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.