12/5/12

·         Capitalism- An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owner’s profit.

·         Communism- A political derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is policy owned and each person works and I spaid according to their abilities and needs

·         Free enterprise- An economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.

·         Free market- An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.    

11/9/12

Today in Human Geography we had a pop quiz. I didn't know we were going to have one because I didn't look at Mr. Schick's blog the night before. Mr. Schick then gave us ten minutes to study for the quiz.... what a nice guy. After we study for 10 minutes, we started to take the quiz. Mr. Schick told us that we were aloud to use our blogs for the quiz. I was so relieved because I had put all of my notes on my blog. After the quiz was over, everyone brought their quizzes up to Mr Schick. He couldn't read any of the peoples quizzes because they have really bad handwriting. After everyone was finished with their quizzes, we went over the questions to the back of the quiz.

11/8/12

Today in Human Geography we had two shadows. The first shadow was Alice’s shadow. Her name was Abby. She played many sports together such as soccer, lacrosse, and basketball I think. The other shadow was named Zack. He played baseball, wrestling, and football. He also learned to tie his shoe when he was three years old. After Mr. Schick messed with the shadows for about twenty minutes, then we started talking about the world leaders and what’s special about them. We first went over Barack Obama. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.  Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. In his first term as president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in response to the 2007–2009 recession in the United States. After that we had a 3 minutes break and then I started writing this blog

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.  Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. In his first term as president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in response to the 2007–2009 recession in the United States. 

Presidents

·        Dilma Rousseff was torturer when she was 22. She was trying to over throw government. After trying to over throw the government, she went to jail for two years. After that she went to jail, she began president of Brazil. 

·        Enrique Pena Nieto was the governor of Mexico before he was president. He wrote a book on the economy of Mexico. 

·        Abduallah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud held important politics threw out his life. He is the king of Saudi Arabia. He is 88 years old

·        David Cameron 

·        Hamad Karzai he has survived at least 4 different kinds of assassination. It is hard to control the whole Afghanistan because of the Taliban 

·        Hugo Chaviz he tried to coupdetat on his country and then went to jail for 2 years

·        Hu Jintao he is a communist. His biggest accomplishment was he made his ecomniuny  as a huge economic country

·        David Cameron he accused the United Kingdom Independent Party as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racist" 

·        Angela Merkel is sometimes refereed as a decide. She studied chemistry and was an ecumenist 

·        Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is building a nuclear bomb but saying it is an environmental nuclear power plant 

Another Sub

Today in Human Geography we had to go to room 104 because Mr. Schick wasn't here today. I don't know who the lady, who our sub was, but she went gave back our test from Friday. We went over the test and she gave us the correct answers. Some people in the class were talking to much so they had to move. After our sub went over the test, Mr. Schick assigned us to do our Political Geography assignment. I don't know why he assigned it to us if we had all of our, 5 day weekend, to get that done. Instead of doing that i started to type this blog. I don't really know how to make this any longer because we didn't really do anything in class today. When I got my grade back from the test, I was really excited because it was a good grade. I checked my grades in power school and I guess it lowered my grade somehow. It is confusing that it went down.

Presidents

Mexico

Federal Republic

President Felipe Calderon

China

Communist 

President Hu Jintao

India

Federal Republic

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Afghanistan

Islamic Republic

President Karzai

Iran

Theocratic Republic

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel

Parliamentary Democracy

President Shimon Peres

Germany

Federal Republic

President Joachim Gauck

United Kingdom

Constitutional Monarchy

President

France

Republic

President François Hollande

Brazil

Federal Republic

President Dilma Rousseff

Venezuela

Federal Republic

President Hugo Chávez

Saudi Arabia

Monarchy

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Authors 10/22/12

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H Munro., H. was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. 

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Born 1862 and died on 1910. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1882, he married.

Julie Otsuka (born May 15, 1962) is a Japanese American author. She won the American Library Association's Alex Award in 2003 for When the Emperor was Divine, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2011 for The Buddha in the Attic which was not only a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller but also placed as a National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Otsuka was born on May 15, 1962, in Palo Alto, California. Her father worked as an aerospace engineer, while her mother worked as lab technician before she gave birth to Otsuka. Both of her parents were of Japanese descent, with her father being an issei and her mother being a nisei. At the age of nine, her family moved to Palos Verdes, California. She had two brothers growing up, Michael Otsuka, is currently teaching at University College London. 

William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life, and Holly Springs/Marshall County.

Questions

1. Is Christianity a monotheistic or a polytheistic religion?

Christianity is a monotheistic religion. 

2. What is the Buddha also known as in Buddhism?

Buddha is also known as "the enlightened one".

3. What are the central figures of Christianity?

The central figures, in Christianity, are Jesus and the Pope.

4. What two places do Muslims make pilgrimages?

The two places that Muslims make pilgrimages to are Mecca and Medina.

5. What are the most diverse and probably the oldest religion?

The most diverse and probably the oldest religion is Hinduism.

6. What is the oldest monotheistic religion, dating back to 3,000 years.

The oldest monotheistic religion is Judaism.

7. Was Christianity founded before or after Jesus’s death?

          Christianity was founded after Jesus’s death

8. What kind of group is Judaism?

Judaism is an ethnoreligous group, and their beliefs and their laws are very much intertwined.

