Microfinance powerpoint

well, today was interesting.  The whole class tried to work together and make a power point about microfinance.  It was really rough.  Wow our class is so childish.  We can't agree on anything.  In most cases that is good with arguing our opinions in class, but in this case it was not.  Personally, i didn't think the powerpoint was that bad.  I made my slide and i was done.  My slide is about microfinancce and microloans and I thought I did pretty good on it.  I'd like to see how the power point will turn out.

I think today was the most boring day of human geo I have ever experienced.  I had to start the game over because apparently it doesn't save your place. yea well i hope your here on monday Mr schick!

microfinance

today, we talked about microfinance.  Microfinance helps people pay for insurance, education, investments in info structure, and legal reforms.  It gives out "small loans."  Small loans are usually given to people in developing countries to help them get a small business started.  Of course, this has to be a good idea and it will have to make money in order for the person to get a small loan.  I think these small loans are a great idea and people should support their local businesses.  

Today, we went over out test.  I got an 89 yay.  

Peace Corps Challenge

Today, we started a new unit called economic geography.  Instead of listening to your boring lectures, we got to play a game!  The game is called the Peace Corps Challenge.  At first it was confusing but then i got the hang of it.  I didn't know if i could have exited out of it because i didn't know if it would save, but i exited anyways.  yea, bye.

Test Day

Today, we took a test.  Thank God that we got to use out blog, because i would have failed if i haven't used it.  I think i got an A.  

we reviewed world leaders and i updated my blog today.
Here are notes:

Afghanistan is an Islamic republic headed by

President Hamid Karzai

• He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.
• He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.
• Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the United States that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded

Brazil is a federal republic headed by President Dilma Rousseff

• She opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1960s and ‘70s, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.
• She has been divorced twice.
• She has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.
• She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping

• Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
• He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.
• The couple have a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.

France is a republic headed by Francois Hollande

• Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
• The mother of his four children is Ségolène Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.
• He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme-right physician father and progressive social worker mother.  

Germany is a federal republic headed by

President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel

• Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986
• Has been Chancellor since November 2005
• Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years.

India is a federal republic headed by

President Pranab Mukherjee

• He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.
• Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.
• He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.

Iran is a theocratic republic, ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani

• In 1963, took part in street protests against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran.

• Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.  Became Iran’s Supreme Leader in 1989.
• Mr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.

• Was just elected President of Iran - June 2013

• He has been openly critical of the outgoing president, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" have cost the country dearly.

Israel is a parliamentary democracy,

headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

• Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934.
• When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad.
• Later he organized Israel's nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb.
• As Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli negotiations during peace talks with the Palestinians.  In the autumn of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
• • As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67
  • After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.
  • Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."
  Mexico is a federal republic

  headed by President Enrique Pena Pieto.
  • He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, María del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher.
  • Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.
  • Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actor Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico.

  Saudi Arabia is a kingdom ruled by

  Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud,

  who is both King and Prime Minister

  He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.

  He is worth approximately 21 billion dollars.

  He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king.

  In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope.  In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.”

  In 2011 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban).

  The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm,

  ruled by Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II

  
  

  • At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Princes Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain’s top private school.

  • His first child, Ivan, who was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.

  • The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.
  • Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.

  
  

  • Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.

  Venezuela is a federal republic headed by President Nicolas Maduro Moros

  • Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
  • Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chávez in 1992, after Chávez and other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for  Chávez's release. (Chávez was released in 1994 and won election to the presidency four years later.)
  • After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, serving as one of his closest advisers as well as a loyal spokesman, until Chávez's death at 58 on March 5, 2013, from cancer.

Today, I updated my old blog.  I am adding more information on the world leaders biography post.

world leaders pt.2

Today, we didn't really do much since we had such a short class.  Basically all we did was go over our quiz that I got a 90% on!  After that we started to go over the world leaders again.  I learned that the President of Africa, Hamid Karzai, is fluent in many languages- especially English.  He also actually warned the United States about a big attck that was coming up which was of course, 9/11.  The Americans did not think much of his warning, but in the end, it could have saved the lives of many people.  We also went over a little bit about the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.  She was the first woman president in Brazil.  She also went through some really hard times.  She was tortured in prison with electric shocks because she tried to fight against the ruling military dictatorship.  That is all we talked about today.

