Debate Day

Three things that I learned today is that I actually like what Trump's doing so now I know which side I'm on. I learned that there was a Mexican teenager who was shot back in 2012 for throwing rock at our military and that was back in Obama's reign as President, and now Trump told the military to shoot them if they throw rocks. I also learned that Mexico is kind of an Asylum for people who didn't come from Mexico to wait to be allowed into the United States.
Where are migrants distributed?
At the border.
I thought two people did really well and spoke what I thought and that is Trent and Colin. I totally agreed with Colin on his point about how we can't trust the news since there is so much fake news going around and that news anchors voice their opinions too much and that's not what the news is about. I'm pretty sure the news was meant for people to be delivered information on current events, not for someone's opinions for a half hour to an hour. I also agree with Trent that Trump is doing necessary things for our country like trying to down size on immigration cause that's a big problem and how most of our big gangs and stuff have started so... I'm all for Trump's actions.

Prepping For A Discussion

Today we talked about how we are going to have a class discussion tomorrow about migration and the different sides being pro Trump Administration, anti Trump Administration, and neutral in which you really don't know or you really don't care. I really don't know my position because I try to avoid watching the news and learning about current events so I don't know my side but I also think that Trump has done good during his few years in office. I'm not gonna voice my opinion because when I do I get pretty hardcore and don't care about other's opinions. I also think I'm always right with my opinions so voicing my opinion is probably not a good idea, since I also don't like talking in class in general. All in all I'm not really excited for tomorrow, also because I don't think this kind of political topics a good idea cause I know that people can get really defensive about their opinions like me so it could either go really well or really bad.

Mr. Schick's Stories

Today we talked for like the first half hour about random things like Mr. Schick started telling us stories when we said things that reminded him of things that happened to him. He talked about how when he was younger and in school he was a trouble child. He said one of his punishments was to write a certain phrase a thousand times and his mom didn't like it, so she made him read a passage about a saint and write a report about that and turn it in to the teacher. The teacher was apparently awestruck by what his mom had done. He also told us about the first time he tried Tetris and how he was up for five hours trying to get good at it which is definitely an insane amount of time. I know from experience that when you play games that time just seems to fly incredibly fast.

Migration Notes

Migration

Mobility is most generalized term that refers to all types of movements. Journeying each day to work or school. Weekly visits to local shops. Annual trips to visit relatives who live in a different state. Short term and repetitive acts of mobility are referred to as circulation. Example - college students moving to college each full and returning home each spring. A permanent move to a new location constitutes migration. Emigration is migration from a location. Immigration is migration to a location. Ravenstein's laws for the distance that migrants typically move. Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country. Long distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity. Migration can be divided into two categories. International Migration is the permanent move from one country to another. Internal Migration is the permanent move within the same country. Approximately 9 percent of the world's people are international migrants.

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POP QUIZ

God I can't wait to be off for five days. I know that's not a very good way to start this off but like, I honestly am just exhausted right now and want a break from tests and learning. Like I'd like to go home and just play on my Nintendo Switch and play some Pokemon or something and just relax for a few days without having to worry. Like today we had a pop quiz in class today, which was the exact same questions that we had on that worksheet yesterday, so pretty sure I aced it. But I am just so done with quizzes and tests I've literally been counting down the hours and minutes to leaving for break, that's how much I want to be done for a few days. I just ant to go home for the week and pay video games and not have to worry about classes and tests and stuff until next week.

Hans Rosling

Today we watched a four minute video about demographic transition with a smart Globalization Health Swedish man named Hans Rosling. He had a cool piece of technology in the video where he showed a chart, with the x-axis being the income and the y-axisbeing the lifespan, how countries and nations have grown since the industrial revolution. The chart showed the progression of the industrial revolution's impact and how the lifespan and income of these places increased over the decades. When World War I and II were shown, several countries fell and rose back up several years later. It was an interesting video and I did like the technology Hans used, it definitely made the video seem more modernized than it actually being made in 2009, rather than 2020 or something. I did look up Hans Rosling and discovered that he died on February 7, 2017 due to pancreatic cancer caused by Hepatitis C he was diagnosed with when he was twenty years old.

I’m sick

I was sick and absent from school so I was not in class.

