Nov 25th HG Class

Today was the last day of school before going to Thanksgiving Holiday break. Anyway in today's Human Geography class we finished watching the movie. To tell my opinion about the movie first, well before watching movie my expectation was not high. But after I finished watching this movie, what I thought was that this is pretty cool movie that gives me many lessons and thoughts. The movie's ending was everything gets fine again and Jamal wins 20 million Rupes and find Lakita. The process of this result was very complicated and hard for him. Because he had faced many dangerous situations that might have killed him. After finish watching this movie I started to thank everything I have that I used to think is certain. I want to say thank you to Mr.Schick for giving us chance to watch this cool movie.

Nov 21st HG Class

Today's class was also watching the movie, the same movie. I wanted to know the title of the movie so I asked Mr.Schick. The title of movie is "Slum Dog Millionaire". In the parts that we saw today, Jamal and Salim were sent to some place where there are a lot of orphans and learning how to sing. Jamal realized that the place was teaching kids sing and make them blind which is really ridiculous.

So they ran away from there. But on their way running away they couldn't take the girl Lakita who was running away with them. They learned how to survive in big cities. Such as stealing people's stuffs and sell which is not good. Anyway after few years they decided to come back to Mumbai to find Lakita. They found Lakita but they got caught by the man who they flee away from in the past. A really bad situation has came and Salim pulled out the gun and killed the man. After that they ran away again but this time with Lakita. This is the end of the part we watched today. Well, I really think this movie makes me think a lot. Because this shows like the real poor people who live in terrible situation. What I want to say is, I really enjoy watching this movie.

Nov 20th HG Class

Nov 20th HG Class

We started watching the movie. The movie took place in harlem of Mumbai, India. It was the not educated Chai Wawa guy attend in the TV quiz show and win a million dollar. But the guy gets arrested and get beaten buy police, how did you cheated. But, boy did not cheated in the quiz, he got them all right by his own ability. For instance, police were beating him because he is non educated person and how he can get those hard questions even lawyers and doctors couldn't get right. The movie shows how he knows the answer every time each questions. It was all from his childhood experience. To give an example from movie. The quiz was "Who was the most famous actor in 1970s." Well because he was passionated about that actor and he got signature in his autograph, he could get that question right. As I can see in the movie there are tons of people in India who live in really bad habit like they're washing clothes in the dirty river, trashes are all around them, houses are just to keep them from rain, do not have food, bad poverty where police do not care what's happening. I felt it is sad that there are many people in India who live in those situations. They were even killing each other because of just the religion difference. They are not being treated as a human. They don't get their human rights. Well, we will be keep watching this movie and I feel like I am going to learn a lot of things from this movie.

Nov 18th Class

Nov 18th HG Class

Today's class, Mr.Schick taught us about the Cultural Geography. First he told us the description of Cultural Characteristic. Cultural Characteristics are parts of a groups every life. They are ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. This basically means, what people think, say, eat and dress are being taught differently throughout there ethnic heritage. ethnic heritage is your families nationality. So you basically learn through what the people around you say, eat, dress. Therefore there are tons of various cultural characteristics. My cultural characteristic is Korean. It is because my family's nationality is Korea and I learned things from Korea. So I dress, eat, say similar to what many Koreans do. 

Nov 14th HG Class

Nov 14th HG Class

Today in the class Mr.Schick gave us simple assignment. It was getting in to same group that worked the PPT together and looking for the national anthem of the country that we'd researched about and listen. Me and Parker researched about Germany, so we looked for Germany's national anthem. I felt it was similar to most of other countries national anthem but it felt bit stronger bits and German accents are strong so I felt it has power in the music.

Nov 13th HG Class

As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, today we took the test. I felt this time the test was pretty hard than I expected. I think I've got most of the questions right except few questions. Essay was writing about why it is unacceptable in America the president being assasinated. In wrote it is because the current president is the person that majority of American wanted the president to be. I thought I've putted in pretty much effort but I had to memorized more details specifically. Well I don't know my grades yet but  hope it is satisfying enough.

Nov 12th HG Class

Today was supposed to be the test day about each countries but there were some problems. So the test was delayed to tomorrow. The test is about the governments and the leaders. The study method is the presentations that many groups have done. My group's ppt was not on the standard studying method but I'll try harder next time. The things I need to know is what kind of government each country have. Who is the leader of the country and how lomg are they expected to stay in the office. The last thing is what are the ways in each countries' people can change their leader. The example is the impeachment laws.

November 11th HG Class

Today's class, we had four groups presentating. First group was David and Alex researched about Syria. Syria's type of government is Republic under an Authoritarian Regime. This country is basically dictating country. President of Syria is Bashar Al Assad. He was a president since 2000 and now is his third term. Each term is 7 years. There is no impeachment in Syria. Second group was Steven and Trish presentating about Israel. Israel's type of government is Parliamentary Democracy. Israel was this government since 1948. Prime Minister of Israel is Benjamin Binyamin Natanyahu. He has no limits and he can be prime minister until he dies. Third group was Rosemary and Jessica presentating about Mexico. Mexico is Federal Republic Country since 1823. President of Mexico is Enrique Pena Nieto. He is a president since 2012. Maximum term for president is one term and its 6 years. Last group was Elley by herself presentating about Brazil. Brazil is the Federal Republic country. The president of Brazil is Dilma Rouseff. She was a president since 2011, and she was reelected in 2014. President in Brazil can be reelected two times in a row maximum, but there's no limit how many terms they do. Each terms are 4 years. 

