today was a fun class. we continued to share our projects. I don't think any groups where really prepared to present our projects. I think this because everyone just read right off there paper and when we where asked questions we froze up and didn't know enough about our sites or countries to answer any questions. next time we do this I think we should all do more research and be more prepared of what where going to say and really get to know the sites we looked at and are comparing. I like doing group projects though because in my group the work was done evenly and you do better when you have more heads to think with.
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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