Last Test

Today in human geography we took the last test of the quarter and semester. It was to to hard but it definitely wasn't easy. I did study all of yesterday because I was home sick and I still manage to struggle. I don't really know what it is, but I really struggle in this class and really can't afford to fail it because I need to be passing so i can keep a 3.0 so my parents can afford John Carroll. I tried so hard this whole semester and might fail and I'm sorry but thats just wrong because I've put forth the effort but our grades are based off these tests that are impossible because all my teacher does is sit there and lecture about the problems in the world. I just think we could've learned differently and made more use out of this class.

Not there

Today in class I wasn't there because I was home sick

Test Review

Today in human geography we went over notes for the test on Wednesday. we took notes on the videos we've watched over the past week and the details in them and how they effect the earth. all these things can effect the world but it doesn't seem like its a big deal right now

This video explains in scientific terms, using statistics, how climate change works

Back in 2005, when this video was made, “global warming” was a more commonly used term than “climate change”

the video was produced by National Geographic

• for eons… millenia… multiple hundreds of centuries… the Earth has cycled between ice ages and thaws
• it has always been part of the natural order of things

• but as humans become more resourceful, they have had more of an impact on nature… and climate

• carbon dioxide intensifies the greenhouse effect, which causes heat to be reflected back to Earth

• sources: cars, factories, power plants, trucks, jets, cement production, etc.

• pie chart supplied by EPA.gov (the Environmental Protection Agency)

• why he often speaks at college commencements

• our impact has included raising the planet’s temperature by 1.2 F to 1.4 F in the last hundred years
• compare this to your basic pattern of glacial periods, which usually last between 40,000 to 100,000 years
• it’s human activity which is driving the temperatures up so quickly
• burning fossil fuels (oil, gas, other petroleum products; coal) produces carbon dioxide

• how bad is it?
• carbon dioxide & methane have reached their highest levels in 420,000 years

• What’s the big deal? What’s the worst that could happen? Well…
• rising sea levels which could flood coastal areas around the world
• severe drought that could become more prominent in warm areas
• species unable to adapt to the changing conditions would face extinction
  Bill Nye:
  • science educator
  • writer
  • scientist
  • mechanical engineer
  • inventor
  • swing dancer
  • Science Guy  
    ten of the last thirteen years were the warmest on record 
    • more details on what is IN greenhouse gases
    • Bill is good at illustrating things
    • that’s why his show is/was so popular
    • why he is still a frequent TV guest

    The temperature of the Earth’s oceans has risen more than        0.3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969, causing:

    • a 30% rise of acidity in the ocean’s chemistry
    • certain species, such as oysters and clams, to become calcified
    • shallow water corals to become increasingly at risk
    • placing the entire ocean food chain (“food web”) in danger
      
      
      Since 1994, each year (on average) the Earth has lost from its glaciers: 400 billion tons
      recycle and reuse
      walk, bike, use public transportation
      turn off electronics when not in use
      eat less meat
      eat more locally grown vegetables and food
      Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.
      Bill Nye sees today's environmental issues not as insurmountable, depressing problems but as chances for our society to rise to the challenge and create a cleaner, healthier, smarter world. We need not accept that transportation consumes half our energy, and that two-thirds of the energy you put into your car is immediately thrown away out the tailpipe. We need not accept that dangerous emissions are the price we must pay for a vibrant economy and a comfortable life. Above all, we need not accept that we will leave our children a planet that is dirty, overheated, and depleted of resources.
      climate change- a long term change in the earths overall temperature with massive and permanent ramifications
    
    
    
    
    
    

Cars and Cows

Today in class we didn't do really anything except listen to mr schick talk. He talked about cows and animals whose left overs are often are fertilizers and how they can help us but there farts are really bad for the air and they constantly fart. He also talked about electric cars and how people would start buying more if they lasted longer, cost less, easier to use, and better for the environment. Eventually cars probably will be all electric because our world is just getting more and more advanced so from the path we are going down right now, its only gonna advance! Only thing I wanna say is today was very boring and I wish wed do more hands on things because its really hard to pay attention for 55 minutes of lecturing.

