Monday, January 10, 2011

questions on korea

1.      Democratic people’s republic of Korea
2.      KIM Jong ill became the dictator of north Korea and made his own rules
3.      Germany and japan lost World War 2 Korea became controlled by America and the Soviet Union.  They cut it and half and made north and south Korea. The Kim Jong ill was elected to run North Korea and ruled with an iron fist. South Korea became free and a democracy.
4.      Map         
5.      Borders china and South Korea. Bodies of water are yellow sea and East Sea.
6. The parallel divided the peninsula roughly in the middle. In 1948, the dividing line became the boundary between the newly independent countries of North and South Korea. It is 1 of the most militarized places in the world.

7. The Koreans are ready to fight and go to another war at any time.

8. Nice houses that just cover what is really going on in the DMZ.

9. They strongly word and condemn North Korea's actions. Every time UN tries to setup economic sanctions but China veto's that decision because they are big traders but, then the UN is very sympathetic to South Korea.

10. Capital of North Korea Pyongyang 3.2 million people. Capital of South Korea is Soul. Soul has over 10 million people and 38 miles from the 38th parallel

11. Insert agents to sabotage behind enemies lines in wartime.

12. To protect themselves and their allies.

13. China 

14. Very controlled and not many visit

15. China

16. 

17. Information is strictly censored and people can be jailed or killed for putting the wrong things up.

18. They are held every five years. At the national level, North Koreans elect a legislature, the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA). In addition to the Supreme People's Assembly, the people elect representatives to city, county, and provincial "people's assemblies".

19. Since 1945 North Korea's relationship with the United States has been marked by almost continuous confrontation and mistrust. North Korea views the United States as the strongest imperialist force in the world and as the successor to Japanese imperialism.

20. Has many problems. They are not very open with their trades. Many people believe that North Korea Spends more than half of what their country is worth on its Military. In 2009 they have exchanged 27.3 billion dollars’ worth of revenue. In 2008 they have imported 3.574 billion dollars’ worth of revenue.

21. They are traditionally Buddhist and Confucianism but the government is making their freedom almost nonexistent and is making their own beliefs.

22. North Korea dropped missals on South Korea but South Korea says that if North Korea bombs them again they will retaliate.

23. Lisa and Laura Ling were kidnapped by North Korea for illegal entry in North Korea. She was forced 12 months of hard labor.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

thats weird

today in class we went over some of the questions about korea. mr schick told us that in his other class when he went to click on a city in north korea and his computer crash. after that we started to watch the video on north korea.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

class today

today in class we continued to answer questions about our korea. we got side tracked a little talking about the war and when Mr. Schick was a kid but it was really interesting.

DMZ

today in class we split the room in half making one side north korea and the other south korea. then we hve to answer questions about our side and discuss on how differentthey both are.

india written link to prezi

http://prezi.com/kpudx57jsquo/the-country-of-india/

Monday, December 13, 2010

india questions

Who
is Mukesh Ambani?


How did Mukesh Ambani get so wealthy and does he
give back to the community?


What
is Antilia?


It is a huge 27 floor sky scraper funded by Mukesh
Ambani; it has 3 helipads, grand ballroom, 50 Seat Theater, nine elevators,
airborne swimming pools and a spa. And only five people are living in this
enormous house!


What
is the percent of poverty in India?


How
many people can read and write?


Why
does the government continue to use all their money to make huge buildings and
not support the poor people?


Why
do the police and government agree on taking bribes from people?


Why
is it a law to only have a building that is three stories high, when they
definitely have the supplies to make bigger and safer building?


What
percent of the people in India are living under the poverty line?


 25% of India
is living under the poverty line.


Where
is Altamont Road?


 Upmarket residential street in South
Mumbai


What
percent of India lives in the slums?


Roughly 62%


How
many criminal charges does the building owner Amrita Singh have?


Over 25


What
is the average number of floors in neighborhoods?


How
many residents died in the fall of the illegal building?


About 70 people