Electric Canoe 1943

Today in class we did the same a last class. Not much at all. We went over the world leaders again. That's about it. Now time for my new poem. Electric Canoe 1943. Just kidding, I'm far too lazy for creative writing. Anyway, here's a picture of a cat.

Wait, that's no cat! Marmalade!!!!!!!!

Today in class we took notes on a powerpoint about world leaders. That was about it. I wrote down that the Brazilian president was held and tortured for three years. I wrote down that Xi Jinxing married a famous folksinger. We mainly just wrote down facts about world leaders.

Electric Canoe 1942

Today in class we really didn't do much. In fact I'm typing this only about twenty minutes into the fifty minute period. So I guess I'll just talk about random gibberish. So about 15 years ago in 1942, I rode an electric canoe down the river blue. A bird I saw flew, and I already knew, that once I rode through, I'd make it go "moo." I found some fish strewn, onto the moon. I began once anew, perhaps you will too.



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Mexico.

Federal Republic.

Enrique Pena Nieto
.





China.

Communist State.

Xi Jinping.






India.

Federal Republic

Pranab Mukherjee





Russia.

Federation.

Vladimir Putin





Germany.

Federal Republic.

Chancellor Angela
Merkel




United Kingdom

Constitutional Monarchy

Prime Minister David Cameron




France

Republic

President Francois Hollande




Brazil

Federal Republic

President Dilma Rousseff




Syria

republic under a authoritarian regime

President Bashar Al-Asad

Canada

parliamentary democracy, constitutional monarchy, and a federation.

Prime Minister Justin Pierre James Trudeau








Iraq

Parliamentary Democracy

President Faud Musam




Israel

parliamentary democracy

Prime Minister Binyami
n Netanyahu

Today in class some weird stuff happened. Two students were picked to ask questions for everyone else to answer. I tried to overthrow them, but ultimately complied to the Democratic System which I hold so dear. There was a lot of yelling too. Tickets.

Today in class we took down more notes on I've of the major religions in the world. We also briefly discussed the tragic events that transpired over in Paris last week. It truly is sad the amount of violence caused by such petty matters as Religious beliefs and lust for power.

In Buddhist culture, Buddha is depicted as being both skinny and fat. The reason for him being skinny is, according to the legend, due to the fact that when he was younger his was royalty. He never knew what life was like outside until one day he left the comfort of his palace or castle and took a ride around the town and streets. What he saw changed his perspective and way of life. He saw extreme poverty, the sick, and people dying in the streets. He left his comfortable life style and went to live amongst the poor. It is said that due to extreme poverty and fasting in his new lifestyle, Buddha was so skinny that he could touch the front of his spine through his stomach. This is obviously impossible, but likely has some truth to it. He probably was very skinny, but not to that possible extent. That is why he is depicted as being extremely skinny. The reason he is sometimes depicted as being fat is that, quite simply, he believed that fat people were happy and content. I honestly prefer the depiction of him being fat.

I got this information from my brain. I remember all this information form 6th grade History.

I got an 11/20 on the online quiz.

The Ten Commandments.

Thou shalt not kill. - don't kill another human being., no matter what. 

I am the Lord your God, you shall not have false gods before me- Don''t worship false gods.

Thou shalt not bear false witness- Don't bear false witness in court.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife- Don't cheat with your neighbor's wife.

Thou chat not commit adultery- Don't cheat.

Keep Holy the Lord's day- Go church on Sundays

thous halt not covet they neighbor's goods- don't steal your neighbor's possessions.

Thou shalt not steal.- don't steal

Thou shalt honor thy gather and mother- Respect your mother and father

Thou shalt use the Lord's name in vain.- Don't disrespect God's name.

Thou shall to kill is probably the most important.

The Top Religions in the world are:

1. Christianity

2. Islam

3.Hinduism

4.Buddhism

5.Sikhism


 Abraham is considered a patriarch in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. He is also considered a prophet who spreads the word of God.

Martin Luther was very opposed to Indulgences because he believed that pay your way into heaven, which wouldn't work anyway, was wrong and shouldn't be allowed in the Catholic Church. This problem was among the 95 thesis he nailed to his Church's door. After that the Catholic Church began to shut him out and eventually excommunicate him due to him trying to expose the fact that the Church was making easy money by exploiting those who wanted to get into heaven.

The Hajj is a mandatory religious pilgrimage taken by Muslims who can physically and financially afford it. It occurs to the 8th to 12th of the last month on the Muslim calendar. The journey takes several days and involves many steps, including the sacrificing o the animals, and the cutting of the hair.

The Rigveda is the first of the Vedic Texts and contains 1,028 hymns

The Samaveda contains 1549 and most of it comes from the Rigveda

 The Atharvaveda has about 760 hymns best of them being common with the Rigged.

The Yajurveda consists mostly of prose verses. There are 1875 verses

Today in class we went over our test and began taking notes on our new unit. Our new unit is Religions across the world or just the major religions. We started with the one we're all familiar with: Christianity. We took some notes: 2.2 billion Adherent Christians in the world. It is one of, if not the largest religion in the world.

