Wrestling Tournament 11/25/14

I was out yesterday because of my wrestling tournament. I'm pretty sure we just watched the rest of the video, so i don't think i missed any work. If i did, ill get it on Monday :). happy THANKSGIVING!

Part 2 of Slum dog Millionaire

We watched a lot of the movie in Mr. Schick's class today. The big thing i saw in the movie today was when Salim and Jamal grew up to be teenagers. Jamal was the calm brother. Salim turned into like a gangster and was threatening his brother so now they hate each other. In the beginning they worked together by stealing food and begging for money. Then they gave fake stories about the Taj Mahal to visitors which they made money off of. Plus they stole shoes at the Taj Mahal and soled them for money. In the beginning, the escaped from a camp but left the girl behind which they found her a couple years later when Salim shot the guy who was in control of her. They rode the trains stealing food and living off of it. The final thing i remember watching is when he gave $100 to the blond kid. he knew all of the answers to "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." because of his past experiences.

Embedding my YouTube Video on The French National Anthem

SlumpDog Millionaire

The difference between India's culture (Mumbai) and American culture is there is no space in India. In America, there is a lot of room. Also there is no sanitation in Mumbai. There are mountains of trash and rivers with trash and the kids bathe in it. In the U.S. there is not a lot of poverty. We have clean sanitation and clean bath water. Also in India, some kids don't have parents. They wander by themselves with their friends or siblings. There are a lot of orphans. In the U.S, kids usually have parents and kids don't wander off from their parents. Also they trade a lot in markets and their is a lot of noise. People don't really trade at markets in the U.S. We usually just go and get our own stuff at stores and pay for it. Another thing is their is not a lot of jobs in India. There are a ton of people who are homeless. In the U.S we have some poor people, but not a s much as India. Plus we have a ton of more jobs in the U.S. Finally the schools are jam packed and the teachers are aggressive to their students sometimes. In the U.S,

Schick is out!

Today i finished my homework because i already did the spotify activity on Sunday night. I honestly don't know what to write about again.There were only two people out today. Also the substitute was very nice but was sort of forceful. Anyways that rapped up today's class basically. If Mr. Schick is sick, i hope he gets better.

Hard Work Pays Off!

Since i did the first two assignments for Human Geo on Sunday night, i didn't have to do anything today in class except blog. I think i did solid on the two assignments. I honestly don't know what to write about because i did nothing. Since i got bored, i decided to get my earphones and listen to music while i blog. I helped one of my partners, Kyle, with the project by helping him with the YouTube part of the assignment. Well this is basically what i did and Mr.Schick said it was alright to write this much!

Start to Cultural Geography

Today's class we started cultural geography! Today's class was fun and hardworking. In the beginning of class Mr.Schick explained how his JC Academic Team won the tournament. Also he told us what to do when your there. Apparently, you hit a buzzer like the game shows and also if you got a question right ( or something ) the same person gets 3 questions in a row and if you get it wrong there is no penalty. Anyways we did a little trivia quiz and i was the best in the class. The questions were kind of challenging at first but then i understood them. I was surprised that i got mostly all of the questions right ( except the three religion ones lol). The second part of the class was starting on the power point for Cultural geography. Some notes i took were, that we went over a map that showed what people call (soda). people in the north call it pop and people in the south call it coke except a part in Florida where old people move to make life easier. the old people call it soda as well as California and most of the North Eastern states. Another note i took is Cultural Characteristics - Are parts of a groups everyday life. they are the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. Examples of cultural characteristics are language, religion, and ethnic heritage. That's all the notes we got to in today's class. I'm excited for tomorrows class!