10/4/12

Today in Human Geography we had a shadow student, it was Carly's shadow. Mr. Schick was making the shadow very unconformable. I forget the shadows name but I think it started with a D and it was a very unusual name. Mr. Schick showed us the email he got back from John. When he got the email, he didn't expect the price, for John to come here, to be so high priced. It is 6,000 dollars for John to come talk to our school. Everyone in the class said that that isn't a lot of money, but to me that is a load of money. After Mr. Schick showed us the email, he ask us what we out on "How Can We Help" page on his blog page. After we went through all of the foundations, we talk about how we could raise money to get John or even Panther to come to our school to talk to us. 

10/1/12

Today in Human Geography we finished watching God Grew Tired of Us. We talked about some things that happened in the movie and what we all thought of it. I actually thought it was really cool and it awakened me to this crisis. We also talked about what we would like to do to help John and his fundraiser. I really liked the idea that someone brought up was just everyone in the freshman class raised money to help John's charity for Sudan. I also thought what was really cool, was the idea to invite John to talk to John Carroll about his charity and talk to the whole school how important it is to know about what is happening in Sudan. If we can raise enough money, to get John to John Carroll, that would be great for his fundraiser and for John Carroll.

Today in Human Geography we work on our power point. My group is doing our powerpoint on Germany.

Essay #1, #2, #3

Essay #1: My original definition of arete was excellence in a person or the best the person can be with their full potential. Socrates was a philosopher and he knew that every person in the worlds had the choice to achieve in life. The Ancient Greeks had an interesting lifestyle. They always tried their best in everything because they believed that their gods were always watching over them and they wanted to do their best for them and show them the best they can do. 

Essay #2: If Socrates and Elbert Hubbard would have to experience our lifestyle in present day, I am sure they would be disgusted with a lot people in the world. People these days are very lazy an not hard workers.  A person like I, would not be very appreciated in Hubbard's and Socrates point of view. If they saw my lifestyle today, they would not be very happy for what they would be seeing.

Essay #3: My number one goal for the next four years at The John Carroll School is to pass and graduate. That is my number one goal for the next four years at John Carroll. The second goal is to make new friends and be nicer to people over the next four years. For a lot of people one of their five goals will be turning in homework or doing their homework. That's a big goal for everyone because at a lot of schools, before John Carroll, you either didn't do your homework or not even have homework at all. So yes that is another goal for me too, to turn in all my homework and do all my homework. My forth goal is trying to receive B's and above. At my last school I didn't really try, but after hearing Mr. Schick talk about the message, it really inspired me to try my hardest and work hard in school. My last thing is to try to get involved in school. I will try to join clubs and sports.

8/30/12 BC

Today in Human Geography we started off with a prayer, after the prayer Mr. Schick read A Message to Garcia. I liked it, it was really good. I liked how when they gave Roman the message he didn't ask any question he just went and did it. The the reading really inspired me to do well in life. After Mr. Schick kept reading a part of the story, he started to give donuts to everyone. I didn't get any because i didn't answer any questions. People were really desperate for donuts for some reason. It was like they haven't eaten in days. After Mr. Schick read A Message to Garcia, he talked about the debate team. He was wearing his own debate team with his name and number on it! How awesome?! It had a dinosaur on it and was pretty radical. After Mr. Schick talked about the debate team, he handed everyone donuts. He went around the room to every, but for some reason he skipped me. I was pretty hungry too. Anyways, that was our Human Geography class today.

Class today 8/29/12

Today in class we didn't do much except sit and talk to people. Mr. Schick had to help people with their blogs. I was finish setting up my blog so I had to sit there with Eleanor talking the whole time about nothing.

Avery van der Steur

•          Arête- thin, almost knife like ridge of rock which is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys.
•          Polis- city in Grease comes from the ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the archaic period.
•          Socrates- a classical Greek Athenian philosopher, he was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Invented The Death of Socrates.
•          The Death of Socrates- a painting from 1787 by a French painter named Jacques-Louis David.
•          The Socrates Method- a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking.
•          The Date 508 BC- Cleisthenes reforms Athenian code of laws, and establishes a democratic constitution.
•         Agora- a central spot in ancient Greek city-states. The center of athletic, artistic, spiritual, and political life of the city.
•          Idiots- At Athens, a person who held no official position or who was not a habitual orator in the Assembly was branded as an idiot. It is also used to distinguish the common people from the poor and the more powerful. It is also used for an unskilled worker.

First Class

        Today in Human Geography everyone sat in their own spot, but little did they know Mr. Schick was going to change up the seats again. Before Mr. Schick changed the seats, he did attendance. He told us to tell him any nick name that you wanted him to call you, but no body was brave enough to make a nick name. After Mr. Schick did attendance, he changed up the seats. After he moved us to the opposite part of the room , Mr. Schick started talking about the syllabus and how his class works. He told us what we need in class, the assessments, the grading scale, late assignment policy, and technology. After the directions were given, he told us about how to set up our blog. A bunch of people in my class did not complete the assignment. The reason why a lot of people didn't have it complete, was because they could not publish their blog to blogger. After Mr. Schick helped everyone with our blogs, he told us our homework. Which was to write a 150- 200 blog on what we did today and post it to to our blogger account before midnight tonight.