Class notes

• Trump is making it harder to get into the United States and apply for asylum
• The S.S. St. Louis left Nazi, Germany with 900 jews on board and tried to apply for asylum but was rejected by the U.S.,  Canada, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina
• Non Reforma (not returning)
• 1951 United Nations Meeting
• Persecution
• Carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the oppression of Nazi Germany, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis was anchored so close to the Florida coast, its passengers could see the lights of Miami. 
• Some of the passengers had cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge, but Roosevelt didn't respond. Still recovering from the Great Depression, the nation was in no mood to accept more immigrants to compete for scarce jobs -- polls showed 83 percent of Americans opposed relaxing restrictions on immigration.

notes

• a migrant needs a passport to legally emigrate from a country and a visa to legally immigrate to a new country
• two reasons that most visas are granted are for specific employment placement and family reunification
• U.N. classifies countries according to four types of immigration policies
• maintain the current level of immigration
• increase the level
• reduce the level
• no policy
• About 80 million people migrated to the US between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million who were alive in 2015
• The population in the US in 1970 was 3.9 million including 950,000 who had immigrated to one of the colonies
• One of the main places where immigrants come from is Europe with 62% and of those, 45-50% came from the lands comprising the modern day United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
• The other is Sub-Saharan Africa at the time of independence there were 360,000 people in the US, 38% immigrants. Another 250,000 in the next century
• Most of the Africans were forced to migrate to the US as slaves, whereas most Europeans were voluntary migrants
• Emigration from Ireland and Germany resumed following a temporary decline during the US civil war in 1870
• Immigration from Scandinavia increased to 500,000 per year to the US in 1880
• Annual immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe reached 1,000,000 or two-thirds of all immigrants during this time
• Among European countries Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants to the US: 7.2 million, then Italy: 5.4 million, then the United Kingdom: 5.3 million, then Ireland at 4.8 million.

12-5-18

• we took notes out of a packet
• Those who do so are entering without proper documents and thus are called unauthorized immigrants
• Unauthorized Immigrant is the term preferred by academic observers, including the authoritative Pew Hispanic Center, as a neutral term
• Undocumented Immigrant is the term preferred by some of the groups that advocate for more rights for these individuals

Sub Notes in Class

Changing U.S Immigration:

• The United States has had three main eras of immigration:

1. Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
3. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries 

• Immigration the united states dropped during the great depression and world war II in the 1930s and 1940s. the number increased in the 1950s and then surged to historical levels during the first decade of the twenty-first century. 

• More than 3/4 of U.S immigrants come from two regions Latin America and Asia

• The U.S. population in 1790 was the first census after its independence was 3.9 million along with 950,000 who immigrated to one of the colonies that are now part of the U.S. 

Today's Class Quiz [11/20/18]

Today we had a 10-question quiz on what we have been learning in class. It was fairly easy to accomplish, and I felt that I did very well on it (hopefully). It was on what we have been learning in class and on the power points in class. Along with it had some of the same questions that we had done on a worksheet the other day in class (11/19/18). After we had finished the quiz, we were allowed by Mr. Schick to work on our blogs for today. Which is very nice of him to let us accomplish during this period of time. This quiz overall was simple but hard in a weird way. I found that the questions where easy, but we had to recall certain times that we had gone over the questions in class the other day. I don't have the best memory, but I was able to recall a few of the questions and the rest of them I had done by the knowledge I have gained throughout this class.

Class Notes 11/8/18

Cultural Landscpe

• Key Issues
• where is the world population disributed
• why is global population increasing
• why does population growth vary among regions
• why do some regions face health threats
• Population Concentrations
• 2/3 of the worlds inhabitants clustered in 4 regions
• east asia 
• southeast asia 
• europe
• south asia
• fertule soil and temprate climate
• near body of water 
• sparsely populated regions 
• humans try to aviod clustering in certain physical enviroments
• dry lands
• wet lands 
• cold lands
• high lands
• places considerd too harsh for occupancy have dimished over time
• population density
• density can be computed in up to three ways for a place
• arithmetic density
• numbers of objects in an area
• physialogical density
• number of people supported by a area
• agricultural density
• number of farmers to arable land
• components of population growth
• measure population change in country and world by three measures
• crude birth rate
• crude death rate
• natural increase rate

Class notes 11/7/18

Population pyramids: to analyze growth of fertility, mortality, and migration

• males always on the left
• three basic shapes
• xmas tree
• the box
• the cup
• xmas tree: growth rate are slow, high birth rate, short life expectancy, developing nation
• the box: developed nation, slow growth, low infant mortality, slow population growth, long life expectancy 
• the cup: developed nation, negative growth, low birth rate, shrinking population, long life expectancy

Test

We took a test in class. I thought overall that I did pretty well. I don't think it was that hard.

