Gummi!

Today in Human Geo, Mr. Schick introduced us to Gummi. In 4th grade, he threw Gummi around the classroom until he threw it  into his teachers coffee cup. The teacher didn't find out until her 4th sip. Then he got in trouble. In 5th grade, he threw Gummi again until he hit his 138 year old teacher in the ribs. She got mad and ripped Gummi''s arms off. The wire then cut the teachers hand open. Mr. Schick got in trouble again and the teacher had 20 pounds of bandages on her hand. In 7th grade, he introduced us to his teacher who was abusive. If someone didn't pay attention, he would hit them in the head. Then one day he made a comment and he lifted small Schick off the ground from the sides of his hair until they were eye level. He said he cried and it was extremely painful. He also said he was 4'10 78lbs in high school and the teacher was over 6 feet. Then another day in his life, he wrote one line one thousand times which is 20 sheets of paper both sides. Then everyone else told their stories just to have fun.

Today, two girls came in to talk about the Senior Variety Show. I can't go Tuesday and still undecided on Wednesday. Then Mr. Schick talked about retaking the test which failed most people. The people who retake it can only be the ones who fail. It can only help not hurt test but it someone past, you can only get a 70. Its a one time offer according to Mr. Schick. After that, we worked on an all class microfinance PowerPoint where everyone works together. At points it looked like a success and at other points it was a terrible idea. My computer would not work so I couldn't do anything. Although it didn't work, I looked over many slides. Micro finance is basically helping third world countries or poor people start buisenesses. When I thought if this I think of KIVA because people loan money to them and if the buisness is booming they all get payed back ( well they all get payed back no matter what). There are also micro loans which are ways to get these buisnesses going by lending them money like KIVA. Lasty, their are many problems in these third world countries such as malaria drought and dirty water.

Schickless

Today in Human Geo, Mr.Schick wasn't here today. We reviews our online project and took notes on the diseases and conflicts the town in the thing dealt with. Basically we talk to a bunch of people to get her information and then in the end when you feel like your ready, you talk to the mayor and tell him your thoughts on what the town should do to solve a certain conflict. There is usually one answer that is no where near close. After completing all of them I got a little certificate (I think but I don't remember).  Then I played game for the rest of the mod.

Today in Human Geo, we had a Today, we had a class discussion about small businesses. Micro finance can help small businesses get a start. Microfinance is the lending of small amounts of money at low interest to new businesses in the developing world. These include saving accounts, fund transfers, loans, and insurances. Also bigger buisnesses have more of an advantage than the smaller ones. The bigger businesses have the ability to attract more customers or eventually just buy the small company. This ruins the small company since there not making money.  Also during class Mr. Schick said that the other classes wanted to stop having Schick talk and make us write notes and use project. My section said that this was confusing and wanted to just write notes. 

Test Results

Today in Human Geo, we looked at our test. Mr. Schick showed us a picture of what he looked like while grading this test. It was a one eyed, one eared monster. The monsters brain was also a cone sticking out of his head. The results were horrific. A lot of people failed. It was suppose to raise our grades. The test instead lowered most peoples grades. Reasons why people got some answers wrong include misreading the text. Even though key words were bolded. Mr. Schick recommended to read carefully. Hopefully we will remember this for midterms.

Peace Corps Challenge

Today in Human Gow we took the peace corps challenge. The challenge was not that hard it just took a lot of time and effort. It was suppose to be a learning expierence for our new unit which Mr. Schick called the most boring unit ever. The challenge was basically what would you do to solve each problem and you had to use your own knowledge mixes in with information given to you by people living in cities to decide which decision was right for the city. Along with the challenge we looked at a video about micro finance. It was interesting and should help.

Test Day

Today in Human Geo, we took the world leaders test. The test was open notes but blog only. The test for most people who did finish probably took almost the whole class to take. It was difficult but only if you didn't have the answer to a question on your blog. The test had questions like what leader does this or what country has this type of leader or what leader or country is this based on a map.

COuntry Leader Part 3

Mexico is a federal republic headed by President Enrique Pena Pieto. He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Pena del Mazo was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, Maria 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 seem to slide off him. 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.
 Saudi Arabia is a kingdom ruled by Abdallah bin And 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 22 billion dollars. He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabia 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.) The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm, ruled by Prime Minister Dave Cameron and Queen Elizabeth the second. . At the age of seven, the young Cameron was paced off to Heatherton, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupil. 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 Feb. 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 in over 200 years. Elizabeth became queen on Feb. 6 1952 and was crowned on June 2 1953. Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting. Venezuala is a federal republic headed by President Nicolas Maduro Moras. Nicolas Maduro Moros worked a s a bus driver before politically active in the early 1900s. Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chavez in 1992, after Chavez and other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempt coup and Maduro began campaigning for Chavez release. After President Chavez won a third team in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president.

