Like some people said their sports teams have Facebook groups which the players and coaches join. That is an easy way to notify the players when practice is. The football team has a Facebook group also and i find it very convenient. And another thing some classmates said was that they use it to find out what homework was that day. I find that good and bad, the good thing is if you do actually forget to write it down you could chat someone in your class and they could easily tell you what the homework is. But the bad thing is that you could easily get distracted from focusing on your homework. which could cause problems with grades in the future. Well that is what we did today in Human geography class.

CIA fact book questions

1. What is the population of the United States? 313,847,465

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? 190,291,129

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

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? gross domestic product
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? none
19. Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths? 64th
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? difference between the number of people entering and leaving the country
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

Real or Fake?

The first website that i clicked on seems legit. And same with the second one they are both well known resources. But for the third website, it was just typed out. it was very plain and nothing on the site looked legit. For the 4th website through the last website we had to choose were also very legit. NASA which was the 4th one was of course legit because it was the actually site they use. And CNN which was the 5th website was also legit because that is an actually news station that reports information through out the country. The 6th website which was The New York Times and the 7th website which was Fox News. they both are legit because they are both websites that give out information for us people. Wikipedia which is the 8th website is defiantly legit because it is one of the worlds largest encyclopedias.And last the 9th website which is your blog is also legit because we use it everyday adn it gives us the information we need for class.

Wikipedia yo.

Today in human geography we learned about what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is the worlds biggest encyclopedia and on it you can pretty much find anything you would want to know. Mr Schick also taught us about how to know if a website is correct and if you would want to get info off of it or not. Also when you look up a topic on Wikipedia it gives you a picture of what you looked up. And it also gives you a list of links that relate to the topic. Another thing he showed us was how to add links that are important to our blog. that will help us a lot because if he adds a link to his blog then we will know how to add it to our blog so we could possibly use it for homework.

Essay # 3

Well freshman year I am going to try and get used to how the school is run and the grading system since it was different then my old school. And I am also going to try and not get in as much trouble as I have been in the past. My sophomore year I might try to get into some AP classes that I excelled in during my freshman year. My junior year I plan to take more AP classes and hopefully become a better math student because I really am not that good at math. And finally my senior year I plan to do the best I can and work my hardest to get my credits so I can graduate. That is my plan for all four of my years at The John Carroll School.

Essay # 2

I think that Elbert Hubbard and Socrates would think that the Americans these days are lazy. And I also think that they would say that they don’t act civilized like the Greeks of their time. That is what I think Socrates and Elbert Hubbard would think if they came back during the year 2012.

Essay # 1

My definition of Arête is excelling in something great. Socrates and the Ancient Greeks used this because they developed the first democracy which further expanded to how we run our government today. That was also excellence because there were other people before the Greeks and they were the first to think of the idea to have a civilized city polis. That is what I think it means and how they used excellence during the Ancient Greek times