November 25th

Today marks the one month/ 30 days till CHRISTMAS! Anyway today in class we all worked on the same powerpoint. Which let me say did not work well at first. People we deleting each others slides, changing the background, deleting pictures, and putting pictures of themselves on their slides. But in the end it turned out well.

November 22nd

Today in human geography we continued playing the peace corps game. I FINALLY won and I receive a traditional dress for my good work. I fixed the microfinance loans, cured malaria, got rid of pesky monkeys, cleaned the pond, in my spare time found the solution for droughts. I would say I did a darn good job!

november 20th

today in Human geography we continued on the game where we helped an imaginary town in Africa. And during this game I found out that Mr. Schick REALLY doesn't like Christmas music. Its not like I started playing stupid new songs, they were classic Christmas songs. Towards the end of class I had finally figured out the whole purpose of the game and how to figure the way to win. I didn't know about the questions. But anyway I was doing fabulous and all the sudden this kid walks by and the teacher and I's villages got malaria. Then the kid walked by again and our water got poisoned. But anyway that's all for to day I have to get back to my new favorite show.

                                                           xoxo, Gossip Girl

November 19th

Today we got our test back. Lets just say I didn't do so well. On the bright side it didn't damage my grade to badly. We went over them and corrected the answers we got wrong. I don't really know what else to say because we didn't do anything that I can go into detail with.

November 18th

Today in Human Geography we Played a game. The game was kind of fun but it was confusing. We have to help some fake country it was kind of cool.

November 13th

today in human geo we took a test on the world leaders. Lets just say it was a really hard test. on the bright side we got to use our blogs so I go more right then I normally would have. I should have wrote down the less important people and the facts that no one would ever ask on a test except the one and only Mr. Schick. Lets just pray that I didn't fail.

November 12th

Today in human geography we continued talking about the presidents. Also we spoke about women rights in Saudi Arabia. How they just recently got the right to vote. The women organized a drive day because it is illegal there. The also think that we abuse our freedom and rights. That is one of the reasons the flowed thu with their plans for 9-11.

November 11th

today in human geography we learned more about the leaders of the countries. We also learned how to insert pictures. So enjoy this large picture of a leaf.

november 6th

Enrique Pena Nieto-

1.  In only one year he has reformed disruptions in public schools and fixed the tax collecting system
2. planning to remodel their gas and oil sector
3. married to a actress
4. grew up in a 4 child middle class family

http://www.forbes.com/profile/enrique-pena-nieto/

President XI Jinping-

1. His father was purged 3 times
2. Second generation Chinese leader 

 http://chinese-leaders.org/xi-jinping/

President Pranab Mukherjee

1. has had no prior experience with politics
2. has extensive diplomatic experience and has served on the Board of Governors of the IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and African Development Bank.
3. was a professor and journalist before entering politics

http://presidentofindia.nic.in/Profile.html

President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai

1. He speaks Pashtu, Dari, Urdu and English fluently
2. His grandfather had served during Afghanistan’s war of independence
3. He was a resistance leader when under the rule of the Taliban
4. several times in 2001, he warned the untied states that the Taliban joined forces for a plot on the united states, but his warnings were ignored   

http://president.gov.af/en/page/1043

President Joachim Gauck

1. received 991 of the 1,228 valid votes
2. 80 per cent of Germans regard him as trustworthy

http://www.edinburgh.diplo.de/Vertretung/edinburgh/en/04__Politik/Joachim-Gauck-Bundespraesident-en.html

Queen Elizabeth II

1. after her eighteenth birthday Princess Elizabeth was appointed a Counsellor of State during the King's absence on a tour of the Italian battlefields and carried out some of the duties of Head of State.
2.  the end of the war she had reached the rank of Junior Commander
3. 60 year reign

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/Publiclife/EarlyPublicLife/Earlypubliclife.aspx

President Francois Hollande

1. granting marriage and adoptions rights to same-sex couples
2. most unpopular French president
3. never had been elected on a national level before
4. the mother of his four children had ended up end the relationship after 30 years

http://www.biography.com/people/fran%C3%A7ois-hollande-20849813?page=2

Dilma Rousseff

1. first female head of government
2. captured my the government, endured 22 days of torture, including electric shock and a special device of the Brazilian military known as the pau de arara, designed to cause severe joint and muscle pain.
3. She opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960's and 70s, and severed three years in prison, where she was repeatedly
4. Divorced twice
5. has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world
6. underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dilma-rousseff-1.876366

