Human Geography

Today we had our test on world leaders in Human Geography that I did not study for because I did not know we were going to have one but we did but I think that I did a good job on it so I will get a good grade. I hope that it is enough to get me back up to an A in the class because I need straight A's to keep myself and my parents happy with school. I also had an English test yesterday but I am mad about that because I got an 89% and if I had gotten one more right it would have been a 91% which is an A but of course I did not do the extra credit assignment for five extra points so with my 89% it would have been a 94% but I am not very smart or good when it comes to giving effort to some things. I am kind of glad and kind of sad that this class s ending. It means no more seeing some of the people that are friends from this class and no more Mr. Schick sometimes twice a day and I am happy that I get to meet Mr. Fendryk.

Today in Human Geography we finished talking about our work on all of the most important world leaders and most of the people we talked about had a brother that was killed and I was surprised to see that one leader named Kim Jong-un killed people from his own family just to get more power so that he could take control of North Korea and when people got in his way from his family he hired people to get them killed and this way he was the first in line for power when his father died and there were no other relatives in his family that were older than him. He now uses his power to threaten other people but it took him a long time to get weapon capabilities but people from Russia came and helped give them nuclear capabilities to threaten the United States of America.

Today in Human Geography we talked about the same things as yesterday so it was mainly a review and then we started talking about different countries and listened to a song about a thing saying all of the countries from I think around 1970 and it went really fast so I could not hear all of the countries that the thing was saying and this led us to what we are doing now. We have a project about where we are looking at a bunch of countries and giving a map, the name of the country, the leader's name and title, what type of government they have, and an official portrait of the leader. Mr. Schick did the United States and I was surprised to learn that we have a constitutional-based federal republic which means that we do not have a democracy like I thought but that our government is based off of our constitution which is a very big part of how we live normally.

Today in Human Geography we finally met after 17 days so MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year. We started our final unit called Political Geography and we talked about how by political standings we can be divided into countries, nations, and states throughout the whole world. A country is defined as an identifiable land area, a nation is defined as a population or group of people with a common culture, and State is defined as a population under a single government and it can be synonymous with "country". A nation is a group of people with a shared identity and we can think of it as a culture group. A definition that applies to most places is that nations are groups of people, larger than a single tribe or community, which may share a common language, institution, religion, and/or historical experience.