A Group Project On Isis

    Today in class we were in groups coming up with ideas to solve problems with Isis. These are some ideas we came up with

• Have background checks on ALL Syrian refugees before they enter the country (something like Ellis Island) 
• We should have American spies of Syrian decent go undercover into ISIS and earn themselves a spot high in the ranks
• This may involve leading an attack, but they could relay info to the area before the attack so people could be safe
• Every airplane, train, or ship (even private) that comes into port has to be checked by another countries' personnel
• It's a worldwide problem, so the United States military needs to help with a worldwide solution and not just worry about themselves

   After we came up with those ideas we talked about Isis. We decided to go on the internet and look up things about why Isis might do the things they do and here is what we came across.

About ISIS:

• Taking after Bin Laden 
• Motive: The Muslims holy book tells them to fight Christians and Jews until they submit to the Muslim religious tax that is required for everyone living in a Muslim state, even if they don't follow Muslim law
• Funding: Donations Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Arab bank accounts, Iraqi extremist groups are taking advantage of Kuwait's weak financial state and are using it as a financial and organizational hub
• Officially broke from al Qaeda

What a Video We Watched

        Today was so much fun and very sad at the same time. The first topic was checking the answers to the last huge blog I posted. I believe I got all of it right but I am human so I could have gotten some wrong.  It looked like the majority of the class did awesome on the assignment. The next thing we talked about and watched was about this little girl and how her life changed in a year. I saw a lot could happen in one year and that you should live life while you can. The video should how a war came into this little girls’ life but just flashes of the year you saw and had to figure out what was happing. The video gave you hits leading up to the war but you really had to pay attention to the video to see it. When we talked about it, it was very interesting of what people thought of it. Overall the class was fun and I learned a lot.

The Fifth Religion and Paris

     Today in class my teacher was finally back for class. We learned about the final religion which is Judaism. They are called Jews and there is 14- 18 million (ninth place) who are believers. They are usually in Israel and their founder is Abraham. Their holy book is the Talmud or Torah. It’s the first five books in the Old Testament. The first five are the Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, and the last one is Deuteronomy. They believe the Ethical monotheism and that’s means God is one and concerned with the actions of Human kind. They also fallow the Ten Commandants, and the thirteen principles of Faith. 

      The next topic was about Paris and about what happen at the 13^th of November 2015. It was horrible and my whole class felt bad for those people who were injured and killed. We even felt bad for those were not even involved that night because we knew they were scared too. I would like to say that it will get better in the future and that I will pray for Paris.  

The Huge Blog

          Today sadly our teacher was absent today at school so my blog is so long today, so I hope you’re in the mood to read and learn some things like I did. The first thing I have learned is from the World Fact Book about the five major religions. Christian is 31.4%, Muslim is 23.2%, Hindu is 15%, Buddhist is 7.1%, and the last one is Jewish is 0.2%. These percepts are worldwide so that how many people believe that religion in the world according to the World Fact Book. Another interesting fact about religions is Abraham’s effect on three religion. The first religion is Judaism and they call Abraham the first Jew, Father of Judaism, and the Jews father of Covent. He also has a special relationship with God and people. The second religion that Abraham has an effect on is Christianity. His effect is that his a Patron Saint of those in the hospital industry, he is in the calendars of Saints, and Christians call him “Our father in faith”.  The final religion is Islam and his effect in this religion is that he is mentioned in thirty-five chapters in the Quran. For those who don’t know what a Quran is, it is their Holy Book. Some other effects he is the first Pioneer of Islam and had a purpose and mission that took his whole life. His purpose/mission was to proclaim the Oneness of God. They also called him “Abraham the Friend”.

              A little later in class we had to do some research about the practice of indulgences and why we thought Martin Luther objected to indulgences. Indulgences is a way to add the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins. To do this you could either make your sin forgiven or you go to Purgatory after you die. But before this happens you could say a specific prayer or visiting a particular place. You say the prayer once or many times, or you could do a specific work that is good. Now Martin Luther objected this because he was taught salvation all his life and he thought you only get forgiveness is from God’s grace through faith. You didn’t need to do good work if you had faith in God and that’s how you redeem from sin. I have also found this in Wikipedia.org for the research part.

             Two more things I had learned today was about Haji and the Four Vedic texts in use by Hindus. Haji is a Muslim who went on a pilgrimage to Macca. It is also use as a term by a lot of people towards Arabs and Muslims in general.  The four Vedic texts are The Rig-Veda, The Yajur-Veda, Sama Veda, and finally Atharva-Veda. The Rig-Veda is the most important and the oldest of the Vedas according to schoolers. The Rig-Veda is also divided into ten books. The second text is The Yajur-Veda and it is used for priestly handbook used for the performance of Sacrifices. This has four books but is divided into two sections. The first section is the earlier section which is black and the second section is the more recent one ad that is white. The third is Sama-Veda and it consists of chants to be sung during worship and the performance of sacrifices. Lastly the Atharva-Veda and this is hymns most importantly four books. There are also four types of composition or divisions. The first half deals with performance of sacrificial rituals and the second part consists of philosophy. Over all even though this was a lot of information I’m happy I learned a lot.
                                                              
                                                    (Here is a picture of what a Haji looks like.)

