in class on Friday we reviewed Socrates. we went over what he was accused of that got him sentenced to death. he was accused of corrupting the minds of the youth and of not believing in the Greek gods. also we learned about the quote "the unexamined life is not worth living." this quote means that we where giving the minds that think beyond and ask why and we should use it and think about things and not just live a normal boring life where you don't think of the why of things. also we talked about the hurricanes and how they are going to effect lives and how the government should deal with it. also about how Houston is getting kind of over looked now because another hurricane is coming at Florida. also there was a very big earthquake that is believed is going to cause a tsunami.
today in class we started to talk about new things. we started to learn about political geography. in other words how the world is organized. the world is organized in countries which are an identifiable land area. they are also organized by nations which are a population with a common culture. the last way is by a state which means a population under a single government and can be synonymous with "country". a better definition of nation is, a group of people with a shared identity think of it as a culture group nations are groups of people, larger than a single tribe or community, which may share a common language, institutions, religion, and/or historical experience. and independent state might have characteristics such as has space of territory which has internationally recognized boundaries, has people w there on an on going basis, has economic activity and organized economy which regulates foreign and domestic trade and issues money, has the power of social engineering,
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