Tuesday 25th

Today in class, we watched more of the movie. I think that this is a good movie to watch at this time of year with Thanksgiving right around the corner. This movie has helped me to realize that I need to be thankful for what I have and not worry about what I don't have. In America, we take things for granted and look more at what we don't have than what we actually have. In India these kids live in the filtiest places and still are grateful for the miserable life that they live. I feel terrible watching this. The kids watched their parents be killed and continue to live without parents. This movies just goes to show that culture is so much different and this movies shows how much differently kids grow up.

Monday November 24

Today in class, we watched more of the movie. I think that this is a good movie to watch at this time of year with Thanksgiving right around the corner. This movie has helped me to realize that I need to be thankful for what I have and not worry about what I don't have. In America, we take things for granted and look more at what we don't have than what we actually have. In India these kids live in the filtiest places and still are grateful for the miserable life that they live. I feel terrible watching this. The kids watched their parents be killed and continue to live without parents. This movies just goes to show that culture is so much different and this movies shows how much differently kids grow up.

In class movie

Today in class, we watched a movie about how Indians grew up and indian culture. Some things that are different between their society and ours is that the kids there are so poor that they rumage around for money and tings in the trash to search for value in absolutely anything. Another thing that is different is that there is trash everywhere. Also, no people that are poor in the USA compare to the poorness of India. Also, in India in these attacks, there would be tons and tons of people killed. This was all because of clashes in religion. The police come into the croud everywhere and try to capture these kids. The polic abuse people and kill people and try to answeres.

Mr. Schick was absent

Today Mr. Schick was absent so we worked on our blogs. We werr supposed to do the blogger assignments, ubt since I already did them, I worked on homework. I thought that it might have been one of the quietest classes of Human Geo that I have ever sat through...

American National Anthem

Lyrics: Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

11-18

 

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1st assingment using Spotify

Some songs that could be used are - Pompeii by Bastille - It's 5 o'clock Somewhere by Jimmy Buffett - Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen - Small Town - John Mellancamp - This land is your land - John Mellancamp - Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver - Leaving On a Jet Plane - John Denver - Going to California - Led Zeplin (more songs to come later)

Monday 17

Today in class we talked about a diagram that showed the United States and what areas call which soda, "soda" "pop" or anything else. The area was quite detailed and showed what almost all of the counties in each state called it. We then began to talk about traditions and how marylanders eat crabs and how other people think its cruel and rude. This lead into a talk about traditions and how people everywhere have different traditions.

Test day

Today in class, we had a test. I thought that some questions were easy and some were hard. The hardest part of studying was remembering which types of governement belongs to which country. I think remembering the countries leaders was easy. I think I did okay. I am a bit worried because I tend to overthink the easy questions.

11.12.14

Today in class, we finished the presentations. I didn't have anywhere near as many notes as before.
- Russia

- Dimitry Medevdev is in the United Russia party

- 3 braches of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

- Legislative branch adopts federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has federal power, and can impeach the president

- Executive branch is the president and appoints government

- main political party is called United Russia it was founded in 2001

- countries are afraid to attack Russia because of Putin and his nuclear weapons

- Putin improved the Russian military

- Dmitry Medevdev is the prime minister who previously served as the 3rd Russian president

- federal Republic

Dilma Rousseff is the President

Leaders are elected by the people

The president has a 4 year term

- 1970, Dilma Rousseff was arrested for participating in Political Guerilla

- captured and tortured for 3 years before she got involved in politics

To remove the president, they can Impeach, re-elect, or assassinate them

- when she was young, brazil was a military dicatorship 

Mexico:

