End of the Movie

Today we finished watching the movie in class. It ended like this. Jamal was still in love with Latika, and he was still trying to find her. He loves her and she does love him also. ALso Jamal answers the last question for "WHo wants to be a millionare" when he dosen't even know the answer. So he is taking a big chance, and he's either winning or losing everything. He ended up getting the question correct and winning. He met Lakita at the train station so they can go somewhere to share their love. Jamal's brother Salim ended up dying trying to make up for all his mistakes toward Lakita and Jamal. He got shot. I enjoyed this movie and I learned a little on India's culture and how Jamal and Salim had to live through, from childs all the way to adults.

More stuff from the movie

Today we had a long class so we watched a lot of the movie. We watched the two main charcters live on their own, stealing money and making that off a living. What I thought was interesting was when they fell off the train into the windy dust and then they turned from kids to teen agers. They had found Laktika but we didnt finish the movie so i dont know what really happened with her yet. But Salim and Jamal would pretend they were fake tourists at the Tas Manual and make good money their until they got caught. So they made lots of money stealing. And for Jamal playing the millionare game he was winning so much money by answering all the questions correct. But Jamal's brother Salim was older than him so he pushed and bossed him around a llot and they would fight sometimes.

India

Today we watched a movie about people in India and what they live through and the culture they have. There is 100s of millions of people in India that are poor. Trading is a big thing to get money. Small houses to live in, Bombay which is now Munbi. Loys of torturing and just a scary pplace to be I think. Lots of orphans with no parents and they just do what they want. Back then Hindus attacked Muslims coming off the train and just stormed and beat people to death. Main character is named Jamal, and its about him on a million dollar show answering questions. He always answers them correctly because he remembers back when he was a child of all the events that happened to him. So in the movie there are flashbacks of him in India. The police men chase the kids around everywhere when they are being bad. The school is croweded with kids, and its crazy and loud.

Spotify Songs and Syria National Anthem

This national anthem of Syria is pretty cool. It sounds like a marching band for a football game. It dosent sound similar to our national anthem though. Guardians of the HomelandDefenders of the realm, Peace on you; Our proud spirits will Not be subdued. The adobe of Arabism, A hallowed sanctuary; The seat of the stars, An inviolable preserve. On spotify there are songs that pull and push people towards them liking it. The song LA LA LA by SHakira is a Fifa World Cup song that was sung by her at one of the games. This song is a pull because everyone likes it. The song Demons by Imagon Dragons is also a pull because the lyics sung in it are a pulling song in a way. A song that is a push would be Drop the World by Lil wayne, because its a bad influence on people. Also there is dirty language in it.

Culture Characteristics

Culture 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 Culture Characteristics would be language, religion, and ethnic heritage.





This map is the Generic Names for soft drinks by country. Throughout the U.S. people call soft drinks by different names. Pop, soda, coke, and any others. The color coding represents which state uses the type of name. Yellow shading is soda, red is coke, blue stands for pop, and green is other names. So from the information given, this shows how people grew up and said the type of soft drink they way they learned it. So if you live in Arizona or California you say "soda" and in like in Chicago, Montana, Oregon, and Nebraska stand for "pop".

Contry Government Test

Today in class we took our test. It wasn't that hard I though since I studied. The easiest questions were the pictures of the leaders and you had to identify them. Also there was questions from the last quiz that was on there that i knew. The hardest question on the test was probably What leader would leave office first? And the choices were Barrack Obama, Dilma Rousseff, Vladimir Putin, and Bashaar al-Assad. I answered Vladimir Putin and so I have no idea if that was correct. Also the BCR was kind of hard but I think I answered it correctly.

The Last Day of Presentations

Germany-federation government- which is a ploitical unity with a central government by a number of separate states. Vladimir Putin is the president. Since may 7, 2012 and won 63.6 of the vote. Dmitry Medveev is the prime minister, United Russia Party. Bicameral, two branches or two chambers. The president is the commander in chief. Russia is a very military protective country, with thousands of nuclear weapons. Russia is the largest country in the world.

