My Grade

I would grade my class participation at about a 90%. I am not afraid to answer the question with my honest opinion. If the teacher ask a question and I know the answer then I am not afraid to raise my hand and attempt to answer it. If I do not understand the question then I can always try or ask for a further explanation. I always try to be a good group leader if we are doing a group assignment. Those are the reasons why I think I should get about a 90% on my group participation. 

Interesting Facts

                   Today in class we researched Papua New Guinea in small groups. I had three people in my group including me. We got about a half hour to wind whatever interesting facts we could and they after that we went back to our seats and shared. Each group had a peso who spoke for them. Here are some interesting facts that my group found. Their unemployment rate is 1.9% which right now is better than ours. The number one religion is Roman Catholic. There are 542 unpaved airports but only 20 paved ones. There are 3,105 people in the military. There are 125,000 people who have access and use the internet. There are over 800 hundred languages spoken. They import oil but they surprising do ot export any. They do have some exports thought and that is how the make most of their money in Papua New Guinea. 

More Papua New Guinea

Today in Human Geo we continued to watch the movie Guns, Germs, and Steel. The part we watched today was mainly about food. They collected their food by either hunting or gathering. One food the women gathered is called a sago tree. They would peel away the bark then chop the inside up. Through the process of however they do it the make it in a dough. I didn’t look very tasty. The dough is also not very nutritious but it still fills them up. They would also gather wheat by hand and use it in just about everything. Wheat is nutritious and a good source of food because they have a lot of it. They would also hunt whatever animals they could but this is much hard and takes some time. Also they food they might get from one hunt might not be enough to feed everybody but at least they get some protein. 

Papua New Guinea

Today in class we watched the movie Guns, Germs, and Steel. It is based on the book that Jared diamond wrote. It tries to explain why some populations of people have thrived and concurred others. He starts his adventure in Papua New Guinea.  They still live how they would hundreds if not thousands of years ago. They still make tools out of stone such as axes and have to find their food by hunting or gathering.  We talked about how some animals were able to be domesticated for some kind of use. They did not domesticate carnivores because then they would have to find food for them too. Some animals that can be domesticated are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactria camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, and yak. 

sick

I was not in class because I was sick.