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.

Religion

Today in class we looked over what question we wanted on the test and what he was going to put on it.  Our class contributed about 12 questions which half of them were the most complex and confusing.  I chose not to write down the question because I like to be surprised and I listen along in class so I can just remember what we were talking about and get them right.  Out of all the questions we had I liked my two the best.  The first one was “How many people practice the five religions we talked about in class?” and the answer was 5.2 billion.  Then my next question was “Out of all the 5.2 billion people plus the 1 billion atheists in the world what does the remaining 800 million practice? Give four religions that fall under here.”  Four possible religions could be “Witch Craft, Confucianism, Jainism and Shinto.”  There are a total of 40 religious faith groups in the world.  Here is a link that you go can see what the world religions are http://www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm.  This website will tell you more than Mr. Schick could no offence Mr. Schick.  While this was going on we were really wild and laughed a lot.  At one point Doria couldn’t stop laughing and started laughing so hard she cried.  Good night Mr. Schick and don’t get to mad about the comment I mad above.

Tuesday the 16th of October

Sorry that I didn’t post on Tuesday I was going to but too much came up and then I forgot to do it the other days but I’ll tell you my story for Tuesday so you know why I didn’t make it.  Tuesday started out as normal day as usual doing all the things I would do and then going to set crew after school.  After the fun painting and moving of set crew I had some time to get my stuff together.  After 10 to15 minutes of waiting I met up with my mom to talk and see what I could do to help with the freshman dinner.  After the dinner of fun and dancing I stayed and helped clean up stacking the chairs one or so feet above my head.  Finally I got home at 8:45 PM and started trying to get some homework done but I ended falling asleep sadly not being able to do this blog.  Well that’s it for now I know I was supposed to tell about class but I don’t remember which won’t be good when the test comes around.

Religions

Today in class we went over the fact about the religions and it was surprising how many questions you can have from two types of religions.  A lot of them had to do with Jesus and how and what his life was like while here.  One fact that I did learn today was that religions can be a unifying or non-unifying force.  We also learned that there have been many wars between ethnic groups that have been forced to be one country.  For example the Hutus and Tutsis were and have been at war for a long time.  If they were two different countries then this wouldn’t happen.  On the other hand America is a tossed salad that has many ethnic backgrounds so we are used to different people and aren’t discriminate towards others.  

The forgotten Note Book

So today we took notes on the cultures of the different countries and found what many terms meant.  Sadly I don’t remember most of what happened today because of two reasons.  The first reason was I forgot my note book at school with all the notes in it.  And the second reason was I was put on laughing gas to do some dental work and now I have a major headache.  I really don’t know what else to say about it but that I don’t have stuff to write this blog. Well that’s all I can think of to write of right now and maybe I can find some more things tomorrow to put in my blog.  Good night and have a great day tomorrow.

Presentations on the Beging of the Americas

Today in class we went over our presentations about who discovered the Americas.  While looking over it we found that we need to proof read a lot better.   For example I left the wrong word in the presentation that we turned in.  The word was supposed to be sun but instead it was spelled son.  Our group did Native Americans and I think that our presentation was the best by layout besides our grammatical errors.  The Native Americans were the first culture to arrive in the Americas out of everyone.  They came over the land between Asia and Present day Alaska and they spread out over the land to form new cultures.  After our group went which was the best then came the Viking group.  They told us that they were the next group to stumble onto America and look around.  After that group then came the invaders Columbus.  When Columbus came to the Americas he soon took over and made the land the way it is today.

The next Presentation

Today we went over our test today and found that some of us can’t spell anything (Matt).  It was funny because some of us spelled some of the easiest words wrong.  Another part of the test that was bad was how many people got bad grades on it.  Out of the 20 students in the class seven got A’s and four failed it.  The other 9 got between B’s and D’s.  After going over the test we started on making a presentation for who founded America first.  We now are putting it together and showing who founded the Americas.  Our group decided to go with the Native Americans because we knew most about them.    We also know that they were the first people to inhabit the lands so they should be recognized with it.  The Native Americans started coming over 15,000 to 17,000 years ago before any European.  While spreading across the Americas they lived and respected the land.  Unlike the European who took and stole the livestock and land they treated it as their mother and father.  I could keep going but I have to turn this in and study for my math test tomorrow so have a good night and thanks for the fun class Mr. Schick.

Test 2

On Friday we took a test on the movie “God Grew Tired of Us” and I thought some of it was easy but other parts I couldn’t remember.  There were two bad parts to the test though.  One of them was that spelling counted and I am terrible at spelling which is why I love “Microsoft Word” because it tells me if I’m doing something wrong.  The other part I like but hated at the same time was that he let us use our blogs on the test.  But of course I never write down the notes we took in class on the blog so I couldn’t even use it.  This meant that I had to know everything which for the most part I did.  What was actually funny about the test though was during it a kid asked “Mr. Schick do we have to spell out UN” and Mr. Schick was angry because he just gave away an answer to a question.  Well that was the test and it probably could have gone better if I did what I was supposed to do.

Political Wednesday

Today we continued to talk about the fundraising project for The Lost Boys and how we could help.  After talking about this for a little we learned that the other class did the same thing that we did and found more websites for us to use.  While Mr. Schick was trying to tell us something today the kids were doing the same thing as yesterday and fooling around on the open paper and got really annoying trying to find something and seeing all this stupid stuff.   Now I want to talk about something not related to the project but the politics of the US is the presidential debate.  I am happy to say that I am here today to hear this speech understand what is going on I would love to hear the things that you think about the debate.  If you could leave a comment and tell me what you think of the election and debate and then we can talk about it.  Good Night.  

