Western Civ 2018

Today I human geo as you can tell by my title, we switched seats. My seat isn't too far away from my old one. Once you're at my old seat, you head to the next row and go to the seat right before the last one in the back of the room. I just used situation to tell where my new seat is in correspondence to my old seat. We also reviewed site and situation basically saying that site is more of the characteristics of a place while situation is a place relative to another place. Some of the characteristics of site include climate, topography, elevation, latitude, and longitude. Situation basically is telling someone to go somewhere by mentioning other places. For example: go past the church on Main Street and make a right at the stoplight and just go straight and you will reach your destination. We also talked more about how Singapore uses the Strait of Malacca as a major passageway for ships going between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. So this was a normal human geography

Today we talked about situation which is the location of a place relative to another. It's important for two reasons: 1 finding an unfamiliar place and 2 understand its importance. We also talked about what places need to do to add homes or other buildings. Such things include cutting down trees, bulldozing, and getting the materials to actually make the buildings or homes.  We also checked to see where our belongings were made. Mr. Schick told us that Apple actually designs their devices here in the U.S. but manufactures them in China. I could only find where my composition notebooks were made and they were made in Vietnam. We learned that many places are important because they are accessible to other places. We even talked about trade and how it is through Singapore and how their trade goes through the Strait of Malacca and how it's a major passageway for ships coming from the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Today was a normal human geo class.

Today in human geo Mr. Schick surprised with a quiz but it was really easy because it was the exact same worksheet we did previously. Everyone aced it he said. Then we started to talk about different crops that can grow in different climates in certain areas of the world. One of the areas we talked about was the Great Plains and how most of it is just cornfields. We also mentioned animals and how they're important to the economy. A major one we mentioned was cows. The reason being is that cows give us a lot of products. These products include beef and milk. We also mentioned how crabs are very important to Maryland's economy. Mr. Schick then told s about when he first moved to Maryland and saw a crab festival going on and he was just shocked seeing how Marylanders eat crabs and how it only gives you like six pieces of meat. He also mentioned that when he went to visit his sister up in the mountains that it was hard for him to breathe because he wasn't used to being that hig

Today we learned the difference between place and region. Region refers to an area while place is a specific point. Each place on Earth is unique and in other ways similar. The interplay between the uniqueness and similarities lies at the heart of geographic questioning about why things are found where they are. We had to copy a paragraph for notes and we went over the maps that we did for homework last night. For mine, Mr. Schick said that I was very detailed with America and for my second one I covered two pages but only on the left side. That grade actually surprised me because I thought my maps were very bad, but I'm happy with the grade I got so what I did was good. Mr. Schick almost gave us a test on the information we just copied down but I said that we needed to study but in the end he was just trying to inspire us to do our best.  We were even allowed to do our blogs at the end of class so this was a very awesome human geography class.

Today we were allowed to do homework in class as long as we were silent because two students had to do the test that everyone else did. The only homework I could do was French so I got that done and now I'm blogging. I am unsure if this is what it will be like the rest of the class but I'm fine with it. For my French homework I had to do certain pages in both workbooks. Of course I had to go to my locker to get the books but other than that I was good to go. We haven't gotten our tests back. This human geo class was fun but yet boring and I'll tell you why. First the fact that we get to go on our laptops and get our blog over with is the plus side. On the other side there isn't that talking or conversing element that gives this class enjoyment. Mr. Schick is grading the tests while I'm blogging right now because he had a lot of other things to grade over the weekend. We're trying to get an insect out. Mr. Schick try to whistle it out the door while Emmanuel

The most recent human geography class was very interesting. We learned that the map used by most schools (Mercator) is wrong. The one that's correct is the Peter's projection map. The reason the Mercator was wrong was of how it was projected and it made things larger instead of the size they are. We also watched two videos in that class. The first one was part of an old show and it showed people talking about which map was correct and was trying to encourage them to use the right one. The second one was a news weather segment and it started off with a projection of Maryland but when it showed a projection of the United States it was totally off and Mr. Schick lost all control. That was the best part of the class when he kept on saying things like why did they make it that big and it doesn't take up half the earth. When that happened we were all laughing so hard and we couldn't stop. We even watched Mr. Schick see if had enough tabs open on his computer and if he had the