Nov 7th HG Class

November 7th HG Class

Today's presentation was two group first was Karson and Cody presentating about Russia Government. Russia is Semi-Presidential Constitutional Republic government since 1993 December 12th. This is the time when Soviet Union was collapsed. The president of Russia is Vladimir Putin. He started his third term in 2012. The Russia's president was only available two terms maximum. But, he changed that law during his second term, 2 times to 3 times and 4 years each term to 6 years. The impeachment in Russia is mentioned in law but it is almost impossible because most people in Russia like or are scared of Putin. So I feel Russia is Outer Republic Country but inner is sort of dictator country. The second group was Ryan and Megan presenting about China. China's government is communist state since 1956.  President of China is Xi JinPing his first term ends in 2018. The government people vote for their leader. And president is eligible second term maximum. Impeachment in China is not available. It is because China is a communist state govermmemt. But in Hong Kong and Taiwan, impeachment is available because each Hong Kong and Taiwan have different governmemt seperated from China's main government and they are capitalist government. The reason is Hong Kong was UK territory for while and Taiwan was under Japan for while.

November 6th HG Class

November 6th HG Class

Today in class, me and Parker did the presentation. We researched about the Germany Government. To write some informations about Germany Government. Germany Government is the Federal Republic. Federal Republic Government is the government that the leader who were elected from their people has most of the power and makes important decisions. It is also a type of government that many types of government was unified and formed one Republic country. In Federal Republic countries, citizens get to vote for their own leaders. Federal Republic Government in Germany was established during May 23 of 1949 to Oct 3rd of 1990. These is the period that Hitler lost his power by killing himself and to reunification of West Germany and East Germany. Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany because after World War 2 Germany was the lost war country. So Winner of the war country, US and Soviet Union was in charge of Germany. But US and Soviet Union had different type of society. US is a republic country but Soviet Union was Communist Country. So West Germany which US was in charge had Republic Government, but East Germany where Soviet Union was in charge had Communist Government. But as the Berlin Wall which divided the Germany was collapsed in 1990 they became one United country as a Federal Republic of Germany. Germany's President is Joachim Gauck. He is the President of Germany since 2012 and his term ends in 2017. He is eligible to be reelected one more time for 5years. But the real power of Germany is Angela Merkel, who is the chancellor of Germany. She is the Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and this is her third term. There's no limitation for terms being a Chancellor if Majority of the members in National Assembly of Germany agrees. Impeachment is one of the way citizens can pull the leader out from their office. The impeachment in Germany is if the leader violates the Central  Law of Germany, they are sent to Federal Constitutional Court and Budestag & Bundestrat decides if the leader is guilty or not and choose to remove leader out of office or not. These are informations about Germany Government. Second group was Candle and Adam who researched about Japan. Japan's type of Government is constitutional Monarchy. This is the type of government as UK where there is the leader of the country as well as chief but leader has a power while chief does not. Japan's government is divided into three parts. Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and Judicial Branch Executive Branch includes the Chief of the State and Prime Minister. Legislative Branch includes the bicameral diet. Judicial Branch includes supreme court. Supreme Court of Japan consists of 14 associative judges. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe started his work in December of 2012. Term is 4years each and there is no limit for reelection. Minimum voting age in Japan is 20years old. I was satisfied with my presentation but unhappy because of few people's attitude during my presentation.

Nov 5th HG Class

November 5th HG Class

Today two group did the presentation. First was Zach and Rory about France. Type of Government that France has is Federal Republic. They were Federal Republic since 1789, The French Revolution. President of France is Francois Hollande. He started on May of 2012, also he is the 24th president of France. President are elected to work for 5years two terms. France also has a Prime Minister he is Manuel Valls. He started working as prime minister since March 31st, 2014. The second group was Veronica and Alyssa who researched about UK(England). England's type of government is Constitutional Monarchy with a Commonwealth Realm. Therefore, they have a chief of the country but the chief does not have a power to be a leader of country. Chief of UK is Queen Elizabeth the second and the Prime Minister is David Cameron. David Cameron started working as a prime minister since May of 2010. He was appointed as a Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth the Second. Also Queen Elizabeth the Second was the chief of UK for 63 years. Additionally England was Constitutional Monarchy since 1215, and before 1215 England had an Absolute Monarchy Government.

Nov 4th HG Class

November 4th HG Class

Today's class was also working on the presentation. This was the last class that we can finish our ppt. What I added on my ppt today is I've changed the background of the PPT to Germany flag. What I researched today was impeachable offenses in Germany. Impeachable offenses in Germany is if the leader purposely violates core principles of the federal constitution or a state constitution. Therefore, if the leader purposely breaks important rule from the country law, they can be impeached. By this one week group project I feel like I learned a lot of things about Germany. Also I think I've improved my English pretty much because when write things on PPT after searching on Internet, I had to understand things that I found in the Internet first and in process of understanding informations and trying to change to my own words helped me improving English very much.