Today we reviewed for the exam here are some things that i wrote down
trying to get rid of  a population- ethnic cleansing
things that the lost boys went through when they were trying to escape- dehydration, hunger, eaten by lions, attacks from muslims
jobs the men had- factory, fast food (McDonald's), security guard
Where did he lost boys go (city)- panther and dan went to Pittsburgh and john went to c ny
Know terms:
Crude death rate
Crude birth rate
life expectancy
rate of natural increase- birth rate-death rate
net migration rate- immigrants and emigrants
smallest religion judaism
prodominent in india hinduism

test day

Today we took a test on economic geography.  I thought i did pretty good on it and some of the multiple choice options were really funny.   

Notes on Microfinance

Microfinance- a form of financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses lacking access to banking and related services

Microloan- a small loan given to individuals who might not have access to typical banking services, usually to start or expand small, self-sufficient businesses'

As of november 2013, kiva has distributed 498,939,550 loans from 1,015,823 lenders to 1,1777,248 borrowers
average loan is $410.89- so they don't get loads of money
repayment rate for all its partners is 99.01%

Microentrepreneurs receive microloans
       Villagers needing to fund a clinic, hospital, or other health care facility
       teachers trying to run a school
       students wanting further their education

Problems with microloans
    high interest rates- sometimes as high as 23%
    The cost providing banking services to those living in poverty is high.  Being the company that provides         tiny loans can be expensive.

How do microloans help
    Malaria
    banking services

Test questions

1.  What is microfinance? is a general term to describe financial services to low-income individuals or to those who do not have access to typical banking services.

2. What does microfinance do for people? helps them with investments, infrastructure, education and legal reforms.

3. What are micro loans? loans that help people get a kickstart in a small business that they think will contribute to their town or village

4. Who are least likely to be helped by regular banks? poor people
5. What are some problems in developing countries that microfinance can help? Malaria, drought, and clean water

6. Large corporations' prices are (larger/smaller) because the big companies buy their products in a bulge

7. What do the peace corps do? They travel to developing areas and help solve major problems

8. What animal carries the disease of malaria? Mosquitoes

9. What is the number one way to prevent malaria? Nets

10. What attracts mosquitoes? bodies of water

Microfinance Powerpoint

Today, we went over the micro finance power point  that the whole class worked on, well maybe not the whole class, but you know.  Basically, I learned that micro finance is a financial service to low income people that usually can't get help from a regular bank.  Micro loans are loans that people give to people in developing countries to hep them get a kick start in a business that they think will help contribute to their village or town.  Kiva is a great online website for micro loans. 

On Tuesday, you told us your childhood stories and we shared some of ours. It was fun

Microfinance powerpoint

well, today was interesting.  The whole class tried to work together and make a power point about microfinance.  It was really rough.  Wow our class is so childish.  We can't agree on anything.  In most cases that is good with arguing our opinions in class, but in this case it was not.  Personally, i didn't think the powerpoint was that bad.  I made my slide and i was done.  My slide is about microfinancce and microloans and I thought I did pretty good on it.  I'd like to see how the power point will turn out.

I think today was the most boring day of human geo I have ever experienced.  I had to start the game over because apparently it doesn't save your place. yea well i hope your here on monday Mr schick!

microfinance

today, we talked about microfinance.  Microfinance helps people pay for insurance, education, investments in info structure, and legal reforms.  It gives out "small loans."  Small loans are usually given to people in developing countries to help them get a small business started.  Of course, this has to be a good idea and it will have to make money in order for the person to get a small loan.  I think these small loans are a great idea and people should support their local businesses.  

Today, we went over out test.  I got an 89 yay.  

Peace Corps Challenge

Today, we started a new unit called economic geography.  Instead of listening to your boring lectures, we got to play a game!  The game is called the Peace Corps Challenge.  At first it was confusing but then i got the hang of it.  I didn't know if i could have exited out of it because i didn't know if it would save, but i exited anyways.  yea, bye.

