Tuesday, November 26, 2013
"When I was a kid"
Today in human geo we just talked about stories about teachers that we have had and what kind of punishments we got for things. Mr. Schick told us about his guppy stories when he was in school. Everyone was sharing their stories about when they got in trouble. Today was a fun class, thank you for reading.
Monday, November 25, 2013
New Docs Slide Show
Today in
human geo we started a new google docs slide show. We split up the work between
the whole class. Me and Ryan are doing What does Microfinance do for people. We
have one slide on this topic done and we will probably start the next one tomorrow.
I was called to Mr. Ireton’s office in the middle of class and I was really
scared. It turned out okay but do not want to go again. That’s mostly all that
we did today so thanks for reading.
Friday, November 22, 2013
The Sub Day
Today in human geo Mr. Schick was
not there we had a sub who is my advisor. We were working on the Peace Corps
Challenge game. I did not finish the game but I am kind of far along. I have
solved three of the problems but my computer was not working rite so I kept
having restart it. I have a party for my B-day tonight so I have to go. That’s all
for today, thank you for reading.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Small Businesses
Today in human geo we went over the
peach colored sheet, we filled in some answers. Than we talked about how small businesses
are having to close down because they can compete with big chain stores. We talked
about the good things that come from small businesses like how they support the
government by paying taxes and employing people to work in the stores. A local
example in at Kefauver lumber company, they cannot compete with the big chain
stores like Home Depot and Lowes. They will probably have to close up like all
the other places around soon. Participating in small business Saturday helps
these small business stay open. That’s all for today, thank you for reading.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Not Much Today
Today in human geo we got our tests
back and I did horrible I do not even want to say my score. It was a hard test and it showed on my paper.
Mr. Schick gave a picture of himself when he was grading the papers. It was not
pleasant, it was a monster thing with horns sticking out of its head and a
green face, yea weird. So yea we really did not do much so I guess that’s it,
thanks for reading.
Monday, November 18, 2013
"In Your Mind!"
Today in human geo we started the Peace Corps Challenge "In Your Mind!" as Mr. Schick said. It is a game/ learning device where you are in the peace corps and you are helping the fake country of Wanzuzu which is In Your Mind. You are asked to make the best decisions you can for the country even if it hurts yourself. The goal is to make Wanzuzu a better place. you go around to all the people and get their ideas of what they want there country to be like. Most of them own small businesses that they run themselves. that is pretty much as far as we got in the game today so that's all for today, thank you for reading.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Lord today we had a test
Today in
human geo we took a test and I did not finish all of the questions. We got to use our blogs but is was still very
hard. I didn’t finish about four
questions. Most of the information I needed
was on my blog, it was just really hard to find because I had so much
information on it. I did not think there would be as many questions as there
were because I thought it was a quiz not a test. Tonight for homework I am finishing fixing my
blog. We will not have class again until
Monday. That’s all for today, thank you for reading.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
Updating
Today in class and at home we updated our blogs to have the information that Mr. Schick's slide show has.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
LOOK! ☝☝☝ My new blog name
On Friday in
human geo we went over the test that we took on Monday. I wrote the answers on the test paper so I can
study it easy for the exam. There will
be a test on political geography on this coming Wednesday. This time I will study a couple of days before
so I will hopefully do better on it that the last one. On the test that we took on Monday Mr. Schick
made a mistake so he is giving us 5 points to make up for it. And lastly I changed my blog name, I know it is exciting. The power point presentation was very fancy,
it was definitely better than the one that in did in my blog. that's all for today, thank you for reading.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Important Facts
Mexican President Enrique PENA NIETO
1.) Peña Nieto's election marks the return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRI controlled the Mexican presidency for more than 70 years, until the 2000 election.
2.) He is the 57th president of Mexico.
3.) 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, Maria del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
4.) 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.
http://www.enriquepenanieto.com/
Chinese President Xi Jinping
1.) He has been the 6th Chairman of the CPG central military commission since 2012.
