Oct 30th HG Class

Oct 30th Class

In the class today, first we looked over the pop quiz that we took last week. As I said in blog last time I got 87% score by getting 13 correct out of 15 questions. First question I got wrong was what country is Republic under an authoritarian regime. I thought it was Russia but the answer was Syria. Second question I got wrong was asking which leader is trained as physicist, with a PHD in quantum chemistry. I'd choose David Cameron the Prime Minister of U.K but the answer was Angela Merkel the Chancellor of Germany. We also worked on the group PPT that we were working on, and what I researched today was what are the methods that their people can pull their leader out of the office before terms end. The methods are impeach them, assassination and abdicating. 

Oct 29th Human Geography Class

Oct 29th HG Class

Today's class was working on making group power point. What I researched today was when was the Germany reunified as a Federal Republic of Germany, When Joachim Gauck was president of Germany since and when does his term ends. Also if he is eligible to be reelected. Another thing I researched is when was Angela Merkel the Chancellor of Germany since. First, Federal Republic Government of Germany was established during 1949~1990. On October 3rd of 1990, West Germany and East Germany was reunified as Federal Republic of Germany. Joachim Gauck was president of Germany since 2012, his first term ends in 2017 and he is eligible to be reelected one more time. Angela Merkel was a Chancellor of Germany since 2005, this is her third term and she is eligible to be reelected if majority of member in Germany National Assembly agrees to.

Oct 28th HG Class

Oct 28th HG Class

Today's class was basically about making groups for the group work and choose what kind of country will each group do. The group work is about making power point presentation about what kinds of governments each country have, informations about the leaders of the country and methods that people can pitch out from the office their leader out before their valid working days have been come to deadline. My group is me and Parker, we choose to search about Germany. This will be long work and I will try hard to make good result on my first group work in U.S. What I researched during the class today is the type of government that Germany has and the description of that type. Also I researched for Since when was Germany that type of government.

Oct 24th HG Class

Oct 24th Pop Quiz

Today in class we had a pop quiz. This is the first pop quiz that I had. It was worth 30 points. I was very nervous because this was the first pop quiz. There were few questions that I did not know. I also thought these were all on the class time, which I felt like I've felt like heard of it but didn't know perfectly. I am writing my blog in the class time, and right now Mr.Schick is telling the grades. My grades didn't came out yet and I am so nervous. Well I just checked my grade and I got 87%. Which means I got 13 right out of 15 questions. Overall it seems like it is not bad grade but I really need to participate in the class more.

Oct 23rd HG Class

-India's Prime Minister was Chai Wallah Seller before being Prime Minister.

-Benjamin Netanyahu spent his childhood in Philadelphia.

-Xi JinPing studied Chemical Engineering.

-Angela Merkel is a great cook and have interest in cooking.

-Queen Elizabeth loaded $11.7 billion in her wealth.

-Reuven Rivillin will be Israel's vegetarian president.

-Cameron says everyone has error in the past in their life.

-Cameron smoked cocaine in the past.

-Jorge Bush started painting after finishing U.S President.

Facts about 12 Leaders

Facts about each Leaders

Enrique Pena Nieto

-He had two children from two different woman, while he married his first wife.

-CNN.com

Xi JinPing

-His father was politic and very powerful person in Chinese Society.

-CNN.com

Pranab Mukherjee

-He stopped fighting against Sri Lankan in 2009.

-CNN.com

Vladimir Putin

-Today is his birthday so Russia is celebrating Putin's Birthday.

-CNN.com

Angela Merkel

-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, she was listed as the most powerful woman in the world

-Edition.CNN.com

Francois Hollande

-Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of condolences to Francois Hollande over the death of Total's Chairman and CEO Christophe de Margery and three crew members.

-http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/23124

Dilma Rousseff

-The Iron Woman of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, she was the first woman President of Brazil and she is fighting for reelection.

-BBCnews.com

Bashar Al-Asad

-The dictator of Syria Bashar Al-Asad, he is killing his people with weapons.

-BBCNews.com

Stephen Harper

-Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the nation Wednesday evening in the wake of a shooting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa that left on member of the Canadian Forces dead, calling it a "brutal and violent attack.

-cbc.ca

Shinzo Abe

-Shinzo Abe was reelected to his position in 2012,(A lot of Koreans and Chinese hated him being reelected.)

-Wikipeida.com

Reuven Rivilin

-President Reuven Rivaling returned a 200-year-old prayer book found at his residence that had seemingly been taken out at least 40 years ago.

-timesofisrael.com

David Cameron

-Prime Minister of U.K David Cameron, he says British people are my only boss in the EU Reform Meeting.

-theguardian.com

12 Countries

Mexico

Federal Republic

President Enrique Pena Nieto

China

Communist State

President Xi JinPing

Brazil

Federal Republic

President Dilma Rousseff

Canada

Federal Republic

Prime Ministor Stephen Harper

France

Republic

President Francois Hollande

Germany

Federal Republic

President Joachim Gauck

Head of Government: Chancellor Angela Merkel

India

Federal Republic

President Pranab Mukherjee

Israel

Parliamentary democracy

President Reuven Revilin

Japan

Constitutional Monarchy

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Russia

Federation

President Vladimir Putin

Syria

Republic

President Bashar Al Assad

United Kingdom

Constitutional Monarchy

Prime Minister David Cameron

Oct16th Human Geography Class

Oct 16th Human Geography Class 

Today's class was reviewing the test. As I said in my blog yesterday my score is 94. Which means I only got few questions wrong. The first question I got wrong is ethiopia has a birth rate of 43.66, and a death rate of 11.55 what is RNI? The answer was 32.11 but I wrote 42.11. I can see that I made a mistake. Second question I got wrong is whose net migration rate is highest: Canada, the United States, or Mexico? This is the question that Mr.Schick mentioned in the class that Canada has more people coming in than United States because they have good medical cares. But i forgot that this was in the class and I wrote the United States and I got wrong. I regret that I wasn't paying attention in the class which made me to get wrong in the class. I should focus in class more.

