Class Participation Points

I believe that I should get a 100% on class participation for this semester.  The reasons I think I deserve a 100 is because I’m always disguising the topics were on with Mr. Schick and the class.  Although I’m not always right I do try to talk about what is going on unlike some people.  Even when I was gone because of me being sick I connected with class by using Skype to see what we were doing and to learn more. 

Tuesday's Blog

1/8/13 was a fun day in class with Mr. Schick’s fun animal noises.  This included a deer and a zebra and how they react to different situations like something coming up behind them.  We learned many things today including the animals that can and cannot be farmed.  There are more than 2 million species in the world today and the animals that can be farmed from them is about 148.  Now how many do you think humans have actually been able to farm and make a good living off of?  Well to tell you the truth only 14 animals have been able to be successfully farmed for the good of everyone.  You would think that these animals would come from many different places but 13 of them come from Europe and Asia.  Leaving the one which is the llama which comes from South America.  Because of these animals not living in every place it made it hard for some cultures to farm easily.  Especially in New Guinea where they have to use their own physical labor to do the hard stuff.  I hope tomorrow will be like today except better.

Monday's Blog

Today in class we watched more about Jared Diamond who is trying to find out why some civilizations have moved so much further in their time span then other ones.  In today’s parts we saw how civilization have evolved over time from being hunter gathers to farmers and then starting to domesticate the animals which in turn provides more for the group.  After learning about how the cultures have evolved over time he then told us about how some cultures are gifted with their geological location and what grows in their area.  For instance in New Guinea they have a tree called the Sago which can be striped apart and the insides can be made into dough to eat.  This dough though is not good in nutrients but has many calories which do not give the people strong bones.  On the other hand in a village name Drah which is located in the Middle East was the perfect place to settle for the luscious wheat and barley fields that covered the area.  The wheat and barley that grew there was more nutrients then the Sago tree and also could be made into dough.  Because wheat and barley are grains they can be stored for a long period of time unlike the Sago dough which can only be stored for a couple of days.  This made the people from New Guinea have to forage for their food and not be able to focus on other things.  This is just some of the things we learned but I could go on for a lot longer if I had the time.  

In Class Definitions

Capitalism - Capitalism is a social system based on the principle of individual rights. Politically, it is the system of laissez-faire (freedom). Legally it is a system of objective laws (rule of law as opposed to rule of man). Economically, when such freedom is applied to the sphere of production its’ result is the free-market.

http://www.capitalism.org/

Communism
What is Communism?

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

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What is the proletariat?

The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the 19th century.^[1]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

Free Enterprise – An economic system where few restrictions are placed on business activities and ownership. In this system, governments generally have minimal ownership of enterprises in the market place. This system aims for limited restrictions on trade and minimal government intervention.

Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/free_enterprise.asp#ixzz2EF8esLB2

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/free_enterprise.asp#axzz2EF8UECvg

Free Market - an economic system with only a small amount of government control, in which prices and earnings are decided by the level of demand for, and production of goods and services

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/free-market

Wednesday Blog

On Wednesday we had a fun class while continuing the movie we started about The People’s Republic of China.  Some of us learned a little bit more about China and the US and its relationship.  For the first part of class we talked about China and Mr. Schick answered questions that some of us had.  After we finished the talking we started watching the movie again and paused about every 2-3 minutes to talk about what just happened.  Sadly since we would talk for so long we didn't get very far in the movie.  So far I like the movie but I wish we could see more of it during class.  Thanks for the movie I think we all can learn a lot from this and my views of the economy will change once we finish it. 

World Leaders

Enrique Peña Nieto

President of Mexico   
Government: Constitution, Federal republic, Presidential system, Constitutional republic

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia
Government: Unitary state, Islamic State, Absolute monarchy

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany
Government: Democracy, Parliamentary republic, Federal republic

Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres 

Are the Leaders of Israel
Government: Liberal democracy, Parliamentary system

Hu Jintao

President of the People's Republic of China

Government: Single-party state, Communist state, Socialist state



Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

President of Iran
Government: Islamic republic, Unitary state, Theocracy

Hamad Karzai

President of Afghanistan
Government: Presidential system, Islamic republic

François Hollande

President of France  
Government: Semi-presidential system, Unitary state, Constitutional republic

Pranab Mukherjee

President of India  
Government: Parliamentary system, Democracy, Republic, Constitutional republic, Federal republic

Hugo Chavez

President of Venezuela

Government: Federal republic, Presidential system, Constitutional republic, Republic

David Cameron

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Government: Hereditary monarchy, Constitutional monarchy, Parliamentary system, Unitary state

Queen Elizabeth II of England 
Queen of England

Figure head of England

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil    
Government: Presidential system, Constitutional republic, Federal republic

Barack Obama

President of the United States

Government: Constitution, Democracy, Federal republic, Presidential system, Republic, Constitutional republic

11/14/12

Today in class we discussed what was happening in Texas and how some people in the state want to secede from the US.  After this I then told some facts about the state and how the government would have to take so many different things out of it.  Then Mr. Schick told us more facts about how if they secede then they would have to create their own military and have more problems if they did secede then if they stayed in the union.  After this we learned about the project we needed to do over the weekend.  The funniest part of going over what we had to do for the project was when Matt asked if we had to spell words right.  By the time he was done we all were laughing and I told him “you have Microsoft Word on your computer.”  Can’t wait for next class see you soon Mr. Schick.