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.