Schick's out

Today, we played more about the Peace Corps Kids World game. We were told to take some notes, and this is what I got,

• Girls that aren't going to school because of different reasons there is nothing that the village can do to get them back in school,
•  there is a malaria problem going around, and a good way to solve it would be to meet with the villagers and try to drain the puddle out s the mosquitos can't lay eggs
• there is a polluted lake, One way to solve this would be to plant a grass crop in between the farm and lake, because the soil would grass would soak up the excess water and soil.

That's as far as I got and then the person on the game told me to roam around, and visit, explore the town. After he told me that  I was allowed to explore, I began to play games, My favorite game was the fishing one. 

Emmi Day

Today I got to hold a emmi that was a visitors. It was so neat to be pretty much holding something that is technically famous. Then after the emmi we played the game on Mr. Schicks blog and took pictures with the emmi!

sloooow day.....

    We started out a little slow today. While some students finished taking the test. Mr. Schick had us watch a video on Microfinance. He then began to lecture us and talk to us about his blog and some links. He then told us to go read the links on his blog and watch the video. I then read and watched the video. Microfinance is a form of financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses lacking access to banking and related services. Microfinance institution is an organization that provides microfinance services. We then just sat here and read about microfinance. Until, the bell rang and Mr. Schick let us lea
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Maps

Canada

Mexico

Iran

Venezuela 

United Kingdom

Saudi Arabia 

Afghanistan

France

Brazil

India 

Israel

Happy Pre-Hump Day and Hump Day!

Yesterday and today we talked more about the leaders and prepared for our test on Thursday. 

          Yesterday I shadowed my best friend. She really liked it, and I believe this is her first choice. I also got to teach about Saudi Arabia's leader Abadallah bin Saud about 10 minutes before the bell rang. I also updated my blog for the past couple days due to the notes that Mr. Schick has given on his powerpoint. 

          Today, we went over the powerpoint even more. We talked about how Jinping  blocks google from China, so that Chinese people couldn't see what the world is like outside of China. Mrs. Baugh told Mr. Schick that she wasn't able to even use google while on her trip. We brushed over every single leader that we were supposed to look up about a week ago. We then talked about Oprah for a short second about how Mr. Schick met her. We rambled on, and went over about different leaders backgrounds. I then had a note that Mr. Schick had on his powerpoint and it made me feel accomplished.  Then I added notes on the president of  Mexico, and couldn't say the one ladies name. We continued onward to discuss the life of Queen Elizabeth II and how she was very young and fell in love and received 2500 wedding gifts, Maduro Moros (Venezuela) which worked as a bus worker before becoming politically active, and then worked as a vice president until Chaves died of Cancer.... and then the bell rang and it was time to continue onward to the next class! Happy Hump day! 1 more day left until the weekend!!!! 

More about the leaders! (Mr. Schicks)

        Today we went over the test. Also, we went over notes from Mr. Schicks powerpoint. There was many different facts about all the different leaders. I edited my blog from last night and added more notes to my original ones already. I did better on the second test we took and passed. I wished to get a better grade but I have plenty of time to get it up. Also, Mr. Schick called me Yasmine and that made me angry.

behind the scenes of leaders....

• President Enrique Nena Neito- Graduated as a lawyer, and In 1993, Peña married his first wife, Mónica Pretelini, and the couple had three children: Paulina, Alejandro and Nicole. Pretelini died on 11 January 2007 as the result of an epileptic episode, 2 affairs.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 actress Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.  

• Joachim Guack (Canada) -He was convicted by a Russian military tribunal of espionage for receiving a letter from the West and also of anti-Soviet demagogy for being in the possession of a western journal on naval affairs, and deported to a Gulag in Siberia, where he was mistreated to the extent that he was considered physically disabled after one year, according to his son. Also, his father was arrested by Soviet occupation forces. ANGELA MERKEL- graduated with degree in physics, and physical chemistry, and earned a PHD in quantum chemistry 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.

