9/29

Today Mr.Schick is in Maine for a wedding, so in class we watched a video and had to answer questions on our blogs
1. According to the Population Reference Bureau's "2013 World Population Data Sheet", 271 are born every minute, and 106 die every minute. That's a global net population increase of 165 per minute. This lesson was published on May 5th. What's the estimated global population increase exactly one week later (May 12th)? 
C:1155
2. As a country slows in population growth, its pyramid shape will  A: become wider at the base and narrower at the top 
  B: be inverted 
3. What does a Population Pyramid NOT give you information about? 
D: Death rates 
4. Which continent would have the most fast-growth pyramids?
A: Africa 

Crude birth rate- number of births per 1000 people
crude death rate- number of deaths per 1000 people
Rate of natural increase (RNI)- death rate minus birth rate
Net migration rate- The difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year
An excess of persons entering the country is net migration
It's written in a positive number
Canada has 5.65 migrants per 1000 people
US: 3.62
An excess of people leaving the country is net migration
It's written in a negitive number
Mexico has -3.11 migrants per 1000 people
In 2007, the US had (78.49 total:     76.05 men,  81.05 women) life

9/18

Today in class we went over population and migration. The worlds population has been growing rapidly over time. The world has over 7 billion people on it. From undevolped countrys, were gaining more and more people evry year, about 2,3 kids a second! And then we lost to calvert hall today :(

9/17

Today in class we took a test. The test was on Socrates, ancient Greece, A message to Garcia, Americanization and Globalization. I thought the test was easy. Also i got my Science brain flex read by Mr. Schick.  The hardest test question to me was probably the quote " The unexamined life is not worth living" i believed the quote meant to live life with no regrets.

9/12

Today in class we went over our test next Wednesday.
Globalization- is the connection of different parts of the world. Globalization results in the expansion of international cultural, economic and political activities
Americanization- is the influence the United States has on the culture of other countries, such as their popular culture, cuisine, technology, business practices, or political techniques.
B.C.E- Before Common Era 
A.D.- After Death

Today in class we went over how much technology has had an impact on our generation. And how apple has a watch now with the iPhone 6. We also went over how China will be the number one English speaking  country in the world soon. And how India's people are taking american based jobs for less money so we dont have as much jobs. We also learned about the first cell phones and how you had to attach it to your hip.

Today in class we got new seats but nobody liked it at all. So we used what we learned in class about the Greek's democracy and how everyone voted on what they did. We had students come present their case on why we should move our seats back. Literally the whole class we did that. After a vote about 90% of the class said we should change seats. Also my new name for class is Dayquan. Another thing is a sit right by Jack and James, which means on days we can do what we want, we'll be able to watch film for football.

Agora- was a central spot in ancient Greek city-states
Arete- means "excellence of any kind".^[1] The term may also mean "moral virtue".
Polis-  literally means city in Greek. It can also mean citizenship and body of citizens. 
508 BC - The year 508 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Tricipitinus 
Socrates - was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers 
The death of Socrates-  is a 1787 oil on canvas painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David. Like many of his works from that decade, the painting focuses on a classical subject, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates, as told by Plato in his Phaedo.
Socratic Method- named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates, is a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas. It is adialectical method, often involving a discussion in which the defense of one point of view is questioned; one participant may lead another to contradict himself in some way, thus strengthening the inquirer's own point.
Being called an idiot in ancient Greece-  In ancient Greece, the inventors of democracy set up a law that required every person to vote, regardless of who they voted for. If anyone was found not voting, the person would be publicly marked and labeled an idiot

Today in class we went over A Message to Garcia which was written in 1899. It was about President McKinley trying to get a message to a man in Cuba named Garcia during the Spanish-American war. 

Nobody could get to Cuba but one man named rowan did it with no questions asked. It showed how most people would make excuses or say they cant do it. We also went over the ALS ice bucket challenge and how it raised over 50 million dollars. I have done it and i thought it was pretty cool, i also donated 10 dollars to ALS.