10-30

Today at the beginning of class we got our pop quizzes back and went over them then worked on our project. Here are more notes we added:

Facts about the prime minister-

1. He was Japan's first prime minister born after WWII.
2. Abe is also the President of the Liberal Democratic Party and chairman of the Oyagaku propulsion parliamentary group.

 

How long they have been the leaders-  In 2006 Shinzo Abe was elected prime minister he served for a year from 2006-2007. He resigned on September 12, 2007 for health reasons. Then in 2012  he was re elected the position in December. Akihito became emperor on  January 7, 1989 after the death of his father . he was formally enthroned on November 12, 1990.

10-29

Today in class we came in and did our project we were supposed to do. Here are some notes we got:

Japan:

Type of government- Japan is a  parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy

Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Who is the current leader- Akihito is the reigning Emperor of Japan, the 125th emperor of his line according to Japan's traditional order of succession. He acceded to the throne in 1989.

Ways to overthrow the government.

Facts about the emperor-

1. Born: December 23, 1933 (age 80), Tokyo, Japan

2. He is the world's only monarch with the title Emperor.
3. He is the first Japanese crown prince to marry a commoner.

 
 

Overrunning government

In todays class we got partners for an assignment we have to do, which is. We have to find ways we would be able to get the leader of a country not to be the leader anymore. My partner is tucker and we chose japans prime minister Shinzo Abe. We just got out partner and country at the end of class so we were not able to get any notes down.

Facts about leaders

Enrique Peña Nieto

• The President of Mexico travels long distances in a Boeing 757 under the Mexican Air Force call sign TP01 or Transporte Presidencial #1
• He is the fifth member of his extended family to serve as the governor of the State of Mexico.

Joachim Gauck

• During the Peaceful Revolution of 1989, he became a member of the New Forum, a democratic opposition movement, and was elected as its spokesman.
• In early December 2013 his office announced that he will be boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in order to make a statement against human rights violations in Russia.

Nicolas Majuro Moros

• Worked as a bus driver for Caracas Metro and belonged to the transit union.
• Bodyguard for presidential hopeful Jose Vicente Rangel.

XI Jinping

• First national leader to hold a Ph.D.
• In an effort to learn more about farming, Xi Jinping visited Iowa in 1985 where he stayed with different families in Muscatine County.

David Cameron

• Is the 12th prime minister to take office during Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
• .The youngest prime minister since 1812.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud

• Is one of 37 sons.
• Breeds pure Arabian horses and founded the equestrian club in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Pranab Mukherjee

• The number 13 is a lucky number for President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee although it is considered inauspicious by the rest of the world .
• President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee's height is 5 feet 1 inch

Francois Hollande

• Taught economics at the elite Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, or Sciences Po.
• Promises made during the campaign include renegotiating the austerity agreement, troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, lower retirement age and higher taxes for the very wealthy

Ali Hosseini Khamenei

• Khamenei belongs to the Twelver Shi'a sect which is the largest branch of Shi'a Islam.
• He attended religious studies classes at the basic and advanced levels in the seminary of Mashhad and then went to study in the small town of Najaf in 1957.

Hamid Karzai

• Karzai was educated in India and is fluent in several languages, including English, Pashto, Dari, and Urdu.
• A member of the Popalzai clan, part of the larger Pashtun tribe

Dilma Rousseff

• Joined the resistance movement against the military dictatorship and was jailed and allegedly tortured in the early 1970s.
• She democratized Brazil's electricity sector through the "Luz Para Todos" (Light for All) program, which made electricity widely available, even in rural areas.

Binyamin Netanyahu

• Leader of the right-wing Likud Party.
• Netanyahu's brother, Yonatan, was killed in action in 1976 while leading a mission to rescue Israeli passengers on a hijacked Air France plane.

 

Israel

Parliamentary Democracy

President -Shimon Peres

Prime Minister- Binyamin Netanyahu

Brazil

Federal Republic

President- Dilma ROUSEFF

Afghanistan

Islamic Republic

President- Humid Karzai

Iran

Theocratic Republic

Supreme Leader- Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI, Ayatollah

France

Republic

President- Francois HOLLANDE

Saudi Arabia

King and Prime Minister Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

Absolute Monarchy

United Kingdom

David Cameron Prime Minister

Constitutional monarchy

Germany

Federal Republic

President- Joachim GAUCK
Angela Merkel- chancellor

Russia

Federation

Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN

India

President- Pranab MUKHERJEEFederal Republic

China

President- XI Jinping

Communist State

Mexico

Enrique PENA NIETO

Federal Republic

10-16

Today we got our tests back and I got an 89. This test was easier than the first one in my opinion and I did better on this one. The better thing was that there was no essays that we had to write. I was prepared for the CIA website part of the test because I looked over where everything was the night before the test.

Test 2

This test was not as easy as the first test but there were no essays so I liked that. For the most part this was a easy test there were a few questions that I probably got wrong but ill take that. I should've studied more on the push and pull forces. I studied most on how to find my way around the world fact book and I studied a lot of the vocab.

10-9

Today we went over what was going to be on the test. We will have 10 minutes  to go to the CIA website and answer questions about that. We need to know about the population pyramid and answer questions about countries with each population pyramid. At the end of class we watched a video on Little Hamsters eat little burritos.

10-8

Today all we did in class was go over a little about the test we have on Friday. Some questions were what is the life expectancy of the united states and we would have to find that out on the cia world Facebook. And now I know that that will be one part of the test, looking at countries and finding their life expectancies. Also we will need to know about the population triangles and the graphs. Here are the words we need to know.
life expectancy

crude birth rate (CBR)

crude death rate (CDR)

developing nations

developed nations

rate of natural increase (RNI)

net migration rate (NMR)

immigration

emigration

push forces

pull forces

total fertility rate (TFR)

10-6

Today we spent the class looking on the CIA website again. We looked up facts about the United States because it is what affects us. Some notes I got are: We lead the world in internet hosts with 505 million. Second in the world in internet users with 205 million. We are first for the use of airways with 224,792 km. The U.S. has he most airports with 13,513. We have the most space covered by roads with 6,586,610 km.

10-2

In todays class at the beginning Mr. Schick had to cover for another teacher while he was doing that we went to the CIA website to look at the countries population pyramids. Then we all got codes for Spotify. But of course with my luck my code didn't work. There were only a few peoples who codes didn't work. With Spotify we are helping them to interpret some music that relates to the classroom.

10-3

In todays class we watched the newscast that I was in. Then we watched the newscast scene 1 that w
I saw a lot of times from TV Production. Then after we had a discussion about it. Then we had a discussion the whole class that went on and on about different things. We had conversations about everything from marijuana to the government. But it all related to Humans and human geography.