Sad last classes

I learned a lot this semester and I will learn even more nest semester because I have you again yayyyy!!!! Im am so sad because Angela wont be in my class next semester. This is my favorite class ever!!! And I haven't gotten one A on any of your tests but just wait I will I have the whole other half of the year!!!! I will get an A on one of your test I know I will. I liked that we got to watch videos and we got to do partner work. I think this class was really fun. But im going to miss sitting behind Angela because this class is fun bc we were always partners now who will be my partner>

Magic Mondays!!!!!

Well I had a weekend because I had a track meet in Saturday which I didn’t do well in because I was put in the mile for the first time plus I was in the 2^nd highest level of girls. I can I dead last. On Sunday (which was my birthday) I went to an IEA show with the Equestrian team and got Two 4^th place ribbons. I was really proud of myself because I was in a tough group of girls in my jumping and flat class but I pulled through for the team. Anyways in class today we watched a video called Guns, Germs, & Steel.

·       Jared Diamond was a professor at UCLE.

·       His true passion is birds

·       Jared has been making trips to New Ginny regularly he says “It was love at first sight”

·       He has become close with the people of New Ginny. They have taught him about the birds and about their culture and even how to shoot a bow and arrow.

·       Cargo was thought to be proof of white peoples power

·       New Ginny had only a little cargo

·       Diamond needed to identify the time before him.

·       He need to study the pre-history

·       Humans were thriving for the middle east

I have more notes in my notebook!!!!

wacky Wednesdays!!!!!!!!!!!!

So today was interesting because nick had a shadow. He was really smart actually he was answering questions in my math class. He said something interesting about him was that he can eat food fast. And that he has a piece of lead stuck in his hand. lol it was so funny. Today in class Mr. Schick was like your birthday is almost here Alyssa and I was like yupp. Me and Angela are going to miss each other because next semester shes leaving our class to go to Mr. Teters class its so sad :(

Back to school Monday!!!!!!!!!!

Today started off horrible because I had to bring all my books back to school because of locker clean out! I was soooo heavy and I had to bring in 150 crushed cans to Mr. Perry for extra credit and I had to bring my track clothes. Also not to mention I had to take all of that on the bus with me. It was hard but when I got everything into to school and gave my cans to Mr. Perry it wasn't that bad. Today in human geo we reviewed our exams and studied urban cities. Did you know that over the past couple of years urban cities and places have increased in size by a lot. New York isn't even in the top 15 most populated areas in the world. That's just amazing.

Finally Friday!!!!

This week has gone by so fast. well we did only have 3 days of school but still. Today started off ok. I almost slipped on ice and hurt my butt. That would have been bad. But then I came to school hung up my Secret Santa gift for band. Then I went to my locker to put my horse back riding stuff in my locker and my helmet didn't fit:(. So I put in in my advisory`s room but she's leaving early today so I had to put it in the locker room.  after that I to take a Spanish test mod 1, I think I did well I hope so at least because I studied a lot for it last night. Then I had bible which was ok. Now I'm in your class taking notes I am nervous for this exam but I just need to study a lot. I cant wait for mod 7 and 8 because of Secret Santa. anyways I cant wait till Christmas 12 more days till Christmas. IM SO EXCITED WE GET NO BLOGS FOR ALL OF NEXT WEEK THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! 

                 Wonderful Wednesdays
So today started off with me in math then I went to advisory where the bell rang wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I was very upset. But it was ok because in my off mod I ate a fantastic lunch and drew my "haircut" for draw and guess and it was an amazing drawing. Then I went to earth science with Mr. Perry where I got all of my questions he tested me on right. I felt pretty proud of myself. Then I went to human geo where we reviewed the test where I tried sooo hard and got 2 questions wrong and got a 87% I was so mad. Then my track coach made us run HILLS in the SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I slipped and hurt my butt. Then we did relay races and I did very well I think. Then I had pep band for the Varsity Basketball Boys team and we beat Sea Million Wright 66 to 55.

                                           Weepy Wednesdays!!!!!
Ok so today has been good so far I got a 100% on my math drill. But we had a 50 point quiz in science with Mr. Perry and I did horrible I bet. Anyways in class we had a reviewed day. Me and Angela are so awesome are blogs are always great to read. I rode this pony named Bear yesterday and he was awesome I love him so much. We should have tests on ponies and horses. I would get 101% on that test if we had one. Also I think my Essay question was brilliant I think you should use it in the test. Tomorrow I'm looking forward to you walking down the hallway singing Its Thursday.

                 Query Questions:

 

1. What is Microfinance?

       Microfinance is having access to banking services(like loans)

2. How does Microfinance help?

     Microfinance can help somebody start a business who can't afford to start one on their own

3. Who does Microfinance help?

     Microfinance helps a lot of people but mostly people who are trying to start a business

4. What are some problems in third world countries

 

    

• Diseases

• Famine

• Drought

• Lack of supplies

• Poor health care

• Poverty

• Pollution

• Poor Electricity

 

5. What are some common uses for microloans?

• Starting businesses

• Getting products for business

• Getting a "kick start

• Machinery or equipment

• Furniture or fixtures

• Money that the business can use

6. True or False: Malaria kills 655,000 people every year?

     True

 

7. What do Peace Corps volunteers do?

They work on business issues and increasing family income. Also improving the environment for business and help increase young people's education.

8. Do you ever get the money you loan out back?

    Yes! When you loan out money the people you loan money to uses it to start their business then when they are stable they send you your money back and you can loan it out again to somebody else 

9. What's so important about microfinance?

     They help out people in need. Somebody who is poor and can't afford anything can use the money to start a business and it would help them out tremendously. And get them back on their feet.

          The essay question!!

10. Would you ever consider giving out microloans? Why or Why not.

Yes I would. I would consider giving out a microloan because I love helping people who are in need of it. The awesome thing is that when they are done using my money I get it back and I can loan it out to someone else in need of my money

 

 

 

Its finally Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways I love this class its so awesome its one of my favorite classes. I'm so excited that I have u next semester but I wont have Angela in my class and we are partners we do everything together.  Now I will have nobody really "fun" to talk to in class. Anyways it will be fun bc at least I still have Mr. Schick as my teacher. Anyways in class today we reviewed the PowerPoint all of us made and it was ok. Angela and I had the best slide by far we worked so hard on it and we made that awesome slide with a computer that would NOT cooperate with us. That's pretty impressive if you ask me. Everyone who has another teacher gets to have no more blogs where as I get to do them for the rest of the year. YAYYY me. (little sarcasm there)

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

Today in human we learned

Beliefs:

-Believe in one god who is alone, no son or partner

-only worship him alone

-Belief in God`s revealed books, among these books are Quran, which God revealed to the prophet Mohammad

-They believe in God

-They believe in the teachings of Jesus but he was just a prophet, they were still waiting for their prophet to come

-Believe in the day of Judgment

-Holy sites

-Islamic followers gather at the Kaaba, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to prey to their God

-Jerusalem is the holy site to Muslims as well as Jews and Christians

-Prey 5 times a day

-Second largest religion in the world

In 2010 over 1.6 billion or 23.45 of the world's population is Muslim

-Priests are called imam and mullah

today in human geo we got into groups and each of the 5 groups got a religion and my religion is Hinduism. We had to do research on our religion and do a PowerPoint on it. We researched that Hinduism is the 3 largest religion. Also Hinduism is mostly practiced in the middle east. Hinduism is really big in India. It is very well practiced.