Going Over Grades

Today in class we went over our blogs. We also went over all our grades to see how we are doing. We went through all our grades to check them over to make sure there were no mistakes by us or our teacher. As we went through we checked through each grade with their dates to see if we got full credit for each one with their dates. Also, to see if the grades were right. We also were able to do our blogs and work on work that some of us wanted to make up. 

CIA Facts

• The population of the United States is 326,625,791 in July 2017. 
• I found this as an interesting fact because we have been learning about the population. This was interesting because it goes to show how large the united states is. Also that they can take the mark of how many people are in the united states in July 2017. Also how we know how many people come in, out of the US and that we can keep track of it.
• The birth rate of the United States is 0.81% in 2017
• this is interesting because it shows the population is decreasing. This involves what we have been learning because we have been talking about what birth rate is. I found this cool because our population is decreasing slowly. Also, that to sustain a constant rate we would have to have a birth rate of 2.1.
• In the United States, 79% of americans speak English
• This is interesting because we have been talking about the birth rate. This shows that 79% of the birth rate and migration of the united states speaks English or is born learning to speak English.
• in the United States, there is 9,147,593 sq km land area.
• This is cool because we have been talking about areas and maps. This is interesting because I never knew this and it is something new for me to know.
• The United States has 9,147,593 sq km of coastline.
• This is interesting because we have been learning about land areas.

Class Work

Ancient cartography. We all know Eratosthenes made a map of the entire world. Name three other things he is known for.

• 1. a great mathematician  
• 2. poet
• 3. astronemer 

Time zones. If it is 10:00 am in Bel Air, what time is it in…

• 4.  Portland, Oregon =  7:00 am
• 5.  Greenwich, England =  3:00 pm
• 6.  Toronto, Ontario =  10:00 am
• 7.  The South Pole =  3:00 am

Locations and place names.

• 8.  List five toponyms that are named after physical features.
• England 
• Whales
• Scotland
• Ireland 
• Channel Islands
• 9.  List five toponyms that are named after Native American places.
• Chicago
• Philadelphia 
• Sante Fe
• Seattle 
• Boston
• 10.  List five toponyms that are named after a person of prominence.
• Arlington County
• Bullock County
• Cook County 
• Bacon County
• Hale County
• 11.  List five toponyms that have some religious affiliation.
• Emerson college
• John Carrol
• George Fox University
• Anderson House
• Westin St. Francis

Latitude and Longitude. Give the latitude and longitude for the following cities.

• 12.  Baltimore, Maryland =  39.2904 N and 76.6122 W
• 13.  Quito, Ecuador =  0.1807 S and 78.4678 W
• 14.  Taveuni, an island in Fiji =  16.8414 S and 179.9813 W
• 15.  Christchurch, New Zealand =  43.5321 S and 172.6362 E
• 16.  Juneau, Alaska =  58.3019 N and 134.4197 W

Antipodes. (Don’t worry, this won’t be on the test. But it’s still cool.)

• 17.  Give the definition of Geographic Antipode: the antipode of any spot on earth is the point on earths surface diametrically opposite to it; the antipodes of a region similarly represent the area opposite it

Find the antipode for the following locations. I suggest www.antipodesmap.com.

• 18.  Beijing, China =  Departamento Conesa, Argentina 
• 19.  Bermuda =  the ocean 32° 18' 6.6" S, 115° 14' 22.7" E
• 20.  Your house =  in the water 39° 39' 5.2" S, 103° 28' 32.6" E)

Going Over Notes

• Location Can Be Identified In Three Ways
• Place Name
• A toponym is the name given to a place on earth
• Site
• Is the physical character of a place
• Situation
• The location of a place relative to other places
• Region
• A unique area
• An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics a region
• A region derives its unified character through the cultural landscape - a combination of cultural, religious, and physical features 
• We went over how people talk in different areas
• At the end of class we were able to finish the blogs

Test Review

Today in class we finally got back our tests. He said this was the latest we ever get them back and apologized which was very nice and respectable. Then we started to go over them. we went around answering questions and checking them over. If we got a 90 percent or higher we would get one ring of the bell but if we got a 100 percent, we would get two rings of the bell. this was pretty funny to do. Sadly, I didn't get a ring on the bell. After we had discussed the question we went over the essays on the back. He told us what he wanted us to have on it and what we did good on he underlined and what wasn’t really important that we said wasn’t underlined. After that we ended and was able to type our blogs and finish them in class if we wanted to. He also cracked some good jokes in today’s class to. 

Finished Maps in Class

Today we were given time to finish our maps in class today. First, we had three shadow kids from other schools join our class today. As we worked on our maps Mr. Schick had us come up one by one to his desk. The maps were to help us identify where things were. Also, they were to help us be able to locate places a lot better. He discussed to us our blogs and what his thoughts on how we were doing on them. If we had finished our maps we were allowed to work on other homework if we had any to do. We got off the hook today and didn’t have to take notes. The maps where pretty much our notes for today which was pretty nice. Today’s class was interesting and fun. I could see who wanted to get work done or who wanted to work but also just talk at the same time.

