Sam’s Social Studies blog

What I have learned about geography is that the Greeks were the first people to use it and study it. The main branches of geography are, physical and human geography. Physical geology is to do with weather climates, the motion of the earth and the seasons. I also learnt that geology is also to do with festivals and religion. Human geography is how we are affecting the earth and the relationships between us and the earth. Romans also used geography as mapping unknown places on the earth. Greeks also had a philosophy of geography.  Another thing I learned was that after WW2, there was a sudden burst of knowledge in the world about geography from the technology they used. Muslims are also really involved in geography. Now I know so much about geography. Thanks Ms. Nash!

In my summer vacation I went to four places. First I went to bali and stayed at a hotel named Segara Village. It was there that we ate at a japanese restaurant and went for long walks along the beach. We went for a 45 minute drive to another resort named the Elysian. There were huge waves in the beach there that were really fun and that’s about all we did there besides eat and play in our PRIVATE swimming pool as you saw int the picture.
The next place we went to was Redang Island. There was where we went scuba-diving and snorkeling.

The next place we went to was Australia which is my home country. What we did there was played tennis, visited our Dad’s mum and dad. My Grandma had a blood disease and my Grandpa had a hip replacement and that is the reason why we went there.

We also went to Langkawi and stayed in a resort named Pelangi. We went on a banana boat, a flying fish, and we went for nice long walks along the beach.

This is the link back to the homework assignment:

This is the link to the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5337080.stm

1.¿What is the issue?

The issue is the anniversary of when the Twin towers in New York blew up from terrorists who hijacked two airplanes and crashed them into the twin towers. The twin towers were the world trade centers.
2.¿Who Is Involved?

The people that were involved were the 2,749 people who died and the people who they knew. Those people are involved because the people who died are no longer with us and their spirits are elsewhere. The people who knew them are now very said because they no longer are able to see those people. The firemen and women who saved lives were also involved. Everybody in New York city at the time of the bombings were involved. Also the terrorists who were associated with it were involved because they’re the reason why people are sad from losing loved ones and known ones.

3. ¿Who is affected and how?

The people that were affected were the 2,749 people who died and the people they knew because the people who lived through that will now never see those people again and it must make them feel sad because they would’ve at least liked to say goodbye. President Bush is effected because

4.What would you do if you were directly involved?

If I were directly involved I would build an orphanage for all of the children that had both of their parents killed and have nobody to look after them. I would raise lots of money for the problem and build new towers to show respect.

Here’s a link to the…

map of the country…

picture of the event… 

The URL to my assignment I was working on is:

http://mkis6.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/block-h-homework-23-august-2006/

This URL is the link to the good article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4775103.stm
It is good because peoples lives who were affected by Saddam are now getting more happy because the right thing is happening to him. It will effect the world because this act will make lots of people around the world happy. The activities that are happening to him are that he is going to a jail where he belongs because he has ruined so many people’s lives.

I have learned that the events can’t be 10 years old or very old. They are events that are very current and another name for them is current affairs. A current event can involve communties of any sort. I also learnt that they are just common interests of the public, they also have something to do with places. (Countries etc…)