Country Leader Review Part 2

Today in Human Geo, we reviewed country leaders. All the information has been copied and pasted from the noted taken in class. Dilma 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 and has a degree in economics and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world. She also underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009 and now in remission. China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping. He is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party 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 name Xi Mingze who is studying at Harvard University in the US. France is a republic headed by Francois. Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position. The mother of his four children is Segolene 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 another. 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 quantam 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 at number one. India is a federal republic headed by President Pranab Mukherjee. He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanager 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 parliamentarians 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 is a theocratic republic, ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani. In 1963, Khamenei 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. Ruhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council. Recently elected President of Iran in 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 is parliamentary democracy, headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
 Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of the Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934. When Arab forces launched their attach on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing  military equipment for Israel 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 he showed the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Country Leader Review

Today in Human Geo, we reviewed our test and started looking at the leaders of the 12 out of the 13 best countries. For the test, once again my section had the highest average. Then we started looking at the leaders of the top countries. Afghanistan is an Islamic republic headed by Hamid Karzai. He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime. He knows many languages and several times in 2001 he warned the US that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the US, but his warnings were unheeded. Brazil is a federal republic headed by President Dilma Rouseff.

LEADERS FUN FACTS OF THE DAY!!!!

Enrique Pena Nieto:

• He is the fifth member of his family to serve as the governor of the State of Mexico.
• Peña Nieto's election marks the return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRI controlled the Mexican presidency for more than 70 years, until the 2000 election.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/world/americas/enrique-pea-nieto-fast-facts/index.html

Angela Merkel:

• She is the first female German chancellor
• Being the daughter of a Lutheran pastor and teacher, Merkel grew up in a rural area north of Berlin (capital) in the then German Democratic Republic

http://www.biography.com/people/angela-merkel-9406424

Nicolas Maduro:

•  After Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president until Chávez's death in March 2013
•  Maduro pledged to complete the socialist transformation of Venezuela begun by Chavez, to increase gun control in the country's impoverished areas, and to increase the nation's minimum wage by 30 to 40 percent

http://www.biography.com/people/nicol%C3%A1s-maduro-21145011

Li Kequiang:

• 2nd ranked member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee.
• Received 2940 votes out of 3000

http://www.chinafile.com/china%E2%80%99s-next-leaders-guide-what%E2%80%99s-stake

David Cameron:

• Descendant of King William IV,and born into a wealthy English family
• At age 43, Cameron became the youngest prime minister of the United Kingdom since 1812.

http://www.biography.com/people/david-cameron-39203

 Manmohan Singh:

•  only prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term
• Some of his achievements include the passing of the important National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the Right to Information Act by Parliament in 2005

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh

Jean-Marc Ayrault:

•  sat in parliament since 1986 and was initially on the Socialists' left wing before gradually moving to social democracy
• served as mayor of France's sixth largest city Nantes

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-05/16/c_131590091.htm

Hasan Fereidun Ruhan:

• was a Lawyer,Muslim cleric, Representative of the Supreme Leader to the Supreme National Security Council, Member of the Assembly of Experts, head of the Political and Social Committee of the Assembly of Experts, President of the Center for Strategic Research.
• Studied at Ph.D. Constitutional Law, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK(Thesis entitled: The Flexibility of Shariah; Islamic Law)M. Phil. Law, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK(Thesis entitled: The Islamic legislative power) B. A. Judicial Law, University of Tehran

http://president.ir/en/president/biography


 Hamid Karzai:

• Hamid Karzai received just a little over 50 percent of the vote in his recent election
•  emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.

http://www.biography.com/people/hamid-karzai-537356?page=1

Dilma Rousseff:

• Prior to running for president, she had never run for an elected office
• First female president of Brazil

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/world/americas/dilma-rousseff---fast-facts/

 Binyamin Netanyahu:

• Affected by his brother's death, Netanyahu organized two international conferences on ways to combat terrorism, one in 1979 and another in 1984
• First Israeli prime minister to be born after the state was founded in 1948

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/01/world/meast/benjamin-netanyahu---fast-facts/

Assigngment

Mexico:
Federal Republic
President Enrique Pena Nieto
 He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Pena del Mazo was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, Maria 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 seem to slide off him. 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.

Germany:
Federal Republic
Chancellor Angela Merkel
Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a  degree in quantam 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 at number one.

