Human Geography

Today in Human Geography we watched a video on how less than 40 years ago all of the countries were poor and sick except for the UK and the Netherlands who were not that far ahead but they were still doing better than the rest. In 1940 they were wider spread than ever and more of the countries are closer to rich and healthy but almost all of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are still poor and sick. It was in 2009 when all of the countries started getting to Rich and healthy but not a lot have the most money but they still have a high life expectancy which means that they are healthy. Some of the provinces in China when split off from the whole they appear to be like the Sub-Saharan African countries that are stuck behind because of bad diseases and they cannot grow a lot of food and they will continue to have a low life expectancy until they can fix their problems.

Today in Human Geography we talked about our tests and got them back and I saw that I got a 98% on it and I missed one question but I did not get the extra credit questions because one of them was a close reading question and I did not pay attention to exactly what it said but only one person got it correct because the right answer was zero and the only person to get it right was Dylan and Dominic was the only one who got the second extra credit question right so he ended up with a 102% on the test. The question I got wrong was very confusing because it was talking about the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The question was asking about which nation had the highest net migration rate and the correct answer was Canada but I put the United States because did not remember learning that specific answer but I could have been more prepared.

Today in Human Geography we got to look at a website called Kiva and we just got to explore and see if we thought that some of the things on the website were interesting and I noticed that it is just for donating money to people and you can give a minimum of 25 dollars and you can only donate to a person one time. I liked this because we could pick the people that we thought deserved it most and I saw about a woman that was raising money to pay for hospital expenses because she had already had a kid but she was having another one and needed to pay for the bills that were coming when she did give birth and all the times she had to check on her process. I noticed that she had a long time before her donation time was over and she only needed $175 to pay for all of the expenses that she would have to cover. I hope she either gets the funds or I am happy that she did get them depending on the next time I check it.

Today in Human Geography we took the test and I am very glad that I studied for it because everything that I studied was on the test and this helps because I knew what all of the answers were and I believe that I am going to get an A but if I do not it will be a very close B but I will be upset at myself for not getting a good grade of an A. The only two question that I did not know were the bonus questions on the back of the test. I do not think that I got any of these right and I would be very surprised if I did. I also got to work on anything else that I did not finish so I was able to finish my biology work that I thought I turned in but I guess I did not because it said that I did not and I found it in my book not turned in or fully completed.

Today in Human Geography we kept going over presentations that people made for the go for an A or go for a B project and I noticed that more people today went for a B than the last two days combined, 3 groups out of 5 or 6 today went for a B and from the last two days only two groups went for a B and the rest went for A's because people may need the A grade because their grade might not be that high and they want to bring it up or they have an A and they just want their grade to be even higher than it already is. I noticed that on veracross, Mr. Schick posted my grade for it and I saw that my group got an 81/100 on the presentation and it is a B but it is very close to a C and I was surprised because I thought that we were going to get a much higher grade on the presentation than we did because we worked very hard on it and we did a very good job presenting.

Today in Human Geography we continued hearing project presentations from groups and my group had to go first today. I do not like speaking in front of classes and I did not like this because people were very disrespectful like Ryan and they were just sitting on their computers doing whatever they wanted while we were trying very hard to present the project that we worked our butts off to do and finish to try and get an A while other groups like the one yesterday only went for a B. This frustrated me because it is a very tough class and all I wanted to do was present my project so that I could get an A and bring my grade up from the B that it dropped to because of the first pop quiz that we then re-took because almost everybody got a bad grade on it. I hope that we got an A on the project because it would help me tremendously and I would feel better about having to do a project like that again.

Today in Human Geography we started listening to the presentation projects by people that either went for an A or went for a B. Only one group did the go for a B project which surprised Mr. Schick because all of the groups in his HONORS class did a go for an A project and most of the projects in our class did go for an A project and my group did a go for an A project and I think that the rest of the groups did a go for an A project. I think that my group will get an A because we did everything that was required to the greatest standard of what we can do and if we get a B I will be upset and I will want to know why it happened and what we could have done better. If we do get an A I will be happy but if we get a low A I would just want to know what we could have done better so that we can do better the next time we do a project.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TAnOn2QxC-OBcCl_rBaJ12lp9hGjPhxyrAopFf5xJ9c/edit?ts=5a05fdd4 this is the link for our finished project and we did the go for an A type of project.

Today we had a pop quiz in Human Geography which just made my grade get dive bombed to a lot less than the 100% that I had before. I hate the pop quizzes because they make me fell really stupid when I get simple answers wrong and I never know what they are going to be on. I didn't like this pop quiz in particular because we only had 10 seconds after Mr. Schick read the question, to answer it before it disappeared and we could not see it again and only 3 people got 100% on it which is more than the last pop quiz that we took where only one person got a 100% and that was Dominic who should not be in the class because he gets 100%'s on everything he does in Human Geography and in English class so nobody was surprised by this. We then talked about if we liked the class or not and I was in the middle and one person did not like the class because they said it was too much to remember.

Today in Human Geography we looked at the different population pyramids for different cities and it was interesting to see the different countries and their representation as a population pyramid. Some of the specific countries we looked at were Chad, the United States, Japan, and another one called something but i cannot remember it. Chad's population pyramid looked like a Christmas tree because a lot of kids are being born but not a lot of kids are living to adulthood so the families have a lot of kids to try and counter that but it does not work and only hurts the country even more. The United States was represented by a population pyramid in the shape of a box because an even amount of people being born are living to be old and we have OK health care that helps people live longer. Japan has representation by a population pyramid that looks like a cup because they take care of their old mainly and do not have time for kids to take care of as well and they do not have immigrants

Today in Human Geography we talked about the power point more and finished it but then we started a new power point and it was about population pyramids and we learned about the three different types of population pyramids. The first type is in the shape of a Christmas tree and it is for developing nations that have a high birth rate but not many people live much longer after they are born and some do not life through their kid years. The second type is the box and this is for developed countries that have a low infant mortality rate and are around the same amount of people being born as dying. The third type is the cup and this is for developed countries that have negative growth with a low birth rate because they mainly have old people that they take care of and not many people have time to also take care of young children as well as older people that are close to dying and need a lot of attention to make sure that they live as long as they can.

Today in Human Geography we talked about Total Fertility Rate which is the total number of kids born per woman in the world or in a country. For a population to remain the same, a country must have a TFR of 2.1 and if it is higher than 2.1, then the population will rise but if it is lower than 2.1, the population of the country will decrease. The world TFR is at 2.42 which means that it is rising, the US has a TFR of 2.01 but because of immigration our population is still rising, Nigeria has a TFR of 6.89 because it is a developing country and grows very quickly, and Japan has a TFR of 1.4 because they are a developed nation but they do not have immigrants and most of their population is very ancient Japanese people and leaders.