• Nicolas Moros- Is married to Cilia Flores and he also attended a public high school. 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.

• President XI Jinping (China) -His father was jailed in 1968 and is married to a famous Chinese singer. Communist state, first national leader to hold a PHD, there is a blog about how high his pants are each day, he is described as hardworking, has a daughter that is studying at Harvard University in USA., son of a revolutionary veteran 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.

• President Pranab Mukherjee (India) - has 2 sons and a daughter and his hobbies include reading, gardening, and music, rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984, started his own political party, written many books. 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 – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.

• Queen Elizabeth II- fell “in love” at the age of 13 to Phillip and received 2500 wedding gifts from around the world.

• Abdalallah bin saud (saudi arabia)- he was the 10^th son and has over 30 wives and has fathered 22 children, and is worth approximately 21 billion dollars due to oil, has bans against strict women rights, 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). 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).

• Francois Hollande (France)- married for over 30 years with 4 children and got a divorce and supported same-sex marriage, no experience in a national government position, was elected on his 3rd time running, bmom was a social worker and dad was a  physician. 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.

• Hassan Rouhani  (Iran) -   Hassan - married to his cousin, who is 6 years younger and is considered to be a moderate and pragmatic politician, presiden tMr 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. 

• Khameni- elected Iran's supreme leader in 1989, supreme leader. 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.

• Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) - was married 2 times and defeated cancer, with a thyroid disease. Brazil- South America. Served 3 years in prison and was tortured, She 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.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.

• Hamid Karazi (Afghan) - married and doesn't own any land or property. Afghan- off the middle east. He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule, speak several different languages, in 2001 he warned the U.S. about al Qadea, 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.

• 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 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.

• Binyamin Natanyahu (Israel) - 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."

World Leaders and Governments

Mexico-

Governmet: federal republic, 

Leader: President Enrique Pena Nieto,

Germany-

Government: federal republic

Leader: President Joachim Guack

Venezuela-

Government: federal republic

Leader: Nicolas Moros

China-

Government: communist state

 Leader- President XI Jinping

India

Government: Federal Republic

Leader: President Pranab Mukherjee

United Kigndom

Government: Constitutinal Monarchy and Commonwealth

Leader: Queen Elizabeth 2^nd

Saudi Arabia

Government: Monarchy

Leader: King and Primie Minister Abdallah bin Saud

France

Government: Republican

Leader: Francios Hollande

Iran

Government: Theo. Republic

Leader: Hassan Rouhami

Brazil

Government: federal republic

Leader: Dilma Rousseff

Israel

Government: Parlimentary Democracy

Leader: Shimon Peres

Afghanistan

Government: Islamic Republican

Leader: Hamid Karzai

The Test

            Today we took the test, for everyone else it was the second time taking the test, but for me it was my first due to my absence on Friday. I believe that I totally did horrible on this test, none of the notes I took on Wednesday and Thursday were not on the test. I knew some on the things but majority of them really got me in a knot. I hope that the next test I do better on because this test was just not the one. Mr. Schick went and graded the test and I got a 53. Although, this was my first time taking the test and hopefully Mr. Schick lets me take retake it.

        After the test we began to take notes, We started a new section which included Political Geo.These are the notes I took:
Country

• An identifiable land area

Nation

• A population

State

• A population under a single government
• Synonyms with "country"

Nation-state

• A single under a single government
• A nation which has the same borders as a state
• Nations are culturally homogenous groups of people that is larger than a single tribe or community which share a common language, institutions, religion, and historical experience

An independent state…

• Boundaries
• Organized economy
• Education
• Transportation
• Government
• Sovereignty
• External recognition

After taking notes we watched a video on a person who truly knew his stuff but tried to be funny but didn't make a lot of people laugh, I also took notes on them: Country

Lines on a map, geographical expression, visual expression,

Nations

Group of people with shared identity, religion, cultural, language. and the bell rang....