Mr. Schicks assignment for spotify

• 311- ill be here awhile
• James Taylor- Carolina in my mind
• Dont you want to stay- Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson
• Bastille- Pompeii      ( Audien remix if you like trap music)
• -Zac Brown Band ( Jimmy Buffet) - Knee Deep
• Jimmy Buffet- Its 5 o'clock somewhere
• Florida Georgia Line- Stay

Part 2- French National Anthem

Let's go children of the fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us tyranny's Bloody flag is raised! (repeat) In the countryside, do you hear The roaring of these fierce soldiers? They come right to our arms To slit the throats of our sons, our friends! Refrain Grab your weapons, citizens! Form your battalions! Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood Water our fields! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings, What do they want? For whom these vile shackles, These long-prepared irons? (repeat) Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult! What emotions that must excite! It is us that they dare to consider Returning to ancient slavery! What! These foreign troops Would make laws in our home! What! These mercenary phalanxes Would bring down our proud warriors! (repeat) Good Lord! By chained hands Our brows would bend beneath the yoke! Vile despots would become The masters of our fate! Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors, The disgrace of all groups, Tremble! Your parricidal plans Will finally pay the price! (repeat) Everyone is a soldier to fight you, If they fall, our young hero's, France will make more, Ready to battle you! Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors, Bear or hold back your blows! Spare these sad victims, Regretfully arming against us. (repeat) But not these bloodthirsty despots, But not these accomplices of Bouillé, All of these animals who, without pity, Tear their mother's breast to pieces! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sacred love of France, Lead, support our avenging arms! Liberty, beloved Liberty, Fight with your defenders! (repeat) Under our flags, let victory Hasten to your manly tones! May your dying enemies See your triumph and our glory! Refrain We will enter the pit When our elders are no longer there; There, we will find their dust And the traces of their virtues. (repeat) Much less eager to outlive them Than to share their casket, We will have the sublime pride Of avenging them or following them! Refrain Comments- It has a lot of the same rhythm in most of the song. It was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. There are wind instruments in the piece of music. The lyrics are very well written and pretty simple to understand. A lot of brass instruments playing. Everything is on key and flows well. It has a happy mood. The anthem is called the "The Marseillaise"

Test Today!!!

Today in class we had a test today. Honestly i was so nervous for this test because i stood up till 1:00 studying for this test, the health test, and the English test. Having all of those classes in a row was not helpful either! I'm hoping i did good on this test and the others. When i got the test, it looked hard but i realized i actually knew all of this stuff from studying. It was actually one of the easiest tests I've taken in this class (so far). I'm just glad everything over and i can enjoy my weekend! All my hard work actually paid off. Taking notes, asking questions and doing my homework was all a part of my success. A lot of people turned their test in early so im guessing they thought it was easy also. I thought i prepared great for this test and i hope i can keep it up for the future tests! According to my country France this is how you say a "successful unit,  
une unité réussie!

Final Presentations 11/12/14

Today in class the last of the people in our class presented their projects. Thank God its over lol. It was so long and people wrote so many words on the one slide that were kind of pointless. Anyways not all of it was pointless. You just had to find the important parts and write it down. Also we have Mr.Schick's Google slides presentation that he got from our notes and some of his knowledge. Anyways, again, i will jot down the notes i took today from the presentations!

• Russia
• Dmitry Medvedev is the prime minister but was the 3rd president (2008-2012) when Putin was the prime minister.
• Medvedev is Putin's lap dog.
• Bicameral=two houses
• The main political party is called United Russia.
• Countries are afraid to attack Russia because of Russia's nuclear weapons and aggressive military.
• Brazil
• Federal republic
• You can be elected 2 times but you need a four year break.
• Military Junta- Military dictatorship. She protested and got tortured in jail for 3 years.
• People are happy with Dilma Rouseff in control.
• Mexico
• Nieto is part of the Institutional Revolutionary party.
• Mexican drug cartel makes 19-29 billion dollars.
• Kills over 100,000 people. 

Studying for the test tomorrow

Today in class we had a substitute because Mr.Schick had to go somewhere. Anyways all we did today was study for the test. Mr. Schick put a Google slides thing with all the information that we needed to know for our test. I studied the first part of the notes and i listened to music while i was studying. I don't know why but when i listen to music im way more focused on the notes that im studying. I thought it was really nice of Mr.Schick to make all of those notes on the power point for us. It really helps a lot. I think i will do decent on the test. I hope i get an A, but the worst i would like to get would be a 83.4869374652% . The substitute was really chill and cool today. He didn't bother us and when he did talk, he was really nice. Hopefully i will study hard tonight and get a great grade on the test. I think im ready for it!

