11/5/13 11/6/13; World Leaders

PLACE - GOVERNMENT TYPE - LEADER/PRESIDENT

Mexico - Federal Republic - President Enrique Pena Nieto

Germany - Federal Republic - President Joachim Gauck

 

Venezuela - Federal Republic - President Nicolas Maduro Moros

China - Communist State - President XI Jinping

 

United Kingdom - Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm - Queen Elizabeth II (since Feb 6, 1962) Heir Apparent Prince Charles (son of the queen, has yet to take thrown)

Saudi Arabia - Monarchy - King and Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

 

India - Federal Republic - President Pranab Mukherjee

France - Republic - President Francois Hollande

Iran - Theocratic Republic - Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei 

Afghanistan - Islamic Republic - President; Hamid Karzai

Brazil - Federal Republic - President Dilma Rousseff

Israel - Parliamentary Democracy - President Shimon Peres

11/4/13; Bad Humor

Today in human geo class we took our test and started a new topic. The new topic is political organization, along with world leaders and map work. Some vocabulary for this unit are;

·       Country – a identifiable land are (on a map)

·       Nation – a population with a common culture

o   A group of people with a shared identity

o   Culturally homogeneous groups of people, larger that a single tribe or community, which share a coming language, institutions, religion & historical experience

·       Capital S State – population under a single Gov. (synonymous with “country”)

·       Nation State – a single culture under a single Gov. a notion which has the same borders as a State

·       Independent State

o   Recognized boundaries

o   Organized economy (currency)

o   Internationally known

o   Has;

§  Education

§  Transportation

§  Government

§  Sovereignty

§  External recognition

§  A population

After those notes, we started to watch a video about the three big words, country, state, and nation. The speaker tried to be funny but failed, tomorrow we will continue to go through the notes and finish the video.

11/1/13; Test Day - just kidding

Today in human geo, we were supposed to have our test. But that has been pushed back till Monday because we did not finish all the things that we needed to cover. So today was basically a study day! We went over all of the religions that we will be on the test. Some notes from today’s class are;

·       Judaism is the least populated out of the five

·       Christianity is the most populated

·       Most Hindu’s are in India

·       Buddhists are ok if you believe in more than their religion

·       Buddhists believe deeply in meditation

·       Buddhists believe that Buda was at first a very wealthy man, until he saw the poor outside his home and wondered why he can live the way he does while others live no poorly. He then decided to have the lifestyle of them, in a picture he is very skinny and meditating.

·       Buda does not look like the “guy with the fat tummy”

We will have the test on Monday.

10/30/13; 5 Major Religions Notes

Today in human geo, we continued to talk about the five religions for our test on Friday. But we don’t have class tomorrow and we haven’t finished all the power points so I don’t know how that will work. Some notes from today’s class are;

·      Hinduism, Judaism, & Christianity are Abrahamic religions

o  There first five books are the same

·      Judaism’s holy site is Jerusalem

·      Buddha = Siddhartha Gautama

·      Most Hindu’s are in India

·      Most Buddhist’s are in Asia & 10% of India

·      Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions

·      (Judaism) call God El or Yahweh

·      (Judaism) The Temple; the center of Jewish worship, very sacred place to pray.

·      (Judaism) Holy Book is Torah

·      (Judaism) Official Language is Hebrew

·      (Hinduism) God is broken up into three parts; Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva

·      (Hinduism) believe deeply in karma and that one omniscient being controls everything

Most of this information and more will be on the test Friday.

10/29/13; 5 Major Religions

Today in human geo we went over the test we took that was supposed to raise our grade and started presenting our power points on religion. Apparently while I was absent we started to make power points on the five major religions. (Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism) because I wasn’t here on Monday, I don’t have to present a power point. But everything that is presented in the five power points are going to be on the test Friday, along with all the stuff from the last quiz. Today we started with the power point on Hinduism, created by Grace. And she had the very good idea of a fill in the blank type of power point. So instead of writing down her whole entire power point, we only fill in a few words. Sadly I don’t think that this will be the case for the other power points. But tomorrow we will continue with the Hinduism power point and advance to the others.

10/28/13

absent from class

10/25/13; ONE LAP DOWN THREE TO GO

Today in human geo, we took a quiz that was supposed to “help raise our grade” but it was very stupid because I did ok on the quiz. The quiz covered everything we have learned so far in the cultural geography power point. Sometime next week we are going to have a one hundred point quiz covering everything in the power point. Before the quiz we went over some of the stuff regarding it and that honestly helped me a lot. Some of the questions were about religion, language, and the organizations around the world. The religion questions included; what religion out of the important ones have the most people, which one has the least? And so on. Some language questions included; what is the main language in Brazil, which is Portuguese and not Spanish. Then the organizational questions included things like; the name for the oil company around the world which is OPEC. For the one hundred point quiz I think it will also cover things from this quiz.