My Last Blog Post

This week, since I have already found the majority of the information that I need, Im going to do a signing off blog. Sadly, this will be my last blog post. I know that all of you readers out there are very saddened by it. We have finally come t6o that dreaded nine week end of the trimester and it is time for me to prepare my final project. This week I will piece together every little bit of information that I have gained over the last couple of weeks into a highly complex and informational ted talk. I would like to thank my teacher Mrs.Cenci for a wonderful trimester!Wish me luck on my project!

What do y'all want me to answer?

This week instead of making my blog a information section, I'm going to let my blog viewers ask me any specific questions that they would like for me to look up. I hope that my viewers ask questions that would further my understanding of my project. It is also around the time where I will be starting my final project and i want your help on what the layout should look like. Should i do all of the different countries and compare them together? Or should i compare specifically the United States and Spanish speaking countries together? Any input would be great! Thank You!

current event- This week i read up on how an illness, like the ebola, can affect schooling. Baically throughout the article it tells of hows schools will be closing if they are known to have contact with someone sick with ebola. This should affect children around the world with their schooling.

http://fox8.com/2014/10/16/pnc-bank-processing-center-closed-as-precaution-employee-flew-on-same-plane-as-ebola-patient/

Education in Cuba

Education in Peru is one of the Main priorities in Cuba. Cuba makes it a priority because they see it as the "future of the country". Cuba spends 10 percent of their national budget on education, compared to 2 percent in America or 4 percent in England. There are 12 hours of school in a day and all primary school is free. Education in Cuba and America have many differences. America goes through 7 to 8 hours of school and only government funded schools are free

Current Event- The Huffington post claims that Cuba has the best education system in the Caribbean and latin america. They believe that the large budget for education really benefits the system. They say that the teachers are above par and are well cared for by the government.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/salim-lamrani/world-bank-cuba-has-the-b_b_5925864.html

Education in peru

Education in peru is not much different from Spain. Education in Peru is free for students coming up through elementary to high school. It is also free for good students that want to attend a public university. Various well credited sources have said that Peru has the best education system in Latin America. Education in Peru dates back to tribal times with the incas. The education in Peru is not much different from the United States education system. The only thing that is different is that success rate the schools have.

Current event http://newstrib.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=27&ArticleID=39294

This current event dhows that peruvian schools have budgets like the United States schools and that budgets are very necessary in schools to thrive.

Week Three of Education

This week i looked at the wonderful country of Argentina. In Argentina they have government funded  public schools and also private institutions. Education at all levels has always been free to the people, even universities. Education in Argentina is pretty independent of the government. their grading system goes form one to ten, one being terrible and 10 being outstanding. Argentinas education system has done fairly well. It has brought up five nobel prize winner.

Current event- The teachers are very angry because the government will not raise their wages, so the teachers wen ton strike to stop the government from hurting their jobs and to raise their wages. This led thousands of student without teachers.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/17/379029/argentine-education-workers-go-on-strike-to-protest-government-policies/

Week 2 of New Project

This week i probably progressed more in one week on this topic than i did on my last topic. Sadly, the information i gained this week is not the happiest information. This week i learned of how most spanish education systems are failing. These spanish education systems have horrible statistics of people coming out of schooling and going into a desired or specialized profession. This leads to the country failing as a whole. Lower income people mean a lower income nation. This is what leads to the third world like country state of these countries. Schooling is the basic foundation for success for people and for countries.

Current Event:http://www.thespainreport.com/11215/spains-urgent-economic-education-problem/

This weeks current event was about how population around the world is growing drastically and how the key to keeping a successful country is education. If countries install a better education system then these children growing up in these countries an go into high income professional positions. Since the people will be making more money, the country can raise taxes therefor making the country richer and more prosperous.

New project:Spanish Schools

Well sadly folks it looks as if i will have to change topics. I have lost interest in my last topic and have deemed it to hard to find information for. So i am going to change my topic to the difference and similarities of schools in Spanish speaking countries and america. I am looking in this project to get a better understanding of the education that they have and what education is better. I thank you all for understanding why i have made this change and i hope that y'all still tune into my blog.

My Current Event: Many latin america children are not getting the education that they need. this leads to kids not getting very dignified work. The failure of the education in spanish speaking countries is the reason for poverty in spanish speaking countries.

https://worldfund.org/en/about-us/education-gap.html

week 4 progress

This week was kind of a slow week. Most of the notes i have are my current event notes. I have hit sort of a speed bump in my question.I am finding it tough to find information on my topic. I have also found it tough to find a mentor in a foreign country. So far  iHave had no luck . One good thing that i have done is I have found a great current event. It is about the failing spanish healthcare system and how it is turning down some of their citizens. It relates perfectly back to the situation i found in spain a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/12/health-care-spain

Week Three

This week I have made much progress in my project. I found a great current event that really touches a controversial topic about foreign countries health care. I finished my pitch this week and plan to reveal it tomorrow. My project is coming along like it should. Next week I plan on improving my knowledge on procedures in foreign countries.

Week Two Process

This week has been a pretty successful week for my blog. I started my research on foreign countries and all though I can't seem to find much on medical procedures, I have hit the jackpot on health care. I have found many sources and a wonderful current event. I really learned that i don't just want random information, that i want the best articles. So I have really been skimming through articles looking for which ones will be best for my project. So far I might have found my person from a foreign country. I look forward to speaking with this person and learning about what they have learned from being a doctor in a foreign country!

My 20 Percent Time

Spanish culture this year has totally taken me by surprise this year. When I entered the class I thought that we would be going over the everyday/year life of the people that lived in spanish speaking countries. My assumptions were completely wrong and now we are doing a project called 20 percent time. In this project called "20 percent time", we will focus on something that interests us in our lives and connect it back to a spanish speaking country. So about three to four days ago I was asked to pick a topic that I wanted to focus all of my attention on for the whole trimester. Instantly one thing popped dup into my head, and that was the medical field. I have always been interested in the medical field and have wanted to go into it professionally when I get older. This project gives me the perfect opportunity to study some of what I want to do when i am older. I decided the primary things that I wanted to focus on were, Do procedures differ in anyways between the spanish countries and the United States? How do people get access and pay for their medical care? What restrictions do doctors  have in spanish speaking countries that doctors in the United States do not have? And what discoveries have spanish speaking countries been credited for? My goals in doing this is to get a better understanding on health care in spanish speaking countries and on their ways of medicine. I will, ultimately, measure emu goals on my understanding of the knowledge each week and how well I do on my TED talk at the end of the trimester.