2.) He is also the ex officio chairman of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee.
3.) Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
4.) His daughter goes to Harvard.
5.) Wife is a folk singer and an army general.
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/xi-jinping/
Indian President Pranab MUKHERJEE
1.) He is the 13th and current President of India.
2.) Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India.
3.) He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
4.) Created his own political party.
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/
Afghanistan President Hamid KARZAI
1.) He is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 22 December 2001.
2.) He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
3.) He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.
4.) He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.http://president.gov.af/ps
German President Joachim GAUCK/Angela MERKEL
1.) He is the President of Germany, serving since March 2012.
2.) He came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
3.) Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Woman in the world for eight of the past ten years.
4.) Has been Chancellor since November 2005.
http://www.bundespraesident.de/EN/Federal-President/federal-president-node.html
Iranian Supreme Leader KHAMENEI and President RUHANI
1.) Khamenei was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralyzed his right arm.
2.) Khamenei has issued a fatwa saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam.
3.) Ruhani was just elected President of Iran - June 2013
4.) Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and also served on the Supreme National Security Council.
http://www.aljazeera.com/category/person/ali-Khamenei
Queen of the United Kingdom Queen ELIZABETH II / Prime Minister David Cameron
1.) She is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states.
2.) Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon.
3.) Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
4.) His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
http://canadiancrown.gc.ca/eng/1331810132814
French President Francois HOLLANDE
1.) He was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, and a Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st Constituency from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2012.
2.) He also served as the Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008 and the President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012.
3.) Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
4.) The mother of his four children is Segolene Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
http://www.politique.net/2008090103-portrait-francois-hollande.htm
Brazilin President Dilma ROUSSEFF
1.) She is a Brazilian politician who has been the President of Brazil since 1 January 2011.
2.) Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte.
3.) She opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
4.) She has been divorced twice.
http://www2.planalto.gov.br/
Venezuelan President Nicolas MADURO Moros
1.) He was previously the Vice President of Venezuela and the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Hugo Chávez.
2.) He was a former bus driver.
3.) Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
4.) 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.http://www.mre.gov.ve/
Saudi Arabian King ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud
1.) He ascended to the throne on 1 August 2005 upon the death of his half-brother, King Fahd.
2.) Abdullah, like Fahd, was one of the many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia.
3.) He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.
4.) He is worth approximately 21 billon dollars.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/king-abdullah
Israelite President Shimon PERES/ Prime Minister Binyamin NATEANYAHU
1.) Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years
2.) Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.
3.) Nateanyahu as a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67.
4.) 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. http://www.president.gov.il/English/Pages/english.aspx
1.) Peña Nieto's election marks the return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRI controlled the Mexican presidency for more than 70 years, until the 2000 election.
2.) He is the 57th president of Mexico.
3.) 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, Maria del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
4.) 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.
http://www.enriquepenanieto.com/
Chinese President Xi Jinping
1.) He has been the 6th Chairman of the CPG central military commission since 2012.
2.) He is also the ex officio chairman of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee.
3.) Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
4.) His daughter goes to Harvard.
5.) Wife is a folk singer and an army general.
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/xi-jinping/
Indian President Pranab MUKHERJEE
1.) He is the 13th and current President of India.
2.) Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India.
3.) He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
4.) Created his own political party.
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/
Afghanistan President Hamid KARZAI
1.) He is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 22 December 2001.
2.) He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
3.) He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.
4.) He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.http://president.gov.af/ps
German President Joachim GAUCK/Angela MERKEL
1.) He is the President of Germany, serving since March 2012.
2.) He came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
3.) Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Woman in the world for eight of the past ten years.
4.) Has been Chancellor since November 2005.
http://www.bundespraesident.de/EN/Federal-President/federal-president-node.html
Iranian Supreme Leader KHAMENEI and President RUHANI
1.) Khamenei was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralyzed his right arm.
2.) Khamenei has issued a fatwa saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam.