Test Day

Today, we took a test.  Thank God that we got to use out blog, because i would have failed if i haven't used it.  I think i got an A.  

we reviewed world leaders and i updated my blog today.
Here are notes:

Afghanistan is an Islamic republic headed by

President Hamid Karzai

• He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.
• He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.
• Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the United States that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded

Brazil is a federal republic headed by President Dilma Rousseff

• She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
• She has been divorced twice.
• She has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.
• She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping

• Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
• He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.
• The couple have a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.

France is a republic headed by Francois Hollande

• Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
• The mother of his four children is Ségolène Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
• He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme-right physician father and progressive social worker mother.  

Germany is a federal republic headed by

President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel

• Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986
• Has been Chancellor since November 2005
• Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years.

India is a federal republic headed by

President Pranab Mukherjee

• He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
• Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.
• He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.

Iran is a theocratic republic, ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani

• In 1963, took part in street protests against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran.

• Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.  Became Iran’s Supreme Leader in 1989.
• Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.

• Was just elected President of Iran - June 2013

• He has been openly critical of the outgoing president, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" have cost the country dearly.

Israel is a parliamentary democracy,

headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

• Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934.
• When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad.
• Later he organized Israel's nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb.
• As Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli negotiations during peace talks with the Palestinians.  In the autumn of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
• • As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67
  • After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
  • Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."
  Mexico is a federal republic

  headed by President Enrique Pena Pieto.
  • He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, María del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
  • Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
  • Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actor Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.

  Saudi Arabia is a kingdom ruled by

  Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud,

  who is both King and Prime Minister

  He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.

  He is worth approximately 21 billion dollars.

  He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king.

  In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope.  In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.”

  In 2011 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban).

  The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm,

  ruled by Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II

  
  

  • At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain’s top private school.

  • His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.

  • The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.
  • Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.

  
  

  • Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.

  Venezuela is a federal republic headed by President Nicolas Maduro Moros

  • Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
  • Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chávez in 1992, after Chávez and other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for  Chávez's release. (Chávez was released in 1994 and won election to the presidency four years later.)
  • After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, serving as one of his closest advisers as well as a loyal spokesman, until Chávez's death at 58 on March 5, 2013, from cancer.

Today, I updated my old blog.  I am adding more information on the world leaders biography post.

world leaders pt.2

Today, we didn't really do much since we had such a short class.  Basically all we did was go over our quiz that I got a 90% on!  After that we started to go over the world leaders again.  I learned that the President of Africa, Hamid Karzai, is fluent in many languages- especially English.  He also actually warned the United States about a big attck that was coming up which was of course, 9/11.  The Americans did not think much of his warning, but in the end, it could have saved the lives of many people.  We also went over a little bit about the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.  She was the first woman president in Brazil.  She also went through some really hard times.  She was tortured in prison with electric shocks because she tried to fight against the ruling military dictatorship.  That is all we talked about today.

World Leaders biography

Mexico- President Enrique Pena Nieto:

1.  his father was the mayor and other relatives have gone far in politics

2.  Elected easily and liked by many

China- President XI Jinping 

1.  son of a revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
2.  Married a folk singer Peng Liyuan and an army general
3.  Daughter goes to Harvard

India- Pranab Mukherjee 

1. taught Political Science and worked as a journalist 

2.  was rated as one of the best finance ministers in the world
3.  had conflict with Prime Minister Rajiv Ganhi (the son of the leader that was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party- Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.

Afghanistan-  President Hamid Karzai

1.  knows alot of languages- English, native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French
2. Several times in 2001 Karzai warned the US that the Taliban were connected w/ al Qaeda anthat there was a plot for an attack.
3.  Was in the resistance against the Taliban rule.

Germany-  President Joachim Gauck, Angela Merkle

Angela Merkle
   1.  Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Achedemy of Sciences in berlin
   2.  has been chancellor since since November 2005
   3.  Earned top spot on the FORBES list most powerful woman.