September 25, Tuesday Class Notes

Contemporary Mapping

• Shift from simply a tool that provides location reference to a tool used by geographers to communicate complex geographic phenomena
• Indianapolis is one of the only capitals that is not on a body of water

Map Scale

• Written Scale
• Graphic Scale

Projection

• Projection: method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map
• Discussed about the Mercator Projection, Goode Homolosine Projection, and the Robinson Projection

Geographic Grid

• Is a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on earths surface
• Parallels are numbered by latitude
• Meridians are numbered by longitude
• Points on earths surface can be communicated by referencing points of latitude and longitude intersection 
• Further accuracy can be found by dividing each degree into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds
• Earths divided into 360 degrees longitude 

September 19 Wednesday Class Notes

Key Issues

• How do geographers describe where things are?
• Why is each point on earth unique?
• Why are different places similar?
• Why are some human actions not sustainable?

1.1.1: Explain differences between early maps and contemporary maps

1.1.2: Describe the role of map scale and projections and making maps (cartography)

1.1.3: Explain how latitude and longitude are used to locate points on Earth's surface

Geography: is the study of where things are found on earth's surface and the reasons for the locations

Human geographers ask two simple questions.

• Where are people and activities found on earth?
• Why are they found there?

A map is two-dimensional or flat-scale model of earth's surface, or a portion of it

Cartography: is the science of map making

Maps serve two purposes

• Reference tool to identify an objects absolute and relative location
• A communications tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features

The earliest maps were reference tools

The first world map was made by Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.)

Improvements where made later by Ptolemy

• After Ptolemy, advancements where made in cartography, which made mostly outside Europe by the china and Islamic world

First Test

I was a little nervous before we had the test. I thought I had studied pretty well but I knew I wasn't positive until I took the test. I liked the format a lot because I strong with some teachers formats this one I did not. I thought it was fairly simple and straight forward. everything I studied was used in the test which I was happy about. I new just about everything. I thought I did pretty well and for the first time on a test felt that I did good but I won't know until it is graded. This test format was put together very well and I thought very straight forward on what our teacher wanted us to know. I thought I was well prepared and was still glad that our teacher gave us time before the test to study a little more and get prepared.

Class notes Thursday

• Socrates asked leading questions to help kids develop critical thinking
• Athens was a great city that attacked brilliant thinkers
• these thinkers shared knowledge of astronomy, medicine, meteorology, literature, philosophy, and all things science
• teaching was manly centered around greek gods
• socrates had the young children thinking and questioning things
• socrates for doing this was charged with two different crimes
• corruption of the youth
• impiety (not believing in the gods of Athens)
• then we discussed if socrates should have not been charge or if he should have been charged for his 2 crimes
• Idiot: self-centeredness

Class notes Wednesday

• Imbecility: inability, feebleness
• Stenographer: a person who takes dictation
• Missive: a letter, especially a long or official one
• Ancient Greeks Arete
• Arete: excellence, moral virtue, fulfillment, the act of living to your full potential
• Arete involves all abilities and potential of humans
• the highest human potential knowledge
• "this is what separates us from the dawgs"
• We then discussed things the can't be proved or not it just isn't provable
• Then talked about what Jesuses image and what he most likely looked like
• Agora: a place that people meet to discus important things and have meetings
• Polis: political entities ruled by there bodies of citizens
• 508 BCE was the birth of democracy
• US (1776)
• France (1789)
• China (1985 and 1949)
• Russia (1917)
• Iran (1979)
• Egypt (2011)
• They all had a revolution
• Socrates worked as a stonemason, fought in a war, and this shaped the way he looked at life/world
• He met young students outside the agora
• He had a method of asking a bunch of questions to see there beliefs they had
• This help lead the the scientific method

Excellence

• Published on March 1899
• Sold over 40 million copies
• Translated into 37 different languages 
• Was made into a movie two times
• Was made into a slang and is stilled used in the military today
• The slang is for talking initiative
• Was made during the Spanish American war
• Garcia was a revolutionary seeking cuban independence
• Rowan was a army officer
• McKinley was president at the time
• Slipshod means careless

First Day at John Carroll

-September 7

My first few days of school where pretty fun. So far, I have learned a lot in all my classes. It was a little hard at first trying to find classes but I a starting to get it. My locker is still a struggle to open it, but I am starting to get it but also with the help of my advisor. The students are all really nice to me and helpful during the day while we are moving to classes or in lunch. It is a really full schedule. There is no time for mistakes or fooling around.  The homework hasn’t gotten that bad, but I know it will be getting worse sooner than later. My classes aren’t hard but there not easy and the teachers are very welcoming to me. I am really happy that I am starting to get the hang of it and hope that other freshman are too.