Buddhism

         Today we learned more about the Five Major Religions, but only one because we were talking about it so much and classes where shorter today. The religion we talked about today was Buddhism and the people are called Buddhists. There are 500 million to 1.5 billion people who believe who are Buddhism and estimates quite a bit.   The founder of this Religion is named Siddhartha Gautama and made the Four Noble truths. The first one is there is no suffering. Second is Attachment to desire is the origin of suffering. The third one is there is a cessation of suffering. The final one is the Eight Fold Path will lead to the cessation of suffering. We also learned about the Eight Fold Path. The Eight Fold Path is Right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right Mindfulness, right Dedication. I learned so much about this religion and I hope you learned some too from this blog.

Five Major Religions

        In class we learned about the Five Major Religions in the world. The only thing is that we ran out of time today to learn about all five. One of the religions though is Christianity. Christianity is the world’s largest religions in the world it has 2.2 billion people in its religion. The people are called Christians and their belief is that Jesus is the Son of God, He is born without sin, and is crucified then is rose from the dead later. The founder is Jesus Christ and the Holy book is The Bible. The next Religion is Islam which is the second biggest religion with 1.5 billion people. Those people are called Muslims and they believe in Muhammad, Abrahamic, and Five Pillars. Their founder is Muhammad who lived 570-632 and their holy book is the Qur’an. The final Religion we learned today is Hinduism which is the third largest with 1.1 billion people. They are called Hindus and they believe in “as a person puts on new clothes and discards old and torn up clothes, similarly an embodied soul enters new material bodies leaving the old bodies.” In other words reincarnation. Their founder is no distinct founder because is probably the oldest religion and their holy book is called the Vedas eternal truths revealed to ancient sages composed in verse formed. I can’t wait to learn more about religions next class.  

Reviewing the Test

              Today I got my test back and I thought I could have done better on it. I would have like my score to be a little higher but my teacher made a mistake and so will change the grades and my score will be higher. So since I’m talking about scores it was because we were going over the test we had yesterday. No offence to my teacher but I’m happy he made the mistake because of my grade and everyone else was happy about his mess up. Another thing we did in class was doing our blog which I’m doing right now. This is why he is one of favorite teachers in my school he makes the class fun and funny, picks on people but in a fun way, and he even lets us watch a video in the middle of the class since his class is long. Anyway I can’t wait for Monday because that’s the time I have his class.

The Test In Human Geo.

          The test was today and I think that this test was not that hard. The test was about Japan, Africa, and India. Thankfully the test was all multiply choice and no short answer questions. One of the questions was hard but I think I got it right. Since this is the first test for the second quarter hopefully my grade will be a good grade and keep being a good grade. Plus if I keep blogging and taking good notes and study then my grades will stay high. Also today in class since the test was short I got to do this blog in class so I wouldn’t forget. My teacher is nice for letting me and everyone else do something else after everyone was done the test. He even let us use some of our pass blogs to help for the test which helped so I could check and not get the answer wrong. Over all I’m happy about my answers and think I did great.

How I Feel About The Test And Today

       Today instead of having the test we were supposed to have instead we reviewed some more. I’m glad we didn’t have the test today, not that I didn’t study I did I’m just happy I have one more night to look over things. I also more test for other classes which is tuff but I’ll get through it I’m just glad I can review because I wasn’t sure of things for the test. My teacher is the best for doing this for us because I don’t think the whole class was ready for this also. Our class was thankful for our teacher for doing this and he was happy that he did for us because he likes it when people get great grades and he said hopefully this will help our grade since he is pushing it back a day. Can’t wait to get the test over with and to see my grade when I finish.

Wierd Vidoes and Review for Test

        Today was very interesting and weird but mostly weird. In the beginning of class since our class won we watch three short videos that was funny and disturbing. The first video we watch was very weird probably the weirdest video I ever saw. It had a sheep then it morph into a weird creature then into crazy things that don’t exist but looked so disturbing. The second video had cows and the morph into a spiders and cows combined into each other, it was very wild. The last video was bears at a beach and at a road.  There was a pattern that went along and more crazy stuff happened that turned into a pattern. The bears were really cute though. The rest of class we were reviewing our notes for our test that’s on Wednesday. Hopefully the test won’t be as hard as the last one that I took.