Today in human geo class we talked about life expectancy. The life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. In Monaco the population is very high. Woman have a longer life expectancy then men because men take more risks, they work more dangerous jobs and military. The crude birth rate: number of births per 1000 of the population. The crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 of the population. Rate of natural increase (RNI) is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. This gives us the annul natural growth rate. Net migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country durning the year. An excess of a persons entering the country is net immigration. An excess of persons leaving the country is a net emigration.
Excellence Notes
Today in Mr.Shicks class we looked at a power point based A message to Garcia. A Message to Garcia was what we read on Friday. I learned A Message to Garcia was a inspirational essay in March 1899. It got popular and published over 40 million copies. They even made versions in 37 languages. A Message to Garcia was made into a movie two times. The setting was the Spanish American war. The person who delivered the message was Rowan. Rowan was an army officer from West Point, class of 1881. The person the message was delivered was Garcia. Garcia was a revolutionary seeking Cuban independence from Spain. We also learned some "odd" vocabulary. Perihelion is the point when a planet is closest to the sun therefore it is at its brightest. Slipshod means careless, lackadaisical, slapdash. Imbecility means feebleness, stupidity. Stenographer is a person who takes dictation in shorthand. A missive is a letter. We then learned the word the ancient Greeks had a word for excellence calle...
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