Test

In human geo today we took a test on our notes and countries and there leaders. For this test you were allowed to use your blog which was nice because I had the powerpoint in mine. But, as I started taking the test, I still couldn't get some of the answers which was stressing me out. I studied, had so many notes, did good blogs and still manage to feel like I didn't do to well on the test. I don't even know what to do now because nothing is working for me and these test are impossible for me.

Before Test

Todays class in human geography was like every other day. We took notes on things we already to notes on and then we reviewed all of them because we have a test on them tomorrow. I need to do good on this test but Im getting very frustrated because he's giving us a hard test and exams are next week which I'm trying to study for but I'm also trying to study for this test because I'm failing this class and need to pull up my grade.

Brazil is a federal republic headed by President Dilma Rousseff

• She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
• She has been divorced twice.
• She has a degree in economics, and now 
  rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.
• She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.
  China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping
  • Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
  • He married folk singer Peng Lijuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.
  • The couple have a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.
    France is a republic headed by Francois Hollande
    • Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
    • The mother of his four children is Ségolène Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
    • He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme-right physician father and progressive social worker mother.  
    • He was raised Catholic, but now considers himself an atheist.
      Germany is a federal republic headed by
      President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel
      • Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986
      • Has been Chancellor since November 2005
      • Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years.
        ndia is a federal republic headed by
        President Pranab Mukherjee 
        He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
        • Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.
        • He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.
          israel is a parliamentary democracy,
          headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
          • As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67
          • After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
          • Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."
            Mexico is a federal republic
            headed by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
            • He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, María del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
            • Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
            
            
            • Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actress Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.
            
            
            
            
            • The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm,
              
              
              ruled by Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II
              
              
              • At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain’s top private school.
                
                

              
              

              
              

              
              
              • His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.
                
                

              
              
              • The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.
                
                
              • Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.
                
                

              
              
              • Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.
                
                
                Russia is a federation
                Putin served as president of Russia from 2000 - 2008, and was re-elected to the presidency in 2012. He previously served as Russia's Prime Minister.
                Born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, Russia, (now St. Petersburg)
                He developed an interest in sports as a young man
                After graduating from Leningrad State University with a law degree in 1975, Putin began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer. Stationed mainly in East Germany, he held that position until 1990, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
                The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991, acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police.
                Syria’s form of government is an authoritarian regime
                • born September 11, 1965
                • graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988, and started to work as a doctor in the army
                • In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel was killed in a car crash, Bashar was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent
                • In 2000 he succeeded Hafez al-Assad, his father, who had led Syria for 30 years until his death
                • He ordered mass crackdowns and military sieges on Arab Spring protesters, leading to the Syrian Civil War
                • The Syrian opposition, the United States, Canada, the European Union and the majority of the Arab League have called for al-Assad's resignation from the presidency
                • During the Syrian Civil War, an inquiry by the United Nations human rights chief found evidence to implicate Assad in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
                  parliamentary democracy, with a mixed legal system of civil and Islamic law
                  • Born in 1938, he is the son of Sheikh Mulla Masum, a former head of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Kurdistan, and belongs to an established political dynasty with Muslim clerical links.
                  • A former law lecturer and a founding member of Mr Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, he served as its envoy in Syria and Britain before becoming prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan region in 1992.
                    Canada is a parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
                    • Trudeau was born on Christmas Day, 1971 to Pierre Trudeau, then the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, and Margaret Trudeau
                    • Trudeau supported the Liberal Party from a young age, offering his support to party leader John Turner in the 1988 federal election.
                    • he defended Canadian federalism at a student event at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the high school which he attended
                    • he and his family started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign for winter sports safety in 2000, two years after his brother Michel Trudeau died in an avalanche during a ski trip
                    • In 2005, Trudeau fought against a proposed $100-million zinc mine that he argued would poison the Nahanni River in the NW Terr.
                      
                      

              
              

A lot of notes

Todays class in human geo was kind of boring because all we did was take notes on things we had already blogged about. The notes we took are took are going to be on the test this Friday which I need to review for. All of the notes were on the leaders of countries and info about them and how they became leaders and things like that. Im going to study a lot because it'll help me for this test and to get a better grade in the class and it'll help me on the exam. This is all making me nervous but I hope I do good.

Notes and Review

Todays class we didn't do anything other then take notes on things that we were reviewing. We took notes on a blog we had to do which I'm very mad because I did it but I think I forgot to hit update or something because all the stuff I did at home deleted and I got a bad grade on it:(  but we have a test on friday about the things we've been going over and tomorrow I'm going to put all my notes in a blog to go over them because we only got half way done today and I want to do them all at once

Rap Song

Today in class we went over an extra credit opportunity. We can make a rap song for 10 extra credit points which I need for my grade.  I am allowed to work with a partner and then we make a rap song on events of 2015 for something like sports. If we win which isn't likely we can get 20 points which would be nice but for now I will just go for the 10. We just have to make a 12-16 line song on the events we choose and prove that we submitted and we will get 10 points. This could really help my grade so I will get it done soon!

Countries Information

Mexico-

federal government

leader is Enrique Peña Nieto who is the president  

 

China 

Communist state

Xi Jinping is the leader who is the president 

India

Federal Republic

Pranab Mukherjee is the leader who is the president

 

Russia         

Federation government

Vladimir Putin is the leader who is the president 

Syria:
Type of government: a republic government
Leader: Bashar al-Assad
Leaders title: president 






Canada:
Type of government: Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary type of government.
Leader: Justin trudeau
Leader Title: Prime Minister 









Iraq:
Type of government:
The government of Iraq has evolved over millennia, with thousands of years of tyranny turning into a newly formed federal parliamentary representative democratic republic.
Leader: Fuad Masum
Leader title: President 






Israel:
Type of government: Parliamentary government
Leader: Reuven Rivlin

Leader title: President