The Very Weird Words

Today in class we started off with finishing the discussions on the movie and started finding foundations for the lost boys.  While doing the easy activity in groups Mr. Schick wanted us to get all on an open document to share what we found.  Sadly some of the kids wanted to be immature about and started to do weird things while Mr. Schick was trying to explain it.  Then after he did the other kids wanted to write weird things like “Mason likes to eat small puppies” while trying to erase this everyone else decided to erase it at the same time.  This made it lag and erase much more then we meant to.  Finally we thought it was over and right when Mr. Schick was about to look at it someone erased it all and he got mad at what had happened and told us that he would give us one more chance.  We took the last chance and made the improvements needed to make the assignment work.  I learned many things from this experiment one of them is that you can’t trust 10 or so immature 9^th graders to complete and handle an open document assignment.   Well that was it for today in class and I will try to add a the document link to see if you want to donate to one of the Foundations or Organizations we are trying to give money for the Lost Boys.

The normal day

Before class Mr. Schick almost fell off the stool while trying to fix the projector.  While in class we finished the discussion about the questions that we started yesterday.  When we were talking it was about the same things as yesterday.  But when one person asked a question a very odd one the whole class went into it. I bet you’ll never guess what everyone was talking about.  I don’t want to talk about the discussion but I will any ways.  It was about the aids pandemic in Africa but it was about why people kept having sex.  My thoughts about when this happened where how does this always lead to sex and why would you assign this for homework when you have a group of immature 9^th grader in the room.   Then out of the blue someone asks “You know dolphins have sex for fun too.”  After this I the person asked “Do dolphins have get aids.”  And then someone had to look it up of course.  Well I’m going to end it there because I have gone way over 150 words which is fine but I don’t know what else to say that’s not another 100 words of writing.  Good night everyone who is reading this and can’t wait to write another one.

During class today we discussed the homework from last night which was answering the 25 questions.  While during the discussion we went off on topic just about every question.  Most of it was about how it was important to us and then we talked about 9/11 stories.  The one that was important to me was how much oil we consume.  With the oil reserves we have now it would only last us 36 days if used about 20 million barrels per day all at once.  And if we used 4.4 million barrels per day then it would last us 165 days.  I wish one day we would run out of oil so then I could bike just about anywhere without the issue of cars killing me.  While we did all that Mr. Schick decided to give out some candy which wasn’t the greatest idea in the world while having some greedy kids in the room.  One of those kids was Jake who was trying to take every piece thrown by him.  In the end I think everyone had a piece and some had more.    

World Fact Book

1. What is the population of the United States?

313,847,465

2. What are the five largest countries in the world, by population?

China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil

3. What is the population of Pakistan?

190,291,129

4. What kind of government does the United States have?

constitution-based federal Republic; strong democratic tradition

5. What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe?

95 percent

6. What is the largest country in the world by area?

Russia

7. What country has the third greatest number of airports?

Mexico

8. What country has the largest amount of exports?

China

9. What country exports more oil than any other?

Saudi Arabia

10. What country imports more oil than any other?

The United States

11. What country consumes more oil than any other?

The United States

12. Can women serve in combat roles in China’s military?

Yes

13. What is GDP?

Gross domestic product

14. What country has the highest GDP per capita in the world, and how much is it?

Liechtenstein $141,000

15. Is the US in the top ten for GDP per capita?

No

16. Most of the countries with the highest birth rates can be found in what continent?

Africa

17. 11 of the top 12 countries with the highest number of deaths from HIV/AIDS can be found in which continent?

Africa

18. What other country is in the top ten?

India

19. Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths?

18th

20. Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones?

No

21. What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic?

23.9 percent

22. What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic?

76.5 percent

23. What is Net Migration Rate?

An excess of persons entering the country is referred to as net immigration

24. Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world?

no

25. What is the current population of the entire planet?

7,021,836,029

 

            The two questions that mattered most to me were the current population of the world because this will affect the future and how many kids i will be allowed to have how many resources we will have.

The other is how much we import oil.  This one worries me because what are we going to do if oil runs out we will only have a months back up oil supply.

Illinois

Today in Human Geo. we learned about the state Illinois which is the largest populated state in the mid-west.  Chicago the state’s largest city has one of the busiest airports in the U.S.  The state nick name is the prairie state because it is all flat.  The city of Chicago has a population of about three million and the suburbs around the city have about the same.  That’s all I really remember from notes and I know this was all supposed to be about the notes so I’m sorry.  The funniest thing from Human Geo. today was when Mason didn’t even know what we were talking about.  After going home today I watched the DNC and found about many stories Governor Romney and now I’m here stuck with not knowing what to say.  Well after today I fell very tired and now I’m going to bed.  Good Night.   

B day

The B day schedule why couldn’t I remember that this morning I thought as I went to band the right first mod class after going to the wrong one math.  I felt so embarrassed when it happened I knew it was a Tuesday but why was I on the Monday schedule.  Well it was probably because of all the homework over the weekend that made me think that it was Monday.  Yes that’s all I did this weekend I wrote for this class and Honors Earth science which probably a lot of people did homework this weekend.  After human geo I went to my two free mods and then to religion.  In religion we took a quiz and I felt that I missed a couple of questions on it.  The final class today was math and I understood the most part of it except for an equation.

I don’t remember the exact problem but blogger won't let me show it.  Later today I had academic team and set crew sadly I missed set crew because of the fun I was having in academic team.  Thanks Mr. Schick for the fun time and really hard questions that only one freshman could answer.  It was a lot of fun can’t wait to join speech and debate.