United Kingdon- queen Elizabeth II

1.  when she was born, her father was duke of york, then he became king

2.  named after her mother

France- President Francois Hollande 

1  Holland has no previous experience in national overnment position

2.  had four children and a 30- year relationship
3.  was born in 1954 in rouen to an extreme physician father and a progressive social worker.

Brazil- President Dilma Rousseff

1.  First woman president in brazil

2.  was tortured in prison with electric shocks when she tried to fight against the ruling military dictatorship
3.  divorced twice
4.  has a degree in economics, and now the country w the eight-biggest economy in the world
5.  She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009

Venezuela- President Nicholas Maduro Moros

1.  worked as a bus driver

2.  elected in 1962

Saudi Arabia- King and Prime Min

Abdallah Bin Abd al-Aziz al saudister

1.  grew up in the desert

2.  was influenced by father

Iran- Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei and Ruhani

Khamenei:
   1.  in 1963, took part in street protests against the US.  After the uprising was quashed, he was exiled.  He was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region i southeastern Iran.
   2.  Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.  Became Iran's Supreme leader. 
Ruhani:
   1.  Mr. Rouhani help perliamentary posts  and also served on the Supreme National Security Council
   2.  Was elected President of Iran- June 2013
   3.  The guy who came before him- Ahmadinejad hated Israel.
   4.  Ruhani said that Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated remarks have costed the country dearly"

Israel-  President Shimon Peres and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Peres:
  1.  born in belarus to escape the persecution of the Jews, his family fled to Palestine in 1934
  2.  When Arab forces launched thier attack on Israel, Peres was given the cheif responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from aboard
  3.  organized Israels nuclear program
  

World Leaders

Mexico
Federal republic
President Enrique Pena Nieto

China
Communist State
President XI Jinping

India

Federal Republic

President Pranab Mukherjee and

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Afghanistan

Islamic Republic

President Hamid Karzai

Germany

Federal Republic

President Joachim Gauck and

Chancellor Angela Merkel

United Kingdom

Constitutional monarchy and

 Commonwealth Realm

Queen Elizabeth II and 
Prime Minister David Cameron

France

Republic

President Francois Hollande and

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

Brazil

Federal Government

President Dilma Rousseff 

Venezuela

federal republic

President Nicolas Maduro Moros 

Saudi Arabia 

Monachy

King and Prime Minister

Abdallah Bin Abd al-Aziz al saud

Iran

theocratic republic

Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani 

Israel

Parliamentary democracy 

President Shimon Peres and 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Political Geography

Today, we learned the difference of a Country, State, and Nation.  At first i was completely confused, but i think I got it now.  Basically, a Country is lines on a map, a nation is a group of people, and a state is a government.  It is really easy to understand after that Canadian guy explained it, even though his jokes were irrelevant and non-humorous.  Independent States need all of the following things:  boundaries, organized economy, education, transportation, government, sovereignty, and external recognition.  

On Friday, i was walking into class expecting to take a test.  Luckily the test got postponed to Monday.  I read your blog, and it says that other classes didn't do so hot on the test.  So i guess i will have to study for this.   

Absent!

Hello Mr. Schick,
As you know, I was absent today.  I went to Johns Hopkins because my mom thinks i have chronic limes disease or something.  I don't, so thats good.  She thinks that because i did have limes disease before, like the whole bullsi thingy, and i have joint pain.  So my mom was talking to her friend who has chronic limes disease and her friend said it was eating away at her joints and it is really bad.  So my mom started freaking out because i have joint pain too, but that just because i have hypermobility in my joint, and when I'm growing they will hurt a little.  So I went to Johns Hopkins, and everythings good! My mom is relieved! that is why is was absent.

Well, today we went over a quiz that i did terrible on.  It brought my grade down from an A to a B thank you very much.  Grace also presented like half of her presentation.  I did find some of the stuff interesting, like the reincarnation thing.  If incarnation was real, I would want to be reincarnated as a cat.  That would literally be so awesome.  Like you don't have to go to school or work.  You just eat and sleep.  I mean it could be real just as much as Christianity could be, because we can't prove it.  Its just if you believe it.

