Today in class (day 7)

What is the population of United States? 313,847,465

What are the 5 largest countries by population? China, India, United States,Indonesia,Brazil

What is the population of Pakistan? 190,291,129

What kind of government does United States have?  Republic

What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe? 24.9%

What is the largest country in the world by area? Russia

What country has the third greatest number of airports? Mexico

What country has the greatest number of exports? China

What country exports more oil than any other? Saudi Arabia

What country imports more oil than any other? United States

What country consumes more oil than any other? United States

Can women serve in combat roles in China's military? Yes

What is GDP? Gross domestic product is an indicator to tell the quality of the economy

What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it? Liechtenstein and $141,100

Is the US in the top ten for GDP per capita? No

Most of the countries with the highest birthrate can be found in what continent? Africa

11 of the top 12 countries with highest number of deaths from HIV/AIDS can be found in which continent? Africa

What other country is in the top 10? South Africa

Where the US rank in HIV/AIDS death? 64

Is the US #1 in number of cellular devices? no

What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic? 23.9%

What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic? 76.5%

What is Net Migration Rate?

Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate? No

What is the current population of the entire world? 7,021,836,029

Today in class (day 6)

In class today Mr. Schick made us take notes on taking notes. He explained to us that in college they are not going to tell you what you have to write down. Instead, they are going to stand up in the front of the room and just teach. It is important in college to take notes because garneted you will not remember everything that the teacher had said. If you do not take notes you are most likely to fail. When you are taking notes, you do not have to write in complete sentences or correct spelling. Instead you use little fragments to help you keep up with the teacher. This is essential because the longer you take to write, the farther you will be behind. In college instead of taking notes, you can just take a tape recorder and you have the whole lecture recorded! For high school though, it is important to know how to take notes because some teachers will just lecture the whole class. Taking notes can be easy, as long as you know how to!

Today in class (day 5)

Today in class Mr. Schick did an experiment. He told us not to always trust a website. By doing this, we went to a list of links and examined each and every one of them. Looking for the ones that weren’t reliable was very hard. You have to look for very numerous details. Such has, if it mainly an opinion and its layout. An opinion is someone’s own thoughts and actions. Many people have different opinions. Such as one person may like soup while another person may not. It is just a matter of how people think and what they like. Another thing to tell if a website is a bad source is by the layout. The layout shows if it was by a company or a “sweaty man in his basement”. If it is all nice and from a familiar company, it is most likely a reliable source and you can get your information. If it is messy and has incorrect grammar it is most likely a very reliable source. That is what happened in class today

Essay #1

The true deffinition of arete is making up good character. In my mind, arete means doing good for your self and others. Socrates did this by going against what he was told and defining the world better. Just by asking a few simple questions can you get into the mind of another. It goes deeper into just talking to a stranger and it becomes talking to a friend. His method helped puting  people who did horrible in crimes in jail. Instead of being told what to do and not asking questions, people today would just be pushed around and not do anything. Instead, they think for themselves believe their own beliefs. Ancient Greece also performed an action of arete. They helped moved the world, even today. If it wasn't for Ancient Greece we would still be ruled by a monarcy. Instead, we are ruled by a republic and choose our own president. Both Ancienct Greece and Socrates have shown a great deal of arete. They have done this by showing people to choose who to be and feel free to think for themselves.

Essay #3

During the next four years I am attending John Carroll I would like to make something of myself. Also I would love to leave an imprint on someone’s life. For the most part, I want to get good grades and do my best. I want to get in a good college so I can get a fantastic job. I want to change the world and the first step of that is a good education. Trying my hardest in school is the only way to succeed. I also would love to make new friends and meet new people. I want to make a difference in a person’s life and show them the better things in the world. Another thing I want to do is get involved. One way to change a community is to get involved. I currently volunteer at a church to help special needs adult and it is a life changing experience. Just connecting to different lives and learning from their day to day life. I want to achieve a lot at John Carroll. The next four years will have a great change in my character and the way I think about life.

Essay #2

It has been years since Elbert Hubbard and Socrates have been on this earth. If they time traveled to the year 2012 they would be in for a big surprise. Socrates would be very pleased with the way things are now.  His idea of questioning everything still exists today. During trials, lawyers find out information by asking many questions and keeping the witness on their toes. Socrates would also be pleased that people are thinking for themselves. Thousands of years ago, people didn’t think for themselves. Instead they were told what to do and didn’t ask any questions. If they went against what they were told, they were sentenced to death. Today, that people do as they please and are not prosecuted. Unlike Socrates, Elbert would be furious with life today. His essay “A message to Garcia” is about how people rarely do as they are told and didn’t ask question. Instead they are lazy and do not do as they are told. People, even today are still like this. Instead of being asked to do a task, they would put it off and procrastinate.  This is a big problem with teenagers because they is “always something better to do” and decide not to do it. They both will have different outlooks on the world today.

Today in class (day 4)

Today in class Mr. Schick explained terms in class. Arete means making up good character. Such as it was very arete to vote for a ruler. If you didn't take your duty and not vote, you were considered an "idiot". Not in the stupid sense, but that you were not during as you were expected and not doing your part as a citizen. If you wanted to vote, you would go to the agora. Which was a place in ancient Greece where they would vote, deal with politics, and other issues. A place in Greece was called a polis, which is translated into city-state. A man who changed the whole world was an acienct philosopher named Socrates. He came up with the theory to ask question after question and become in sync with another person's thoughts. This method is used many times in the court room. Socrates death has showed how strong he was about his beliefs. As a part of his method, Socrates would ask many citizens "why", such as "Why do you believe in the gods?" As this made the town furious, he was put in jail and put on a trial. They said as long as he apologizes he would be free. Instead of apologizing, he told them instead of prosecuting him, they should be thanking him. The jury decided he was guilty and was sentenced to death. He died a very fast but painful death. The year of 508 B.C started a restart of socitey. Instead of having a monacry, a republican was created. Instead of having a king and queen they have a president and the people get to choose who they pick for their goverment. That, is what we talked about in class today.