Today in Honor's Human Geography with Mr. Schick we continued going over our projects that we we've been working on. Today, the last two groups presented their projects. The first group talked about how in the country they chose there was a strange thing about their population. There were may more men in the country then there were women. Due to this, the men lived longer than the women. In most countries the women almost always live longer than the men. This can be caused by a variety of factors from stupidity to warfare. But however, there are more men in Qatar than there are women. This is most likely due to the oil industry there. Qatar is very much known for their oil industry. Because of this men flock in thousands to Qatar looking for jobs. The second group talked about a charity event called UNICEF Trick-or-Treat which meant that as kids walked around trick-or-treating they would let the adult at the door know that they were collecting spare change for UNICEF. This was a great way to help the world hunger problem with just a small action. This is an example of acting local, thinking global. After this, the bell rang and ended class.
more Ancient Greece
Today in class we continued the Google Slides presentation on Ancient Greece and continued to take notes in our comp books. Here are some of the notes that I took in today's class: -around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae -the Dorians moved into this war-torn region, dominating from 1150-750 BCE -Dorians were far less advanced -the trade-based economy collapsed -writing dissapeared for 400 years -Greek oral tradition-stories passed on my mouth -Homer lived at the end of these "Greek Dark Ages" -he composed stories of the Trojan War -The lliad- probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaens (The Trojan War) -The Odyssey- Oddysseus attempts to return home after the Trojan War, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon -The Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter -the "homeric question"- Homer may have been a mythical creation himself -a blind wandering minstrel; a heroic figure -lliad and O...
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