Last Blog in the Human Geography Class Room

We took our final test today. It was a test that was fairly easy. I know that I was not too sure on some of the questions, so I went with my gut feeling. I may or may not get that/those question right. We will see eventually. We have been asked to evaluate this class and semester and what we liked about this class or didn't. All in all, I felt that this semester was a good one! I really liked this class and the way you (Mr. Schick) taught. I also really enjoyed your personality, flashbacks, "when I was a kid" moments and other things that made the class more enjoyable. The one thing that I thought was a bit of a hassle was the blogs. Especially when your math teacher gives you a tone of homework and your English teacher does the same. This is an inconvenience because sometimes, on those nights, you get home at maybe 6:30-7 and it takes you forever to complete. Then once you finish, you have no time to yourself and at 9 o'clock, I usually workout for 10-15 minutes and start reading before bed for about half an hour. I do think these blogs are helpful though because it can help boost your grade little by little so that eventually, you can get to that B or A. Thank you Mr. Schick for teaching us and inspiring us over this past semester. I hope you have an even better semester next time on, Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class of 2019. C Ya Later!

Review and Random Rambling

Today in the third to last Human Geography class with Mr. Schick, we were reviewing for the religion test we have tomorrow. It seems like its going to be pretty easy so that's good. Because there is not that much that is discussion/blog worthy that I feel should be included in today's blog, I am going to go on a small rant. That rant is going to be about my favorite(no offense) class, that class being Biology. DO NOT get me wrong, I love that class. I love my teacher. My classmates? Not so much. The Majority of them I am completely and utterly fine with, there is just a certain select few that are so obnoxious and just do not care at all. Those ones? Are not my favorites. I am not going to name names but ya know... I also wish that Mr. Grzanna would be more strict on them so that they might actually be QUIET. I just want to yell at them to shut up so we can get moving with the subject. Today, we only got done with about 3-5 lines with guided notes, a tiny quiz that took about 25 minutes and that was it...

More on Religion Class Assignment

  Christianity was Founded right after the death of Christ, the son of God. His birth does vary over different historian accounts but most people say he was born somewhere between 7-2 B.C. Historians say he died somewhere in his thirties. He was crucified and he had risen into heaven three days later. After his death Christianity had really kicked of and his followers went to spread the religion elsewhere like Rome and Asia. Many people think that Jesus was not trying to start a new religion and that he was a Judaism follower. Approximately, Christianity has 2.2 billion adherents and it is the largest religion in the world.
  Islam was supposedly founded in the seventh century which was about six hundred years after the founding of Christianity. Their founder is guy named Muhammad. Historians say his birth was the twenty second of April, 571 A.D. His death day was on June eighth, 632 A.D. Historians say his death was the effect of a deadly fever. Islam has about 1.5 billion adherents making it the second largest religion in the world.
  Hinduism comes in the third largest religion spot with roughly 1.1 billion followers. Hindus have no distinct founder. Hinduism is generally a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view. Reincarnation would be an example of a belief of Hinduism. Hinduism was founded right around 5500 B.C. which is the oldest evidence Historians can find.
  Buddhism is slightly confusing when it comes to it's number of adherents. It is either in the second largest religion spot or the fourth largest religion spot for having somewhere between 500 mil. to 1.5 billion followers. The founder of Buddhism was a very wealthy young man who lived in his fathers palace his whole life, he never was allowed to leave. One day he decided to sneak out to see what the rest of the world was like, he was shocked to learn that most of the surrounding towns/villages where very poor and dirty. After learning this, he stormed back to his fathers palace and shouted at him at why he was not allowed to know what was happening in the world around him. He then left and created the four noble truths. This man was named Siddhartha Gautama. historians are still not sure on how he died.
  Judaism comes in the ninth position with a number of 14-18 million adherents. This religion would have more residents but due to the holocaust and other events many have have died and those people would have had kids and their kids would have kids and the process would repeat over and over. Their founder was a man named Abraham and he still pretty important for Christians. They believe in the Ten Commandments and the 13 Principles of Faith.

