Test Day

Today in Human Geography, we took a test on Population Pyramids. The test overall was very easy if  you were paying attention in class or took notes. There was stuff on definitions, what RNI and NFR stand for, the rate of real world examples using Math, and what population pyramid represent certain countries/ situations.

More Pop Pyramids

Today in class, we resumed our talk about population pyramids. We also got our quizzes back and my section go the highest average which was 86%. The problem with that is the previous class got the same average but did not use notes like our class did. On to population pyramids, we mainly talked about a lot of differnet examples of population pyramids and used it to see what it tells you about that place. In a town in Michigan, there was a lot of people from 20-29 but less children and less adults. This is because that is a college town home of the Michigan Wolverines and students are from ages 19-29 and since they are not allowed to have children anywhere below 18 is low. Also Florida has a lot of people form 55+ but not a lot below 55. because that is where a lot of people want to retire and not deal with teens

Test Day and Pop pyramids

Today in Human geography, we took our test on God Grew Tired of Us. The test was really easy especially if you paid attention to the movie. After the test, we began something new. We talked about population pyramids. Population pyramids are used to analyze growth/decline of fertility, mortality and migration in cities. There are three types of population pyramids. They are Christmas Tree, Box and Cup. Christmas Tree shaped like a Christmas tree is when a countries growth rate are slow, the birth rate is fast and the life expectancy is low. Examples are Chad and Zimbabwe. The box which is shaped like a box is when there is low infant mortality, slow population growth, and a long life expectancy. Examples are United States and Canada. The cup which is shaped like a cup is when there is low birth rates, a shrinking population and a long life expectancy. Examples are Italy and Japan.

God Grew Tired of Us Part 4

Today in HUman Geo, we resumed God Grew Tired of Us and finished the documentary. We resumed when they fast forwarded one year where everyone has their jobs and is living the American life. John is enrolled in community college, Panther is working at a hotel and Daniel is finding ways to afford college. We also know that John's family have been found and that his mom and sister are still alive but they are naked and ill. The rest of the family has been killed from the war. Later on, we learn that the Africans are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. We learn this when the guys were unhappy celebrating 4th of July as fireworks to them look like their family getting bombed in war. As more time passes by, John is enrolled into the University of Syracuse and is part of the Lost Boys organization. Panther has graduates from Pitt University and is going to build a school in his hometown and marry his girlfriend. Daniel is going to build a hospital in his hometown. We also learn that Daniel is the only person who's parents have not been discovered which likely tells us that his family has been killed in the war.

God Grew Tired of Us Part 2

Today in class, we resumed God Grew Tired of Us. We start with John and Daniel go to Pittsburgh PA while Panther goes to Syracuse New York, home of the Syracuse Orange. They are all part of this program where the US pays for them for 3 months but after 3 months they have to get a job and live the way they are suppose to live and repay there debt for the plane travel. When they first arrive, a man introduced them to the refrigerator, toilet, lamp, shower, electricity uses, and kitchen uses. When they are out in public, they do awkward things (in Americans heads). When the Sudanians were sitting down one on one, they explained that they did that to hold on to African culture. The Africans may be living in America and have to act American to blend in but they grew up in Africa and to them that's home and they don't want to let it go.

Today in human geography, we watched a documentary called God Grew Tired of Us. So far, we have reached to where the Africans have started talking about moving to America. In the movie, a civil war between North and South Sudan breaks out in 1983 due to the fact that the South are mostly Christians and Animist while the rest were Muslim. The three main characters in the film were Panther Bior, John Bul Dau and Daniel Abul Pach. John and Daniel were both separated from their parents due to the war.  This war resulted in 2 million deaths. Those who weren't Muslim and were captured had to either die/suffer or get a hole punched in their sack so they couldn't produce. In the start of the war, Panther John and Daniel traveled to Kenya for the U.N. Refugee Camp which included 86000 other people (mostly men). They ended up having to walk to Ethiopia which took 5 years. During the walk, 27000 people in the walk shrunk to 12000 at the end. People had lack of food, water and shelter plus they had to survive lion and coyote attacks. For those who survive, they were given education but after that they were only hoping for a better future. Later on Panther, John and Daniel ends up deciding to go to the US in Pittsburgh and Syracuse for hope of a better future. That is where our class left off. 

CIA Factbook Facts

Today in class, we reviewed the answers to the CIA Factbook. The main questions that were discussed had to do with population, exports, oil, military, GDP, AIDS, Catholicism, and migration. What I learned from this is that we have a massively increasing amount of people in the world with 700 billion now. Later on when I'm an adult, we might have 10 billion. We revisited how China makes everything but learned that surprisingly Mexico is third in airports because of its job opportunity.  We learned that Saudi Arabia makes money from exporting oil but US is number 1 in importing oil. This explains how much the US uses oil with cars and lawn mowers and plastic. We learned how GDP is the Gross Domestic Product of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. Qatar a tiny rich place is number 1 while the US is not even in the top 10 with it lazily buying things from other countries instead of making things. We learned how Africans are high up in AIDS because it constantly wants to make children unprotectedly but the US is 18th. That is sad since we talk about unprotected sex all the time and you can simply buy a condom at Walgreens if you want to have sex. We talked about how the US only has 23.9% of people Roman Catholic but Mexico is 82.7%. That's over 4/5 people. Finally, we learned that Libya is number 1 in migration not the US