Part 3 Presentations

Today we did the same thing we have been doing, take notes on the Google slides. Mr.Schick helped the groups out by adding information about certain topics. Today there was a lot of writing because there were about 4 groups that went. Every group seemed to have a ton of information that they couldn't explain in simple words. Anyways some notes i took today were...

• Assad won election because he threatened the citizens that if they didn't vote for him, he would bomb them and their house.
• The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has no term limits.
• Putin is part of the United Russia party.
• Assad had a poor family growing up.
• In Germany the president can elect the Prime Minister.
• David Cameron became the Prime Minister of the U.K in 2010.
• Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is the leader of the Christian Democratic union.
• Assad changed the term years from 4 to 7 so he can be in office until 2021.
• In Germany, people are elected by the Bundestag ( sort of like congress in the U.S but bigger and more powerful.)
• The prime Minister of the U.k ( David Cameron has no term limits.

Fridays Class Presentations 11/8/14

Yesterday in class, about 3 or 4 more groups share their presentations about their country's government. There was a lot of important details in some of the presentations. If there was a big idea the group had in their Google slides, Mr.Schick would stop and start a conversation about it. Also he would tell us some notes that the groups had left out (sometimes) that were very important for our test. Some of the notes i took in class were...

• Canada had a parliamentary democracy.
• Also Canada has 5 party's!
• Japan has a parliamentary system, constitutional monarchy, and is a unitary state.
• In Japan only the government (diet) votes for who should be the leader.
• Also the Chinese leader Xi Jinping got 2397 votes!!! obviously they liked him ( BTW the houses vote, not the people).
• A lot of people who run in the government usually have a famous sibling, father, mother, (relative) that passes down the government information to them. Or people just recognize their last name.
• A prime minister can be elected as young as the age of 18 years young.
• The main ways to get a leader out of office is impeachment, re-election, and the worst way there is, assassination.

Also Mr. Schick had a big rant about assassination. He doesn't think its right. I agree with him. Its not the best way to get someone out of office. If the president is killing his people, and messing up the economy, and not listening to his people ( basically being the worst president their possibly is), i would take assassination as an option. Its not right but if worst comes to worst it would be an option. I'm not a murderer im just stressing the fact that if it does happen i would think this. Anyways this sums up Fridays class. 

Sharing our project!!

Today in class, my group and i shared our project on France's government. We worked on it for a while and since i was sick on Monday, i didn't  plan on how to share it with my group. Anyways it was hard to speak because i was sick and i lost my voice. Mr.Schick was making fun of me because of my voice. I couldn't help it though. When i tried to talk loud, i just coughed and i couldn't stop and it was just hard to speak in general. Today are group did good though. We explained everything and connected it usually with the U.S government.We explained about Sarkozy and Valls ( the prime minister). Also we explained the Republic government and how it works. Also we explained how many years the president can be in office and who were the main targets running in the election of 2017 ( President Hollande is running again for his second term). After we were done, Mr.Schick said we did very good even though we started out a little bumpy but we manged to steer it back on track. After us Elle and Gabby went for 5 minutes. Then just like that, class ended.

Cancer Day 11/4/14

Today in class, well not in class, but anyways our class went on a field trip to the hallway to examine and learn about the different cancer that could affect us. We learned to wear sun screen to protect us from skin cancer. I went in a booth that had UV rays to show the spots on my face where there was oily skin, dry skin, and places where cancerous skin was. The bad skin was little dots though. Also i saw a real lung and a smokers lung which was black and disgusting. They pumped up both of them and the healthy lung expanded farther than the black lung and just looked way better. Also the guy at the testicular cancer table taught us about testicular cancer and what to check for in your balls. We got little diagrams of a lump ball and a regular ball in the scrotum. The final thing I learned about was breast cancer. it can be found in men and women, but women are more likely to get it.

Sick Day 11/3/14

I was sick today so i have no idea what happened. Ill get my work tomorrow.