Holly Human Geography

Today in class we went deeper into the discussion of what site and situation mean and a few examples of each. But since I've already gone over what they mean, I'll just give more examples of how we explained them more thoroughly today. One example of how we explained these was through ships. Mr. Schick told us that he has a friend who was a ship pilot and travels the world delivering and receiving different resources for countries around the world. This wouldn't be possible without a place for the ship to load and unload it's resources. That is a good example for site because since we have access to the harbor in Baltimore we can send ships. A good example of situation is Washington D.C. Washington depends on it's tourists for Presidential sites and museums. These are the two explained a little better. I feel I've grasped these definitions and examples a little better since our discussions in class. However, a test still seems to much for right now and what I kn...

Today in my human geography class, we went over notes on site and situation. These two terms are used to describe different areas around the world. Site is where a location is based of of the natural resources that grow there. Mr. Schick gave us the example of when he drove up to Oregon and all it is is straight corn fields the whole way across. Oregon is so flat and the temperature is just right, making it great for growing crops. Situation is where buildings may be built and added to the area not just because of the resources there. An example of this was New York. New York was just built upon the land. Because New York is such a popular place to live (especially Manhattan where all the sky scrapers are) owning land there costs millions of dollars. My dream is to live in New York someday and do something involving movies or fashion. That'd be awesome! I wouldn't be starting a company there because I most likely won't be able to spare a million bucks but working for any co...

Today in class you surprised me with a pop quiz that I was not very happy about. I hope I passed it. I wasn't ready at all. As Iv'e mentioned in recent blogs, I know very little on geography. I don't even know where Siberia or Brazil are and I defintily don't know what kind of people there are. But i'm not so worried about that, because I believe that you can't really know anything about a different place in the world unless you have actually been able to go there and experience it. I hope I am fortunate to travel the world someday. But because I probably won't be able to see the whole thing, I'd at least like to go somewhere out of the country! It's funny because most people who have a lot of money spend it on nice things. Nice things are nice, but I would use the money in a more beneficial way for myself. I guess some people just don't understand that a big part of our life is learning and discovering new things. That's why we are here afte...

Today in class, we discussed the different countries of the world and the wars involving them. It was important to learn about this because not every kid knows how other countries including us have been effected by nuclear bombs, and terror threats. For example, I didn't know that we bombed Japan to put an end to World War 2. Was that the best approach we could come to conclusion to make in order to resolve the fight? Probably not considering that it killed thousands of people who were innocent, instantly. I mean it did give them a scare and make them surrender but we could have thought of a better way. Now we are probably seen as the country who could just bomb you any time. And it's good to have control, but we should be the country that all the other countries want to become. To many, we probably are, but I can't say much because I still need to learn more about those countries in order to make a logical statement. I look forward to learning more on the topic Mr. Schick!

Another day of our Human Geography  class has gone by, where we have discussed different locations of the world and how they differ from others. For example, an example of our different locations was me. I live in Cecil County where most of the kids in my class live in Harford County. Most of us have probably been to Cecil County, but if you haven't this is what it is like. Cecil County is more trees and grass land, while Harford County is more houses and buildings. This means that I most likely have more land than those who live in Harford County. I don't live in a neighborhood, when the majority of you guys do. However, I don't live close to the things I would like to be closer to like school, shops, restaurants, etc. Cecil County is kind of like the boonies to you guys if you think about it. Our pay is also very different. The taxes in Cecil for land are not as much as in Harford County. That is why we are able to have more land and still be able to pay for it. Most peop...

Today in class we started mentally mapping out the continents and our route to school. I think I was actually pretty good at doing both. It's funny because our parents get on us in the car when they think our heads are drilled to our phones. They think our lives revolve around them. They don't. Phones have made us smarter human beings as a whole. We should actually know more than older generations because we are fortunate enough to have the technology we have to answer basically any question we need to know. Technology makes us smarter, it's not distracting us from the world, it's teaching us. I also believe that technology helps us with photo graphic memory. That's why I was able to mentally draw our continents and routes. I'm very bad at geography. From my old school, we had had no studies of geography. Like barely. So I'm excited to further my knowledge in this class, and learn more on the topic.

Since we didn't do much in class today, I'm just going to write about what we have talked about so far. I'm still waiting to learn more about this unit, because the whole talk about the maps being wrong, and us never fixing it just blows my mind. So it will be interesting to see what else Mr. Schick has in store. Speaking of Mr. Schick, we learned that he was apart of the making in "Home Alone" and Uncle Buck." I would definitely be interested in joining his TV production classes. I have some questions. Does it take place like a real class? When is it? Do I have to be in a certain grade to take it? If you could answer these, that would be great! I think it's crazy that some people already know what they want to do when they ar eolder, especially when adults ask us because I have no idea. Well that's not entirely true. Of course I have thought about it and everything I have considered in some way involves the arts. I like acting, drawing, movies, bakin...