President Nicolas Maduro Moros

1. other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for  Chávez's release.
2. Maduro pledged to complete the socialist transformation of Venezuela

http://www.biography.com/people/nicol%C3%A1s-maduro-21145011?page=1

King and Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

1. lived in the desert
2.  achievement of world peace, stability and security
3. has fathered 22 children and around 4 to 6 wives
4. had a kid at 79
5. visited the pope in 2007
6. grated women the right to vote

http://www.saudiembassy.net/about/KingAbdullah.aspx

Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

1. hatred for oppression was inspired by the great revolutionist and Martyr Sayyid Mujtaba Nawwab Safawi.
2. opposed the pro-American, anti-Islamic politics of Muhammad Reza Shah
3. took part in a protest against the U.S. in 1963

 http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=bio

President Shimon Peres

1. served two non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister.
2. seven year term
3. Jewish
4. born in Belarus to escape the persecution of the Jews, his family fled to Palestine in 1934
5. organized their nuclear program

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/peres.html

Afghanistan / Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan is an Islamic republic headed by

President Hamid Karzai

He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.

He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.

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.

 

 

 

 

Brazil / Dilma Rousseff

 

Brazil is a federal republic headed by President Dilma Rousseff

She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.

She has been divorced twice.

She has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.

She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

 

China / Xi Jinping

 

 

China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi

 Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.

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.

The couple have a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.

France / Francois Hollande

 

France is a republic headed by Francois Hollande

• Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
• The mother of his four children is Ségolène Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
• He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme-right physician father and progressive social worker mother. 

Germany / Joachim Gauck, Angela Merkel 

 

Germany is a federal republic headed by

President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel

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

Has been Chancellor since November 2005

Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years.

India / Pranab Mukherjee

India is a federal republic headed by

President Pranab Mukherjee

He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.

Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.

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.

 

 Iran / Khamenei and Ruhani

 

Iran is a theocratic republic, ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani

• 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.

• Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.  Became Iran’s Supreme Leader in 1989.

 

Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.

Was just elected President of Iran - June 2013

He has been openly critical of the outgoing president, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" have cost the country dearly.

Israel / Peres and Netanyahu

 Israel is a parliamentary democracy,
headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934.

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.

Later he organized Israel's nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb.

As Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli negotiations during 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.

Mexico / Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico is a federal republic

 

headed by President Enrique Pena Nieto

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, María del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.

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, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.

Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actress Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.

 

Saudi Arabia / Abdallah

Saudi Arabia is a kingdom ruled by

Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud,

who is both King and Prime Minister

 

He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.

He is worth approximately 21 billion dollars.

He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king.

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.”

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).
United Kingdom / Cameron and the Queen

The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm,

ruled by Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II

• 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.
• His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
• 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.
• Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
• Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.

 

Venezuela / Maduro
Venezuela is a federal republic headed by President Nicolas Maduro Moros

Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.

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.)

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.

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

assignment #1

Mexico:
Constitution- Federal republic
President  Enrique Pena Nieto
 

China:
Constitution- Communist State
President XI Jinping


India:
Constitution- Federal Republic 
 President Pranab Mukherjee


Afghanistan
Constitution- Islam Republic
President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai


Germany
constitution- federal republic
President Joachim Gauck


United Kingdom
Constitution- constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm
Queen Elizabeth II


France
Constitution- republic
President Francois Hollande


Brazil:
constitution- federal republic
President Dilma Rousseff


Venezuela
Constitution-  federal republic
President Nicolas Maduro Moros


Saudi Arabia
Constitution- monarchy
King and Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud



Iran
constitution- theocratic republic
Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei


Israel
Constitution-  parliamentary democracy
President Shimon Peres

November 4th

Today in human geo we redid that quiz we had on Friday. I did worse the second time. But thankfully Mr. Schick is taking the highest grade. Also we saw a powerpoint on Political Geography and watch a video. I didn't think the video was that bad but this one kid in my class hated it.

November 1st

Today we had school, I know a bummer right. All the other schools in our entire county had off school. But do you know where I am? Sitting in a classroom after taking a test! I could be home drinking a cup of hot chocolate in front of a warm fire watching reruns or F.R.I.E.N.D.S. or Kim Possible. But of course I'm not I am writing this. Mr. Schick I know you reading this so maybe for all our sorrows and pain you could give us off blogging on Monday.