12/11 Blog

Today in class we had taken a test on world leaders. There were twelve world leaders we had to study and answer questions about. Some of the questions were tricky, while some others we quite obvious. I had studied for about 12 minutes from the notes and the power point. We had been allowed our blogs to help us with the test. I had a lot of notes on the world leaders and I also had that blog from the project we did on the world leaders of the countries. That helped me out a lot because I had trouble with names and spelling of the names for some and I could just look on my blog and get the names. There was also an extra credit I had gotten right, which was about Donald Trump visiting Israel, which boosted my grade five points which is nice.

12/9

Notes on world leaders:

Germany: Angela Merkel

 

Born in Hamburg, West Germany

July 17th, 1954

Has a PHD in quantum chemistry

Accused the U.S. National Guard Security Agency for tapping her cell phone.

First woman chancellor in German history.

She was elected three times.

 

Brazil: Dilma

 

Dilma had fought against brazils government when she was younger.

She was captured and was put in jail between 1970 and 1872, during which time she was reportedly tortured.

 

India: Ranab Mukherjee

 

When asked what inspired him to join politics, he said "I come from a political family. My father as a freedom fight. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party."

He has a Master's Degree in History.

 

Iraq: Fuad Masum

 

Had a PhD in Islamic Philosophy.

 

Canada: Justin Trudeau

 

His father, Pierre Trudeau, was prime Minister.

 

Francois Hollande was an atheist

 

12/8 Project Blog

David William Donald Cameron was born October 9, 1966 and he became the youngest british Prime minister in almost 200 years. After graduating college, David Cameron worked for a consecutive Party’s research. He remained with this job for five years. In 1991 Cameron began briefing then-prime Minister John Major, with the following year being promoted to special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont. In 1994, Cameron had left politics to work at a cooperation of at Carlton Communications, which was a British Media Company. In 2001 he had resigned from that job to continue his journey to win the Parliamentary seat, which he won, representing the Oxfordshire town of Witney. After the 2005 elections, David Cameron was declared the leader of the Conservative Party. This victory was caused by a vow he had made to inspire a new generation. He wanted people to “feel good about being Conservatives again.”. Cameron had decided to run for Prime Minister after the previous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, had resigned. Cameron had won the job of Prime Minister. At the time Cameron became the prime minister, he was 43 years old, and he had become the youngest Prime Minister since 1812. One of the first actions Cameron had made was making a pact with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. This was a move that had resulted in the first coalition government since World War Two.

Cameron had commented with this move by saying “I believe it is the right way to provide this country with the strong, the stable, the good and the decent government that I think we need so badly.”. Three years before the coalition government, Cameron had hired Andy Coulson, who had been a former editor of the tabloid ‘News of the World. He had hired Coulson to be his director of communications. While the phone hacking scandal was building, Coulson had proved to be an early casualty in 2011. The result of this exposed a bunch of elite politicians, press and police. In December of 2012, Cameron had proposed to make treaty changes in the European Union. This won him popular support, but is deeply irritated Liberal Democrat leader Clegg. Cameron had made the decision, in this change, to securing concessions on, and exemption from the EU financial markets regulation as the price of his assent to the German-led euro salvation blueprint. Other countries had balked, with France being the most vocal. France had accused Cameron of putting Britain’s perceived interests ahead of resolving the EU’s worst crisis. Cameron had eventually failed to gain the concessions, and Britain had also forfeited its place at the table where Europe’s future and the new euro regime will be determined. For the first time since Britain had joined the European Community in 1973, a treaty that goes the the heart of how the EU works will be made without having a British Signature. As of now, David Cameron still serves as Prime Minister and is currently on his second term.

Presentation Progress Blog

David William Donald Cameron was born October 9, 1966 and he became the youngest british Prime minister. After graduating college, David Cameron worked for a consecutive Party’s research. He remained with this job for five years. In 1991 Cameron began briefing then-prime Minister John Major, with the following year being promoted to special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont. In 1994, Cameron had left politics to work at a cooperation of at Carlton Communications, which was a British Media Company. In 2001 he had resigned from that job to continue his journey to win the Parliamentary seat.

12/3 Leaders Blog

Mexico:

Has a Federal Republic

Lead by President Enrique Pena Nieto




China:

Has a communist government.

President of the people's republic of China Xi Jinping




India:

Has a Federal Republic

Prime Minister Narendra Modi



Russia:

Has a Federal Republic

President Vladimir Putin




Germany:

Has a Federal Republic

Chancellor Angela Merkel



United Kingdom:

Has a Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm

Prime Minister David Cameron



France:

Has a Republic

President Francois Hollande



Brazil:

Has a Federal Republic

President Dilma Rousseff



Syria:

Has a Republic under authoritative Regime

President Bashar Al-Asad


Canada:

Has a parliamentary democracy, federation, and a constitutional monarchy  

Prime minister Justin Pierre James Trudeau



Iraq:

Has a Parliamentary Democracy

President Fuad Masum



Israel:

Parliamentary Democracy

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

12/2

Today in class we had started a new unit and starting taking notes. We were taking notes on Culture. The notes we took were on stuff about soda. We had a discussion on how people from different places will call soda different things. For example, people up north like Massachusetts will call soda 'pop'. Here in Maryland we call it soda. Also in a place like Florida it is diverse of what it is called because actual people from Florida call it Soda, but there is a percentage of people who will call it pop. This is because there are people from Massachusetts are retiring and when's it's cold up there, they will go down to Florida to relax, causing them to call it what they get a soda, they'd say pop. Also, I'm not sure which state or states it was, but there is a state in America that will call soda "Fizzy water" which is really weird.

12/1 Blog

Today in class we had finished our presentations. Two groups had presented today. One of the groups was us. We had gone first. It was the first thing we had done all day so I was still pretty tired. I thought that our presentation had gone pretty well, and nothing had been messed up. The rest of the class we practically doing nothing because we didn't have enough time to start something else. Our presentation was about the ISIS problem and how we can solve it. We had provided different ways to solve this, with personally my favorite being the back round check. Our solutions we're good and reasonable and each of our four ideas were practical and excellent. There were also other good ideas too, some better than ours and some worse than ours. It was a fun project to do.