Christianity

Today, we split up into groups and you assigned a religion to each group.  My group got Christianity.  I did't really learn much about it, because I already know so much. things I already knew were like the two main Christian holidays are Christmas and Easter.  I also already knew that there are different denominations of Christians like Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, and some others.  I knew that catholics call the people in charge priests and protestants call them pastors.  We did make our power point look pretty rad though.  It was overall easy, because we had such an easy topic.    

quz

On friday we took a quix that i think i did pretty well on, though i did not study at all because I forgot about it.  

Is America really the Greatest Country?

Today, you showed us a very interesting clip about America.  We spent the rest off the class sharing our opinion on America compared to other counties, and if America is the "best."  Personally, I don't think any country is the "best."  All counties have good qualities about them (for example, oil), and all counties have bad qualities about them (for example, a bad economy). But, there are obviously countries that are superior and more developed than others.  What I'm trying to say here is, no country is the best, but i still think people should have pride and nationalism in their county.  That might not always be the case though.  Like for example, i would not be proud to live in Syria.  What I'm saying is if you live in a good country, you should be proud to be a citizen of that county! I think nationalism is very important, and Americans need more of it.  America has accomplished a lot of things and i am proud to be an American.  I'm not saying America is the best, I'm saying I have nationalism.  And people thinking were not free... what?  Of course we are free! I mean we have laws, but a society needs laws to keeps everything under control, like crime.  Of course we are free.  So "I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AL LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE.  AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED, WHO GAVE THEIR LIFE TO ME."

Religion and Spatial divisions

today, you ranted to us about religion.  I completely agree with you in your rant.  Isn't religion suppose to be peaceful like "love thy neighbor as thy self"?   Looking at that map today, it got me thinking on how many religions there are in the world.  How can one religion claim they are right, and everyone else it wrong?  It seems so stupid.  I just realized how similar Muslims and Christians are too.  They both believe in God, and they both believe that they have a messiah.  It's just Christians and Muslims have a different messiah.  Who are Christians to tell Muslims they are wrong, and vise-versa.  Just because Christianity is more popular dosn't mean it't the "right religion"  Christians could be right just as much as Muslims or Jews could be right.  All of them could be wrong for all we know!  I just don't get why people are fighting over something they can't prove, and the bible is not proof.  The Bible and the Koran and all other religious groups were written by people.  It is just a matter of faith, and believing that the books are an inspired word of your God.  We also talked about spatial divisions today.  Spatial divisions are how we divide the livable space found on the earth by establishing social, economic, and political control.  They can cause conflicts or cooperation.  

language and ethnic heritage

Today, we looked into more of the specifics of cultural characteristics.  We discussed language and Ethnic Heritage. In language we took alot of notes.  Like Brazil is the only south American country that speaks Portuguese.  Canada has two official languages which are french and English.  Switzerland has multiple languages, but people get along very well there.  English is now considered the world business language.  We also talked about Ethnic heritage.  In Yugoslavia, there were many different ethnic groups, and they didn't get along well.  That caused them to split up in separate countries.  The ethnic groups were areserbs, croats, bosnians, and albanians. Korea and japan have primarily one ethnic group, while Switzerland and the united states have multiple ethnic groups.  

We took this really hard test on Friday. I'm pretty sure I failed it, i didn't even finish it.  There is not much to write about so I am going to conclude now. bye

Chapter 3. Cultural Geography

On Tuesday, we started a new chapter entitled cultural geography. Culture is a part of a groups everyday life.   Three culture characteristics are language, religion, and ethnic heritage.  Some counties have very uniform cultures and some countries have diverse cultures.  For example, the United States has a very diverse culture.  People from all around the world live there.  Everyone has their own religious beliefs, and some people speak foreign languages.  An example of a non-diverse country is Israel.  Way more than half of Israels population is Jewish.

