Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Nothing To Do During Class
Today in class Mr Schick just let us talk since it was the last day before Thanksgiving break. He didn't have anything planned for us so we introduced a shadow we had in the class and talked about many topics
Friday, November 22, 2013
Peace Corp Challenge
Today in class Mr. Schick was not here so Mr. Torres came to teach our class. On the Peace Corp Challenge game you have to save the little town from malaria, drought, and mosquitos. Women are getting their education because of the many problems the village is facing. In the game you have to talk to Gwafa to show him what you think will be the solution to the problems the town has. And if Gwafa thinks its a good idea he will give you things in return like chickens, pineapple, fried ants etc....
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Microfinance
Today we started a new unit. The new unit is about microfinance. We will be learning about about microfinance and small business developments in other countries. Also we will learn about the many challenges that the worlds faces and how microfinance helps communities get out of poverty and then we will learn about how each country faces poverty. And last but not least we will learn about the Peace Corps. During this unit we will be doing a project and having a mini test which wont be as many points as the project. What i already know about the Peace Corps is that it is just like the website Mr. Schick showed us called Kiva. Kiva is a website which gives loans to people in other countries who are in poverty or need money to start a successful business which will help them have a steady income.
Microfinance is a general term to describe financial services to low-income individuals or to those who do not have access to typical banking services.
Microfinance is a general term to describe financial services to low-income individuals or to those who do not have access to typical banking services.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
WHERE COUNTRIES ARE ON A MAP
Mexico
Germany
Venezuela
China
India, Saudia Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan,
Israel
Brazil
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Venezuela
China
India, Saudia Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan,
Israel
Brazil
United Kingdom
France
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Facts on Leaders
Today in class we finished up the slide about facts on different leaders of each country. Ive realized that women dont have a lot of rights in other countries and many countries have a lot more problems then America does.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Notes on Mr. Schick's Blog
Today we went over our test and Mr. Schick forgot to give us 3 points for our test !!! After we started to edit our blog with Mr. Schick's notes
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Facts About Leaders of Different Countries
Enrique Pena Nieto
1.) Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007 (epileptic episode) , have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
2.) Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actor Angelica Rivera. Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.
3.) He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, MarÃa del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/world/americas/enrique-pea-nieto-fast-facts/index.html
President Joachim Gauck & Chancellor Angela Merkel
1.) Hes a former Lutheran pastor
2.) His political life was formed by his family
Angela
1.) Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986
2.) has been chancellor since november 2005
3.) "most powerful women in the world" from FORBES from the past 8 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gauck
President Nicolas Maduro Moros
1.)Served in the Chamber of Deputies
2.) had cancer in 2011
3.) Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
4.) After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, serving as one of his closest advisers as well as a loyal spokesman,
until Chávez's death at 58 on March 5, 2013, from cancer.
5.) Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chávez in 1992, after Chávez and other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for Chávez's release. (Chávez was released in 1994 and won election to the presidency four years later.)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1917098/Nicolas-Maduro
President XI Jinping
1.) Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
2.) He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.
3.) have a daughter named Xi Mingze who is studying at Harvard University
http://www.policymic.com/articles/30489/xi-jinping-5-quirky-facts-about-china-s-new-president
President Pranab Mukherjee (tried to overthrow)
1.) He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
2.)Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997
3.) He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.
4.) one of the best finance ministers in the world
5.) started his own party
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/profile.html
Queen Elizabeth II & Prime Minister Cameron
1.) shes had over 404,500 awards
2.) there has ben 12 us presidents in the time of her being queen
3.)Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953. Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.
Cameron
1.)At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain’s top private school.
2.)His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
3.)The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.
4.)Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2114386_2114388_2115566,00.html
Prime Minister Abdallah
1.) He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king
2.) Focus's on economics, health, education & social
3.) 10th son; over 30 wives, fathered 22 children; youngest at 79
4.) worth 21 billion dollars
5.) In 2011 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban).
6.) In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope. In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.”
http://www.saudiembassy.net/about/KingAbdullah.aspx
President Francois Hollande
1.) Had been elected on his third try
2.) Ran for president when he was in college
3.) has 4 children and been with this women (Ségolène Royal) for 40 years
4.) no previous experience in a national government
5.) born in the city of Rouen in 1954; mom was a social worker dad was a physician
http://www.biography.com/people/fran%C3%A7ois-hollande-20849813
Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (tried to overthrow) & President Ruhani
1.)In 1963, took part in street protests against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran.
2.)Hes been in the Islamic government since 1981, re-elected 1985; Became Iran's supreme leader in 1989
Ruhani
1.) worked his way up to the government
2.) has a military background
3.) Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.
President Dilma Rousseff (tried to overthrow)
1.) besides running for president she has never ran for office
2.)She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured
3.) been divorced twice
4.) has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.
5.) had chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009 and now is in remission
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/world/americas/dilma-rousseff---fast-facts/
President Shimon Peres & Netanyahu
1.)created the the Peres Center for Peace
2.)was elected a Member of Knesset then served as president
3.) Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934.
4.) Organized israel's nuclear plan
5.) in charge of the negotiations of peace talks with the Palestinians; In the autumn of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
6.) When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad.
Netanyahu
1.)As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67
2.) After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/pages/shimon%20peres.aspx
President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai (tried to overthrow)
1.) He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime
2.) he's speaks Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English
3.)He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.
4.) Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the United States that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded.
http://www.biography.com/people/hamid-karzai-537356
1.) Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007 (epileptic episode) , have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
2.) Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actor Angelica Rivera. Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.
