Hans Rosling

Today in Honor's Human Geography class with Mr. Schick we continued watching the video of Hans Rosling and his animated graph showing how countries flourish and thrive as time goes on. Before we started watching the video we introduced my shadow. I was also able to convince the entire class and Mr. Schick that he was my brother. Not sure how anyone didn't notice the fact that we didn't go to the same middle schools. But, after we introduced him we started watching the video. In the middle of the video Mr. Schick asked the question: Should we spend more money or less money on the military? It was interesting to hear the different answers where people were saying that we should spend more money so that we are able to keep our allies. But, Mr. Schick had a really good counter argument saying that he doesn't really think that if the USA started to spend less money on the military other countries would just end their alliance with the USA. After discussing this the bell rang and ended class.

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