Demographic Transition

Demographic Transition (DT) is a transition from high birth rates and high death rates to lower birth rates and lower death rates. This transition occurs as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial economic system to an industrialized economic system. Most developed countries have completed the demographic transition and have low birth rates. Most developing countries are in this transition process right now. Some exceptions include poor countries mainly located in sub-Saharan Africa and some Middle East countries as well (Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Yemen, and Afghanistan). The demographic transition model can be taken to predict that birth rates will continue to go down as societies grow increasingly wealthy; however, recent data contradicts this, suggesting that beyond a certain level of development birth rates increase again. In the very long term, the demographic transition should be reversed via evolutionary pressure for higher fertility and higher mortality. This theory was proposed on demographic transition in 1929.

Another Day of Notes

Today we got more notes when Mr. Schick returned from the movie studio to give a test or help a girl with something for the class. While he was gone we talked (I read), took a photo of the class (but didn't care enough to look at the camera. Two kids, pretty sure it was Kyle and Sean, started singing the Phones and Ferb theme song for God knows why. I got some progression in my book I was reading so that was good. Mrs. Zurkowski watched us for the few minutes Mr. Schick was gone. When he returned we progressed with the Power Point on more of the population stuff so yay. I like getting off track of what we are learning and talking about random crap that kind of stuff is fun.

The Next Unit

Population Concentrations
- 2/3 of the world's inhabitants are clustered in five regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Site and Situation of Population Clusters
- Low-lying areas with fertile soil and temperature climate.
- Near an ocean or near a river with easy access to an ocean.
Sparsely Populated Regions
- Humans avoid clustering in certain physical environments: Dry Lands, Wet Lands, Cold Lands, and High Lands.
- Places considered too harsh for occupancy have diminished over time.
Population Density
- Density can be computed in up to three ways for a place; 1) Arithmetic Density - total number of objects in an area, computation: divide the population by the land area; 2) Physiological Density - number of people supported by a unit of arable land; 3) Agricultural Density - ratio of the number of farmers to amount of arable land, computation: divide the population of farmers by the arable land area.
Components of Population Growth
- Geographers measure population change in a country or the world as a whole by using three measures: Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate, Natural Increase Rate.
Notes continue....

Test Day

Today we had a test on all of this population and chart stuff. I feel like I did decent, maybe a B, but hopefully an A. To me it was worse that we had a timed section because that creates a lot of stress for me and puts lots of pressure on me as well so I hated the first section. I wasn't sure about the extra credit so...wild guesses! I liked the doodling cartoons section, though I may not be a good drawer, I like to draw nonetheless. I drew some of the more important ones in my opinion like Total Fertility Rate, Immigration, Emigration, and Death Rate. I also liked the doodling section because it gave you time to show that you understood these concepts and could represent them with a picture. But all in all I don't think I failed the test, I just don't think I did like over the top amazing.

More Population Pyramids

So today we had more fun with population pyramids..........hoorah, just stoked (I say this sarcastically). Look I love Human Geography but I just don't enjoy this aspect of it. I honestly couldn't care less about the population of places and even if I did care about population, the only place that I'd care about population is The United States of America. But even though I'm a citizen of the U.S. I couldn't care less right now. We had two shadows today, though I really don't remember their names, just their faces, but I know one was a boy and the other was a girl. But back to population stuff, I don't care how many babies are born per thousand, I don't care how many babies an average family has in 2018. The only thing that I've actually cared about knowing is that males don't live along as females because we do "labor" work. And to that I say bull crap. You can't base this off everybody, plenty of females die before men, it's just a matter of luck. B-U-L-L C-R-A-P! Bull crap I say!

Population Pyramids

Today's class was again, pretty boring (no offense Mr. Schick). We talked about Population Pyramids today after the first fifteen minutes we did nothing, so I read. And when we started to get into population pyramids, I'm sitting there going, why do we need so many different charts to show things. We talked about the three different types of charts, The Christmas Tree (or The Xmas Tree), The Box, and The Cup. The names are stupid because the only one that works like its shape is The Christmas Tree. Why does The Cup chart look like a shape that wanted to be a circle, that is not what a cup is. The Box isn't a box, it's a rough shape of a box with lines jutting out everywhere so it looks like a shape that isn't a box. So, if I were the people who did stuff with charts, I'd try to rename the charts because they don't work well, besides The Christmas Tree.