Mexico

• Enrique Pena Nieto
• #37 most powerful person
• elected president by a narrow victory

Germany

• Joachim Gauck
• former Lutheran pastor
• 4 children 

Venezuela

• Nicolas Maduro Moros
• worked as a bus driver before being named foreign minister
• was vice president  

China

• XI Jinping
• a blog about how high his pants are everyday
•  looks just like his younger brother

United Kingdom

• Queen Elizabeth II
• a highway named after he 
• Favorite dog is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Saudi Arabia

• Abdallah bin abd al-aziz al saud
• he became king after his brother died
• the 6th king of Saudi Arabia 

India

• Pranab Mukherjee
• attended two collages 
• 13th president of India 

France

• Francois Hollande
• was nick named marshmallow
• had an affair 

Iran

• Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
• has six children 
• also served as president 

Afghanistan

• Hamid Karzai
• inflicted great suffering on Afghans 
• Nato brought a lot of death

Brazil

• Dilma Rousseff
• first woman to hold office
• was tortured as a child

Israel

• Shimon Peres
• has three children
• comes from Poland 

Mexico

•  North America
• Federal republic
• Enrique Pena Nieto
• President

Germany

• Europe
• Federal Republic
• Joachim Gauck
• President

 

Venezuela

• South America
• Federal Republic
• Nicolas Maduro Moros
• President

China

• East and Southeast Asia
• Communist State
•  XI Jinping
• President

United Kingdom

• Europe
• constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm
• Queen Elizabeth II
• Queen

Saudi Arabia

• Middle East
• Monarchy
• Abdallah bin abd al-aziz al saud
• King and Prime Minister

India

• South Asia
• Federal Republic
• Pranab Mukherjee
• President

France

• Europe
• Republic
• Francois Hollande
• President

Iran

• Middle East
• theocratic republic
• Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
• supreme Leader

 Afghanistan

• South Asia
• Islamic Republic
• Hamid Karzai
• President of the Islamic Republic

Brazil

• South America
• Federal Republic
• Dilma Rousseff
• President

Israel

• Middle East
• parliamentary democracy
• Shimon Peres
• President
• 

Retake Region Test 

Today in class we retook our human geo religion test. The first test I took I failed and got a 56%. I felt more confident about the retake but I got a worse grade then I did the first time. This new chapter I am going to work harder at to bring up my grade.

Political Organization

• Country
• Nation
• State
• Nation-state

Nation

• A big group of people that share a common language, institutions, religions, and history

Independent State

• Economic activity and organized economy
• Transportation system for moving goods and people
• Government which provides public services and police power
• Sovereignty, no other state can power over your state. Make your own laws.
• External recognition other countries recognize you as an  independent state

Country

• A geographical expression

Nations

• A group of people with a shared identity 

Religions 

Today in class we presented our religion slides. I was in a group with Jasmine and Sara and we did a power point on the Islamic religion. Islam is a very interesting religion. Every male adult must go on a pilgrimage at least once in there life time. They pray 5 times a day in a very intricate way. They bow down and pray to there "all perfect god" Allah. We  also took notes on other slides such as Christianity and Buddhism.  

Christianity

• Population
• There are 2.8 billion Christians in the world
• Belief
• Jesus is the son of God

Buddhism

• A religion to the Indians with many different traditions, beliefs, and practices
• Believe in Buda 
• Top 5 countries
• China
• Japan
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Myanmar 

Shadow Day 

Today I had a shadow. Her name was Marisa DiFanso and she goes to St. Sevens middle school. I know Marisa because when I was in seventh grade I played on a soccer team with her called ODP, which means Olympic Development Program. We went to a regional camp together at Rhode Island University where he sister Olivia now attends collage. 

We didn't do much in class today. We went over the test we just took. I didn't do very well but I thought I had the stuff down. After that we fixed up our power points about the Islamic religion.    

Government 

Today in class we had another student teacher day. Jasmine was the teacher and went over our notes about cultural geography. After we went over our notes we talked about the government shut down and how it was all about Obama Care.  

Cultural Geography 

examples

• language
• religion
• ethnic heritage

Language

•  arabic unites the arab world
• spanish unites the hispanic world
• brazil is the only south american nation that speaks portuguese instead of spanish
• canada is bilingual (french & english offical language)
• switzerland has multiple languages
• english is considered the worlds language
• used for most business transactions around the world (lingua franca)

Ethnic heritage

• in yogoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country ( serbs, croats, bosniaos, albanians)
• when strong leadership died out, the different group fought a very bloody civil war & now they all have seperate countries
• the united states & switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
• korea & japan have primarily one ethnic group

Religion

• can be both unifying and disunifying force
• 5 major religions in the world today
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Judaism
• Islam
• Christianity 
• shiites and sunnis

• religion has over millions of followers all believing the same thing
• can also be a dividing force around the world