3.) He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, MarÃa del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/world/americas/enrique-pea-nieto-fast-facts/index.html
President Joachim Gauck & Chancellor Angela Merkel
1.) Hes a former Lutheran pastor
2.) His political life was formed by his family
Angela
1.) Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986
2.) has been chancellor since november 2005
3.) "most powerful women in the world" from FORBES from the past 8 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gauck
President Nicolas Maduro Moros
1.)Served in the Chamber of Deputies
2.) had cancer in 2011
3.) Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
4.) After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, serving as one of his closest advisers as well as a loyal spokesman,
until Chávez's death at 58 on March 5, 2013, from cancer.
5.) Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chávez in 1992, after Chávez and other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for Chávez's release. (Chávez was released in 1994 and won election to the presidency four years later.)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1917098/Nicolas-Maduro
President XI Jinping
1.) Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
2.) He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.
3.) have a daughter named Xi Mingze who is studying at Harvard University
http://www.policymic.com/articles/30489/xi-jinping-5-quirky-facts-about-china-s-new-president
President Pranab Mukherjee (tried to overthrow)
1.) He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
2.)Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997
3.) He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.
4.) one of the best finance ministers in the world
5.) started his own party
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/profile.html
Queen Elizabeth II & Prime Minister Cameron
1.) shes had over 404,500 awards
2.) there has ben 12 us presidents in the time of her being queen
3.)Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953. Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.
Cameron
1.)At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain’s top private school.
2.)His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
3.)The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.
4.)Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2114386_2114388_2115566,00.html
Prime Minister Abdallah
1.) He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king
2.) Focus's on economics, health, education & social
3.) 10th son; over 30 wives, fathered 22 children; youngest at 79
4.) worth 21 billion dollars
5.) In 2011 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban).
6.) In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope. In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.”
http://www.saudiembassy.net/about/KingAbdullah.aspx
President Francois Hollande
1.) Had been elected on his third try
2.) Ran for president when he was in college
3.) has 4 children and been with this women (Ségolène Royal) for 40 years
4.) no previous experience in a national government
5.) born in the city of Rouen in 1954; mom was a social worker dad was a physician
http://www.biography.com/people/fran%C3%A7ois-hollande-20849813
Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (tried to overthrow) & President Ruhani
1.)In 1963, took part in street protests against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran.
2.)Hes been in the Islamic government since 1981, re-elected 1985; Became Iran's supreme leader in 1989
Ruhani
1.) worked his way up to the government
2.) has a military background
3.) Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.
4.) Was just elected President of Iran - June 2013
5.) He has been openly critical of the outgoing president, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" have cost the country dearly.
http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=bio
President Dilma Rousseff (tried to overthrow)
1.) besides running for president she has never ran for office
2.)She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured
3.) been divorced twice
4.) has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.
5.) had chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009 and now is in remission
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/world/americas/dilma-rousseff---fast-facts/
President Shimon Peres & Netanyahu
1.)created the the Peres Center for Peace
2.)was elected a Member of Knesset then served as president
3.) Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934.
4.) Organized israel's nuclear plan
5.) in charge of the negotiations of peace talks with the Palestinians; In the autumn of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
6.) When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad.
Netanyahu
1.)As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67
2.) After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/pages/shimon%20peres.aspx
President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai (tried to overthrow)
1.) He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime
2.) he's speaks Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English
3.)He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.
4.) Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the United States that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded.
http://www.biography.com/people/hamid-karzai-537356
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Countries Government & Their Leaders
Mexico
Germany
Venezuela
Government- Federal Republic
Leader-
President Nicolas Maduro Moros
China
Government- Communist State
Leader- President XI Jinping
India
Government- Federal Republic
Leader- President Pranab Mukherjee
Government- Federal Republic
Leader- President Enrique Pena Nieto
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Germany
Government- Federal Republic
Leader- President Joachim Gauck & Angela Merkel
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Venezuela
Government- Federal Republic
Leader-
President Nicolas Maduro Moros
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China
Government- Communist State
Leader- President XI Jinping
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India
Government- Federal Republic
Leader- President Pranab Mukherjee
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United Kingdom
Government- Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
Leader- Queen Elizabeth II
Saudi Arabia
Government- Monarchy
Leader- King & Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud
France
Government- Republic
Leader- President Francois Hollande
Iran
Government- Theocratic Republic
Leader- President Ruhani & Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
 
Brazil
Government- Federal Republic
Leader- President Dilma Rousseff
Israel
Government- Parliamentary Democracy
Leader- President Shimon Peres
Afghanistan
Government- Islamic Republic
Leader- President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai
Sources: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ & http://www.google.com/imghp
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Political Geography
Today in class we started taking notes on a new unit called political geography.
How is the world organized?
Political Geography
Country
·
An identifiable land area
Nation
A population (group of people) with a common
culture
States
·
A population under a single government
·
Synonym with “country”
Nation-State
·
A single culture under a single government
·
A nation which has the same border as a state
A nation
·
A group of people with a shared identity
·
Think of it as a culture group
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Nations are culturally homogenous groups of
people, larger than a single tribe or community, which share a common language,
institutions, religion, and historical experience
An independent state
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Recognized boundaries (boundary disputes are ok)
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Organized economy (has a budget & can print
own currency)
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Has a education ( & social engineering)
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Transportation (for moving goods and people)
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Government (provides public services and police
power)
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Sovereignty (no other state should have power
over the country’s territory)
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External recognition (has been voted in by other
countries)
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