Tuesday's Blog

In class on Tuesday we finished watching the movie about India.  The last part of the movie was mainly about the last couple questions on the game show that Jamal had to answer.  Jamal had showed up to the house that Latika was living in; the house that Salim and another guy had forced her live in with many other women.  He had told her to meet him at the train station, and she did; but Salim had known she tried to escape and followed her there and took her back.  Now, skipping towards the end of the movie, Salim had decided to let Latika leave the house and go find Jamal.  Jamal is on the game show and is on the final question.  He is told the question and knows that he does not know the answer to it.  He decides to all his brother, but Salim had given the phone to Latika when she left the house.  Latika had the phone, but she had left it in the car when she got out.  Latika ran back to the car to answer the phone.  She answered the phone and was told the question to the game show.  After watching that part, school ended and veryone left class, so we did not get a chance to finish the ending. 

Monday 11/24

Today in class we watched the movie again.  The part of the movie today showed Jamal and Salim as they were growing up.  It showed them going to this great guy and trying to have better lives.  Then, they realized that the person who saved them was not so great, he was just going to do bad things to them.  They ran away from there, with Latika, but she never made it to get on the train.  They went on the train and Latika was taken back to the terrible person.  She stayed there, while Salim and Jamal rode the train around India, conning people for money and giving tours of famous places.  They stole things from people, and were living a great life.  Then, Jamal decided to go back to look for Latika.  When they found her, the guy who captured her, owned her.  He made her famous.  When Jamal and Salim were about to leave with her, the people who captured her came back; Salim shot one of them and then they ran away.  After all of this happened, Jamal and Salim started to separate.  Then one day, they didn't see each other anymore.  They spoke again about 5 years after the separation, during a phone call at the place Jamal worked at.  They decided to meet up.  Mr. Schick paused the movie there. 

Blog for Friday 11/21

Today in Human Geo class, we watched a movie that took place in India.  Mr. Schick has asked us to compare America to India, and see how bid the difference of lifestyles is.  As we watched this movie, I realized that the to lifestyles are TOTALLY different.  "Normal" to them, which is how they live, would be so disgusting and rare to us.  The way they live is very different from us, because parts of it are very poor.  They are so used to having so little and living off of what they can find; little kids sometimes have to fend for themselves.  In America, our parents are there for us until we are able to support ourselves; we are used to being spoiled and having good things.  People in some parts of India do not have good things, most of the time they are eating trash and taking baths in a lake.  Americans take for granted what they have because they don't know what it is like to live in the slums and have no food or drink; bathing in disgusting lakes or rivers.   

wednesday 11/19

I  was absent from school today, so I did not participate in class!

Tuesday 11/18

I left school early today, therefore I could not attend class. 

Monday 11.17.14

I was absent from school today, so I do not know what we did in class.

Friday, The Test!

Today in class we took a test on the countries, their governments, and the leaders.  I think the test was  reasonable, not to hard but also not that easy.  I think it was hard to memorize all the government types, and which country they went with.  I also had a hard time memorizing whether Stephen Harper or David Cameron were the leaders of Canada or the UK.  I think it would have helpful to me if I would have taken a little bit more time to study.  Memorizing these things may have been easier.  I did think this was a good test, and I like the multiple choice answers with an essay at the end. 

Wednesday's Class Notes

Russia:
-type of government - federation - formation of political unity, with a central government, by a number of separate states, each of which retains control of its own internal affairs
-official name for Russia is Russian Federation
-governed under the constitution of 1993
- became Russian Federation in 1991


Vladimir Putin:
-president since May 7, 2012
-not allowed to serve another term
-second term of presidency
-has been prime minister before
-in United Russia Party
-six year terms


Dmirty Medvedev:
-prime minister of Russia
United Russia Party
-previously served as a third president of Russia, from 2008 to 2012

Three Branches:
-Executive
-Judicial
-Legislative




Brazil:

-Federal Republic
-y years terms
re-elected two times in a row
elected any number of time with different president in between
-Dilma Rouseff - second presidential term, must step down for one term, and then she can step back up 
-When Dilma was young, the government was run by the military; no one had any freedom - Dilma protested against this and was arrested and tortured for three years


Mexico:

-Enrique Pena Nieto - president on Mexico
-six year term
-federal republic
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Study Time!

Today in class, Mr. Schick allowed us to study for tomorrow's test.  We were allowed to work with partners, so Gabby, Megan, Ella, and I worked together to make an outline.  We used the notes on the power point to find useful information.  We reviewed everything on the study guide and quizzed each other.  We then studied over the study guide we made, and reviewed information about the leaders.  We quizzed each other on the government type, which leader was in charge of which country, and the terms they have served.  this class was very helpful in preparing me for the test tomorrow.

