Today in class we learned more about Socrates and his tragic death. Socrates was put on trial for corrupting youth in Athens and speaking against the common beliefs. Even though he was given many chances to escape or avoid execution, he refused, proving loyalty to his beliefs. He died of hemlock poisoning, which was a very painful way to die. Another thing we did in class was talk about the situation between the United States and North Korea. Whether or not we should intervene, what our plan would be, what we would do were all things that we talked about. Some people suggested assissinaged Kim Jong Un, others suggested we use diplomacy instead. Mr. Schick explained to us afterwards that he used Socrates method of just asking us questions to answer to allow us to really think about the subject.
Political Geography
Today in human geography we talked about Political Geography. The world is organized by country, nation and state. A country is an identifiable land area and a nation is a population(group of people) with a common culture. A state is a population under a single government. This term can be synonymous with country. Nation as a status means a group of people with a shared identity, like a culture group. Nations are groups of people larger then a single tribe or community, which may share a common language, institutions, religion, and or historical experience. An independent, state has space or territory which had internationally recognized boundaries, has people who live there on an ongoing basis, has economic activity, an organized economy which regulates foreign and domestic trade and issues money, and has power in social engineering such as education.
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