Brasil- has a federal republic form of government. Brazilian Presidency 4 year term, re-elected two more years. Dilma Rousseff is the president and is the first female president for Brazil. Elected in 2011, won with 51% of the vote. She was arrested for participating in a political querilla riot. She was arrested and tortured then released three years later when she got into local politics. Impeachment-elect-assassination are ways to get rid of the president.

Russia- leader is Enrique Pena Nieto.

Study Day

Today in class we studied all the notes for the test tomorrow. There is a lot of stuff but i think i got this down. Some of the notes was all the different countries and their type of government. Also the name of their leader or prime minister. Mr. Schick was not in class today because i think he had a competition for something. Im just wondering how this test tomorrow is gonna be set up. We had all the presentations done and so that helped a lot. Also we got a powerpoint slide from the teacher for us o study all day in class today, which should really help.

More Presentations

First up today was Syria, and That was my presentation. And so lets just say we had a lot of spelling errors. Next up was Germany. The German government has been in place since October 3, 1990. Germany has two leaders named Joachim Gauck. He has been in office since March 23, 2012.  And Angela Merkel has been in office since November 22, 2000. To replace the leaders of Germany you would need Impeachment:the president can be both replaced by the Bundestag. Or the president is not elected by the people. Angela Merkel is the chancellor and the Bundestag can kick the chancellor out. Angela Merkel is named "the most powerful woman in the world by Fords magizine. Elections in Germany are by the Bundestag.
United Kingdom- has a constittutuinal Monarchy is when a king or queen acts as head of state. The king or queen has the ability to make . At commonweath Realm is a ssovereign state thats a member of the commonweath of nations. The prime minister of the United Kingdom has no term limits. He is appointed by the Monarch. Prime Minister David Cameron was born October 9th, 1966. He is the youngest prime minister since 1812. He is the leader of the conservative party. Two houses called House of Commons and House of the Lords.
United States-President os Barrack Obama. Ran up against Mccain in 2010. Obama has two tears left to be president. He won 2008 and 2012. A change in leadership for U.S. would be to re-elect a president. A president can be overthrown for impeachment.
Russia-type of government-federation. A federation government is formation of a political unity, with a central government, by a number of separate states. Russia became Federation in 1991. Vladimir Putin has been president since may 7, 2012. Previously served as president from 2000 to 2008. Dmitry Medvedev

Presentation Day

First power point was FRANCE government. France has a republic government and semi presidential government. The republican form of government was in 1958. Divided into legistature, judicial, and other branch that i forget. Hollande ran against Sarkozy and won. May 15, 2012 he got elected. Part of a socialist party. Hollande was born in Barcelona, Spain. And obtained french nationality only at the age of 20. A republic means "public thing" in Latin. Frances government has existed for 56 years, and started in 1958. He can be president until 2022 if he wins next election. New election, revolution, boycott, assassination are ways for change in leader. The UMP is the second most powerful political party in France.

CHINA- is a communist state. Communist- a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and every so often the authoritarian party holds power. Thats all the notes I have for today since thats how far we got.

Cancer Awareness

Today in class we went to a cancer awareness display. It was pretty cool. They had ways of showing you if you have breast cancer and other cancer spots. Also they had a bad pig liver that would pump up. Also there was a mirror of some kind that could let you see what you have on your face. Bad sun burn, oily skin and other signs that could give you cancer but you just cant see it. I learned today to not joke around about having cancer, because you never know until you might just get it. Today I thought we were presenting our presentation but that is tomorrow. I wanted it to be today so I could get it over with. Also there was rubber fake body parts that had a texture of a correct part of your body and a hard lump which means you have a specific type of cancer.

Last Day for working on Power point

Today was the last day for working on your power point for your country. Adrian and I are ready, we think. We got some important facts today for the leader Bashar al Assad. Syria's parliament speaker, Jihad Lahan, announced the final results from Tuesday's election, saying Assad garnered 10,319,723 votes, or 88.7%.

-Laham said Assad's two challengers, Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, won 4.3% and 3.2% respectively. The supreme constitutional court put turnout at 73.42%.As you can see from these vote results Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad had the most votes. But most of that came from Assad threatening his people to vote for him or else he will bomb you or your house. This info is a great important part for our presentation, because most of the people in Syria hate Bashar al Assad. Also we just added more stuff to make it better such as, a picture of the people holding Bashar al-Assad, and they put fire to it.