November 26, 2013

Today in human geography, Charlotte, a junior, came and got me and we had to go take care of an emergency that had happened earlier. Therefore, I was not in class for human geography today.

November 25, 2013

This morning, human geo started with the regular chaos that happens on Monday mornings. Boring, Slow, Tired, Groggy. We had started a Google Docx and we were honestly fighting over who got to do which slide. Dylan and Laura were bantering back and forth because Laura wanted to put a picture of herself on her slide so she could "stamp" it as her slide. But, Dylan didn't want that. It started small controversy between those two and some others. Everyone else were fighting over slides and who got to do which one and what font color they got to use on their slide. It seemed like I was the only one who wasn't fighting, as I was on the Peace Corps website most of the time trying to find information for my slide. Everyone else was going out of control and it was probably the craziest class we have had all year, but yet it was probably also the most awake we have been during a Monday morning first mod class of human geography.

November 22, 2013

I wasn't in class on Friday because I had a doctor's appointment.

November 20, 2013

Today in Human Geo, we got with our groups of 3 or 4 people again and continued working on the Peace Corps game thing. I am in a group with Natalie and Laura and they are so sweet and very funny. I was having a lot of fun on the website, but was confused with what we had to do, even after I read the directions. I ended up doing something right, and I won the game. I got the online certificate and celebrated with myself a little bit. I then realized that I had no idea at all what I did, so I did the game over again so I could learn what was going on. Once I redid it, I understood what was going on, and completed it again and got my certificate. After we were done this, Mr. Schick let us do whatever we really wanted to do while staying in our groups. My group took pictures, listened to music, and stayed on our computers for the rest of the class.

November 19, 2013

Today in Human Geo, we get our tests back that we took last week. Before we got them back, Mr. Schick showed us the background picture of his laptop. He said that was his reaction when checking the tests. That kinda made me nervous and I started to think that maybe I didn't do very good. I ended up getting an 80, and I am very happy with my grade! Once he passed out the tests, we started to look over the test and say what the answers were. If we got an answer wrong, we wrote in the correct one so we know what the right one is for future references.

November 13, 2013

Today in Human Geography, we took a test. The test was about different presidents, prime ministers, or leaders and their governments in different countries around the world. I don't know how I did on it, but I do think that I did a lot better than I did on my last test. It wasn't a hard test, but it wasn't easy either, so we will see when I get it back.

President Facts :)

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 the al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded.

(biography.com)

 

 

Dilma Rousseff

-She opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960's and 70's, 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.

(NYTimes.com)

 

 

 

Xi Jinping

-Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongzum, 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.

 

 

 

Francois Hollande

-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 mother.

 

 

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 Science 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 1 years.

 

 

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 - Rashtryia Samajwadi Congress.

 

 

Khamenei

-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.

 

 

Hasan Fereidum Ruhani

-Mr. Ruhani had 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

 

 

Shimon Peres

-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 Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

 

 

 

Binyamin Netanyahu

-As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67

**-After his brother Johnathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1967, in the course of the Entevve operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned

 

 

Enrique Pena Pieto

-He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother was 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 if his wife at home in 207, have promoted 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

 

 

Abdallah

-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 Arabiam National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king.

-In November 2007, he 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 211 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).

 

 

David Cameron

-At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Prince Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain's top private school.

-His first born child, Ivan, 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

 

Queen Elizabeth II

-Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953. her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting…

Novermber 12, 2013

Today in Human Geography, we shared a few stories again, as did Mr. Schick, but today they had to do with the topics we were talking about. We were finishing up the powerpoint. The powerpoint gave us information on all the presidents/rulers/government of countries around the world. The powerpoint was to help us get ready for the test that we have TOMORROW ON NOVEMBER 13, 2013!!! STUDY! Study the powerpoint, the other notes/blogs we did on them, and if you didn't get all of the powerpoint down, don't scare yourself. Go to Mr. Shick's blog and go under 'Links That Don't Stink.' Thee, you can find the powerpoint and get all the notes to study for the test!