Enrique Pena Nieto is the Governor

He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

The can impeach, re-elect, or assassinate

Mexico has a Federal Republic

A big thing in Mexico is the Mexican Drug war

Presentations

Syria

• Type of government : Republic under an authoritarian regime
• Syrians suppress the opposition and lacks human right and freedom elections
• They are voiced by the government to say what they want
• Internal opposition is the state of emergency act
• Bashar al-Assad was born in Damascus on September 11th 1965
• His father was born into a poor family
• Syria has had republic under authoritarian regime sine 1941 (73 years)
• A republic under authoritarian means that the government basically has all the rights but adds the republic to make it look as if they have rights and freedom
• Ways to get rid of the president is assassination, the country being taken over by another, and revolutionary war
• Assad won 88.7% of the votes on the election day
• The supreme constitutional court put turnout at 73.42% of the people that could vote did
• Most of his votes came from threats that if they didn’t vote for him they would bomb them
• Assad's voting was rigged was counting wrong on purpose
• Bashar al-Assad is expected to be in office till at least until 2021

Germany

• Government is a federal republic
• Government has been around since October 3rd 1990
• After World War II, East and West Germany were separated by the Berlin wall but reunited as a whole country in 1990
• Germany has two leaders President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel
• Angela Merkel has been in office since 2000
• Joachim Gauck has been in office since 2012
• The Chancellor is more powerful than the President
• To replace the leaders the people of Germany can impeach Gauck
• To replace Angela Merkel the people can nominate a new chancellor
• The Bundestag can kick the chancellor out of office
• The Bundestag elects only the president and can be taken out of office by the Bundestag
• People who commit a political crime can not vote
• People that are 18 and over must live in Germany for 3 months of longer
• The Social Democratic party has the most people or is most powerful

United States

• The leader of the United States is President Barack Obama
• America has a constitution based federal republic, with a strong democratic tradition
• Obama will be in power till 2016
• He can not run for re-election after this term
• Each term is 4 years and you can have a maximum of 2 terms
• The first half- African American president
• Obama has been president for 5 years already
• The change in leadership can happen through re-election, overthrow Obama or impeachment

no teacher (11.11.14)

Today Mr. Schick wasn't in class so we spent the time studying. we studied using a presentation that Mr. Schick prepared for us on Google Drive. I studied with Alayna and a few other people. I printed out the presentation so that I could highlight it.

11.10.14

Syria -

• Republic under an authoritarian regime
• Leader - Bashar al-Assad
• Bashar al-Assad's dad was poor and rose up into becoming a government official
• Been under this type of government for 73 years
• 73.42 percent of the population votes
• Most of the votes came from people who were threatened by Assad that if you didn't vote for him,  he would bomb you and your house
• Syria has 7 year presidency terms. He will be in office until 2021.

Germany

Angela Merkel - leader of Christian Democratic Union

• President can nominate a new chancellor
• Named the most powerful women in the world

Joachim Gauck - independent political party

• Group of people in the government can elect a new president

Elections:

People are elected by the bundestag

Held every four years

United Kingdom

• Constitutional Monarchy  - has been around since 1066 and devoloped over several centuries
• Commonwealth of centuries - has 54 members
• The prime minister (David Cameron) has no term limits. He stays in office as long as he can keep the confidence of the House of Commons
• He became prime minister in 2010
• Leader of the conservative par

11.5.14

France

- rebublic government with a semi presidential system 

- semi presidential system - government with a president alongside a prime minister who are responsible to the legislature of a state 

-goverment made in 1958

- Francois Hollande - president 

-  Manuel Valls prime - minister 

- Prime Minister was born in Barcelona, Spain 

-  A republic is a state which the supreme powere rests in the body of cictizens entitled to vote 

- UMP - Union for Popular Movement, second most powerful political party

11.4.14

Today in class we went on a field trip to the cancer exibiht near the cafeteria. We learned all about cancer and hwo to check for it. The girls learned about breast cancer and then we all learned about smoking and skin cancer. We learned about all of the cancer that is under your skin that you can't see. We also learned how smoking turns your lungs black. They had a two pig lungs and one was black and represents someones lungs who smoked a pack a day for 20 years. The other lung was healthy and expanded completely. The lung of the smoker only expanded a little bit.

11.3.14

Today in class we worked more on our powerpoint. I think that we will defenitly be ready to present tomorrow. Once Alayna and I thought that we were finished we asked Mr. Schick to come over and look at our blog. He told us one thing that we needed to fix and we fixed it and then he posed several questions to us such as "what would make the US want to impeach Obama?" We answered these questions then made some more changes to our blog.