My last blog

This class has been so much fun.  I have loved being in this class and i wouldn't change a thing.  Over the course of this year this has become my favorite class.  I think I should get at least an 85 for class participation.  I always raise my hand and try to speak my mind in this class.  I feel like my opinion matters here and that what I say people actually listen to and understand.  I always tried to be on top of my work in this class and I usually did my blogs.  I liked that we got to make fun of each other no one cared.  I liked that when got to watch videos and did projects.  This class has been the best and I'm sorry I can't have you again.  

Study!!!

Study Guide  


Population:  6,310,129
country comparison to the world: 105

Recourse: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries


Population growth rate: 1.936%
country comparison to the world: 60

Birth rate: 25.92 births/1,000 population
country comparison to the world: 56

Death rate: 6.56 deaths/1,000 population
country comparison to the world: 147

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population
country comparison to the world: 102

Total fertility rate: 3.39 children born/woman
country comparison to the world: 50

Unemployment rate:
1.9% country comparison to the world: 9

This Week

           I have had a totally crazy week, on Wednesday, when I got home I went to do my home but I got a horrible migraine.  I passed out around 6:30 and didn't wake up til 7:00 am the next day.  In class we have been talking about Jared Diamond. Papua New Guinea, he where he studied birds and after time started to wonder about why he has so much and people in Papua New Guinea have so little.  He watched locals in the highlands, to see what everyday life was like.  The men could build a house in a number of hours with there own hands and maybe a stone ax.  The women cut down sago trees.  Sago is the gathers main food.  Some locals hunt, but it's hit or miss when you're a hunter.  In Papua New Guinea, they don't have big animals, to help them on farms and for heavy lifting.  The biggest animal they have is a pig. Pigs can't be used for labor though.  We are having a test on this next week.  This is going to be my last week in Mr. Schick's class.  that means this is one of my last blogs :(.  I'm going to miss this class.             

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond was born on September 10, 1937.  Jared is an author, he is known for his science books.  One of his books is called “Guns germs and Steel.”   He has made 20 expulsions in Papua New Guineans.  He is also a scientist.   He got his education at Harvard and The University of Cambridge in England.  He has a B.A. and a Ph.D.  He researched geography and Human Society.  He has won many words.   He won the Royal Society Prize for Science books.  He has also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Jared also has the National Medal of Science.   He is a professor at UCLA.    

Guns germs and Steel is a book that Jared Diamond wrote.  It was first published on March 1, 1997 and it is in 25 different languages.  It’s about his field work in New Guinea and the people that live there.  He talks about the humans past and how they lived without technology. How some places have advanced?  Other places aren’t as advanced as other.  In America, most people are able to have a computer in front of them at all times.   Why does one group of people move up in life and not the others?  These are just some of the questions asked and answered in this book.  

USA

I would just first like to say that i don't like using Google drive, I think it gave my computer a virus. We had our group projects today.  My group had the USA.  I think we did i pretty good job.  I got to change the slides. We listened to Ben speak in his Chinese accent.  It was so funny, it made my day.       

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Mr. Schick wasn't in our first class.  Thursday is our long class and he didn't show up.  Until the end of the class.  We watched the rest of Part 3 in the movie.  We watched a slow motion car test car crash it was cool.  But when he got to class our substitute, yelled at Austin for not having a working computer.  He told Austin he would give him detention if he disturbed us while we were typing.  So Austin put his head down.  Then we talked about what US cars have to be able to do to be passed.  If the car isn't safe enough it can't drive.  Then, we learned that everything is a global company now.  After that i answered a question and it got us talking about new cars and that Americans want it.  

4 Terms!

In class we did... 

  1. Capitalism-   an economic and political system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

2. Communism- is a revolutionary socialist  movement to create a classless and stateless social order structure common owner ship    of the means of production, as well as a social political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order. 

3. Free enterprise-  freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond(government can tell you how to run your business but only in certain ways) regulation necessary to protect public interest and keep the national economy in balance.

4. Free market- an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.