World Leaders biography

Mexico- President Enrique Pena Nieto:

1.  his father was the mayor and other relatives have gone far in politics

2.  Elected easily and liked by many

China- President XI Jinping 

1.  son of a revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.
2.  Married a folk singer Peng Liyuan and an army general
3.  Daughter goes to Harvard

India- Pranab Mukherjee 

1. taught Political Science and worked as a journalist 

2.  was rated as one of the best finance ministers in the world
3.  had conflict with Prime Minister Rajiv Ganhi (the son of the leader that was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party- Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.

Afghanistan-  President Hamid Karzai

1.  knows alot of languages- English, native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French
2. Several times in 2001 Karzai warned the US that the Taliban were connected w/ al Qaeda anthat there was a plot for an attack.
3.  Was in the resistance against the Taliban rule.

Germany-  President Joachim Gauck, Angela Merkle

Angela Merkle
   1.  Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Achedemy of Sciences in berlin
   2.  has been chancellor since since November 2005
   3.  Earned top spot on the FORBES list most powerful woman.

United Kingdon- queen Elizabeth II

1.  when she was born, her father was duke of york, then he became king

2.  named after her mother

France- President Francois Hollande 

1  Holland has no previous experience in national overnment position

2.  had four children and a 30- year relationship
3.  was born in 1954 in rouen to an extreme physician father and a progressive social worker.

Brazil- President Dilma Rousseff

1.  First woman president in brazil

2.  was tortured in prison with electric shocks when she tried to fight against the ruling military dictatorship
3.  divorced twice
4.  has a degree in economics, and now the country w the eight-biggest economy in the world
5.  She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009

Venezuela- President Nicholas Maduro Moros

1.  worked as a bus driver

2.  elected in 1962

Saudi Arabia- King and Prime Min

Abdallah Bin Abd al-Aziz al saudister

1.  grew up in the desert

2.  was influenced by father

Iran- Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei and Ruhani

Khamenei:
   1.  in 1963, took part in street protests against the US.  After the uprising was quashed, he was exiled.  He was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region i southeastern Iran.
   2.  Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.  Became Iran's Supreme leader. 
Ruhani:
   1.  Mr. Rouhani help perliamentary posts  and also served on the Supreme National Security Council
   2.  Was elected President of Iran- June 2013
   3.  The guy who came before him- Ahmadinejad hated Israel.
   4.  Ruhani said that Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated remarks have costed the country dearly"

Israel-  President Shimon Peres and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Peres:
  1.  born in belarus to escape the persecution of the Jews, his family fled to Palestine in 1934
  2.  When Arab forces launched thier attack on Israel, Peres was given the cheif responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from aboard
  3.  organized Israels nuclear program
  

World Leaders

Mexico
Federal republic
President Enrique Pena Nieto

China
Communist State
President XI Jinping

India

Federal Republic

President Pranab Mukherjee and

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Afghanistan

Islamic Republic

President Hamid Karzai

Germany

Federal Republic

President Joachim Gauck and

Chancellor Angela Merkel

United Kingdom

Constitutional monarchy and

 Commonwealth Realm

Queen Elizabeth II and 
Prime Minister David Cameron

France

Republic

President Francois Hollande and

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault

Brazil

Federal Government

President Dilma Rousseff 

Venezuela

federal republic

President Nicolas Maduro Moros 

Saudi Arabia 

Monachy

King and Prime Minister

Abdallah Bin Abd al-Aziz al saud

Iran

theocratic republic

Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani 

Israel

Parliamentary democracy 

President Shimon Peres and 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Political Geography

Today, we learned the difference of a Country, State, and Nation.  At first i was completely confused, but i think I got it now.  Basically, a Country is lines on a map, a nation is a group of people, and a state is a government.  It is really easy to understand after that Canadian guy explained it, even though his jokes were irrelevant and non-humorous.  Independent States need all of the following things:  boundaries, organized economy, education, transportation, government, sovereignty, and external recognition.  

On Friday, i was walking into class expecting to take a test.  Luckily the test got postponed to Monday.  I read your blog, and it says that other classes didn't do so hot on the test.  So i guess i will have to study for this.