Ending of Slumdog Millionaire

Today in Human Geo we finished the movie Slumdog millionaire. Jamal wins the million dollars, but after this we stopped the movie because school ended. We had the choice to stay and watch it, but I did not stay for very long. I only stayed for the part where he won a million dollars, but after this I had to leave. I really want to know how Jamal and Latika end together and if they end up happy.

Slumdog Millionaire

In human Geo we watched more of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In the movie we left off when Jamal (the younger brother) invited Latika (that little orphan girl that the brothers met earlier) into their little place where they were sleeping. After this all three of them worked where it was all trash and a man asked them to come with him and they would be happy. The man took the children to a camp type place where there were many other kids that looked disabled. They were missing arms, legs, and were hurt in other ways. Jamal, Salim, and Latika did not know why the other children were hurting but the man that took them here told the to sing a song and in about a week they would have to sing to him. Salim was taken onto the side of the man that took the children and would listen to the singing, he was the boss. Salim witnessed a little boy singing and not doing very well, so the man  blinded the kid and Salim had to watch. When this was over the man told Salim to go get his brother Jamal. They made up a plan and ran away from the camp and the man, before they did this they took some of his money and ran with Latika. They all were running to catch a train but Latika was left behind. After this it was just the two brothers. They went around India scamming people to get money and food. They find Latika and run away to a hotel, but Salim is in charge now and tells Jamal to leave him and Latika. Jamal years later is a chiwalla and brings tea to people in the phone business. Jamal takes over for a friend for a moment and looks up his brother on the phone and calls him so he cam find him after all those years. We left off on this part but I am excited to watch it tomorrow to learn more about the movie and about the culture.

Cultural Geography

Today in class we watched a little bit of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. This movie was an example or people who have different cultures than us. Where they live was over populated, there was one scene where they showed the "houses" with tin roofs and were very close together and small. After they showed this they showed more, and more, and more. It was like never ending houses and you just understood how close everyone lived and how poor they were. Another thing that I noticed about their culture was there was trash everywhere, even in the river where the kids play and the mothers do their laundries.While the kids were playing in the river they acted like it was completely normal and that was great to do everyday. There were a lot of religious clashed where they attacked muslims and they people in this village for other reasons. There were also a lot of orphans and the kids would just roam the streets without getting into much trouble. Jamal did not know where his father is but him and his brother saw their mother get killed right in front of them. The orphan kids trade a lot of their things for money around the village. Jamal's brother sold Jamal's autographed picture to someone because he could get a good offer for it. After the two brothers got into trouble the mother took them to school. Their classrooms were full of kids just squished into corners of the room. The teacher even hit the kid for not doing something right.This is different than ours because they are so close and Im not sure if they actually learning anything. There were a lot of cultural differences between our life and theirs in the movie. I am excited to watch the rest and learn more about their culture.

Homework Period

Today Mr.Schick was not in school so he put an assignment up on his blog. I already did the Spotify anthem assignment so I worked on other homework like Earth Science, and Bible. I checked my grades as well and was not happy with my Human Geo grade because I only got a 5/10 on my Spotify anthem project and I do not know why. This assignment has brought my grade down a lot and I hope I can bring it up soon.

Push/ Pull songs on Spotify

Our second assignment was to find songs that give us a feeling of push or pull migration. The songs I chose where:

• Stay by Florida Georgia Line 
• Riptide by Vance Joy
• Beach Side by Kings of Leon
• Here comes the Sun by the Beatles
• Across the Universe by the Beatles

All these songs give me a feeling of moving and to me talks about moving and or staying in one place, but it might not for other people. Im sure there are many more songs but these songs come to mind and make me thing of migration in a way.

United Kingdom National Anthem

Culture

Today in class we learned about culture geography and how everyone has different traditions and cultural ethics. First we looked at a map of the country and how many people call carbonated drinks either soda, pop,  coke, or other. A lot of people called soda either soda or pop. Near Maryland a lot of people called it soda. Mr. Schick also talked about how he moved and our traditions here are strange to him. The traditions he said were different were eating crabs. He said it was "Weird" and unusual. Another tradition we have it liking the Baltimore Ravens as our football team. I am excited to learn about culture and traditions in this unit.

Countries Test

Today we took the test about the 13 countries and their government. I think that I did not do good on this test. I studied but I guess I did not study the right thing or study long enough because I felt like I did not know any of the answers and the essay question was easy but hard in a way. I knew the essay question but did not have much to say on the topic. Out of the whole test I feel like I only really knew about 5 or 6 answers from memory. The other questions I had to figure out and or guess. I hope that I did better than I hoped on this test.

Finishing up Sharing Assignments

Russia

• The type of government is federation
• The formation of a political unity with a central government, by a number of separate states
• The official name for Russia is Russian Federation
• Government under constitution of 1993 Russia became Russian Federation in 1991
• Vladimir Putin has been president since 2012
• Preciously served as president from 2000 to 2008
• Putin can not serve another term or be re-elected
• Russians like Putin as President
• Six year terms
• In the United Russia Party
• In 1975 he was in the KGB committee and is like the CIA
• Dmirty Medvedev is the Prime minister of Russia
• Previously server as a third president of Russia from 2008-2012 
• He is in the United Russia Party
• Dmitry Medvedev follows whatever Putin says he should do.
• The three branches are legislative, Judiciary, Executive
• Legislative branch: the bicameral Federal Assembly of Russia, 450 member, adopts federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse and the power of impeachment of the president
• Bicameral means: two different houses they have State Duma and Federation Council
• Power of the purse: They control the budget
• Executive:President is the commander and chief
• United Russia: Main political party is called the united Russia
• Party found in 2001
• Most popular is communist party
• Russian Military: Countries are afraid to attack Russia because of Putin and his weapons
• Putin is a very strong leader and one he went into office he made his military strong
• Putin put his military to have a tough impression on his people

