Class Participation

I think that I should get a 77 on class participation. I think that because I didn't interact that much. i raised m hand a couple of times. I also gave it that because i would pay attention and answer the questions that were directed at me.

Papua New Guniea

Today in class we looked up i the fact book on facts of Papua new Guinea. 125,00 people in Papua new Guinea. There net migration is 0. the import more oil then they export. They on produce 30,000 barrels of oil a year. 57.3% of them are able to read and write. They have a GDP of 8.9%. That is 12 in the world. Only 13% of their population. The world just hit 50% in urban civilization. So must of the place do not have any towns our anything like that. To be drafted to the military you only have to be 16 years of age. But their army is very small. They do not really need a big army because they do not really have any enemies. No one really wants to take over Papua New Guinea. Surprisingly they have around 2.4 million cellphones. That is pretty good for a place that is not very technologically advanced. Their unemployment rate is 1.9%. That 9th in the world. The U.S. probably never got that low in any point of their history.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

"Guns, Germs, and Steel' by: Jared Diamond was a best selling book. This book has a documentary on it. This book was awarded the Pulitzer prize.The book explains how Eurasian civilization have survive and conquered others. He tries to argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences. The big question of the story was why do we have more technology then they do. The answer to that question would be because we were geographically lucky. We were able to have and get domesticated animals. We also had many grains that we could use for food. The only thing that they were able to get was really Sago. That does not have much protein that they need. So if they had more things to use like animals then they would be able to advance technologically like us.

Jared Diamond

I think Mr.Schick chose this guy because he is a professor in Geography. He also has many other fields that he studies  in. He has written man books for example "How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". He also wrote a book called "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (The Fates of Human Society) He is also a professor at UCLA and a scientist. He was born in Boston. He is a very good researcher. He was able to get into Harvard. He has a PHD in physiology and geography. He has gone to Papa New Guinea to study ecology and Ornithology.

Definitions

Capitalism- Is a social system based on the principle of individual rights. Politically, it is the system of  freedom. Legally it is a system of objective laws . Economically, when such freedom is applied to the sphere of production its’ result is the free-market. It has many ways for production and based on that. Its suppose to be very profitable 

Communism- A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

Free enterprise- An economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.

Free market- An economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between 
businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.

Paper Turn In and Test

Today in Human Geo class we had to turn in our big 200 point paper. I accidentally put the font as size 14 when it was suppose to be size 12. Other than that I think that I did a great job on it. Hopefully I got an A on it. After we turned our papers in we had to take the World Leaders Test. I think that I did pretty good on it. Hopefully I got an A on that also. By the time we finished our test, it was basically the end of class. That is all that we were able to accomplish in Human Geo class today.

Human Geography class today

Today in Human Geo class all we did was go over the blog that we had to do yesterday. That was on when each of the countries gained their independence from who they were originally with. Also we did other facts about them. Like what countries were also apart of their empire and other facts like that We spent the whole entire class period doing that. That was all we really did in human Geo class today.