Back from Break

Today was the first day back from break and we had to get back in the routine of class. Today in class we got part of our exam score and took notes on a video. I knew I didn't do good on the exam cause it seemed like I studied what we learned and the whole exam was the opposite and when I went up my teacher kind of called me out so the whole class knew I did bad. Personally that was kind of wrong because I'm already stressing enough about this class. But later we just took notes on the temperate change of the world and how the past 10 out of the past 13 years have been the hottest ever dated. Soon its going to rise a lot and today will be nothing compared to it

Test

In human geo today we took a test on our notes and countries and there leaders. For this test you were allowed to use your blog which was nice because I had the powerpoint in mine. But, as I started taking the test, I still couldn't get some of the answers which was stressing me out. I studied, had so many notes, did good blogs and still manage to feel like I didn't do to well on the test. I don't even know what to do now because nothing is working for me and these test are impossible for me.

Before Test

Todays class in human geography was like every other day. We took notes on things we already to notes on and then we reviewed all of them because we have a test on them tomorrow. I need to do good on this test but Im getting very frustrated because he's giving us a hard test and exams are next week which I'm trying to study for but I'm also trying to study for this test because I'm failing this class and need to pull up my grade.

Brazil is a federal republic headed by President Dilma Rousseff

• She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
• She has been divorced twice.
• She has a degree in economics, and now 
  rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.
• She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.
  China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping
  • Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
  • He married folk singer Peng Lijuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.
  • The couple have a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.
    France is a republic headed by Francois Hollande
    • Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
    • The mother of his four children is Ségolène Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
    • He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme-right physician father and progressive social worker mother.  
    • He was raised Catholic, but now considers himself an atheist.
      Germany is a federal republic headed by
      President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel
      • Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986
      • Has been Chancellor since November 2005
      • Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years.
        ndia is a federal republic headed by
        President Pranab Mukherjee 
        He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
        • Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.
        • He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.
          israel is a parliamentary democracy,
          headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
          • As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67
          • After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
          • Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."
            Mexico is a federal republic
            headed by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
            • He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, María del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
            • Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
            
            
            • Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actress Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.
            
            
            
            
            • The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm,
              
              
              ruled by Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II
              
              
              • At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain’s top private school.
                
                

              
              

              
              

              
              
              • His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
                
                

              
              
              • The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.
                
                
              • Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
                
                

              
              
              • Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.
                
                
                Russia is a federation
                Putin served as president of Russia from 2000 - 2008, and was re-elected to the presidency in 2012. He previously served as Russia's Prime Minister.
                Born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, Russia, (now St. Petersburg)
                He developed an interest in sports as a young man
                After graduating from Leningrad State University with a law degree in 1975, Putin began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer. Stationed mainly in East Germany, he held that position until 1990, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
                The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991, acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police.
                Syria’s form of government is an authoritarian regime
                • born September 11, 1965
                • graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988, and started to work as a doctor in the army
                • In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel was killed in a car crash, Bashar was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent
                • In 2000 he succeeded Hafez al-Assad, his father, who had led Syria for 30 years until his death
                • He ordered mass crackdowns and military sieges on Arab Spring protesters, leading to the Syrian Civil War
                • The Syrian opposition, the United States, Canada, the European Union and the majority of the Arab League have called for al-Assad's resignation from the presidency
                • During the Syrian Civil War, an inquiry by the United Nations human rights chief found evidence to implicate Assad in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
                  parliamentary democracy, with a mixed legal system of civil and Islamic law
                  • Born in 1938, he is the son of Sheikh Mulla Masum, a former head of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Kurdistan, and belongs to an established political dynasty with Muslim clerical links.
                  • A former law lecturer and a founding member of Mr Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, he served as its envoy in Syria and Britain before becoming prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan region in 1992.
                    Canada is a parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
                    • Trudeau was born on Christmas Day, 1971 to Pierre Trudeau, then the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, and Margaret Trudeau
                    • Trudeau supported the Liberal Party from a young age, offering his support to party leader John Turner in the 1988 federal election.
                    • he defended Canadian federalism at a student event at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the high school which he attended
                    • he and his family started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign for winter sports safety in 2000, two years after his brother Michel Trudeau died in an avalanche during a ski trip
                    • In 2005, Trudeau fought against a proposed $100-million zinc mine that he argued would poison the Nahanni River in the NW Terr.