First Assignment for Second Quarter

Today during class, all of us were assigned to do our first assignment for second quarter. We were to be paired up with someone else and create a powerpoint on a country we choose to do. I was partners if Steven. We were to choose a number from a hat. Whatever that number was, that number was our number for our country pick. We got number 6 so we got sixth pick. We picked Israel as our country. We worked on our power point and got most of the work done. I didn't know how to create the power point or to add people to work on the power point together. But thanks to Steven, we got that worked out. I had to play around wight the power point first to get to know everything. It took me a while to find out how to insert the background. I found out how when I saw the background button. We got 75% of the work done by the end of the class. 

Pop Quiz

Today during class, we took our first pop quiz. The quiz was about the presidents we talked about in yesterdays class. The quiz had 15 questions. The first 5 questions was identifying the presidents and the state they lead. The rest of the questions was about the presidents in detail. I didn't know some of the questions that was on the quiz but I guessed on them. When everyone finished their quiz and turned it in, you took the quizzes and graded them. I got a 60 percent. I had a feeling I would because I didn't know some of the questions. I thought I would get a 30 or 40 percent because the average for the other classes were 60 and 67. For the rest of the class, most of the students just played on their laptops until class was over.

Assignment #1 leaders

Mexico, President Enrique Peña Nieto:
He married Mónica Pretelini in 1993. When she died he remarried telenovelas star Angelica Rivera. Peña Nieto joined the PRI. He became active in México state politics. He held positions as the secretary of administration and state congressman. He has often been compared to American politician John Edwards (and not in a good way). 

China, President Xi Jinping:
When Xi was 10, his father was purged and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. May 1966, Xi's secondary education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution. Xi was 15 when his father was jailed in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution.

India, President Pranab Mukherjee:
Pranab was educated at the Suri Vidyasagar College, and he later earned an advanced degree in history and political science as well as a law degree from the university. In 1963 he accepted a teaching position at a small college near Calcutta that was associated with the university. He also became editor of a Bengali-language monthly periodical and, later, worked for a weekly publication.

Brazil, President Bashar al-Assad:
Assad graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988, and started to work as a physician in the army. Bashar was quiet and reserved and says that he lacked interest in politics or the military he was said to have been bullied by his older brother Bassel.

Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff:
She became a socialists during her youth, and following the 1964 coup d'etat joined various left-wing and Marxist Urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was eventually captured and jailed between 1970 and 1972, where she was reportedly tortured.

France, President François Hollande:
He attended Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle boarding school, a private Catholic school in Rouen, then HEC Paris, the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies), and the École nationale d'administration. He graduated from ENA in 1980 and chose to enter the prestigious Cour des comptes. He lived in the United States in the summer of 1974 while he was a university student. Immediately after graduating, he was employed as a councillor in the Court of Audit.

Russia, President Vladimir Putin:
He attended School No. 193 at Baskov Lane, just across from his house. By 11 years old he was one of a few in a class of more than 45 pupils who was not yet a member of the Pioneers. During that time, Putin was assigned to Directorate S, the illegal intelligence-gathering unit. Many of Putin's actions are regarded by the domestic opposition and foreign observers as undemocratic.

Germany, President Joachim Gauck:
Joachim Gauck was born into a family of sailors in Rostock. He graduated with an Abitur from Innerstädtisches Gymnasium in Rostock. He wanted to study German and become a journalist, but because he wasn't a communist, he wasn't allowed to do so. Instead he chose to study theology and become a pastor in the Protestant church in Mecklenburg.

Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu:
He joined the Israeli military in 1967, moving into the special operations force that rescued a hijacked airplane at the Tel Aviv airport in 1972. He spent most of his teen years living in the Philadelphia area, where his father, noted Jewish historian Benzion Netanyahu, worked as a professor.

United Kingdom, President David William Donald Cameron:
From the age of seven, Cameron was educated at two independent schools: at Heatherdown School in Winkfield in Berkshire. His early interest was in art. Six weeks before taking his O-Levels he was caught smoking cannabis. He admitted the offence and had not been involved in selling drugs, so he was not expelled, but was fined, prevented from leaving school grounds, and given a "Georgic"

Japan, President Shinzo Abe:
He attended Seikei Elementary School, Seikei Junior High School and Seikei Senior High School. He studied political science at Seikei University, graduating in 1977. He later moved to the United States and studied public policy at the University of Southern California's School of Public Policy. 