Off-Mod time

I'm in my off-mod, listening to "Top Of The World" by Five Finger Death Punch. Good song and good band, I highly recommend you check out their music sometime. A lot of it sound like dogs barking, says my dad, but some of their slower songs like "Gone Away," "I Refuse," "Digging My Own Grave," "When the Seasons Change," and their remix of "House of the Rising Sun" are all really really good songs. Anyways, We are still talking about religions in our Human Geography class but its more of review right now. Like many other people in this school, I am a part of the Christian faith, the biggest religion in the world. Also something that is stupid, Mr. Schmitz, My Algebra teacher is giving us a quiz today that we did not know anything about. Now, granted it is a quiz on Linear equations which is super duper easy and teachers are allowed to give us pop quizzes but, most of the people in that class either have no idea what they are doing or they just need more practice. Although most people are struggling, some people like me, have taken this class before (I chose to retake because I absolutely sucked at it last year) and know what we are doing. I'm In class and we just finished doing a Quran vs. Bible test as a class and we finally got a 95% after numerous tries.

The Five Major Religions Cont. (Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism)

Starting off from where we left it yesterday, let’s talk about the other three religions I mentioned. Those religions being Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Islam is the second largest religion to date with 1.5 billion adherents. The religion can usually be found in Indonesia. the Middle East, and North Africa. The Denominations of Islam are called the Shiites and the Sunnis. Their great founder is a man named Muhammad who can be read about in their Holy Book called the Quran/Koran. Muslims are Monotheistic and see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah. Now onto Hinduism. Hinduism has 1.1 billion followers and can be found in India and Nepal. Their Holy Book/s are called the Vedas which are eternal truths revealed to ancient sages and are composed in verse form(song). Hindus have no distinct founder, it is a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view rather than a rigid, strict set of beliefs and it is also the oldest religion known to recorded history. Buddhism has 500 million to 1.5 billion adherents today. You can find this religion in Southeast Asia, China, Nepal, and Japan. Their founder is a man by the name of Siddhartha Gautama who came up with the Four Nobel Truths. He has also made the Eightfold path. The denominations of Buddhists are the Tibetan, Zen, Theravada, and Amidst.

The Five Major Religions Cont. (Christianity and Judaism)

Over the last few days in the Human Geography class, we have been discussing the top religions in the world. The religions being Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Christianity has the most followers with Judaism being the ninth largest in the world. Ever since Judaism became a religion, they have always had the most trouble in their time with Romans killing them for sport and something a bit more recently, World War Two. If these event did not occur, then there would no doubt be more Jews in the current day world. Christianity has around 2.2 billion adherents while Judaism only has 14-18 million adherents. Usually, Christians can be found in Europe, the Americas, and some in south Africa. The founder of Christianity is a man called Jesus Christ who was sent from God to die and gift us eternal life in his heaven way up above. The Holy Book of theirs is called the Bible and the Clergy of Christianity is the Pope. If your are trying to find followers of Judaism, look in either Israel or The U.S.A. Their founder is a man named Abraham who is tied in with Christianity as well. Their Holy Book is called the Torah and they follow the ten commandments that were given to Moses, like Christians, and follow the 13 principles of faith.

Human Geo Classwork

 There are four basic Vedic texts used by Hindus. The Rig-Veda, the Sama-Veda, Yajur-Veda, and the Atharva-Veda. The Rig-Veda is the largest and most important text of the Vedic collection. This Veda includes 1028 hymns and is divided into ten different books. This text is filled with metaphors and allusions that make it harder to understand by the modern reader. The Sama-Veda is almost identical to the Rig-Veda. The Sama-Veda are arranged in a different way since they are meant to be chanted as well. The Sama-Veda consists of 1,549 verses with an identical amount of hymns to the Rig-Vedas. The Yajur-Veda is divided into the White and Black Yajur-Veda and contains explanatory prose commentaries on how to perform religious rituals and sacrifices. It also consists of 1,875 verses. The Atharva-Veda contains charms and magical incantations and has a more folkloristic style. It is a collection of 730 hymns and has 6,000 mantras.

 In my own words, The Practice of Indulgences are practices in which the faithful Christian is prescribed action in the Church to get rid of the punishment that they would have to undergo in order to rid of their sins (Work). Martin Luther believed that eternal life was a gift from god and you could not get into heaven by doing good things("eternal life are not earned by good deeds but are received only as the free gift of God's grace"). I think this led to Martins indulgences because he wanted to tell everyone what he believed(?). Source found in Wikipedia.

 The Hajj is an annual, Islamic pilgrimage that says all Islamic people must visit the Hajj monument at least once in their life. Muslims will form a kind of circle and try to get to the center and try to touch the Kaaba at least once. I Believe someone very important is buried there.

