Human Geo on 10 30

Today's class, we still work on the certain country we chose, this time I know that Syria is the country which republic under an authoritarian regime. This country independence on 17 April 1946. It has mixed legal system of civil and Islamic law. Their military is also free Syrian Army. And tomorrow is Halloween, we will make a lot of fun on the activities. I'm so excited now.

Human Geo on Oct 29

Today's class, we still working on the specific country which you chose before. But my partner Paj is not here today, so I just did a little bit but Syria. This country is really interesting, the president, the government, even the army is also interest me. I will continue working on that. 

Today's Human Geo

Today's class, my nose bleed, it is an emergence, so I can just take a tissue to the class. It is a interesting experience. Today's class, we focused on one country which we are interested in. Paj is the group with me. And we chose Syria. It is an interring country. Full of mystical, we made a powerpoint about Syria. It is not bad I promise.

Human Geo on Oct 26

Today's class, we took a quiz, but we didn't ready for the quiz, because we even didn't know about the quiz. This time, my score is not that good, when I see the paper, I couldn't believe my eyes. this quiz is about the presidents of 12 countries. That is not difficult but I need to review that. It's my bad, I didn't respect this assignment, but just search some information and copy that. I will never do that again.

The informations about the presidents of these countries

China: Xi Jinping. His father, Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002), was a Communist revolutionary figure. In May 1966, Xi's secondary education was cut short by the Cultural Revelution, when all secondary classes were halted for students to criticise and fight their teachers. Xi was 15 when his father was jailed in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution.

Russia: Putin. Two elder brothers, Viktor and Albert, were born in the mid-1930s; Albert died within a few months of birth, while Viktor succumbed to diphtheria during the siege of Leningrad in World War II. Putin's paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovich Putin (1879–1965), was a chef who at one time or another cooked for Vlanmir Lenin

Brazil: Dilma Rousseff. According to Apolo Heringer, who was the leader of Colina in 1968 and taught Marxism to Rousseff in high school, she chose the armed struggle after reading Revolution inside the Revolution by Regis Derby, a French intellectual who had moved to Cuba and became a friend of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. 

Canada: Stephen Harper. Harper became involved in politics as a member of his high school's Young Liberal Club. He later changed his political allegiance because he disagreed with theNational energy program (NEP) of Pierre Trudeal's Liberal government. He became chief aide to Progressively Conservative MP Jim Hawkes in 1985, but later became disillusioned with both the party and the government of Brain Mulroney.

Germany: Joachim Gauck. His father was an experienced ship's captain and distinguished naval officer (Captain of sea ), who after World War II worked as an inspector at the Nepton Werft shipbuilding company. Both of his parents were Nazi Party members.

France: François Hollande. Hollande was raised Catholic but is now an atheist. After volunteering as a student to work for Hollande's ultimately unsuccessful campaign in the 1974  presidential election, Hollande joined the Socialist Party five years later.

India: Pranab Mukherjee. Mukherjee became a Gandhi loyalist, and is often described as her "man for all seasons". Mukherjee's rise was rapid in the early phase of his career and he was appointed Union Deputy Minister of Industrial Development in Indira Gandhi's cabinet in 1973. Mukherjee was active in the Indian cabinet during the controversial Internal Emergency of 1975–77.

Israel: Reuven Rivlin. During his term as speaker, he was criticized for breaking the tradition of political neutrality of the post; he was one of Ariel  Sharon's harshest critics regarding the disengagement plan.

Japan: Shinzō Abe. 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. In April 1979, Abe began working for Kobe Steel. He left the company in 1982 and pursued a number of government positions including executive assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, private secretary to the chairperson of the LDP General Council, and private secretary to the LDP secretary-general.

Syria: Bashar al-Assad: Bashar al-Assad initially showed little interest in politics. He graduated from medical school and moving to London to study ophthalmology in his twenties.

United Kingdom: David Cameron.  Cameron lost to Jonathan Hill, who was appointed in March 1992. He was given the responsibility for briefing Major for his press conferences during the 1992 general election.During the campaign, Cameron was one of the young "brat pack" of party strategists who worked between 12 and 20 hours a day, sleeping in the house of Alan Duncan in Gayfere Street, Westminster.

Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto. Upon graduating as a lawyer from the Universidad Panamericana, Peña Nieto sought a Master's degree in the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, based in the State of Mexico. By the side of Montiel Rojas, he formally started his political career and became the Secretary of the Citizen Movement of Zone I of the State Directive Committee of the National Confederation of Popular Organizations 

Twelve countries' information

China

Communist

President: Xi Jinping

                   

                   Brazil                   

                   Federal Republic                   

                   President: Dilma Rousseff

   

         Canada         

         Federal republic         

         President: Stephen Harper    

      

        France

        Republic                

        President: François Hollande

                  Germany                                    

                  Federal republic                                   

                  President: Joachim Gauck

                    India

                    

                    

                    Federal republic

                    President: Pranab Mukherjee   

              Israel             

              Parliamentary democracy

              President: Reuven Rivlin

              Japan 

              constitutional monarchy 

              President: Shinzō Abe

                       Russia                                  

                       Federation                              

                       President: Vladimir Putin

                      Syria                             

                      Republic                        

                      President: Bashar al-Assad

                     United Kingdom                         

                     Constitutional monarchy                        

                     President: Reuven Rivlin

             Mexico               

             Federal republic                

             President: Enrique Peña Nieto

Human Geo on Oct 16

Today's class, we reviewed the test, actually it is not too difficult, but I didn't get the higher score. I should read carefully and read slowly, thus I can get higher this time. I also know how to search the world's facts in CIA fact book today. I will still work hard and try to make higher grades next time.

Finally, I get a great score this test, from 55 to 95, its not very hard for me actually. I just sometimes review and practise more. And then I get this score. I will continue to work harder and try to make higher score next time.

Human Geo on Oct 10

Today, we took a test about Population and immigration, I think this time I can get a not bad score, because I know most of these answers. It's not too difficult, but before I get my real score, I cannot say too much. Because.... if I get a terrible grade again... I hope not. God bless me, I really tried my best.

Today's Human Geo

Tomorrow, we have an important test, it worth 100 scores, which means if I get a great score in this test, I can totally increase my grades in Human Geography. Last time, I get a terrible score, because I didn't work very hard before. But this time, I feel still very nervous, I lost my confident after that time. I just want to say I will try my best. Tomorrow is also Friday, it's the best news today. This time, we talked about total fertility rate, which means how many kids per woman. And also about the increase or decrease population. Of the whole world, every family should get 2.1 kids. Because at this time, the crude death rate is less than crude birth rate. So that's it. God bless me, let me get a great score tomorrow.

Today's class, Mr. Schick helped us to reviewed some words we mentioned before. Life expectancy: in a country or an area, the average age of people they can live. Crude birth rate: the number of born in per 1000 people in the same year. Crude death rate: the number of death in per 1000 people in the same year. Developed country: means country which has already developed well. Developing country: means country which is still developing. Rate of nature increase: The difference between crude birth rate and crude death rate. Immigration: number of people who come into the country. Emigration: number of people who leave the country. Net migration rate: number of people who come or leave a country in a year.

Today's human Geo

Today's Human Geo, Mr. Schick lets us find the country which we think is the greatest country in the world on CIA factbook. First of all, I looked at China, because I'm Chinese, and I'm proud of my country, so I looked at China first. However, my country is not that good. And then, I looked at United States, This country is the best country in the world I think. And also, a lot of  data shows that this country is really great. Such as the oil reproduction and import amount is always the first in the world. And then.... I was so tired this morning, so I want to have a rest for a couple of minutes. I just want to bend over a desk but eyes open. But I don't know when I closed my eyes.... I'm so sort Mr. Schick. I just too tired but not because your class. And thank you that you didn't wake me up. Because of the couple of minutes. I become better later. 

Human Geo on Oct 3

Yesterday's class is the greatest class I have seen ever. In China, it is impossible to have class like this. Teacher set a topic and the students start to argue. And yesterday, our topic is: should United States send troops to other countries? And we had two sides, one is: US should send troops to other country and make some wars, because that can let others respect to them. The the other side is: US cannot send troops because we need peace. On my opinion, I think we shouldn't send troops to other countries, although your purpose is protect them. Let's think about this, if Russia sends some militaries to US, and they want to protect us, we will become very nervous, because we cannot control them, and we need to worry about if they sneak attack us. There is no country in the world want other countries' troop to protect them. And also, if you send some troops to attack some countries, they won't give up their control, but try their best to protect themselves such as nuke. That is not good for us, and we may start the  World War III, we cannot do that. That is my opinion on this topic.

CIA factbook

There is an amazing website named CIA Factbook. We can search almost everything about any country in our Earth. Such as the biggest country Russia and the smallest country Pitcairn Island. The strongest country United States and the country which has the biggest number of population China. Today, we focused on the CIA Factbook and search any country which you are interested in. I am interested in the Pitcairn Island, it is located on the South Pacific Ocean. There are only 47 people living in the island. There is no port and airport. So even the CIA Factbook has not too much information about this country as other countries. And also, I like UAE, maybe you are not familiar to this name, but you must know Dubai, one of the most famous countries in the world. It located in a desert in Middle  East. 

New month, New manner, New life

Today is Oct 1st, we just focused on a great App named Spotify, actually, before these days, I always want to find an App for my mac which can play some music, but I didn't find it. Today, we got this, although I don't know what is this App for our Human Geo class. But I know that it is good for me. I love this App