Today in class we went over the answers for the CIA scavenger hunt. There were a few answers that did really shock me. One was the one about the Hiv and aids. I think that it is hard to believe that we are a country that is developed and we are in the top 50 on the list. It is sad because there are so many other countries that are nowhere near as developed as we are and they are higher on the list then us. There are so many ways to prevent this disease and I will not go into how but it really makes me wonder. What are these other countries that do not have as good of medicine that cannot communicate well doing better or different then us. One possibility is that as a country we have a good sized population and it is measuring how many people are dying from this. Well if you have more people then you will have more people that will die. Even if you medicine and stuff like that the more people you have the greater the odds of more deaths. And the smaller counties are less populated so not as many people will die.

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1.    What is the population of the United States?  316668567

 

2.    What are the five largest countries in the world, by population? China India USA Indonesia and brazil

 

3.    What is the population of Pakistan?   193,238,868

 

4.    What kind of government does the United States have? democracy

 

5.    What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe?  95%

 

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

 

7.    What country has the third greatest number of airports? mexico

 

8.    What country has the greatest number of exports? china

 

9.    What country exports more oil than any other? Saudi rabbia

 

10.  What country imports more oil than any other? USA

 

11.  What country has the second largest proved reserves of crude oil in the world? Venezuela

 

12.  Can women serve in combat roles in China’s military? yes

 

13.  What is GDP? Grosse domestic product. All goods and services produced in a nation in a given year.

 

14.  What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it?  Qatar 103,900

 

15.  Is the US in the top ten for GDP per capita?

 

16.  Most of the countries with the highest birth rates can be found in what continent? Africa

 

17.  11 of the top 12 countries with the highest number of deaths from HIV/AIDS can be found in which continent? Africa

 

18.  What other country is in the top ten? India

 

 

 

19.  Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths? 18

 

20.  Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones? No china

 

21.  What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic? 23.9%

 

22.  What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic? 82.7%

 

23.  What is Net Migration Rate? The diff between number of people leaving and coming per 1000 people

 

24.  Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world? no

 

25.  According to the Factbook, what is the current population of the entire planet? 9,095,217,960

Today in class we talked about population in countries. We talked about total birth rate and total death rate. One person in our class said that people that are coming over from other countries are talking our jobs. I strongly disagree with that, they are coming over to get a better education or to make more money. And if they are over here for jobs I say that they should get it. Just because the jobs are in this country does not make them our jobs. Because the people were not born in this country does not mean they they should not get the job. People are discriminating other people because they were not born here and they are working here. The have the same rights we do and everyone is supposed to have an equal opportunity to work and to live in this country and no one should be discriminated.

Today in class most people had to finish there test because of the fire drill on Friday. I finished in the last 2 minutes of the time on Friday. So he just handed them back for me to look at. I did not think that it was that hard of a test. I actually thought that it was very easy. I am very confident that I did well on the essay part. I already know how I did on the on the fill in the bubble part. I got a 30 out of 30 but that is not the main part of the test. There are more points in the essays then in the bubble part. I am not worried thought I think that I did very well on the test overall.

On Friday we had a test on globalization and on the letter to Garcia. I did not think that it was that hard of a test. I thought that it would have been a little harder. I also thought that I would have a hard time with the letter to Garcia part. I also think it was easy because we had the fire drill. And that was after the test was handed out. We all got to see the questions so when we had the fire drill we got more time to think about the questions. I thought that it was a little weird that the fire drill went off. I assumed that the teachers would know when they are going to do a drill. But now that I think about it, it makes sense that they don’t. Because they do not know if it is a real fire or not they always act more serious when they happen.

Today in class we went over things for the test on Friday.  We went over globalization and the message to Garcia. We also went over our power points most of them had a lot of info. Graces Probably had the most that would be very useful when I am studying. There group had tons of facts. I think that this test should be easy as long as I study and know what I am doing. I think I know enough about globalization the only thing that I may have to study more is the letter to Garcia. I am going to reread it again and study the main parts of the letter.

I know it’s a day late but I was having issues with my internet last night so I had to post it when I got in school

 

            They said that thing were better at Nike but they really are not. That just adds to why people think that the workers for Nike are doing fine because if they improve one little thing then the news people pick it up and make it sound better then how it really is. Nike said that there workers agree to sign a contract that makes them work for less. But that is not really true yes the do have a contract that they agree to sign but they are more forced to sign it. Nike brought in the military to scare the workers into signing it. But the news people felt no need to right about that. And then that creates a loop the news people wright good things about Nike and people that read about it think that everything is ok. So then nothing gets better over there because people have no idea what is happening.

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Today in class we learned mostly about the cons to globalization. We watched a video about 2 people who when to Indonesia. They went to the Nike factories and lived like the workers who work there. When they went there what they found was truly disgusting and horrible. The workers were living in 9 by 9 concrete houses. And they slept on thin pieces of fabric. They found that the concisions that the people were living were so awful that people were getting sick and the sewer was above ground and open so all the sewage was in the streets. And all the left over rubber from the factory was getting dumped and burned. So all the children and people around there where inhaling the smoke and are probably going to get cancer. It is amazing that there are no laws to help prevent stuff like this from happening. I really do not know how the ceo and all the people in the top ranks of the company can live with themselves. And they know what is going on and they are trying to hide it. If I was them I would really have a hard time living with myself.

Today in class we talked about globalization and what it is. We learned that it is the inner connection of all the county's becoming one. We also learned that it is sometimes called Americanization because most of the ideas in globalization come from America. As a result of globalization here is a boom in economy. There is also a grow in international, cultural and political activities. We also learned how to use google documents. I think this is a very neat thing it allows people to work on something together without the group of people meeting. This will be very useful on projects. Instead of getting people to meet and working around other peoples plans everyone can just stay at home or be anywhere and work on the paper. I think I will use this a lot while I am here at john carroll

One fact that I thought was amazing was that we are teaching kid how to solve problems that don’t exist yet using technology that also does not exist. There must be a lot of confidence that these technologies will exist soon. Another that I though was amazing was that the newspaper in a week gives people more info then people in the 18 century ever would come across. It makes science that after the printing press there was a boom in inventions and art and knowledge. When the printing press was invented info could travel faster and be more permanent then word of mouth.The last one was that there will be more than 40 Exabyte’s of new info this year alone and they said that is more then in the last 5000 years. We really are in a technological renaissance more and more technology is being invented every year. This is a time that there really are no limits on what we can do or what we will discover.

Today in class I learned a lot about Greece. I learned a lot about how they were the first ones to invent democracy. I learned how much the Greek   tried to do everything they did perfectly. I also learned about how much the U.S learned from them. I learned a lot about Socrates and his ideas. It is sad that he died for teaching young people. But I do think that the decision that he made over death or exile was a wise one. If he chose exile he would be thought of as a coward and all of his ideas would probably never be remembered.

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