10/30/18

today in class we went on the CIA world factbook and we practiced for an upcoming test. i sat next to caitlin and looked off her computer. we would be asked a question about a certain country and have to find the country and answer the question within a short period of time. aiden got kicked out of class. the factbook game was interesting because we learned that america makes less money than switzerland.

catch up pt 3

-RNI is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate

-net immigration rate is the difference between a number of persons entering and leaving a country during a certain year

-entering a country is immigration and leaving a country is emigration

Why do people migrate?

-push and pull forces

-a push force is a reason to leave a country

-for example: civil war, environmental degradation, religious persecution

-a pull force is a reason to enter a country

-for example: better health care, religious and political freedom, better economic opportunities

-TFR: total fertility rate (average number of children born per woman)

-if the TFR is higher than 2.1, the population will increase

-if the TFR is lower than 2.1, the population will decrease

-for the population to remain the same, the TFR has to be 2.1

catch up pt 2

- there's over 7.5 billion people on the planet right now

-increases by over 73 million each year

-90% of the population growth takes place in Africa, south and east Asia, and Latin America

-in 1804, the population was 1 billion

-in 1927, the population was 2 billion

-in 1960, the population was 3 billion

-in 1974, the population was 4 billion

-in 1987, the population was 5 billion

-in 1999, the population was 6 billion

-in 2011, the population was 7 billion

-in about 2023, the population will be around 8 billion

-life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year

-crude death rate is the number of any type of death per 1000 of the population

-crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 of the population

catch up pt 1

due to my mother's A+ parenting, i havent been able to do any blogs recently. here's my attempt pt 1 to make them up. we started a new unit on population. some key issues are:
1. where is the world's population distributed?
2. why is global population increasing?
3. why does population growth vary among regions?
4. why do some regions face health threats?

global population is increasing because as countries are becoming more and more developed. people start having more kids.

10/22/18

I don't remember much from today besides a brief talk on infant mortality rates. We watched a website that showed the population growth and that was neat. I broke my nail off in class and superglued it back on but no one noticed so that's fun. Apparently Monaco has the highest life expectancy and Chad has the lowest. America stands at #42. I guess that's kind of decent, considering there are 195 countries in the world. At least we aren't at #188. My school computer is broken, I spilled makeup remover on it and it permanently died. I took it to IT and they ordered a new one but didn't tell my mom so she doesn't know still. I'm using my broken home computer. I used to carry it by the screen so it broke off on one side. It has multiple viruses and hundreds of dead pixels. The inside pieces are falling out. It's very broken. It took me an hour to write this post.

Scientific Method-- the government uses speech recognition technology to stalk us.

Problem: Is Cortana, Alexa, Siri, and other products like so government tools?

Research:

·       These devices are always on and listening for when they are called

·       They hear everything

·       Needs to be connected to the internet to work

Hypothesis: The government is storing all the information they get from us talking near these devices and invading our privacy.

Experiment:

Cortana-

·       Hey Cortana, what was the last thing I asked you? “Sorry, I can’t help with that, but I’m always learning.”

·       Hey Cortana, who is your superior? “I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.”

Cortana is playing dumb. It’s Siri’s turn.

              Siri-

·       Siri, is the government listening to this? “I don’t know what that means.”

·       Do you have anything to do with the CIA? “I don’t have an answer for that.”

Pretty sketchy.

Data: Cortana plays dumb and Siri is nervously sweating.

Conclusion: My hypothesis was correct. The government is listening in on all our conversations and may use the gathered information.

10/2/18

Today we went over our test from the beginning of the school year. I guess I did okay on it, the bell did a sound so I think that means I win. When the bell did a noise I said something in Greek that I probably shouldn't have said out of relief. It was Greek so no one could understand it anyway. I forgot the name of the SUV but I learned it today, I think it's Dasani? There's a mountain with the name. Really the SUV was named after the mountain but close enough. The meeting place for Greek people and democracy stuff is the agora, I remember that now too.