Venezuala:
Federal Republic
President Nicolas Maduro

China:
Communist State
Premier Ll Kequiang
 He is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party 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 name Xi Mingze who is studying at Harvard University in the US.

United Kingdom:
Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
Prime Minister David Cameron

Saudi Arabia:
Monarchy
King and Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79. He is worth approximately 22 billion dollars. He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabia 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.)

India:
Federal Republic
President Pranab Mukherjee
He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanager 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 parliamentarians 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.


France:
Republic
Francois Rollande
 Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position. The mother of his four children is Segolene 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 another.

Iran:
Theocratic Republic
President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani and Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini - Khamenei
In 1963, Khamenei 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. Ruhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council. Recently elected President of Iran in 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.

Afghanistan:
Islamic Republic
President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai
He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime. He is well versed in several countries, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.

Brazil:
Federal Republic
President Dilma Rousseff
Dilma 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 and has a degree in economics and now rules the country with the eigth-biggest economy in the world. She also underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009 and now in remission.

Israel:
Parliamentary Democracy
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Presiden Shimon Peres

 Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of the Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934. When Arab forces launched their attach on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing  military equipment for Israel 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 he showed the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Test Day

Today in Human Geo, we took a test. The test was half review on our previous quiz and half study guide that we were suppose to look at. Mr. Schick said that previously the averages for the test for the other sections were 69% which is failing and 71% which is a D-.   However, my class got extra time to study because of the mass on Friday. In result of this, I felt like the test was very easy as I had extra time to study. After that we started writing notes on the next unit. He

How is this world organized?

 

Country- an identifiable land area

 

Nation- a population with a  common culture

 

State- a population under a  single government. Also known as country

 

City-State- A single culture under a single government. A nation which has the same borders as a State.

 

NATION

 

A group of people with a shared identity. Nations are culturally homogeneous groups of people, larger than a single tribe or community, which share a common language, institutions, religion, and historical experience.

 

INDEPENDENT STATE

 

Has boundaries, organized economy, education, transportation, government, sovereignty, external recognition

 

COUNTRY

 

Simply a piece of geography. Lines on a map.

re they are.

The Funny Canadian

Today in Human Geo, we reviewed the notes we went over yesterday and watched a video about a Canadian who is explaining stuff related to it

Notes to Study

I will write study notes for the upcoming test.

Christianity
-2.2 billions adherents (highest)

-called Christians

-located in Europe, Americas, South Africa

-denominations include catholic church, eastern orthodox church, protestants

-founder: Jesus Christ ( Abrahamic origin)

-holy book is Bible

-beliefs include Jesus is both human and divine - the Son of God; he led a virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried, adn resurrected; he ascended into heaven where he reigns with God the Father

-clergy: the Pope is head of the church, preiests are local authoritites


Islam
-1.5 billion adherents (second largest)

-called Muslims

-located in Indonesia, Middle east, and North Africa

-Denomination are Sunnis (75 - 90%), Shiites (10 - 20%0

-founder is Muhammad (570-632)

-holy book is Qur'an

- beliefs include monotheistic, Abrahamic Five Pillars (testimony, prayer, alms-giving, fasting, pilgrimage) Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah (God), and observing Islamic law

Hinduism

-1.1 billion adherants (third largest)

-called HIndus

-located in India and Nepal

-holy book is Vedas - eternal truths revealed to ancient sages; written in verse form (meant to be sung and easily memorized)

-no distinct founder - it is a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid, strict set of beliefs - probably the oldest religion, although Hinduism is less a religion that a way of life, or a faith

-believe in reincarnation and karma

Buddhism

-500 million to 1.5 billion adherants

-called Buddhist

-located in southeast asia, China, Nepal, Japan and 1.2 mil in US

-denominations are Tibetan, Zen, Theravade, and Amidist

-Four Noble Truths are "There is suffering", "Attachment to desire is te origon of suffering", "There is a cessation of suffering", "The Eightfold Path will lead to the cessation of suffering"

-Eightfold Path are RIGHT VIEW, INTENTION, SPEECH, ACTION, LIVELIHOOD, EFFORT, MINDFULNESS, DEDICATION

Judaism

-14-18 million adherants (ninth)

-called Jews

-located in Israel

-Abraham is founder

-holy book is Talmud and Torah (first five bboks of Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)

-beliefs are ethnical monotheism - God is one, and concerned with the actions of humankind. Also Ten Commandments and 13 Principles of Faith

Mr. Schick please give me one extra point for the blog. I apologize that this is late.