Sorry I didn't post yesterday my blog wasn't working. Anyways yesterday was a bad morning because my computer was 15% an doing to die and I dint have my charger. Then I went to share with Angela and her computer wouldn't work at all. It wouldn't connect to the internet. Then when it would work it kept crashing on us. Then somebody deleted all the slide. Then Angela and I Got her computer working and we made an awesome slide about How Microfinance Helps! It was pretty amazing. Then Laura's face ended up as all of our backgrounds on the slide. Angela and I were not happy. But then it went away.

Today in human geo we played the game in our groups. It was really cool because we got to lean our money to other people who need it an they pay you back. I lent my money to the teacher who needed school instruments and it was super cool. Me and Angela saved the people of the small village of Wazuzu. WE ARE HEROS!!!!!!!!!!!! And we listened to music it was awesome. And don't think I forgot about u saying were not your favorite class but I know we are. We awesome and we all volunteer and get along so well. That game is actually really fun we should do a lot more games like that.

Its Tuesday:
So today we reviewed the test and I got objected bc I got a question right and he marked it wrong.
This is the stuff we reviewed and fixed on our test.

Mexico

• Federal Republic
• 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 actor Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico. 

China

• Communist State
• 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.

India

• Federal Republic
• 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 withRajiv 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.

Afghanistan

• Islamic Republic
• 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.

Germany

• Federal Republic
• Chancellor Angela Merkel & President Joachim Gauck
• 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.

United Kingdom

• Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
• 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.
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• Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.. 

France

• Republic
• 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.  

Brazil

• Federal Republic
• President Dilma Rousseff
• She opposed to Brazil's 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 eight-biggest economy in the world.
• She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

Venezuela

• Federal Republic
• 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.
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Saudi Arabia

• Monarchy
• King and Prime Minister Abdullahbin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud
• 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).

Iran

• Theocratic Republic
• Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani
• Ruhani-
• 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.
• 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.
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Israel

• Parliamentary Democracy
• Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu & President Shimon Peres
• 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 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."
• 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 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.

The End :)

HEYYYY!!!!!! well first we talked about how u said u were a favorite class but u lied bc Andrews ur favorite class. That hurt a little bit. Anyways we learned about microloans. It works actually really cool.U can loan money to someone who really needs it. The cool thing about this is that u get ur money back and u can use it to help someone else. An du can keep the help going. Think about the thousands of people u can help with even just $10 u can male a difference

today in human geo we studied:
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 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).
Nicolos 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.

 

Nicolos Maduro Moros

• 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..

Mexico:

 Enrique Peña Nieto

 

He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class: father, Gilberto Enrique Pena del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, Maria del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.

 

Federal Constitutional Republic

 

China:

 President Xi Jinping

 

 Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the communist Party's founding fathers

 

China is a communist state

 

 

 

Brazil:                                

 President Dilma Rousseff

 

She has been divorced twice

 

Brazil is a federal republic headed

 

 

 

 

Afghanistan:                                                                      

 President Hamid Karzai

 

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

 

Afghanistan is an Islamic republic

 

 

 

 Germany:

Angela Merkel

 

Has been chancellor since November 2005

 

Federal parliamentary constitutional republic

 

 

Venezuela:                            

Nicolas Maduro

 

Federal presidential constitutional republic    

 

 

United Kingdom:             

Queen Elizabeth ||

 

Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

 

 

 

 

Saudi Arabia:

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz 

 

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

He is worth about 21 billion dollars

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

 

Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy

 

 

 

India:

Pranab Mukherjee

 

He taught political science at the Vidiyanagar Collage and worked as a joiurnalist before entering politics

 

Federal parliamentary constitutional republic

 

 

 

 

France:

Francois Hollande

 

Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position

 

Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic

 

Iran:

Khamenei/ Hasan Fereidun Ruhani

 

K: Was elected as president of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985. Became Iran's Supreme leader in 1989

H: Was just elected president of Iran-June 2013

 

Slamic republic

 

Israel:

Shimon Peres/ Netanyahu

 

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

 

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

 

Unitary semi-presidential parliamentary democracy

Today in human geo we reviewed the countries including:

 

Mexico:
China:
Brazil:                                
Afghanistan:                                                                      

Germany:

Venezuela:                            
United Kingdom:             
Saudi Arabia:
India:
France:
Iran:
Israel:
We also reviewed all of these countries presidents/leaders and interesting facts about their leaders/presidents. We also learned how to copy and paste pictures to our blogs and how to make them show up. I learned that some of these leaders are crazy.

Mexico:

Federal Constitutional Republic

Enrique Peña Nieto




China:

China is a communist state

 President Xi Jinping







Brazil:                                

 

Brazil is a federal republic headed 

President Dilma Rousseff

 

 

 

Afghanistan:                                                                      

Afghanistan is an Islamic republic

 

 President Hamid Karzai

 

 

Germany

Federal parliamentary constitutional republic

Joachim Gauck

 

 

Venezuela                            

Federal presidential constitutional republic                         Nicolas Maduro

 

 

United Kingdom  

Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Queen Elizabeth ||

 

 

Saudi Arabia

Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz 

 

 

India

Federal parliamentary constitutional republic

Pranab Mukherjee

 

 

France:

Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic

Francois Hollande Iran: Slamic republic Hassan Rouhani Israel: Unitary semi-presidential parliamentary democracy Shimon Peres

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

today in human geo we learned that a country is an identifiable land area(looked at a map!) A group of people with a shared identity think of it as a culture group. Nations are culturally homogeneous groups of people, larger then a single tribe or community, which share a common language, institutions, religion, and historical experience.
Independent State:
-boundaries
-organized economy
-education
-transportation
-government
-sovereignty
-external recognition