Today in class we took a test on the video we watched over the course of about a week. I did pretty good, I got a 93 The test was barely easy, most of the questions being very obvious. The only way you could have failed it is if you paid absolutely no attention to the video in class. That wouldn't be an excuse either, because you could go home and watch it by yourself if you needed to. Also, you could use your blog posts for the test. That's pretty much an open notes test by my definition. Of course, that is unless you didn't put anything in your blog worth knowing. Anyway afterwards we had an "evacuation drill", which took away our ten minute break. Not that we need it anyway. Ten minutes is just more time to get everyone jumpy before last mod starts.

Peace!

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Blog

This blog is late. Sorry. Forgot we had class yesterday. The blogs are fun though so here it is.

Yesterday in class we finished watching the movie about the situation of the world's growing population. It amazes me that in the modern world people are still living in such terrible conditions in countries like Kenya and India. Living among trash and filth in very close proximity to millions of people is not good. It also unhealthy for the average woman in India to have a fertility rate of 7. That is unbelievably high for any country. Although, it really isn;t the woman's fault. Women in India generally don't have a choice when it comes to reproduction. Their husbands want at least two sons to care for them when they get older, and they will keep trying to get these sons until they finally do. Even if it takes eight, nine, even ten births to do so. In fact the want for a son in India is so great that some wealthier people pay for ultrasounds to find weather or not it is a boy or girl. If it is a girl they usually have an abortion. Of course it is illegal for a doctor to give the information pertaining to the gender of the infant, bur they can still be bribed. This has led to a massive decrease of women in India. So much so that it is truly a cause for concern.


As for Africa, in the country of Kenya, Nairobi to be exact, there is a massive epidemic of the aids virus. Not HIV, full blown aids. This has led to a decreased lifespan in Kenya. The cause of the spread is mostly caused by prostitution. Many women in Nairobi live in extreme poverty and have a family to feed. Therefor they don't have much of a choice. It is truly a sad situation.

Today in class we weren't able to watch any more of the video because for some reason youtube was blocked for the teachers and not the students. Instead we talked about the notes we had written down about the video. I'll be completely honest, I was bored. Tickets.

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Today in class we ahksd fhhhhhhhhsdhl.hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Sorry, I fell asleep for a second there. Anyway, we continued watching the video about population and then we did whatever we wanted for half an hour.

Video in class

Today in class we watched more of the video about the growing population of India. In India, women are socially lower than the men, and have few rights. Men decide everything in the lives of women in India. When and if they have children, when and who they get married too, etc.

Today in class, we talked more about Kiva and what to do for our extra credit. For most of the class we worked on whatever we needed to though.

For Tuesday

I just remembered that I forgot to do tuesday's blog too. I won't get any credit for this post but I like to do these anyway. I also like to have these so that a have a blog for every day we had class. On Tuesday, we discussed our test more, and learned of a new extra credit opportunity called Kiva. We got our test back and discussed and answered all questions. Surprisingly enough, I didn't do too bad on a test I expected to do terrible on.

Kiva

I know this blog is late, but I still like doing these for fun. Yesterday we talked about how to earn extra credit with Kiva. We can pick a profile on the site to write about on our blog and even donate actual money for 5 more points. IF our class has the most participation those who participated will get an additional five points. Kiva is a website that allows you to loan money to people who need it. It's basically a charity where you don't spend a dime.

Today in class we took a test on our Globalization unit. That's about it. Tickets.

Today in class I once again explained my pure hatred for the most evil substance on Earth known as marmalade. Also tickets, tickets, tickets, tickets, tickets, tickets, TICKETS! Anyways we took down some notes to study for our upcoming test on ve a great day and stay golden!


Peace! Also my cursor got all wonky and messed up. The above sentence is supposed to be "for our upcoming test" and"have a great day."

Friday

This blog is late, I won't get any credit for it, but I still have fun doing these so I'll do it anyway. On Friday we got back our quiz. I folded mien up into an airplane, and others balled it up and threw it into the trashcan. One person made a shot form all the way across the room which was quite impressive. Anyway, it was a good class, we discussed questions looked up on the CIA World Fact Book.

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This blog is of yesterday's class. I forgot we had class yesterday. I likely won't get credit for this post, but I still want to do it. So in class we were tasked to go on the World Fact Book on Cia.gov to find 10 interesting facts about the world. The most interesting thing I found was that 99.9% of the population in North Korea has access to clean drinking water. That has to be a lie supplied directly from North Korea themselves. I'm sure the CIA doesn't believe it either, but they needed some kind of information to put on their website for North Korea. Also, I discovered just how terrible a place to live Somalia is. 32% of the children their are underweight. The infant mortality rate is 98! That's awful!

Today in class we used the world fact book n the CIA website to find information about statistics regarding the world and separate countries. We discussed these statistics within the class. That's about it. Can it be Friday now?