Monday's Class Notes

Syria:
-Type of government - republic under an authoritarian regime
-harshly suppress oppositsion an iut lacks human rights anf free elections
-the regime's prime method to suppress internal opposition is the state of emergency act
-has been republic under an authoritarian regime since 1941 (73 year) 

Bashar al assad:
-father was born to a poor family, but became prime minister by joing a political party
-Bashar Al Assad had 88.7% of the electoral votes; but they mostly came from threats that Bashar had said he would do
-been in power for 1 year and will end in 2021 

How votes were rigged for Bashar:
-"counting wrong"
-threats 

Ways to get rid of the President:
-Country being taken over by another
-Revolutionary war
-Assassination


Germany:
- type of government is Federal republic
-government has been in place since October 3, 1990
-East Germany and West Germany were separated by Berlin Wall after WWII, but was reunited as a whole country in 1990

Leader:
-Joachim Gauck - in office since march 23, 2012; indepent political party; pastor over a protestant chirch
Angela Merkel - in office since November 22, 200; leader of Christian Democratic Unon since 2000; former research scientist


Replacing the Leaders:
-president - impeachment, president elected by federal convention and not the people
-chancellor - president nominates new chancellor, Bundestag can kick the chancellor out

Elections:

-offices are elcetd by the Bundestag
-held every four years
-18 is the legal age to vote


United Kingdom:
-Constitutional monarchy - when a king or queen acts as the head of state
-constitutioanl monarchy since 1066
-Commonwealth Realm:  has 54 members with one suspended and dates back to the mid 20th century



Prime Minister:
-No term limits
-appointed by Moonarch
-elections take pace generally every four to five years
-David Cameron: born October 9th, 1966
-became prime minister on June 2nd, 2010 -leader of conservative party
-youngest prime minister since 1812
-appoints members of the government
-The principal government figure in the House of Commons 

United States:
-leader is Barack Obama
-America has a constitution based federal republic
-will be in power until 2016
- cannot run again
-first African American President
-re-elcet a president
-president can be oevr thrown for impeachment
-revolution
-assassinate


Russia:
-type of government - federation - formation of political unity, with a central government, by a number of separate states, each of which retains control of its own internal affairs
-official name for Russia is Russian Federation
-governed under the constitution of 1993
- became Russian Federation in 1991


Vladimir Putin:
-president since May 7, 2012
-not allowed to serve another term
-second term of presidency
-has been prime minister before
-in United Russia Party
-six year terms

Friday's Class Notes

China:
-China is a communist state
-Communist: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and every so often the authoritarian party holds power; a state controls are pressured with the elimination of our private ownership of property or capital while claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people




Xi Jinping:
-Born in Bejing in 1953
-son of revolutinary veteran
-president serves for 10 years in China
-Xi has been in office for 2 years
-power runs in the family, so presidency was passed down from father to son



Overthrowing a President:
-Impeachment- formal process in which an official is accused of awful activity
-Re-elect - to elect for another term in office
-Assassination - the action of killing someone



Japan:
-President of Japan is Shinzo Abe
-Parliametary system, constitutional monarchy, and a unitary state
-diet of Japan votes on Prime Minister
-Also had an Emperor - Emperor Akihito 


Change In Leadership:
-Re-elect
Impeachment

Shinzo Abe:
-The governemnt started in 1947
-finished first term in 2007 and thrn came back aagin in 2012
-expected to be in charge as long as he does his job right
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Wednesday's Class Notes

French Government:
-Republic Government
-Semi-presidential system
-President and a Prie Minister who run the government
-Government form made in 1958
-President is Francois Hollande and the Prime Minister is Manuel Valls
- Government divided into executive, legislature, and judicial

 Hollande:
-Hollande is part of the socialist party
- Hollande ran in 2012 and ran
-Hollande became presdient on May 15, 2012

Manuel Valls:
- elected April 1, 2014
- born in Barcelona, Spain and obtained French nationality only at age

Republic:
-A state in which the supreme power rests in the boy of citizens entitled to vote and is execised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly buy them
-The word Republic means " public thing" in Latin
-government is called 5th republic
-existed for 56 years
-Hollande can be president until 2022


Leader can be changed by:
-New election
-Boycott
-Assasination
-Revolution
-Cabinet can be removed by thge National Assembly through a censure motion
-Censure motion: A statement or vote which states that a person in superior position is no longer deemed to fit to hold that position 
- UMP is the second most popular party in France
-UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre-right parties under President Jacques Chirac

Election:
-Francois is likely to run for president again
-Hollande, Sarkozy and many others are likely to run for President again





China:
-China is a communist state
-Communist: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and every so often the authoritarian party holds power; a state controls are pressured with the elimination of our private ownership of property or capital while claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people

Tuesday's Blog

For today's class, we went to look at the cancer displays in the main hallway of the school.  As a class, we looked at all the displays and and asked questions.  Most of the girls went to the table about breast cancer.  We asked questions about it and got the brochures.  There was a machine there that magnified your skin.  It would tell you if you had skin damage or not and whether you  have dry or oily areas on your face.  Almost everyone in the class tried it out, and everyone sad that there results were not perfect.  After everyone was finished, we all came back to class. 

Monday's Blog

Today in class we went over the pop quiz we took last week.  I also had a shadow, which Mr. Schick asked her a lot of questions.  After discussing the quiz, we continued to work on our projects.  Emma was absent today, so I looked over the project to see what I could add.  It seemed that everything important was already there, so I read it one more time and then talked to my shadow.  I explained to her what we learned about in Human Geography and other subjects.  I told her about the class schedule and bell schedule.   After talking about John Carroll for a little bit, I asked if she had any questions.  That was pretty much everything that happened in class today.