10/29

Today in class we did more research on the country that we are doing a powerpoint on. The country I am researching is Japan.

• Tsugunomiya Akihito was born on December 23, 1933, in Tokyo, Japan.
• He began his education at the Peers' School in 1940, but left Tokyo for his safety toward the end of World War II.
• Akihito eventually returned to the Peers School in the late 1940s and enrolled at Gakushuin University in 1952, although he never received a degree.

10/20

Dilma Rousseff:
 was arrested for revolting against the brazilian government
 she was tortured in jail
 Enrique Peña Nieto:
He had a son with Maritza Hernandez while he was married to another woman; she later called him a neglectful father on Facebook.
 Vladimir Putin: 
He earned a black belt in judo when he was 18.

10/18

Mexico
Constitution: Federal Republic
President:Enrique Pena Nieto

China
Constitution: Communist State
President: Xi Jinping

India
Constitution: Federal Republic

President: Prenab Mahkerjee

Russia
Constitution: Federation
President: Vladimir Putin

Germany
Constitution: Federal Republic
President: Joachim Gauck

United Kingdom
Constitution: Constitutional monarchy and common wealth realm
Prime Minister: David Cameron

France
Constitution: Republic
President: François Hollande

Brazil
Constitution: Federal Republic
President: Dilma Rousseff

Syria
Constitution: Republic under an authoritarian reign
President: Bashar al-Assad

Canada
Constitution: A parliamentary
Prime Minister:  Stephen Harper

Japan
Constitution: A parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe

Israel
Constitution: Parliamentary democracy
Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu

test today

I thought the test was fairly easy. I liked how we were able to use our computers because I feel like it made the test easier because I knew what I was doing on the world fact book. there were a few questions I wasn't sure about but other than those questions I feel like i did very well on the test. Going over the vocab in class and review was also very helpful for the test if you took notes or just payed attention.

10/8

Today in class we went over a review for the test. Mr. Schick pulled up our vocab words and we went over them explaning  what they are and how they work. The words are:

• life expectancy
• crude  birth rate
• crude death rate
• developing nations
• developed nations
• rate of natural increase
• net migration
• immigration
• emigration
• push force
• pull force
• total fertility rate

I did not only write down the words i also did examples for the words so i know and understand them better. I feel like i know these words very well because i actually payed attention. Another word that we went over is infrastructure. Infrastructure is what a country needs to be connected to the rest of the world (to buy goods, trade goods, sell goods, import goods, etc.), also allows us to communicate with the rest of the world. Transportation infrastructure is how the infrastructure is transported around. Ex: railroads, roads, runways, airlines, etc. 

10/7

Today in class we talked about spotify. Spotify is a free site that you can download on your laptop, phone, tablet, etc. The reason we are doing this in class is because Mr. Schick wants us to find songs about moving around and migration. Any kind of music, rock, pop, jazz, country, etc. I think this could be a very fun thing to do but also be pretty difficult. If you are familiar with a lot of music it could be a very easy thing to do for you, but if you don't really listen to music a lot it could be difficult.