december 10

Today in class we took the test on Cultural Geography, Major religions, And slumdog millionaire. I thought it was relatively easy. There were a few questions that I had NO idea of the answer, but overall I got through it and I think that I passed and may have even got a good grade on it too. I think the test was fair and 33 Scranton questions is a good number. Another thing that was good was that there was no essays. pretty much everyone finished in 20 to 25 minutes. There were a few people that it took longer to finish but that's okay because they probably were just taking their time. It's not like they didn't know the answers or something.

december 9

Here are my notes for today:

Buddism

• 500 million adherants 
• Buddists in southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan 
• founder- Siddhartha Gautamia 
• Denominations
• Tibetan
• Zen
• Therauada
• Amidist
• Four Noble Truths
• The Eightfold Path

Judaism 

• 14-18 million adherants 
• Jews found in Israel
• Founder- Abraham- maybe
• Holy book- Talmud and Torah( first 5 books of the Old Testament)
• Beliefs 
• ethical monotheism
• God is one 
• He is concerned with the actions of human kind
• Ten Commandments
• 13 principles of Faith

On the Test 

• Slumdog Millionare 
• Religions
• Cultural Geography
• All Multiple choice 

My notes for today:

Spatial Divisions:

• Are how we divide the livable space fund on the earth by estblishing social, ecomonic, and political control 
• You can be a member of more than one spatial group
• Spatial divisions can also cause conflicts or cooperation 
• Examples of spatial Divisions 
• Countries 
• Economic Alliances 
• European Union (EU)
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

We Also listened to Mr. Schick and Mr. Schick's daughter's Slumdog milionare rap/song. IT WAS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

december 3

My notes for today:

Religion

• can be a unifying force 
• example: Christmas
• There are 5 major religions:
• Hinduism
• Buddism
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam
• They all have millions of followers all believing the same thing
• Hindus and Muslims fight in India and Pakistan
• There are conflicts beteen Catholics and Protestants - (2 forms of Christianity) in Northern Ireland 
• Jews, Catholics, and Muslims all claim Jerusalem as their religions holy site. They are constantly fighting over the land

Well there they are^

december 2

My notes for today:

Cultural Geopgraphy

• chultuaral characterisics are a parts of a groups everyday life. they are the ideas and themes that they will TEACH to all members. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. Examples: Language, religion, ethnic heritage
• Language
• Arabic unties the Arab world. 
• Spanish unties the Spanish world
• Brazil is the only South American nation that doesn't speak Spanish. They speak portugese groups 
• Canada is bilingual : speaks 2 languages thay are French and English 
• Switzerland has multiple ethnic group but little conflict
• english is considered the world language
• Ethnic Heritage
• in Yugoslavia ethnic group were made into one country
• when strong leadership died out the different groups fought a boody civil war and now they are have seperate countries
• Tutsis and Hutus hate eachother
• the US and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their country 
• Korea and Japan mainly have one
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