Today in class we learned more about the world's population. We wrote down statistics. We also talked about gun control.

Today in class Mr Schick gave us a pop quiz which was seriously un-cool bro, seriously un-cool. Besides that, we started a new chapter.

Peace!

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Today in class we watched a video about the sweat shops in Indonesia owned by Nike and other large apparel corporations. It amazes me that in this day and age, some people are still forced to live with oppressive, low wage, almost  slave-like jobs. In the late 90s, workers in a Nike sweat shop were paid 1.25$ a day. They'd get what an American on minimum wage would get hourly, in a week. They lived in 9 by 9 rooms with no furniture except a dirty bed roll. Their shacks were built very close to above ground sewers, and during rainy seasons the raw sewage would flow in. Their bedrolls and small amounts of possessions would be engulfed and covered in urine and feces. In my opinion an unacceptable way to treat human beings. The Geneva Conventions wouldn't let a prisoner of war live in such conditions to put it all in perspective.

Today in class we talked about our test. Yeah that's pretty much it. Have a great day and stay golden!

Yesterday I wasn't in school for reasons.......that's all you need to know.

Today

Today in class we took a test. It wasn't that hard. I didn't know a few answers but I think I did ok.

Today I was sick. I stayed home from school, checking my laptop for missed work, and rested.

Socrates

Today in class we learned about and discussed the Greek Philosopher, Socrates. We learned of his participation in the wars. We learned of his life and death. We learned of his method of teaching. It seems like he was a rather interesting fellow.

Well, yesterday in class we more thoroughly discussed A Letter to Garcia. It was a good discussion, some good points were made. I honestly can't remember that much more about that class. It was yesterday in the morning and I've mostly forgotten about it by now. I was probably half asleep the entire time, although I was trying to stay awake. I took a short nap at the end of class that surprisingly really did give me a boost of energy. Well that's all I have to say until next post.

Today in class we talked about the essay/article/book/movie A Message To Garcia. We took a lot of notes but I'm way to lazy to type all of them up here. Here are some basics. It was written in 1899. It sold over 40 million pamphlets world wide. It became a national phenomenon in America. It was based off a true story from the Spanish-American War. It uses real people and events to display a message of excellence.

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   At John Carroll I plan to do several things. First of all do well in academics. I plan to join the football team next year. I would like to join a club or two like robotics for example. I would like to spend my off mods doing something besides taking a nap and playing on my computer in the library, like I usually do. However, the naps are refreshing. I will never drink out of the water fountain upstairs because it tastes like someone has been tossing used tissues in the water supply. I hope to never get a detention or demerit because I have a completely clean record from middle school. Plus, you know, I have better things to do on Saturdays. I will likely never use the bathroom here. Especially during Human Geography. I am definitely going to try everything in the cafeteria eventually. Not the salad though, never the salad. Salad is evil, as is marmalade. ORANGES SHOULD NOT BE CRUSHED INTO A JAM-LIKE SUBSTANCE. Anyway, sorry I went a little off topic there, I will hopefully go on one of those canoeing trips I've heard so much about. I have a lot of experience on boats and kayaks so it should be fun. Unless they don't have those trips anymore. Know that I think about it, they probably don't. Oh well, I'll find another trip to go on. I hear there is a Hershey park trip later in the year. That should be fun. I'm sure I'll have more trips during the other years of High School. Well I can't think of anything else and there has to be at least 150 words in this, so I'll name some foods. Pickles, rice, chicken, soup, bread, MARMALADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Today in class we didn't do too much. We didn't talk much either. Mr Schick gave a long lecture and then noticed none of us had any questions. He was rather disappointed. He then talked more and we still didn't say anything. It was an odd class.

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    Today in class we read and talked about......I can't remember its name, but it was a short essay that talked about how people are getting lazier and shouldn't ask stupid question when asked to do something. That was a long sentence and I can almost guarantee I made some grammatical errors.
Anyway, I found the essay to have a good point. However, it was written over a hundred years ago, which means that long ago it was thought that people were getting lazier. This will always reoccur in every generation, the elder generation complaining about the younger. Well, I can't think of anything else so, goodbye.

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   Today in class we talked about..................the problems we're having with our blogs? We didn't get to talk about much because everyone was having issues with blogger. Mr Schick did, however type up a blog on a student's laptop while they were in the restroom. The was quite funny. Overall it was a good class. We haven't gotten into actual Human Geography yet, but I assume that is because it is only the second day. We'll probably get our textbooks soon.

    So far the High School experience has been fairly good. The layout of the building is easy to navigate, however the room numbering is rather odd. The classes are good, the teachers are great. There places to spend free periods like the library and cafeteria. The cafeteria has more than adequate food and beverage supplies. The library has a variety of books important for your school work, although with all of us having laptops and being able to access all information in the world with the touch of a button, I'm sure some of the books are collecting dust. There is a courtyard in the middle of the library and the cafeteria, but we're not allowed to use it at the moment. The school has an auditorium where we meet for speeches and other important events. Overall I've had a pretty great time so far.