Spotify Extra Credit

I have 10 songs for the Spotify Extra Credit Project.  (Some are explicit.)

• Freedom of Preach (explicit) - Ludacris ft. Bishop Eddie Lee Long: pull force (religious freedom) 
• Imagine - Lohn Lennon: pull force (freedom)
• Let Me Believe - Shaun Canon: pull force (religious freedom)
• I Hate My Job (explicit) - Cam'Ron: push force (job labor)
• One - Metallica: push force (war)
• Chain Gang - Sam Cooke: push force (slavery)
• 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton: push force (job labor)
• Proud Mary - Ike &Tina Turner: push force (jab labor)
• Oceans - Jay Z ft. Frank Ocean: push force (slavery)
• The Freedom Song - Jason Mraz: pull force (freedom)

United Kingdom National Anthem

Click here to listen to the United Kingdom's National Anthem "God Save the Queen."


Lyrics:
God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen
God save the Queen
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen

O Lord our God arise
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On Thee our hopes we fix
God save us all

Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour
Long may she reign
May she defend our laws
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen

Not in this land alone
But be God's mercies known
From shore to shore
Lord make the nations see
That men should brothers be
And form one family
The wide world over

From every latent foe
From the assassins blow
God save the Queen
O'er her thine arm extend
For Britain's sake defend
Our mother, prince, and friend
God save the Queen

Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the King


Description:
 The United Kingdom's National Anthem "God Save the Queen" sounds very similar to the United State's National Anthem "The Star Spangled Banner."  It has a very similar beat and they are both patriotic to the countries.  There are obviously very different lyrics.  "God Save the Queen" is a slower version, in my opinion, to "The Star Spangled Banner."

*I was having trouble putting the video on the blog itself, so I had to put the link on the blog.

Slumdog Millionaire

Today in Human Geography, we started watching the movie Slumdog Millionaire.   I remember seeing five minutes of that movie before this class, but I didn't know what it was about until today.   It's actually not a bad movie. It's basically about a teenage boy named Jamal Malik who went on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."  After winning twenty million dollars on the show, people think that he cheated. The police in India are very corrupt. They hook him up to electricity to try to get him to talk. While they are asking him questions, there are flashbacks to the game show. While the host is asking questions, there are also flashbacks to his tough childhood, and that's how he knew all the answers. We're watching more of it tomorrow. 

Spotify Project

Today Mr. Schick wasn't in class today.  Mr. Connelly was our substitute teacher.  We worked on our Spotify project.  We needed to find songs on Spotify representing push and pull forces.  It was actually pretty fun.  I got to listen to music that I've never heard before.  Some of them were a little weird, but others were pretty good songs.   In the beginning, I had a little bit of trouble figuring out how to make a playlist, but I figured it out eventually.  I found a good amount of songs today, but I am definitely going to find more.  I think I'm going to like this project.

Cultural Geography

Today in class we talked about cultural geography.  Here are the notes I wrote from the PowerPoint that Mr. Schick showed us:

Cultural Geography

• Cultural characteristics are parts of groups in everyday life.  These are the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members.  These same characteristics can also link or divide a region.
• Examples of cultural characteristics would be language, religion, and ethnic heritage.

Mr. Schick explained to us in Alabama how they have many things in common, but when it comes to college football, there is always a feud.  College football is huge in Alabama.  That is something that can divide a region.  Mr. Schick also talked about the examples I mentioned above, but mostly religion.  He asked us all to raise our hands if we would consider ourselves Catholic or Christian.  To everyone that raised their hands, he asked us to raise our hands if we got baptized when we were a baby.  When some of us raised our hands, right away he told us that we were already learning that from our parents.  We also talked a little bit about language, and some people said that they can speak a different language, and they do sometimes in their house.

Test today

Everyone did the test today except me.  Since I was absent on Monday and Tuesday, I missed half of the presentations, so I don't feel prepared.  I tried to do what I wanted to do at my desk, but Mr. Schick made me move.  I didn't do that much in class.  I played 2048 most of the time.  After half of the class, I checked Twitter for a few minutes.  Why not?  I had nothing else to do.  After checking Twitter, I decided I wanted to listen to music.  Thankfully, most people were finished the test by that time.  I walked over to my desk and got my earphones.  For the rest of the class, I listened to music and did my blog.  I have to do the test tomorrow, along with two other tests.  Wish me luck.

Test

We have a test tomorrow.  I just found out today because I forgot to look on Mr. Schick's blog.  

Today we were reviewing the "National Leadership - Political Geography" PowerPoint that Mr. Schick made.  In the beginning, the PowerPoints in the "National Leadership - Political Geography" Powerpoint had to make their PowerPoint public so we could all view it without sending a request to look at it.  (Mine wasn't in the PowerPoint wasn't in Mr. Schick's PowerPoint.)  After everyone made their PowerPoint public, Mr. Schick talked about each slide that he made.  Did you know that four presidents in the US have been assassinated and two presidents were injured in attempted assassinations? 

I don't think I have to take the test until Friday because I was absent on Monday and Tuesday.  I hope I do well on the test.  Because I have an extra day, I'm going to study pretty hard the next two days.