Today in human geo we first took a pop quiz yay!!!!!! Then we went over the answers to the pop quiz. We went over the stages of demographic transition. Stage 1 is when birth and death rate are high. Stage 2 is when birth rate is high and death rate is falling rapidly. Stage 3 is birth rate is falling and death rate falls slowly. Stage 4 is when birth and death rate is low. Stage 5 is when birth rate is very low and death rate is low. After we went through that we talked about the exams next week.
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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