Current Event - Southern Africa

News link-
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/13/sa.hiv.ap/index.html

Barbara Hogan , new health minister of South Africa broke from a decade of discredited government policies on AIDS. On monday, two weeks after she became health minister, she pronounced that HIV and AIDS are related, and so will scale up mother-to-child prevention programs. and she also said in last 10 years government policies had failed, and needs to improve on anti-AIDS medicines. Because south Africa has the highest rate of HIV and AIDS.

This news story is worthy because it is about to change what has happened last 10 years. and it is going to affect alot of people, and it maybe affect countries in that region, since alot of other african countries have similar problems with AIDS and HIVs.

5 Themes of Geography

Movement is when they made Sphinx, they moved materials like bricks from some where else. and there are tourists coming from different places. Region can be defined with cultural, because it was made by ancient Egyptians and they built it because they believed in after life. It can also be defined with physical because in the picture it looks like it is pretty dry, hot, and deserted area. for Human Environment Interaction, they had to build with what they had. like it looks like it was easier to get bricks to build. Location- relative location is it is in front of the great Pyramid. the absolute location would be 30 degrees north, 31 degrees east, Gaza. place, physical characteristic is, it is desert


http://www.belovedegypt.com/28_-_Sphinx_and_Pyramid.jpg

Violence leads to more violence

In the book Julius Caesar, there was a similar situation of violence lead to more violence.
When Brutus and other conspirators killed Caesar, Antony, and Octavius fought against them. Also all the citizens, after the speech of Antony, got upset and started to go against Brutus and Cassius. So the first violence was when the conspirator stabbed Caesar, and it lead to a bigger violence which resulted as a war between the conspirators and Antony and Octavius. nowadays i think it is more less, because you can't really go to war that easily. but one of the examples will be when there are normal citizens uprising or protesting against the government, then the government will try to stop by adding more army or police support to the city, and there would be a bigger and more violence between people and the government.

The Brutus Dilemma

If I was Brutus, and had to choose between my country and my friends, then i would choose my friend because when you face a problem, good friends help you, and if Brutus stays loyal to Caesar, then Caesar will also appreciate that loyalty and be better thoughts about Brutus. and Brutus is not even sure that Caesar will become a mean dictator, it might be a lie. and even though Caesar turns mean, Brutus can assist him to be good ruler again. and if Brutus kills Caesar, people who liked Caesar will start hating Brutus. And if Brutus stays loyal, he would be respected by many people, and also from Caesar, and Caesar won't think Brutus would do any harm to him, so they would be loyal to each other.

Leader

Qualities to be a good leader, that person should accept other people and not ignoring them just because they don't like that person. instead you should try to be more friendly. also should have confidence in trying new things and lead other people. the leader in group of people i hang out with is whether me or declan, because we always lead our friends to other places. they also have jokes, and new ideas for the group.

Imperialism

most of omperial starters were all European countries where they were pretty much settle after industrial revolution. they all wanted colonies for resources and labors. their methods were all military, some were economically. some countries left negative changes like starvations and poverty, but the other changes they made were introducing new technologies and machines. for example Britain power lines to India, and African countries got machines and other new technologies. most different region was South East Asia, they didn't really influence culturally. the main reason countries colonize other countries were to earn land, labor, and raw resources.

end of quarter 1 feedback

i thought i have improved on socratic seminar, but i didn't get a good grade, so i didn't really improve much on that. my second goal for this quarter was improving on vocab quizzes. and i think i have improved on the tests and quizzes and got a good grade. so i think i have improved on one of my goals.

my goals for the second quarter is still improving in socratic seminar, because i still want to get a good grade on it. my other goal is writing a quality descriptive piece. my last goal for second quarter is getting enough points on AR quizzes.