Population Pyramids on a smaller scale

Today we discussed the population pyramids more, but on a smaller scale.  We looked at actually population pyramids from towns and cities.  The cities had more people with the ages 20-40 living in the city and few kids.  This is because people who live in the city mainly focus on their job and do not have kids.  There were also towns with military bases and collages which greatly affected the population around the ages of 19-30

Population Pyramid

Today we took a quiz on the God Grew tired of Us film.  After that we started to learn about the population pyramid.  There are three types of population pyramids.  There is the Christmas tree, the box, and the cup

The Christmas tree usually matches up with developing nations.  For an example, African countries.  In Africa, there is a very high birth rate and because of many diseases, there is a low life expectancy.  The box is usually developed nations with slow population growth, and a long life expectancy.  an example of the box is the United States. The cup is a developed nation with a low birth rate, and a long life expectancy.  There are more elders than young kids.  An example is Japan.

God Grew Tired of Us pt. 4

We finished the movie today, and it didn't end the way i expected it to end.  I thought it would end with Daniel, John, and Panther all making it in America and getting decent jobs, but it didn't.  John was very motivated.  He had three jobs, and was trying to locate his family.  After all, his mother and sisters were still alive, so he arranged for them to be flown to America to meet John.After 3 years of hard work, John is supporting his family in Syracuse and Africa.  He got a bachelor Degree in Syracuse University.  e also opened up a medical clinic in Duk, Sudan; his home county.  Panther went back to Africa to marry his girlfriend and see his mother and brother.  He also got a bachelors degree in economics at University of Pittsburgh.  And he opened a school in his village in Africa.  Daniel still lives at job corps ans is taking classes at community college, but unfortunately, he did not locate his family.

God grew tired of Us Pt. 3

On Friday we continued watching God Grew Tired of Us.  John now has two jobs.  One working at a factory adn another working at McDonalds.  John, Panther, and Daniel all discovered that the people in America are different from the people in Sudan.  Americans are not nice and inviting, like the people in Sudan.  They don't have a lot of time to hangout with eacother because everyone works different hours.  America is not what they were expecting it to be.  They are all grateful to have this opportunity, but John, Daniel, and Panther still miss home.  

God Grew Tired of Us Pt. 2

today we continued watching the video God Grew Tired of Us.  David and Panther are in Pittsburgh and John is in Syracuse.  They are going to be supported by the United States for three months, and in that three months they need to get a social security car and try to find a job.  This way the United States are not supporting them forever.  

God grew tired of us Pt. 1

Today we watched some of a video titled God grew tired of us.  I do not get the title yet, but I may get it later in the movie.  The movie starts off telling us about the Religious Civil War Sudan is going through.  North Sudan was Muslims, and south Sudan was animists and Christians.  Northern Sudan was attacking Sudan.  The soldiers were ordered to kill every man and boy.  If they didn't kill them they would mark them.  A lot of young boys escaped and they traveled to Ethiopia for refuge.  This was a very hard, long trip; many kids died of starvation, dehydration, and attacks from wild animals.  They got to Ethiopia, but Ethiopia was having economic problems itself, so they only let them stay for a couple years.  When they got kicked out from Ethiopia, they fled to Kenya.  Kenya had refugee camps that took these group of boys called "the lost boys."  27,000 boys fled from Sudan, and in the end, the grand total that survived over these past five years
was 12,000 boys.  After about ten years of staying in these refugee camps, three men, Panther Bior, John Buldau, and Danil Abul Pach, Were given the choice to go to the United States.  Of course they chose to go.  That's when class ended. I'm really exited to watch the rest of the movie.

well today we just went over and talked about the statistics of the world.  All of it was really interesting, I didn't know that you needed oil to make so many things, including plastic.  Tomorrow we will watch a video titled "God grew tired of us"  and i am very exited to see what it is about.

Statistics of the world

1. What is the population of the United States? 316,668,567

2. What are the five largest countries in the world, by population? China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil

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

4. What kind of government does the United States have? Constitution-based federal republic;

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

6. What is the largest country in the world by area? Russia, Canada, United States, China, Brazil

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 Arabia

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? Gross Domestic Product- goods and services produced in a country 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? No

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

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? difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a war

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? 7,095,217,980