November 11, 2013 (Veteran's Day)

Today in Human geography, we spent the first couple 10-15 minutes teaching some people, who were having blog trouble, how to insert pictures onto their blog. During that process, a junior, Charlotte Molali, came in and talked to us for a little bit. She had told us to listen to Mr. Schick because were going to need to know how to do ALL of this for our blogs in the future. We then, after getting the blogs up and running, continued displaying and copying down the slideshow notes we need for the test. We copied down the notes and even though we don't have all of them down, are preparing for our test. OUR TEST IS ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2013!!! Get prepared and study hard!

Presidents :)

Ever since President Enrique Pena Nieto's early 20s of being a community organizer, he has maintained presence in politics. He was born into the political world, with his father as the Mayor of the town of Acambay. http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsofmexico/p/Biography-Of-Enrique-Pe-na-Nieto.htm

President XI Jinping was the son of Xi Zhongxun, the contributor to bringing the social revolution. Hi father was sent to jail when he was 15, which caused him to protect his family and go into work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping

President Pranab Mukherjeeh was also born into politics. His father was a Congress leader who faced many hardships, including being sent to jail for his role in India's independence struggle. President Mukherjeeh got his Master's degree in History and Political science as well as a degree in Law from the University of Kolkata. http://presidentofindia.nic.in/profile.html

President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karazi's father served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Parliament in the 1960s. He took a postgraduate course at Himachal University on political science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai

President Joachim Gauk came from a family of sailors. He was a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/18/anti-communist-pastor-gauck_n_1356919.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gauck

Prime Minister David Cameron, son of a stockbroker, was born with both legs deforme. Cameron a lineal descendant pf King William IV.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron

President Francois Hollande's mother was a social worker, and his father was an ear, nose, and throat doctor. After graduating college, he got a job as a Councillor in the Court of Audit.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande

President Dilam Rousseff was Brazil's first female head of government. Her father, was a political exile from Bulgaria, where he was a member of the Communist party in the 1920s. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dilma-rousseff-1.876366

President Nicolas Maduro Moros was a bus driver before becoming a world leader. He then served along side Hugo Chavez as the vice president. After that, he was elected president. http://www.biography.com/people/nicol%C3%A1s-maduro-21145011

King and Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Saud is the tenth son of King Abdulaziz. Abdullah was announce commander of Saudi National Guard as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia

President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani entered the military service in 1973 in the city of Nishapur. He graduated college with an M.Phil. degree in Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Rouhani

President Shimon Peres speaks many different languages, including English, French, and Hebrew. Hi grandfather had a huge impact on his life, and he taught Peres a lot of what he knows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres

Assignment #1

Mexico

• Federal Republic
• President Enrique Pena Nieto

China

• Communist State
• President XI Jinping

India

• Federal Republic
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Afghanistan

• Islamic Republic
• President Hamid Karzai

Germany

• Federal Republic
• Chancellor Angela Merkel

United Kingdom

• Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
• Prime Minister David Cameron

France

• Republic
• Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

Brazil

• Federal Republic
• President Dilma Rousseff

Venezuela

• Federal Republic
• President Nicolas Maduro Moros

Saudi Arabia

• Monarchy
• King and Prime Minister Abdullah

Iran

• Theocratic Republic
• President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani

Israel

• Parliamentary Democracy
• Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

November 4, 2013

Today in Human Geo, we learned some stuff I didn't know before. We learned about States (with a capital "S"). We also learned about Nation-States. These are two out of the 4 things we learned about that I didn't know. But, we were not just learning about this. We were also learning about the interesting stuff that happened over everyone's weekend. But, we did all of this after we re-took our test that not many of us did very good on. I didn't do good the first time, and didn't do so hot the second time either. It didn't make me very happy to know how I did on the test, but the smile I had when I walked into the classroom came back after class, as we were making jokes and learning new things.

November 3, 2013

Friday in Human Geo, we took a test. It was scheduled and it was on Mr. Schick's blog, but I still didn't do very good on it, and apparently a couple others didn't do so good either. So, Mr. Schick decided to give us a second chance. We get to retake the test and whichever we get a better grade on is the one that gets put into powerschool. I am glad he is giving me and others a second chance because I can't afford my grade to drop anymore,