Essay Questions? Which one...? oh... IT'S FRIDAAAAY!

MR. SCHICK! It's Friday!!!!!
Today in class we went over essay questions reguarding the exam. I wrote all of our ideas down in Word so over the weekend I will do each one to make sure I am ready for these essays. Mainly the essays would be about the issues having to do with North Korea or Sudan. Each essay should be atleast 500 words. The essays cover one third of our exam grade..... Thank you Mr. Schick for giving us a heads up!
I am very nervous about these exams... so I WILL STUDY and write an outline!
I will see you next week! Have a great weekend...... and......................
GO RAVENS!!!!!

STUDY EVERYONE

Divisions of Korea

A Brief History of Korea
- From 2333 B.C. to A.D. 1910, Korea was self ruled as a series of empires.
They oten worked with China.
Did not get along with Japan.
Known as Hermit Kingdom during the 19th Century..
1910-1945: Korea was occupied by Japan,
then World War Two came...

Alittle More History...
-Japan was defeated in WWII
-1947, UN divided Korea in two halves at the 38th parallel
-Soviet Union administers the N. half
-US administers the S. half
This was suppoesd to be temporary....

Division of Korea
USSR and US could not agree on a government.
-Soviets set up Communist gov't in the North, ruled by Kim Il-Sung
-US sets up pro-Western, democratic gov't in the S.
Each side

Two nations, completely divided
North Korea

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

capital: Pyongyang

totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship

single-party state

cult of personality

• Kim Il-sung (1948-1994) "Great Leader"
• Kim Jong-il (1994-2011) "Dear Leader"
• Kim Jong-un (2011-now) "Great Successor"

Juche ideology, Songon policy

And to the South...

South Korea

• Republic of Korea
• capital: Seoul
• presidential republic
• very high standard of living
• fourth-largest economy in Asia
• President: Lee Myung-bak (2008-now)

socialism: govt has complete control

stalenism: based on Russian government

totalnism: total control by gov

songan: Military first

Friday. January 6, 2012. IT'S FRIDAY

Hi-ya Mr. Schick,
Today in class I was alittle sleepy, but I still listened in. We watched the rest of the video which made me mad because their leader seems like he has programmed them to think he is a God, when really he is far from it. Learning about this topic was very interesting. One part of the video I found most shocking was the mother and daughter singing about us Americans begging for mercy as the crush us... That boggled my mind a little bit. Northern Korea has many problems and I feel bad for them now that they have a new younger leader that will ruin them too. See you Monday!
Have a good weekend!!!

Thursday. January 5, 2012

Hola Mr. Schick!

Today in class we got into groups and answer a question assigned to the group about Northern Korea. My group made a powerpoint slide on propaganda against the United States. Some of the pictures were horrifying. We didnt get to finish our presentation so, we will have to finish tomorrow!

Adios!

Wednesday. January 4, 2012.

Hello Mr Schick,

Today in class we began to watch a video on North Korea. It is clear that they have some issues and hate America.
This was very interesting, I am very excited to watch the rest of it.

See you tomorrow!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Mr. Schick!

I was not in class today becuase of being away on vacation! Im still blogging though!
See you Wednesday!