Today in Human Geography on a Thursday we started to talk about what we will be doing next now that we've tested out of Socrates and ancient Greece and excellence. We haven't gotten our test back yet. Now we're talking about different regions of the earth, not continents, not countries, but regions. We did a worksheet today to start us off and we also copied down some questions. There were two maps of the earth on the worksheet and based on the number each region of the earth was given we would have to write which region it was next to the corresponding number. Some of the notes we copied down talk about how regions are different based on language, climate, and other key aspects. Today a lot of my classmates learned that the United States has no official language. When we were doing the worksheet we were allowed to use our laptops do help us identify the different regions of earth. We also don't have an official religion so anyone can practice whatever belief they may h

The first test here at John Carroll was very easy. Mr. Schick even gave a two point extra credit question which asked us what is the name of Mount McKinley right now and the answer was Mount Denali. There weren't a lot of vocab words there were like four vocab questions and were all easy. There were a few questions and both essays involving Socrates. One question asked what he was charged with another asked about the Socratic Method. One of the essays asked us what did the quote "The unexamined life is not worth living" mean to you. The other essay wanted us to describe the events of Socrates' death. The first questions involved "A Message to Garcia." One of them was asking when it took place which was The Spanish-American War. Another asked who delivered the message to Garcia and the man's name was Rowan. Rowan was an army officer who graduated West Point in 1881. For the essays there wasn't a particular amount of sentences we needed, all we needed

Today in human geography we did a major review for the test and ask questions of what may or may not be on the test. Some of the things we went over involved "A Message to Garcia," the synergy between excellence and democracy, and the life of Socrates. Let's start off with "A Message to Garcia." In this story which takes place in the Spanish-American War, the president at the time, McKinley, wanted to send a message to a general named Garcia. Almost all of the people he found were slipshod people that had suffered from imbecility. These people also didn't take any initiative until a man named Rowan, who was an army officer that graduated from West Point in the year 1881, came around and took the initiative and finally delivered a message to Garcia. Let's talk about the synergy between excellence and democracy.  You can't have the democracy without the excellence from the people to form it. The democracy also compels people to be excellent. This syner

Today we reviewed what we talked about yesterday and in ancient Greece an idiot was someone who was self-centered. We also talked about the hurricanes and how dangerous they are and how people might have to evacuate certain areas. On the last slide of the excellence presentation was this quote by Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." This means that if all your life is just go to work, go home, watch TV, and go to bed then why live that life, improve upon it. Mr. Schick really liked the quote.  We also reviewed about the death of Socrates and how he died by drinking poison hemlock. We didn't review the Socratic Method but we all needed a reminder on the synergy between democracy and excellence. Mr. Schick even mentioned a vocab word from English class, extraneous. Today was a very interesting and informative human geography class.

Today in human geography we searched for different things that relate to or happened in ancient Greece. We looked up two words, agora and polis. agora was a gathering place in ancient Greece where spiritual and political discussions would occur. Polis is the root word for words like politics, metropolitan, and poll. We also learned that in 508 BC, democracy was introduced. We even talked about the philosopher Socrates, his scientific method, and his death. Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher who was one of the founders of Western Philosophy. Socrates died because he was charged with two crimes. One, refusing to recognize the gods the state recognized and two for corrupting the youth. Socrates claimed he was doing his job and said instead of killing him they should give him free meals. For his punishment Socrates had to drink poison hemlock. Socrates' scientific method involved a hypothesis and thinking. Tomorrow we will review our answers for "What would ancient Greeks m

Today in human geography we went over a message to Garcia and talked about excellence and how to be excellent. We also talked some of the more advanced words in the story. We even talked about an ancient Greek word that basically means excellence. We also spent a lot of time talking about what we will do next class which will be to Google different things that were related to what we talked about today. Mr. Schick gave us a PowerPoint presentation but we didn't copy everything just certain things. He told us specific things, only one slide we copied down everything. That was mainly what we did today but I'm really excited for my next human geography class.

In "Carry a Message  to Garcia" a president wants to send a letter to a man known as Garcia. Yet the president doesn't want an incompetent person writing and/or sending it, he wants someone he knows will get the job done. In the story he finds a man named Rowan, who was sending the letter but didn't know where to deliver it. After that they learn that General Garcia is dead, but other Garcia's remain. He restates the fact that he wants someone who could act promptly and do the one thing he asked for, deliver a message to Garcia. he wants them to ask questions some which consist of "Who was he?", "Which encyclopedia?", "Where is the encyclopedia?", and many more. And finally he wants someone that when delivers the letter does not ask any idiotic questions. Now my five ways to make the best of my John Carroll years. First, meet new people. Second, follow directions. Third, go to John Carroll events. Fourth, don't bully anyone, and l