The 5 Major Religions of the World

For the last two days in our Human Geography class we have been going over the top five religions in the world. These five religions are called Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Out of the whole world, Christianity is by far the largest. It makes up thirty-three percent of the world religion. The second largest religion in the world is Islam, which makes up twenty-one percent of the worlds religion. Hinduism comes fourth (none religious in third with 16 percent of people) with fourteen percent of the population. Buddhism for fifth is tied with two other religions/traditions all being six percent of the population in the world. The other major religion is Judaism which has a percentage of 0.22 which would be higher if there was no Holocaust. If there was no Holocaust there would be more Jews and those people would have had more offspring which would then help their population and religion grow.

The First Winter Break being a High-schooler

Today was the second day back in school and the first day back in Human Geography, exciting! My Winter Break was really nice. On Christmas, my parents got me a Jurassic Park T-rex breakout sweatshirt(https://vangogh.teespring.com/v3/image/rV7fTy_c5zJQnSMDyDGg-WErjjk/480/560.jpg), a nice Fitbit, some nice headphones, other clothes, and one of the best gifts ever, a dinosaur tooth from north Africa. The owner of the tooth is unidentified, so I am trying to identify it. The display case says it is a North African Raptor, from the Cretaceous period, and found in Taouz Morocco and found by the Tegana Formation. I got my dad a nice JC sweatshirt and I got my Mother, along with her four other sisters a pimple popper stress re-leaver so they could satisfy their obsession with Pimple Popping... The reaction given to me by my family was one of the best reactions ever given, it gave everyone huge smiles. When I went to my other grandmothers house I was given some Coprolite to put into my newly forming collection of Dinosaur Fossils.

Full day of Review

Today, the whole school went to every single one of their classes. In every one of those classes, we review a ton, it was actually very helpful too. I had Biology first, we reviewed like normal. Than we had health with Mrs. Gauthier. In that class, we watched Inside Out due to the Health final being held right before the semester ends. Then I had German but Mr. Canter was not here today so we studied our Vocabulary using a Quizlet. I am not so worried about that exam, or the Biology one, or the Algebra and Intro to Bible exams. The vocabulary has gotten easy for me too, Jetzt is "now", Mochten(umloud over the 'o') is "would like to", and Bekannt is "well known." Than Advisory, your class, than Intro to Bible. In Intro, all we did was go over several terms and play a kahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot. We had lunch, Algebra with Mr. Schmitz, Ich. Mr Schmits is a good person but his teaching style rally needs to improve. In English, we played Jepordy and in my off mod, which is going on right now (You waved at me:)), I am writing this. So, over all, it was a pretty guda day.

Another Day

It's another day in the Human Geography class room, the students are talking, reviewing their essays, but me? I'm Finished. I finished yesterday in this class when we had Mrs. Gauthier as our substitute. I feel pretty okay confident about it. I like it and I think it will do well. While in that class, the students talked heavily in the beginning, but as about fifteen minutes progressed, it was quiet in the class room. Mrs. Gauthier allowed us to listen to music so i plugged in my headphones and started of listening Five Finger Death Punch but I soon realized that was not helping, so I switched it to classical piano music. Later on I got bored of that so I put on some of the Jurassic World Evolution Soundtrack, it makes me so happy. Jurassic World Evolution is a game that can be played on console or computer. It is a game where you basically just build your own Jurassic World. There are many different types of dinosaur species and the game just looks so good in graphical terms.

Substitute and Finishing THE Essay

Mr. Schick is not here today so we are in Mrs. Gauthier's room with her as our sub. Because you(Mr. Schick) are not here today, we are completing our Mid-Term Essays. We are also completing some of our blog in class, like me, if you are completely finished. Also, random thing, I keep spelling completely wrong so that's fun. Anyways, I am done with my Mid-Term Essay and now all I have to do is actually take the test. I am home now, school is... well... over, obviously... and I had a really fun German class today. We started off with reviewing what was going to be on the exam. Than, Aiden Stine, made a kahoot having to do with German vocabulary. he had meme breaks every eight questions. There were so many times I started laughing some good laughs in that class.

Migration Test

We are going to have a test today. By the way, I'm just starting this in my off mod. I feel like I will do well on this test, I have really liked this unit so far. I find it's interesting that over half of the immigrants are from Mexico and that the U.S. will only let thirty immigrants in at a time. We also found out that Donald Trump will go to the extreme when it comes to the boarder and keeping illegal migrants out of the country. He said once that if they throw rocks like they did a while back, those rock throwers will revive bullets from rifles instead of the rubber ones we have been giving them. I’ll stop here and pick it back up after the test, see ya then! Okay, it is after the test, you (Mr. Shick) are allowing us to do our blogs now so, less homework tonight! Whoop! Anyways, I am feeling pretty good about it, I know I did not get a full one hundred percent on it, but I still feel confident.