novemmber 24,2014

today in class we continued with the movie slumdog millionare. the movie was very interesting.the boys in the movie become gangsters as children and learned to scam people very well. jahmals brother kills the man that tried to make jahmal blind. The boys finally found latika. then jahmal left

Friday, November 21,2014

Today in class we watch slumdog millionaire. The children have very different upbringings than  the way most american children are brought up. India is covered in trash and there is trash in the river and everyone is bathing in the river. Everyone runs away alot because they have alot of mob violence. Hindu's would come in and kill most muslims and chase them down. Most of the children try to scam people and make as much money as possible. The police beat up most of the children. The police are very corrupt. If someone is being questioned they really get tortured. The classroom was very over populated and there was alot of mayhem. teachers hit children.

november 19, 2014

today in class everyone really just finished their homework and extra credit since today mr.schick was not here. he did not give us real assignments so that is what we did today in class.

extra credit novemember 18

coming home-skylar gray this city- patrick stump 5'oclok somewhere boston- augustina

November 18, 2014

Lyrics Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution! No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust": And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/usanationalanthemlyrics.html the national anthem of america is sung at many places and events in america it is very important. it is not a song i would listen to personally unless i have too. it is our national anthem. it is based on getting frredom. yes the lyrics are very well written

november 17, 2014

today in class we started a new unit called cultural geography. we talked about how different places in the united states had differen cultures. For example how baltimore has crab feast all the time people not from here apparently find it odd that , that is what we do as a social event especially since it takes us so long to eat them. in chicago there is a lot of pizza that is their thing they eat alot of pizza. also many places in the us call soda different names. and they are weird names like coke or pop.

November 12, 2014

Russia continued
dmiitry mededev - served as a third president of russia ; now prime minister ; united russia party
legislative branch- the bicameral federal assembly of russia ; adopts federal law , declares war' approves treaties ,
similar to us the difference is putin abuses power and many people are scared of him
president is the head
putin made the military strong and aggressive

brazil
federal republic
4 year terms
re-elceted 2 times or more have too take 4 years of though.
dilma rousseff is the president
in 1970 roussseff was arrested for participating in a polotical guerilla riot. she was arreste and tortured and released three years later when she got into local politics
most people in brazil like her

mexico
enrique pena nito
member of institutional revolutionary party
supreme commander
they are a federal republic
mexico drug war

November 11,2014

today in class we studied for the test tomorrow. we went over all of the countries that we have learned in the past week. Mr.schick has given us a study guide so we can be able to study correctly.

november 10, 2014

syria

• president is bashar al-assad 
• rose through the ba'ath party to take of syria
• had threatnned to bomb anyone who  doesnt vote for him
• very little people that vote for him are actually supporters. 
• i syria they run a 7 year term and he was just reelected so it will be until 2001

Germany

• federal republic
• german gov has been in place since 1990
• berlin wall seperates east and west germany -after world wartwo had been broken apart in two countries in 1990 they came back together as one 
• president- joachim guack - been in office since march 23,2012 , an independent politicl party
• chancellor - angela merkel - been in office since 2000 
• to replace the government:
• impeachment on the president 
• the president replaces the chancellor
• officesin germany are elected by the bunestag
• elections held every 4 years
• the bundestag has many different types and groups

united kingdom

• they have a king and queen 
• prime minister has more power than them
• constitutional monarchy has been around sinc e1066 
• common wealth of nations has 54 members with one suspended and dates back to mid 20th century 
• prime minister has no term limits. he is appointed by the monarch and stays in poffice as long 
• david cameron is prime minister became prime minister in 2010
• leaderof conservative party
• youngest prime minster since 1812
• over sees the opperation of civil service and the goverment agencies
• has house of commons and house of lords
• people get to decide if they want to reelect david cameron or not

Russia

• type of government is federation
• official name for russia is russian federation
• governened under constition of 1993
• vladimur ptin has been president since may 7, 201 
• in united russia pary 
• has been in power for 6 terms

november 7,2014

1. china

how to get rid of a president:

• re-election
• impeachment
• assassination

     2. Canada

• five political parties 

Canada's leaders

• leader prime miister is stephen harper 
• anyone over age 18 can be elected for prime minster
• no time limits
• can be prime minister until he resigns or dies
• next canadian election in 2015 unless they decide he is a terrible job as a prime minister and gets thrown out

3. japan
             gov:

• prime minister does most of the work 
• monarchy does not do much
• does not directly vote for prime minister
• legislature= diet members elect priime minister
• in power until resigns
• impeachment can also get the prime minister out
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november 5,2014

today in class many people presented

1. French Government:

• france has a republic government and a semipresidential system.(government with a president alongside a prime minister who are responsible to the legislature of a state.)
• republican from of gov in france was made in 1958
• president francois hollande and prime minister manuel valls are the leaders of france
• gov. of france is divided into executive a legislative and judicial branches    

hollande

is in socialist party
2012 ran against sarkozy and won.
 became president on may 15,2012
shares executive power with prime minister

republic gov.

• supreme power is in the citizens and allows the represenatives chosen directy or inderect by them

republic

• gov has exsisted 56 
• presidents term is 5 years
•  can be president until 2022 if he wins election in2017

people can effect a change in leadership

• new election
• boycott
• revolution
• assassinate 
• cabinet can be revoked globally by national assembly through a censure motion
• censure motion: a vote that states a person in superior position no longer deemed to hold that position

union for a popular movement

• the ump is most powerful political party in france
• formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre right parties under president jacques chirac 
• nicholas sarkozy former leader of the UMP was elected president of france but was defeated by socialist francois hollande
• leader of the ump is now jean francois cope

election 2017

• hollande will run for president agai for second and final term
• potential runners for the next election are : sarkozy , valls, le pen, jupe, many other

                           2.China

• communist gov
• controlls everything like prices but authoritarian party sometimes  wins and then the people can controll things. government owns everything
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november 4, 2014

today in class we went to the cancer awareness tables. there they gave you pamphlets to make sure we knew signs of cancer. we learned the possible causes of cancer. and a lady looked at our skin and told us ways to prevent skin cancer.