10/29/10

Today in class we took a test on "The Lost Boys."

10/28/10

Today in class we worked on our magazine pages.

10/27/10

Today in class we finshed up "God Grew Tired of Us". I think it is the best movie I have seen in school.

10/25/10

Today in class we watched more of the movie and went over the weekend home work.

Civil War in Sudan

In-migration: To move to a different part of the same community or territory.

Out-migration: To move out of a community, region, or country to go to some wear else.

Forced migration: Being forced to move out of a place.

Net internal migration:  The difference between immigration and emigration in a certain area during a specific time.

Movers from abroad: Is number of people who moved into a certain area.

Internally displaced person: Is someone who is forcefully taken from their home and sent somewhere else.

                                                 

     The civil war in Sudan started in 1983 when Sudan’s president said that all non-Muslimism people should be put to death. Their president’s name is Nimeiri. He wants Sudan to be a one religion country instead of multiple religions.  People have to flee the country so they don’t get killed. Some go to cities others flee into the desert where they can’t grow food. The war is still going on today although they are trying to get the president to sign a peace treaty.

    

     The part of the movie was about the men getting to America. The men were learning about how to use the lights, how to shower, what a refrigerator is used for and other simple tasks. They had to learn how to buy things at the grocery store and what was and wasn’t for sale. They had to get jobs so they could pay the government back for getting them to America.

Sites used:

Wikianswers

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan.htm

10/22/10

Today in class we watched more of the movie.

Lost Boys of Sudan

1. The lost boys had to run away from their homes because civil war broke out in Sudan that drove the boys to Ethiopia. they had to walk over 1,000 miles to get to a refugee camp in Kenya.

2. They had to leave because Ethiopia's goverment collapsed. 

3. Life in the refugee camp was hard for them because some days they would not have any food to eat. They had no electricity. Some days they could not have any fires.

10/20/10

Today in class we went over our tests. I got an 88%.

10/18/10

Today in class we read about my families history. We also plotted on a map our families migration route.

Weekend HW part 2

I was born and I live in Maryland. Both of my parents were born in Maryland. My mom was born in Baltimore and so was my dad. My mom’s parents were both born in Pennsylvania. On my grandmother’s side, her parents were both also from Pennsylvania. My great-great grandmother was born in Italy and she moved to Pennsylvania. My great-great grandfather was born in Italy. On my grandfather’s side his parents are from Pennsylvania and Italy. His mom was from Pennsylvania and his father was from Gualtieri, Italy. He came to the United States on February 28, 1906. On my grandfather’s fathers side both of his parents came from Italy. His great-great grand parents came from Italy also.

            On my dad’s side both of his parents are from Maryland. My great grandparents on my dad’s mom’s side were both from Pennsylvania. My great-great grandparents on my dad’s side were from PA and Whales. My great-great grandmother was from PA and my great-great grandfather was from Whales. My great grandparents on my dad’s father’s side were both from MD. My great-great grandparents on my dad’s side were both from Germany.

            I thought looking at my family’s history was a cool project to do. I learned some facts that no one has ever told me before. I thought it was neat that I had family members that lived in Whales and Germany and Italy. I didn’t know that I had so many family members that lived in PA. I think one day in class we should go to some website and look at our family trees and do a little project on seeing where everyone has family members from. We can also see if anyone is related to someone famous. We could look and see if anyone had a relative in any famous war. it would be fun to do in class together.

Part 1 of weekend HW

When I graduate collage I want to be a sharpshooter in the coastguard or be a sharpshooter for the SWAT team. I want to live somewhere in Maryland because I like it here. If I couldn’t live in Maryland I would move to Canada or I would move to Colorado.

I would move to Canada because if the United States economy crashes Canada may have a better one. I would also like to live in Canada for the bear hunting and the pretty landscape. Also if the United States was being attacked I would live in Canada to be away from the war zone. Also if the unemployment rate drops so much that it is almost impossible to get a new job I would go to Canada and be a guide for hunters.

The reason I would move to Colorado is for the elk hunting and the way the landscape is. I would like to Colorado because I think it would be fun to live by the mountains or in a house in a small town. It would be fun to ride ATVs on the different types of trails. It would be nice to raise kids in the fresh air of a small town than raise them up in a polluted city. My job in Colorado would to be a sharpshooter in their SWAT team. 

The reason I want to be in the coast guard is because I love being around the water. I love to go swimming. I also like shooting guns. I think it would be cool to shoot across the bows of boats with a machine gun. I also think it would be awesome to own your own fifty caliber. The reason I would want to be in the SWAT team is because I would like to help innocent hostages from a mentally insane criminal. Or do a big drug bust and save thousands of people from buying drugs.  

10/11/10

Today in class we took a test.

10/8/10

Today in class we read the power point on the population power point.

Notes on life expectancy

Today in class we went over this:

Life expectancy is how long a person a person is going to live. Birth rate how many birth per thousand. Death rate is how many deaths out of 1,000. RNI is the birth rate minus the death rate. The population of the planet has grown a lot over the last 50 years.  TFR is the average number of kids being born to a woman. The TFR for a country needs to maintain 2.1 for the population to stay the same.  Migration rate is the number of people entering or leaving your country, measured by 1,000. why do people migrate? push and pull factors. population pyramid is the number of how many people in different age groups.

10/4/10

Today in class we went over the tests. We got to write in the correct answer. I thought my grade was good but it needs to be a little higer. I have to study more.

10/1/10

I left for soccer.