11/24

Today in class we continued watching Slumdog Millionaire, and collected notes about the life Indians all they go through living in the the Slumdogs.

Lots of people rob and scam tourist to get money because they usually have a lot money and valuables.
There are many gangs and rival gangs causing a lot of violence.
Some people get orphans and train them to scam and beg. Some of the scams to make money include teaching the orphans to sing and beg for money. Some evil people viciously blind the orphans and have them beg for money because they will be able to collect more money
Jamal and his brother scammed people giving them fake tours of the Taj Mahall and they did things like make them leave their shoes while the other steals it. They would lead people away from their cars then steal everything and they would sell it for a lot of money. This is the last scean we stop on which make no sense to me right now.

11/21

Today in class we watched slumdog millionar to see what it is like to live in the slums of India so now we have to post things that we noticed during the movie so this is what i found
no space
houses were really small
covered in trash
sewers right by homes
kids are little scamers
10s of thousands of people in 1 city
a lot of orphans
mob viollance
no religious freedom
make money by begging and stealing
currupt police
resour to tourcher
overcrowder schools

11/19

Today in class we had a subsitute teacher so Mr. Schick posted on our blog to finnish our spotify project which i finnished yesterday then we got to do homework of any class

11/18

Today in class we started to work on our music projects that Mr. Schick assigned to us the first one was to get a playlist of songs that talk about migration.


1:"Its 5 o'clock somewhere" by Jimmy Buffet

2:"Across the Universe" by The Beatles

3:"Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

4:"Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac

5:"Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles

6:"Forever Young" by Rod Stewart

7:"Move Along" by All American Rejects

8:"Long Distance" by Bruno Mars

9:"I Believe I Can Fly" by R Kelly

10:"Hotel California" by The Eagles

The second part of the project was to find the national anthem of the country we gid our presontation
  
that is it in syrian
and here are the lyrics if you want to read along
ANTHEM LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Defenders 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.
Syria's plains are
Towers in the heights,
Resembling the sky
Above the clouds.
A land resplendent
With brilliant suns,
Becoming another sky,
Or almost a sky.

ANTHEM LYRICS IN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

Qa Roomrama D-Shima Rama
D-Umtan Atoor Kalakh B-Shlama
Ay D-Veela Dargooshta D-Mardoota
Qa Eeqara D-Avahatan
Aney D-prisloon L-Mitamranita
Aney D-Mhoodyaloon Ah Barnashoota
D-Amrawa B-Shlama Hal Abadoota
D-Khayo Oree'wa B-Rwakhaniyoota
D-Yarmava B-Marya Go Elayoota

I thought it would sound more ruthless and mean because the leader is ruthless and mean and i just feel like he would change it to sound more intimidating.

11/17

Today's class went by really fast to me we first talked about how Mr. Schick academic team won over the weekend and we talked about how it works and how they get and lose points. They only lost one game and now are playing in the finals which is really cool. After that he gave us some questions that would be on the things i don't remember them i just know i got 3 of them write. One was about cookie monster I know that. After we were done that we looked at a chart of the united states separated into counties and it showed what percentage of the people called soda for example pop or cola then we wrote down a definition of something he is going to explain to us the next class because we ran out of time. Or and he gave us our test back i got an 80 without the essay question.

11/14

Today in class we had our test it was hard but i think i did good. i studied alot for it but still had some things that i thought were wrong like which leader was most likely to leave first and i chose barack obama because he has 2 years left and all the other leaders have more years  or will change the laws so they stay longer another thing that scared me alittle was the essay question it was why is it unacceptable to kill the president of the united states. I don't think it is acceptable to kill him but i put it on my power point because it is a way of getting rid of a leader

