Today in class we all reviewed with Mr. Schick's wonderful power point. Right after we finished, we took the Microfinance test. The test was very short, it only had 15 questions on it. The test paper was pink and Jordan said she liked the colors. I think I did very well on the test.

1. What is Microfinance?
     Microfinance is a form of financial services for small businesses lacking access to banking related services.
2.  How does Microfinance help?
     Microfinance helps people in developing countries survive and provide for their families. They get small businesses started.
3. What are some of the problems in other countries?
     Disease, Famine, Drought, Lack of supplies, poor health care, poverty, pollution, electricity is weak.
4.  What are microloans?
      Microloans is when a person lends a small amount of money to a developing business.
5.  Who gets Microloans?
      Small businesses get microloans to help them get started and on their feet.
6. What are some common uses for Microloans?
     Starting a new business, getting supplies for your business, getting a little kick start on your business, Equipment, etc..
7. What are some ways Microloans help?
    Can provide help for starting businesses.
8.  How can a Microloan help?
     The business can have a positive affect on the community around them.
9. What is the main disease in developing countries?
       Malaria
10. What is the picture of on Nick's Slide?
      A picture of a few guys playing pool.

Today in class I looked and felt like death. Mr. Schick was extra funny today. He was making fun of all the Ravens fans because they were all complaining how Mike Tomlin got in the way of Jacoby Jones had to run in a different pattern so he wouldn't hit him. I think its funny how Mike Tomlin and the Steelers are getting fined and might lose a draft pick. We went over the power point and reviewed microfinance.

Today in class we ALL worked on a power point presentation about microfinance and microloans. Laura put her face in all the slides and everyone went nuts, and started yelling at her. Mr. Schick tried not to laugh while all of this was going on but somehow he resisted. It was very funny as he smiled than had a straight face over and over again.

Today in class we worked on the peace corps challenge I still have to get the worksheet from Mr. Schick and finish it. Mr. Lepp substituted, and it was a good time. I hope that everyone has a good weekend and that their plans for thanksgiving go well.

Today in class we all worked on the peace corps game. we got into our groups Nick, John, and I worked the entire class on it. They both showed me how to work the website, I still have to get the worksheet from Mr. Schick because John told me I needed one right before the bell rang.

Today in class we went over the test. Mr. Schick was not happy with our grades whatsoever because our class average was a 73. I did bad on the test because I wasn't there in class on Monday and I didn't get the notes but I didn't check his blog until the day of the test so it is my fault.  I will do better in class to get my grade back up to where it was.

I was not in class today because I got my braces taking off at 9 and something went wrong and it took them like 3 hours and I had to go back at 3 to get my retainers.

Today in class we all took a test on the leaders. I thought it was challenging because I did not have the notes on my blog that  I needed. I hope that i did well enough to get a good grade. I have a 92 currently and hope it stays up there. After the test the bell rang and we all got up and left. I had Earth Science next class and had to take a quiz i did well on that.

Today in class we went over the leaders again and how they all went through things that have changed them tremendously. Mr. Schick told us how different everything was when he was young. His teacher picked him up by his hair in front of his ears and then dropped him. We all said goodbye to him as we left the room.

Today in class we went over what assignments that we did for the week. Mr. Schick made a power point and listed facts about all the leaders from the countries that we researched. It was a fun day today in class just like it always is. Laura yelled at John again for saying the wrong thing. (imagine that) In china there are barley any nature because the air over there is so polluted because of cars, oil, and coal that they burn.

Enrique Peña Nieto is the 57th president of Mexico. His six-year term began in 2012. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and served as governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011.

Xi Jinping is the current paramount leader of China and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India, in office since July 2012. In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress .

Hamid Karzai GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 22 December 2001. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001.

Joachim Gauck is the President of Germany, serving since March 2012. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations.

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is a French politician who is the current President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra.

Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian politician who has been the President of Brazil since 1 January 2011. She is the first woman to hold the office. She was previously the Chief of Staff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.

Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician who is the current President of Venezuela. He was previously the Vice President of Venezuela and the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Hugo Chávez.

Abdullah delivers remarks to the press inside the Marine One hangar at the Crawford Ranch in Crawford, Texas, following his meeting with the President George W. Bush on 25 April 2002. he is worth 21 billion dollars gave women rights.

Hassan Rouhani is the 7th and current President of Iran and also a Muslim cleric, lawyer, academic and former diplomat.

Shimon Peres is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel.

I have gotten all of my information from Wikipedia. I would like to thank them for the help.