Oct 14th Human Geography Class

Oct 14th HG Class

Today was the day that exam score came out. So, we didn't really do anything during the class. We just got a chance to look at our scores on the exam and had a free time. My score was 94 out of 100 again. Well the score I expected was pretty similar but I thought I would at least got 3 or 4 higher than 94. Well I'm satisfying with my grades but the part that I'm unhappy is that I got same score as the last exam. I wanted to see the improvements on my learnings. I didn't got a chance to look at what I got wrong and what I got right. So, what I'm going to do when I receive my test paper. I'm gonna take a look at what I got wrong and compare on the CIA fact book and remind again to perfectly memorize that I can always get that question right. I learned that I need to try harder to get higher grade. 

Oct 10th HG Class

Oct 10th HG Class

Today was the exam day. We had Human Geography test as I mentioned yesterday. Test was pretty fine just except few questions. I think I got most of them right but few questions wrong. Well this time I didn't really know what to study. So I think from next exam I need to study details a lot that I do not miss things. I feel bit sorry to my self that I got few questions wrong. Anyway I'll keep try to do my best in class

Oct 9th HG Class

Oct 9th Human Geography Class

Today was the last day of reviewing before the exam. Tomorrow is the exam day which is very important day. What we reviewed for last is we reminded the meaning of word "Total fertility rate", it means average of the number of children born to a woman. We also reviewed some informations about the population pyramid. This is the graph that shows how many people are in the range divided by certain ages. This shows if the country is low birth rate and high aging or high birth rate and low aging. The most ideal graph is rectangular. Rectangular graph means populations are distributed in all sections of the range. In these societies social issues like a job shortage are not huge issue. For istance U.S. is the example for rectangular society. Which is the first place country in the world.

Oct 8th Human Geography Class

Oct 8th HG Class

Today, we basically just reviewed what we studied so far in class because the exam is on Oct.10th Friday. We just rewrote the meanings of the words. Meaning of the word "Life Expectancy" is the average of number of years to be lived by people born in the same year, meaning of "Crude Birth rate and the Crude of Death rate" are number of live births per 1,000 occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year and number of deaths of per 1,000 occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year. Meaning of "Developing nation and Developed nation" are nation with a lower living standard, underdeveloped industrial base, and low Human Development Index(HDI) relative to other country. Also not good infrastructure and nation that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations. As well as perfect infrastructure. Meaning of " Rate of natural increase(RNI)" is natural population growth depends on  Crude Birth rate and the Crude Death rate. Net Migration rate(NMR) is the difference of immigrants and emigrants of an area in a period of time divided per 1,000 inhabitants. Immigration is people who are moving into the country and the emigration is people coming out of the country. Last two words "Pull forces" and the "Push Forces" means the reason why people come out of the country and move into the country.

Oct 7th HG Class

October 7th Class 

Today's class Mr.Schick told us to search for the reasons why America is the world's best country or why not in that CIA world fact book site. I looked for the reasons why U.S is the best country in the world. First U.S' total GDP is first place in the world. Therefore they have largest economy in the world. Second U.S.A is the second place in producing oil. But the interesting fact is U.S is the first place in importing oils, which means they use enormous amount of oil. Third, U.S stock value in the market is the most expensive. Last U.S is the country that has most airports, railway, roadway. This just means that they are developed. In conclusion, I think U.S is still world's best country but they need to work hard to maintain being first place in the world.

Oct 3rd HG Class

In today's class we saw the video that talks about why America is not the best country in the world anymore. We had a lot of discussion on this topic in the class.  Cody was saying he needs to be a politician which was a bit weird answer. Steven was saying America is too focusing on other countries issue, they need to solve their issue first. And the parker was saying U.S. need to sell the fossil fuels that they are not using so that they can pay the money they owe to China. But in my opinion I do not agree with parker. It's because U.S is buying the oli from Southwest Asia because they know when the oil starts get run out it will be much more expensive, so when they sell in future they can earn tons of money incomparable to the money that they will earn by selling now. Basically I still think U.S.A is the world's first country because   They are the center of the world and they  still create a lot of new technology and new create inventions. But I agree that U.S interfere in the other country a lot.

Oct 2nd HG Class

Oct 2nd HG Class

Today's class was basically researching for the countries in the CIA homepage. The interesting facts that I found was that Mexico's economy is world's 10th largest. I was impressed because I did not know that Mexico has this huge economy. But their Personal GDP was low, cause their economy was big by the population. Which means Mexico is not a wealthy country. The other interesting fact that I found was that South Korea, which is my country has 11th largest economy in the world. This was interesting because South Korea's economy is huge compare to our land size. Our land size is one of the smallest in the world and we are over populated. Last interesting fact that I found was that Monaco's Personal GDP is the 2nd in the world. It was because Monaco does not have taxes, so the people who have lot of money establish company, run their own business and the banks(Bank taxes are very low in Monaco). Therefore this Personal GDP is mostly from the wealthy people who has things in Monaco. Additionally, Qatar's Personal GDP is the highest. This was not that interesting because their money is mostly from selling fossil fuels, mostly oil. 

Human Geography Oct 1st Class

Oct 1st Class

In today's class Mr.Schick came up with new idea of how to do the class. It was using "Spotify.  Spotify is a place where you can listen to the music easily. So what he's idea is to share their playlists and talk about it. I really like this idea because I am the person who like listening to music. I think everyone in the class have same opinion with me. So what I am gonna do is try to listen to a lot of genre of music what other people listen to and try to figure out what they like.