3.) Ruhani was just elected President of Iran - June 2013
4.) Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and also served on the Supreme National Security Council.
http://www.aljazeera.com/category/person/ali-Khamenei
Queen of the United Kingdom Queen ELIZABETH II / Prime Minister David Cameron
1.) She is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states.
2.) Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon.
3.) Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
4.) His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
http://canadiancrown.gc.ca/eng/1331810132814
French President Francois HOLLANDE
1.) He was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, and a Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st Constituency from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2012.
2.) He also served as the Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008 and the President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012.
3.) Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
4.) The mother of his four children is Segolene Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
http://www.politique.net/2008090103-portrait-francois-hollande.htm
Brazilin President Dilma ROUSSEFF
1.) She is a Brazilian politician who has been the President of Brazil since 1 January 2011.
2.) Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte.
3.) She opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
4.) She has been divorced twice.
http://www2.planalto.gov.br/
Venezuelan President Nicolas MADURO Moros
1.) He was previously the Vice President of Venezuela and the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Hugo Chávez.
2.) He was a former bus driver.
3.) Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
4.) 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.http://www.mre.gov.ve/
Saudi Arabian King ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud
1.) He ascended to the throne on 1 August 2005 upon the death of his half-brother, King Fahd.
2.) Abdullah, like Fahd, was one of the many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia.
3.) He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.
4.) He is worth approximately 21 billon dollars.
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.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Assignment #1
Dominic Huskins
Assignment #1
Country name- Mexico
Type of government- federal
republic
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- Enrique PENA NIETO
Country name- China
Type of government- Communist state
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- XI Jinping
Country name- India
Type of government- federal republic
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- Pranab MUKHERJEE
Country name- Afghanistan
Type of government- Islamic
republic
Leader’s title- President of the
Islamic Republic
of Afghanistan
Leader’s name- Hamid KARZAI
Country name- Germany
Type of government- federal
republic
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- Joachim GAUCK/ Angela MERKEL
Country name- Iran
Type of government- theocratic
republic
Leader’s title- Supreme Leader / President
Leader’s name- KHAMENEI / RUHANI
Country name- United Kingdom
Type of government- constitutional
monarchy and Commonwealth realm
Leader’s title- Queen
Leader’s name- ELIZABETH II
Country name- France
Type of government- republic
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- Francois HOLLANDE
Country name- Brazil
Type of government- federal
republic
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- Dilma ROUSSEFF
Country name- Venezuela
Type of government- federal
republic
Leader’s title- President
Leader’s name- Nicolas MADURO Moros
Country name- Saudi Arabia
Type of government- monarchy
Leader’s title- King and Prime
Minister
Leader’s name- ABDALLAH bin Abd
al-Aziz Al Saud
Country name- Israel
Type of government- parliamentary
democracy
Leader’s title- President / Prime Minister
Leader’s name- Shimon PERES / Binyamin NATEANYAHU
Monday, November 4, 2013
start of political geography
Dominic Huskins
Mr. Schick
11/4/13
Human geography
Today in
human geo we took notes on political geography. We talked about how the world
is organized. It is organized by: country (an identifiable land area), nation
(a population with a common culture), state (a population under a single government),
and nation-state (a single culture under a single government and a nation which
has the same borders as a state. A nation is a group of people with a shared identity.
Nations are culturally homogeneous groups of people, larger than a single tribe
or community which share a common language institutions, religion, and historical
experience. To be an independent state you will have: recognized boundaries,
people who live there on an ongoing basis, organized economy, education,
transportation system, government, sovereignty, and external recognition. That’s
all for today, thank you for reading.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
A second chance :) is not for us :(
Dominic Huskins
Mr. Schick
Human geography
11/2/13
On
Friday in human geo we took notes for the test which will be next week. All the
other groups get to make up the test Monday because they did not do well. Our group
will only get one shot at the test though because we did not have time Friday. The
notes we took were on the religions we are going over. The slides had mostly
the same information in them as the people’s slides that have already shared. Hopefully
my group will share our slide sometime next week. That’s all for today, I will
pick up on Monday, thank you for reading.
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