Brazil

• Brazil has a federal republic
• 4 year terms
• re-elected two times in a row
• elected any number of times with different president in between
• Dilma Rousseff was elected in 2011
• First female president of Brazil
• 51% of votes
• This will be her last term but she can come back four years after her second term ends
•  Arrested in 1970 
• Back then the military made dictatorship decisions 
• She is in very little danger of being impeached

Mexico:

• President Enrique Pena Nieto
• Member of Institutional Revolutionary Party
• Federal Republic government

Test Tomorrow

Today in class Mr.Schick was not here. Our class was told to go on his blog and use a study guide he made to study in class today. I studied with Kacey and Meredith. I feel okay about this test tomorrow, but I feel like it came out of no where since we have not finished all of our presentations in our class. I am nervous for the test because on the powerpoint it has examples and not the notes and if you click on the powerpoint from other people it will not let you see the persons project until they give you permission. Because of this I feel like I'm not prepared and will have to do research on the countries that I cannot see. I hope that I do well on this test tomorrow and I will study more tonight so hopefully that will help.

Presentation notes

Syria
• Type of government : Republic under an authoritarian regime
• Syrians suppress the opposition and lacks human right and freedom elections
• They are voiced by the government to say what they want
• Internal opposition is the state of emergency act
• Bashar al-Assad was born in Damascus on September 11th 1965
• His father was born into a poor family
• Syria has had republic under authoritarian regime sine 1941 (73 years)
• A republic under authoritarian means that the government basically has all the rights but adds the republic to make it look as if they have rights and freedom
• Ways to get rid of the president is assassination, the country being taken over by another, and revolutionary war
• Assad won 88.7% of the votes on the election day
• The supreme constitutional court put turnout at 73.42% of the people that could vote did
• Most of his votes came from threats that if they didn’t vote for him they would bomb them
• Assad's voting was rigged was counting wrong on purpose
• Bashar al-Assad is expected to be in office till at least until 2021




Germany
• Government is a federal republic
• Government has been around since October 3rd 1990
• After World War II, East and West Germany were separated by the Berlin wall but reunited as a whole country in 1990
• Germany has two leaders President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel
• Angela Merkel has been in office since 2000
• Joachim Gauck has been in office since 2012
• The Chancellor is more powerful than the President
• To replace the leaders the people of Germany can impeach Gauck
• To replace Angela Merkel the people can nominate a new chancellor
• The Bundestag can kick the chancellor out of office
• The Bundestag elects only the president and can be taken out of office by the Bundestag
• People who commit a political crime can not vote
• People that are 18 and over must live in Germany for 3 months of longer
• The Social Democratic party has the most people or is most powerful








United States
• The leader of the United States is President Barack Obama
• America has a constitution based federal republic, with a strong democratic tradition
• Obama will be in power till 2016
• He can not run for re-election after this term
• Each term is 4 years and you can have a maximum of 2 terms
• The first half- African American president
• Obama has been president for 5 years already
• The change in leadership can happen through re-election, overthrow Obama or impeachment

Doctors Appointment

Today I was not in Human Geo class because I had a doctors appointment and came into school late.

Out Sick

Today I was not in class because I was not feeling well.

Presentation on France government

France

• Republic Government with a semi presidential system
• This is a government with a president alongside a prime minister who are responsible to the legislature of a state
• Formed in 1958
• President Francois Hollande and Prime minister Manuel Valls are the leaders of France
• Government of France is divided into executive, a legislature, and a judicial branch
• Hollande is part of the Socialist party
• In 2012 he ran against Sarkozy and won
• Became president on May 15th 2012
• Prime minister: Manuel valls
• He was elected into office April 1, 2014
• Republic: A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them
• The word Republic means "Public thing" in Latin.
• Frances present government (5th republic) has existed for 56 years ( October 4, 1958 is when it has started)
• President Hollande can be president until 2022 if he runs again and wins

Ways leader can be changed:

• New election
• Revolution
• Boycott
• Assassination

• The UMP is the second most powerful political party in France
• Formed in 2002 by Jacques Chirac
• The leader of the UMP now is Jean- Francois Cope

• Francois Hollande is likely to run for president once again in 2017
• Hollande, Sarkozy and several other are potentially going to run in 2017

Cancer Awareness

Today in class we went up to the lobby area and learned about cancer awareness. I checked my skin for skin cancer. The lady told us to stick me head inside a machine and to close the curtain around my neck so you could not see my shirt. The inside of the machine was glowing and purple. On my face I saw very few purple spots which meant skin damage. The lady gave me sun screen and told me to put it on whenever I am outside.After this I visited the mouth cancer table where lungs of people who don't smoke and lungs of people who smoked a pack a day for 20 years. The lungs of the person who smoked 20 packs a day was black and broken but the person who did not smoke at alls lung's were pinkish red and was full. This trip we took was very informational and nice to have at our school.

Presentation time

Tomorrow in Human Geo. we are presenting our projects. Meredith and I are prepared for this presentation. We worked the night before on creating slides to make our project more informational and interesting. We are ready to present and have even worked out who will say what slide. I am excited to see how we did on this assignment.