Assignment #1

Mexico
Federal Government

President Enrique Peña Nieto

China

President Xi Jinping

Communist State

India

President Pranab Mukherjee

Federal State

Brazil

President Bashar al-Assad

federal presidential constitutional republic

Brazil

President Dilma Rousseff

Federal Republic

France

President François Hollande

Semi-Presidential Republic

Russia

President Vladimir Putin

federal presidential republic 

Germany
President Joachim Gauck
and Merkel ( Chancellor )

federal parliamentary republic

Canada

President Stephen Harper

Federal Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy

Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu

parliamentary democracy

United Kingdom

President David William Donald Cameron

parliamentary democracy

Japan

President Shinzo Abe

constitutional monarchy

Test # 2 Review

Today during class we went over the quiz we had on Friday. I got a 100% on the test and I'm very proud. The first part of the test was the 10 min section with the world fact book with 12 questions. The second part was a word bank with 19 questions. The words were crude birth rate, net migration rate, rate of natural increase, population pyramid, crude death rate, life expectancy, and total fertility rate. The third part was a math part. It talked about the Net Migration, Total Fertility Rate, and Net Migration. The fourth part was on Migration were we had to list two pull forces and two push forces. The fifth part was on the population pyramid were we were given population pyramids and we were to use those pyramids to answer the questions given. The last part was the bonus questions that I didn't get. The first question was What is the Net Migration Rate for the entire world, the answer was 0. The second question was What Total Fertility Rate equals the replacement rate, the answer was 2.1.

Homework Class

Today during class, everyone that wasn't at school on Friday because of the retreat had to makeup their test today. The test couldn't be made up tomorrow because of the PSAT test. We are leaving at 12 and there was no time to make it up. Since those people are making up theirs tests, the rest of us were able to have the whole class time to just do what we wanted. We could do homework during this time. The only thing we couldn't do was listen to music. It was going to be a distraction because of the sound. I already did the test so this was my time to do my homework. I finished all of my English homework that was due Thursday.

Test #2

Today I had my second test. The test was about net migration, total fertility, crude death and birth rate, population pyramid, and CIA world fact book. I thought the test was between ok and easy. I was really nervous on the CIA world fact book part where we could only get 10 mins to do. I was kind of rushing but I was pretty sure that I did fine on that part. I ended up having an additional 3 mins left so I went on the regular part of the test. The next part of the test was a word bank. I kind of struggled on two words. It was net migration and total fertility. I remembered on the CIA world fact book part that I wrote children/women at the end of my answer so I knew that the total fertility had do something with children and women. And one of the options did have that. The next part was to write two pull and push forces. The last part of the text was on the population pyramid. I thought this part was the easiest because we spent a good two days just going over population pyramid. I remembered that the African pyramid was the pyramid that actually looked liked a real pyramid, the United States had a pyramid that looked like a house, and the German pyramid looked like a diamond. The very last part was extra credit. I don't remember clear what the questions were but all I remembered was that I didn't know what in the world the answer was. I think one of the questions was what was the net migration was for the whole world.

Population Pyramid and CIA World Fact Book

Today during class we talked about the population pyramids. We all got a chance to go on the CIA world fact book and search up random countries to look at there population pyramid. You also gave us free premium for spottily to me and the other students in class that didn’t get one.Some pyramids we looked up had more younger people, some had more older people, and some had some really weird pyramids like Qatar. Qatar had more males in their population rather than women. They had more men because the work there is more harder and meant to be more for men rather than women. I also looked up information on the bad things about the countries. I found out that the United States is the largest country to consume cocaine. You also talked about that the producers of the cocaine are actually making deals with the United States saying they will provides schools, weapons, ext if they can still send the cocaine to the United States. The people in America are saying to stop but in reality we can’t. Its really weird how it works out.

Retreat

I wasn't here today because of the retreat.