MEXICO
 Leader- president- Enrique Peña Nieto
constitution- Federal republic, Constitutional republic

CHINA
Leader- Xi Jinping- president
Government- Communist state, Socialist state, Single-party state

INDIA
Leader- President- Pranab Mukherjee
Government- Federal republic, Constitutional republic, Parliamentary system


AFGHANASTAN
Leader- president- Hamid Karzai
Government- Islamic republic

GERMANY
Leader- president- Joachim Gauck
Government- Federal republic, Constitutional republic, Representative democracy, Parliamentary republic

UNITED KINGDOM
Leaders-  queen-Elizebeth
Government- Unitary state, Constitutional monarchy, Parliamentary system

FRANCE
Leader- president- François Hollande
Government- Unitary state, Semi-presidential system, Constitutional republic

BRAZIL
Leader- president- Dilma Rousseff
Government- Presidential system, Federal republic, Constitutional republic

VENUZELA
Leader- president- Nicolás Maduro
Government- Presidential system, Federal republic, Federation, Socialist state, Constitutional republic, Republic

SAUDI ARAIBIA
Leader- King- Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah
Government- Unitary state, Islamic state, Absolute monarchy

IRAN
Leader- president- Hassan Rouhani
Government- Unitary state, Islamic republic, Theocracy

ISRAEL
Leader- president- Shimon Peres
Government- Democracy, Parliamentary system

Today in class we all took a retest. Rosaschi got his first A today, on the retest. I got an 83 which is better then what I got last time. I am pretty sure that everyone was happy that Mr. Schick gave us a second chance. I don't think that anyone in our class today get a worse score than they did last time. we started a new unit about the nations, states, nation states.

Today in class we presented our power points, and Rosaschi and I presented our slide on Buddhism. Mr. Schick liked all of our presentation but the picture of the fake fat Buddha on the cover title. Scott Claire, and Hanna did well to. They did christianity, and had a lot of interesting facts. Today's class was a lot of fun.

Today in class we were missing two people. Nat & Sarah were not there, lucky for them because they were partners on the presentations. We went over the quiz that we took last week, I did ok on it I got a 75. Scott tried to leave at 2:10 but Mr. Schick wouldn't let him. Scott had to answer like 6 more questions until he finally got to leave. Jordan, Charllette, and Laura got to present their report on Hinduism. After they were finished John, Alyssa, and Angela got a shot at it. even though they only got halfway through their presentation looked very nice.

Today in class every body was more awake than they were last Monday. We worked on our prodjects all class and me and Rosaschi didn't finish so we had to work on it tonight. We got the topic religion of Buddhism. there are many interesting facts about it.

Today in class we did an awesome review. I am very glad that we did a review because if we didn't I would have failed. we took the quiz I passed with a 75. I was going to take Mr. Schick's advise and not do my blog, but I need the points.

Today in class we talked about marijuana and how it is dealt with in different states. When you smoke pot in Boston in the open public, you get a fine for 10 dollars, but if you smoke pot in the open public in Texas you get arrested. we talked about the video that we watched yesterday, and I was asked to take a survey and the questions were weird. they asked which economic view that my parents have, and asked what economic view I had. Basiclly today was a big debate.

today in class we took notes and we talked about them cultural differences, economic differences. then we watched a video about how usa isnt the best country in the world anymore.

Friday in class, we took a voluntary test and i had no idea what any of the questions were so i just guessed. we had a sub, coach Lawler he was really cool.

Today in class we went over the quiz that we took, some of us did well some didn't. I did ok on the test, I should have done better. After we the quiz we were talking about ethnic culture, and the immigrant rate in the U.S. I found that in 2010 there were 11.5 million illegal Immigrants living in the country.

Today in class we went over the quiz and we all did pretty well I think. Nat raised our grade average as a class to an 81. WOOP-WOOP.! We went over the population of ft. barge in North Carolina, and in Ann Arbor Michigan.

today in class we took a quiz about the movie we finished watching. after the quiz Angela gave us doughnuts, AMAZING I might add. then we started to talk about the different population pyramids. we learned about the xmass tree, the box, and the cup.

today in class we watched the movie for the second day. I really like this movie and how real it is. I like all the characters because they are always smiling unless they are talking about sudan. the movie is great because it follows their everyday lives.

1. What is the population of the United States?  316,668,567

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? 193,238,868

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

5. What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe? 95%

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 greatest number of exports? China

9. What country exports more oil than any other? Saudi Arabia

10. What country imports more oil than any other? United States

11. What country has the second largest proved reserves of crude oil in the world? Venezuela

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?

          Qatar           103,900

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

          No we are number 14

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

          Africa

17. 11of 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? South Africa                        

20. Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths? 7th

21. Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones? No, we are 3rd.

22. What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic? Roman Catholic 23.9%,

23. What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic? Roman Catholic 82.7%

24. What is Net Migration Rate? The figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons.

25. Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world? No, we are ranked 29th

According to the Factbook, what is the current population of the entire planet? 7,095,217,980