11/12

Russia
     -federation since 1991
     -Vladamire Putib
     -prime minister 1999 to 2000
     -three branches legislative executive and judicial
     -countries are afraid to attack his wepons when he came to power 1/8 of the Earths land
Brazil
     -Federal
     -citizenz fote for who they want to chose to vote for us
     -4 year terms reelected 2 times in a row and you need to step down for 1 term
     -before they were a military junta
     -You can impeach her elect another os assassination
mexico
     -re elect someone else impeach him
     -Enrique pena bieto is the president

11/11

today Mr.Shick wasn't here so in class we went and studied the power point that he made for us I hope we still share after though because its messed up others wouldn't have to do it. Our substitute teacher today told us that if we be quite, which we were, we could work in partners. Oh and I thought i broke my computer so I went all the way to Mr. Vatuchies office so that I could get it fixed, but it was just dead. I felt like the smartest person in the world after that. But its not my fault in Mrs. Amato class her outlet doesn't work so when i tried to charge it it still died. I learned a lot of things about india and the other countries which we need to know about tomorrow for the test

11/10

UK
Constitutional monarchy is when a king or queen acts as head of state
they have commonwealth realm
constitutional monarchy has been around since 1066
prime minister stays for 4 years five maximum
david camron the prime minister was born in October 9 1955
was prime minister in 2005 youngest prime minister since 1812
people decide weather or not he gets kicked out he is a decedent of king William the 4
After that it was our turn to talk about it. Syria is an republic under a authoritarian regime
which means that they have the title republic so that it seems that everyone it equal when really only have little to no rights.

11/7

Japan
     -Japans leader Xi Jinping was born in 1953
     -his father helped found the communist party
     -Each term you serve is ten years
     -He has 8 years left
     -you can get rid of him through impeachment assassination reelection
     -he got every vote except 4
Canada
     -has a parliament democracy
     -there are 5 parties
          Bloc Quebecs
          Conservative party of Canada
          Green Party
          Liberal Party
          New Democratic Party
     -The prime minister rules
     -He is the 22nd prime minister
     -Anyone over 18 can be elected
     -No term limits
China
     -has a Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
     -Shinzo Abe is the prime minister and they also have an emporer
     -Ways to get rid of him is through riots, impeachment, electing someone else

11/5

          Today in class we started looking at our power points we made

France

  -France has a Republic government and semi-presidential system

  -They have a President and a Prime Minister

  -The government was made in 1958 (56 years)

  -Francios Hollande has been in office since 2012 and he is part of the socialist party

  -Shares power with the Prime Minister

  -Prime Minister Manuel Valls was elected April 2014 and was born in Barcelona and moved to French when he was 20

  -In Latin it means "public thing"

  -The President is expected to be in office until 2022 and serves a 5 year term

  -He will be put out of office if they assassinate, a revolution, new elections the cabinet can kick him out and boycott him

China

  -Communist type of government

  -China controls stores

11/4

today we went to the cancer awareness fair in the main hall it was really cool. On the stand closest to the academic wing they were selling the bracelets for Mr. Maynard I would have got one but I can't afford that for 10 dollars. At the second stand a guy was teaching us about testicle cancer, we learned how to tell when you have testicle cancer and to check for it all the time everyday. At  the 3rd table the girl there explain how she work for a cleaning service that goes to peoples houses to clean and if they have cancer they will clean for them for free, then she gave us a bracelet that says "God is Awesome". At the fourth table they showed us a machine that shows if you have skin damage or if you had oily skin or something like that. I had no signs of skin damage but i have really dry lips, that color was white it looked as if i had rabies, and I had really oily skin. On the last table they showed us that if you have smoked you have a very likely chance of getting lung cancer and your lungs will turn black and you would not be able to breathe OK

11/3

Today in class we worked on our project we didnt finish today but we are very close to. Today we fixed up the way we are going to write it, and we found more pictures to go with it. We added this information
-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%
and we also found information on how he changes the votes like just "counting wrong" or bombing building threatening them that that will happen to them if they don't. All this stuff we have put onto our power point and we are still looking for thing to add to it, to make it better and longer.