DEC 15, 2014 Exam review

Today in human geo class, we talked about our final exam. I was worried about my essay part, because i didn't really understand the option and how to write a wonderful essay in the exam. I'd studied hard on Monday. I hope I can got a goos grade on human geo exam.

DEC 12, 2014 Christmas Party

On Friday's human geo class, we have a Christmas party, all of us brought cookies to the class, we had a great time and took a lot of pictures, that's a really wonderful class I ever had.
And then, we go over our exam review, Mr. Schick told we can have a chance to retake our test on Monday after school, if you passed, you can got 70 in your power school.

DEC 11, TEST REVIEW

On today's human geo class, we go over our Culture Geo test to make sure we got the correct answer and review it for our final exam. Here's some of the question that I did wrong.

• On the American $100 bill there is a portrait of which American Statesman. - The answer is Benjamin Franklin.
• It was founded in the seventh century.  - Islam 
• it's members try to follow the Eightfold Path. - Buddhism 

DEC 10, 2014 Test about cultural geography

Today we took a test about cultural geography. At the beginning of the test, I cannot remember the details of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire", and about the religions parts, I can remember most of Christianity and Islam , but I think I should memorize more about the others. 

DEC 8, 2014 Miss class

Today I have a basketball away game so I miss my human geo class, but I have read some of my classmate's blog, so I know what I supposed to do on prepare for the test on Wednesday.

DEC 5, 2014 Five major religions

The notes that we took on Friday.

• Economic Alliances 
• European Union
• Organization of Petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)
• Political Alliances 
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Five Major Religions

• Christianity
• 2.2 billion adherants
• called Christians 
• Europe, Americas, Southern Africa
• Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants (Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans Presbyterians, Episcopalians and more)
• Jesus Christ is founder
• The bible, new testament
• Pope is the head of the church, priests are local authorities
• We believe Jesus is both human and divine, the son of god, was crucified, died and was buried, resurrected and ascended into heaven
• Islam
• 1.5 billion
• Muslims
• Indonesia, Middle East, North Africa
• Sunnis (75-90%) Shiites (10-20%)
• Muhammad
• Qur'an 
• monotheistic, abrahamic
• Five pillars of Islam: Testimony, prayer, alms-giving, fasting, pilgrimage
• purpose in life is serving and submitting to Allah and observing Islamic law
• Hinduism 
• 1.1 billion
• Hindus
• India, Nepal
• Vedas- eternal truths revealed to ancient sages, written in verse form (sung and easily memorized)
• no distinct founder, intellectual or philosophical points of view, way of life rather than religion
• reincarnation
• Buddhism
• 500 million-1.5 billion
• Buddhists
• Southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan
• 1.2 million in the US
• Siddhartha Guatama
• Tibetan, Zen, Theravada, Amidist
• Four noble truths, eightfold paths
• Judaism
• 14-18 million
• Jews
• Israel
• Abraham 
• Talmud, Torah
• Beliefs: ethical monotheism 
• ten commandments
• 13 Principles of faith

DEC 4 ,2014 Examples of cultural characteristics #Religion

On today's human geo class, we had a fire drill during the class time, and when we got back, Mr. Schick show us a song that his daughter sang with the rewrote lyrics. I like the song so much and I'd never heard it before. And then we continued talked about the Examples of cultural characteristics, and here is my note.

• Religion can be unifying.
• There are five major religions in the   world: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judais, Christianity and Islam
• The millions of followers all believe the same thing

• Religion can also be dividing around the world
• Hindus and Muslims fight in India (Hindu) and Pakistan (muslim)
• There are conflicts between Catholics and Prodestants (two forms of Christianity) in Northern Islands

DEC 3, 2014 Cultural Geography.

Examples of cultural characteristics:

Language

• Arabic unites the Arab world
• Spanish unites the Hispanic world 
• Brazil is the only South American nation which does not speak Spanish. It speak Portuguese.
• Canada is a bilingual nation. French and English are their official. Canada has provinces instead of states.
• The US has no official languages.
• Switzerland has multiple languages but very little conflict between groups
• English is now considered the world language and used for must business.

Ethnic Heritage

• In Yugoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country (Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians)

• When strong leadership died out, the different groups fought a very bloody civil war and now they all have separate countries
• In the countries of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa, two ethnic groups dominate, the Tutsis and Hutus
• The Hutus are dominant in one and they persecute the Tutsis, and the Tutsis are dominant in the other 
• And they persecute the Hutus. It has led to almost constant war between the groups
• The United States and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries  
• Korea and Japan have primarily one ethnic group
• On the island of Cyprus, the Greeks and Turks try to gain control

DEC 1, 2014 The end of the Slumdog Millionaire.

Today we finished reading the movie "Slumdog Millionaire", although I have saw it movie before, but I still moved in my second time.
The main character's brother in the movie, when he give the car keys to Latika, and let her go, lay in the bathtub that full of money and died. That was a really cool movie.