11/24 - 11/25

I was not in class yesterday or today.

11/21

The movie that we watched today was very eye opening. Our culture and tradition is so much different. Trash is everywhere, streets, river, etc. Piles and piles of junk EVERYWHERE you go. There is no space at all in the Slums. There is barley any space for the kids to play at all. They were playing cricket on the runway.When everybody was getting chased, it was just a free for all. The relationship between the police and the citizens is horrible! Our lives are very different and it makes me grateful for what i have here in the united states. 

11/19

Mr. Schick was not here today so we had a substitute teacher. In class all we did was work on our songs on Spotify. I found a few songs that i thought were very good for the assignment we were doing. The assignment was to find songs related to push/pull factor. If we had gotten that done before the end of class we were aloud to work on homework for other classes. I got what i needed to get done for Mr. Schick's class and also got some of my other homework done which was very helpful because I have a lot of homework tonight.

11/18 continued

The Calling- Wherever You Go
The Fray- You found Me
Matisyahu- Live Like a Warrior
John Lenon- Imagine

11/18

May the reign of the Emperor continue for a thousand, nay, eight thousand generations and for the eternity that it takes for small pebbles to grow into a great rock and become covered with moss.

11/17

Today in class we looked at what we got on our test. I'm not happy with the way I did because i felt like i actually did pretty well on it. Mr. Schick also told us about how he and his team won the academic contest. They got first which is very impressive. There is a freshman on the team, Drew, who is in my advisory and is VERY smart. Once we were done talking about that, we started a new section called Cultural Geography. We look at a graph that was about what different people in different country's call soda.

11/12

Russia (cont.):

• legislative executive and judiciary
• presidents the commander in chief
• main political party is United Russia
• country's are scared to attack Russia because of Puttin and his weapons

Brazil:

• has a Federal republic
• 4 year terms
• can be re-elected 2 times in a row
• Dilma Rousseff president
• she was re-elected about 3 weeks ago 
• after this term she has to take a break if she wants to serve again
• impeachment, elect another president, assasination

Mexico:

• Enrique Pena Nieto president
• member of the Institutional Revolutionary party
• re-elected, impeached, assasination
• federal republic

11/10

Syria:

• repunlic under an authoritarian regime
• Bashar-al-Assad, born in Damascus
• born into a poor family
• had a republic under an authoritarian regime since 1941 (73 years)
• last election was held in June 2014

Germany:

• The wall started coming down 25 years ago since yesterday, 11/9/14
• president- Joachim Guack
• been in office since March 23, 2012
• independent political party
• Chancellor is Angela Merkel
• shes been in office since November 22, 2000
• the president can be impeached
• he is not elected by the people, he or she is elected by a Federal Convention
• Angela Merkel is nominated by the president
• the Bundestag can kick the chancellor out

United Kingdom:

• constitutional monarchy has been around since 1066 and developed over several centuries
• the prime minister has no term limits 
• appointed by the Monarch
• David Cameron- prime minister
• leader of the conservative party
• 2010- became prime minister
• prime minister appoints the members of the government
• 2 Houses: House of the Commons and House of the Lords

United States:

• President- Barack Obama
• Constitutional based federal republic
• by law a president can only serve a term for 4 years but can be elected for another term for another 4 years

Russia:

• federation is the type of government
• governed under the constitution of 1993
• Russia became Russian Federation in 1991
• Vladimir Putin president
• served as president from 2000 to 2008
• he changed the constitution from 4 year terms to 6 year terms
• he is in the united russia party

11/7

China:

• president serves for 10 years 
• Xi Jinping
• has only been president for 2 years 
• impeachment
• assassination
• re-elct
• nobody is allowed to say weather or not if some likes or dislikes the president

Canada:

• 12 parties
• leader of the government is the Prime Minister (Stephen Harper)
• Stephen Harper is 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
• no term limits
• prime minister is in office until they resign, dismissed, or dies

11/5

France:

• republic government and semi-presidential system.that measn it has a president alongside a prime minister. 
• president Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls are the leaders 
• Valls was elected April 1st, 2014
• prime minister is appointed by the president
• republic government- supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercized by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them
• gov. started in 1958
•  leaders can be changed by: new election, revolution, boycott, assassinate, 
• Hollande is likely to run for president once again for his second and final term
• potential runners for the next election: Nicolas Sarkozy, Manuel Valls, Alain Jupe, and many others

11/4

Today in "class" we went by the courtyard where there were people that had displays about different kinds of cancer. The cancers that were being told about were testicular cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and skin cancer. The lung cancer table had two pig lungs, one that was healthy and one that was equivalent to somebody who had smoked a pack of cigs everyday for a year. Seeing the lung that was a smokers lung makes me never even want to see a cigarette again. I will NEVER smoke after seeing that lung. Also, the skin cancer table showed how significant it is to wear sunscreen. It's scary to think that you can get cancer from the sun!