Blog 37- SURPRISE ... you have a test

As the title says we had a "surprise" test. Mr. Schick put it on his blog yesterday when he didn't have class so everyone wasn’t prepared. Since I know Mr. Schick would have the test on the facts from out blog, I studied his blog a lot, so I hope I did well. Since I was right the stuff I studied right before it was on the test, so I was happy. The first part I think I aced because I got a hundred on the other test like it. The pack part of the test was a bit confusing. Since a lot of the facts were a little obscure. Though I think I got a good grade, and I hope at least some other people did to. I wish I had a little more time to study though since a few of them I guessed on but want can you do. So overall it wasn’t too bad, in my opinion.

Blog #36- Obama

Well today we had some different stuff. We had a shadow and we talked a little more about the government. Well for one let it be documented here, Obama won today and Mitt Lost. I just found it funny that Mitt was so cocky he didn’t write a losing speech, now on to the work. Well the first thing we talked about was how Hamid Karzai came into power after the Taliban. They had control of Afghanistan before he did. Then right after that we really stopped talking about that, and we then started to talk about politics. Mr. Schick shared his opinions like how 16 year olds should be allowed to vote, and they should get rid of the electoral votes and use the popular votes. I really don’t know if we should get rid of the electoral vote system, I see his point but I don’t know. But whatever it was an enriching class. President Obama went to an Ivy league School. And he made a Commerce Clause which does not allow the government to require people to buy health insurance, but the mandate was constitutional under the US Congress's taxing authority.

Blog #35- Teh History

We learned some pretty interesting stuff about the world leader. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said many weird things like how aids was created to weaken people, and he is a ruler.  The president of Venezuela hates America; he wanted to get into a first fight with President Bush. Even before that he tried to overthrow the Venezuelan government, but didn’t succeed he ended up in jail for 2 years. Dilma Rousseff was tortured in her 20’s and then put in jail for 2 years. Benjamin Netanyaku’s brother was killed on a hostage rescue mission and that inspired him to get into politics. Saudi Arabia’s leader Abdullah didn’t like Al’quaeda because he thought they were led by foreigners. The leader of India Pranab Mukherjee is a very smart man, who can handle money very well. He was voted the best money manager in Asia in 2010. We learned many things today, even if we can’t find the countries on a map though.

Blog 34-World Leader Traits

Mexico- 
Enrique Penaniteo-He has tried to increase his counties security rather than attack the drug cartel. He has figured out ways to increase the private sector with using oil imports.

China-
Hu Jintao- During the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, he tried to cover it up until it got to big to contain. He is also the longest serving leader int he G-20 counties.

India-
Pranab Mukherjee- He was voted the best finance manager in 1984. He removed all tax benefits from his country.

Afghanistan-
Hamid Karzai- He helped the US army in Afghanistan complete missions, he helped them. He set up a court of people to reinstate people who were removed for fraud. The taliban ran the country before him.

Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad- In 2012, Ahmadinejad claimed that AIDS was created by the West in order to weaken poorer countries, and repeated a previous claim that homosexual Iranians did not exist. He has also described gays as "thieves" and "ugly". 

Israel-
benjamin Netanyahu- He cut all special forces from the military but he raised the budget by 6%. Though the military wont be able to defend at this rate. He is also one of the reason why Israel is still here.

Germany-
Chancellor Angela Merkel- She is trying to increase child care to make government more popular. Her approval rate went as low has 36% last year but since she handled Germany's liquidation crisis is went back up to 68%.

England-
David Cameron- When a man was captured in Africa. David booked a plane to Africa to go work with hostage negotiation.

France-
Francois Hollande- He supports withdrawing French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. He also hopes to have a 0% deficit by 2017.

Brazil-
Dilma Rousseff- She is the first woman and socialist to take the presidency. She was also jailed in 1970 and tortured

Venezeula- 
President Hugo Chavez- There major source of money is oil, which he is smart, so because of this they are making more money on oil from when he first got into office. He also made laws which made the food quality improve.

Saudi Arabia-
Abdullah bin-abdleaziz-He was the commander of the Saudi Arabian national guard. They were threatened by Al-Qaeda so they had to take political options to stop it.

Blog #33 - Reviewz

Well we finally got back to Human Geo after a whole week of missing it. We went over the test answers. I got a 96% on the test. The only things I got wrong were the Muslim questions like where they pray to and that is Mecca. Then we went over the world leaders in a matter of like 5 minutes or less, we were speeding. The main reason why I'm not going to put all the leaders on the blog since they are already here on the blog and it would just get repetitive. Otherwise I thought that I did well with the test and I did. Though I was surprised that some people failed, that Mr. Schick said that 9 people or so failed. Though I could sort of see why it surprised 

World Leaders

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oU2ccYuXbOt-jA-F3d1rdEkXLQ4OkqdnGrEdxpgL_hk/edit

I was having some problems putting the work in the blog, so I made a Google Docs page for it and put the link here.

Enjoy

Blog #32- Another test bits the dust

Well today Human Geo was well … what can I say we had a test. It also seems that every time we have a test Mr. Schick is nowhere to be found. He always seems to be missing every other week which is somewhat weird. Well I studied for the test … all first mod and advisory so I was prepared. I was scared that the test was going to be hard, but at the same time I wasn’t too scared because I had a high grade in the class already. We had Mr. Hughs for a sub and he wasn’t that bad. And of course every time Schick isn’t here, he has to assign work which is very annoying but whatever. The test was pretty easy in my opinion, I think I studied a bit too much since I knew most of it, and then some but what can I say. I hope Schick had fun on his little vacation thing.