10/28

Today in class, we continued to work on our power point.  Emma and I chose Canada, and we are almost finished our report.  We worked on it all class yesterday and today.  We thought we were done, but Mr. Schick gave us more ideas for things to put into our power point.  We searched for the things to put into it.  We could not find anything that we were positive was true, but we did find things that were opinionated and from the people in Canada. Emma and I are going to look over it tomorrow and see if we want to put any of it in our power point.  We will also continue to look for facts about Stephen Harper and the Canadian government. 

October 21st

Today in class we went over the homework we had for the Friday and last night.  We had a class discussion about the small project we had over the weekend.  After we talked about that, we went over the homework we had last night; which was to find out interesting facts about all the leaders of the countries.  Everyone in the class shared a fact or two or three.  We also went online and looked up some more interesting facts.  While people were sharing the facts, we had little discussions about them.  Mr. Schick asked us questions about the fact; like 'do you think it is shocking' or 'isn't that crazy or odd to hear?'  These facts were shocking, some of them were things you would never ever expect. 

Leader report

Dilma Rouseff - While Rousseff was in prison, she met a guy and thy decided that after there release they resume to getting married. 

Enrique Pena Nieto - He had many romantic relationships with other woman after hid wife died and he remarried.  Two sons with two different women.

XI Jinping - He wanted China to have a dream; something they could live up to and to make them work hard.  XI is the son of founding members of the communist party in china. 

Pranab Mukherjee - He had many other governmental positions before becoming the president of India.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - He has been the president of Russia three times, including this present term; and jas had premiership twice. 

Jauchim Gauck - He married his chilhood sweatheart, someone he met at age 10

David Cameron - Youngest Prime minister appointed since Lord Liverpool who was appointed in 1812.  

Francois Hollande - He did not become president the first time he ran, but he later became the special advisor for the newly elected President.  Until he was elected president.  

Bashar Al-Shad - He has secret police working with the government and going against the opposing citizens.  Anyone who is opposing Bashar will be found and arrested.  

Stephen Joseph Harper - He has made many laws about environmetal issues, to stop pollution problems, greenhouse emissions and climate change.  

Akihito - He has issued several wide- ranging statements of remorse to Asian countries.  

Shimon Peres - He had decided in 2013 to end his presidential career after 2014, his successor will take over when his last term ends. 

Countries

Mexico:

1. Federal Republic 
2. President
3. Enrique Pena Nieto
4.

China:

1. Communist State
2. President
3. XI Jinping
4.

India:

1. Federal Republic
2. President
3. Pranab Mukherjee
4. 

 











Russia:

1. Federation
2.  President
3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
4. 

Germany:

1. Federal republic
2. Presdient
3.  Joachim Gauck
4. 

United Kingdom

1. Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
2. Prime Minister
3. David Cameron 
4.

France:

1. Republic 
2. Prdesident 
3. Francois Hollande 
4.

Brazil:

1. Federal Republic
2. President 
3. Dilma Rouseff
4. 

Syria: 

1. Republic Under an Authoritarian Regime
2. President
3. Bashar Al-Shad
4.

Canada:

1. Parliamentary Democracy, Federation, and a Constitutional Monarchy
2. Prime Minister
3. Stephen Joseph Harper
4.

Japan:

1. Parliamentary Government with a Constitutional Monarchy
2. Emperor
3. Akihito
4.

Israel:

1. Parliamentary Democracy
2. President
3. Shimon Peres
4.

Test!!!

We took a test today in Human Geo.  The test was very hard in my opinion.  Some of the things on the test I knew, but others were.  I thought I used the CIA world fact book very sufficiently.  I couldn't find something that i needed to know but eventually I got it.  The first test we took in Human Geo was not that difficult, but this one definitely was.  I think I learned today that you never know what to expect on a test, so it is good to prepare yourself as much as you can. 

October 8, 2014

Things that will be on the test:

-Life expectancy
-Crude birth rate (CBR)
-Crude Death Rate (CDR)
-Developing nations
-Developed nations
-rate of natural increase (RNI)
-Net migration rate (NMR): net emigration rate minus the immigration rate
-Immigration: leaving one country and going into a different country
-Emigration: emigrant is when you are leaving a country and going to a different country
-Push forces
- Pull forces
-Total fertility rate (TFR)

 Infrastructure: what a country needs in order to stay connected to the rest of the world

How do you figure out the rate of natural increase?
Crude birth rate minus the crude death rate 


In class we reviewed for the test on Friday.  The words above will be some of the things that will be on the test.  We will also have to visit the CIA world fact book to answer some of the questions on the test. 

Spotify

Today in class we got premium spotify accounts.  Mr. Schick told us that he is in a rpogram with another teschert that involves spotify.  It is a program with him and 21 other teacherts. The object is to find music on spotify that has to do with the subject you are learning.  Mr. Schick gave everyone in the class a code that will give us a premium account.  It is personalized that it will only work for you and no one else.  The premuim account is only good for three months, but if we make it useful iwe may be doing it mre often. 

Friday

We had a very interesting discussion on Friday in class.  Mr. Schick asked us the question "Do you think America is the greatest country in the world.  Before asking us this question, we watched video about it.  The video was mainly about how America is no longer the greatest country in the world.  It talked about how the United States used to be the greatest country in the world, but it no longer is.  But if we work hard enough, we can make it the greatest country in the world.  So, getting back to the question, many people had different opinions.  My personal opinion is that America is not the greatest country in the world.  I think that it is one of the better countries of the world, but I think they we are definitely not one greatest leading countries in the world. 

Wednesday

Today in class we went over the population pyramid again.  Mr. Schick talked to us about China and there population.  He went over how they made a law that each family could only have one child for many years.  Many people obeyed this law because of how close the country was to its government.  It would be abnormal for someone in China to disobey the government or go against them.   Many woman would get pregnant and as soon as possible, fin out the gender of the baby.  If the child was a male, they would keep it.  If the child was a female, they would most of the time get an abortion.  This was because men usually got more attention in China.  It was easier to vet a job, the job would have better pay, and they were more respected.  Some families would choose to keep the child if it was a girl, because they believe that they are equal.