Natural rights: Rights, freedoms and privileges which are such a basic part of human nature that they cannot be taken away.

Popular sovereignty: A pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there. Right to revolution: A right or duty, variously stated throughout history, possessed by subjects of a state that justifies their action to overthrow the government to whom the subjects otherwise would owe allegiance.

Right of self determination: It is the right of the people of a nation to decide how they want to be governed without the influence of any other country.

Social contract: An agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each.

WHY ?

Why I chose this order?

I chose this order, because I am sure that natural rights come before everything else. I think that, because it is the human freedom, liberty, and privileges and it's very important for everyone. Next comes the popular sovereignty, because it's a global reflection or opinion or right over many things such as permition of slavery and i think that it comes after natural rights because it's like a natural right but this time it's a global right taken in consideration. After that I chose right to revolution, in behalf of the right or duty throughout history. I think it is an important state to but not as much as the two first ones, because people are aloud tu revolt but not against anything, because they may get to revolt, but go to prison because of certain revolutions against certain things in that case it doesn't come before the others. Next I chose the right of self determination, due to rights and liberty of expression. I think that it is very fair to be able to revolt, or choose to decide on certain things that we think are not right. The right to choose how someone wants to be governed is one of the most important rights for me but it still doesn't come before all those. To be governed is something but to be forced to have a strict or maybe unfair government is another thing and I personally think that anyone could have rights in deciding or choosing or voting for a better one. Last but not least, I chose the social contract, because it's a social discussion or agreement between the people and the government that's what the right of self determination needs a discussion directly with the government to express their feelings, emotions or beliefs and many other things about the state and how they may change it or do good things for the nation and for them too it's a free expression social and government contact so they have the opportunity to chat directly with the "high class" to tell what's on their minds and give their opinions about certain things that go bad and can go well in the future if they change and if they decide to listen to these people and act among their stating.

Why study history?

History has different affection for our society. People learn and listen about history to go forward in their lives. It has various degrees of culture that can help our future. Societies involve their understanding in life with history to continue their own existence. It helps us want to believe in change and accept many deceptions. We learn that we are not different from each other and are not the first human on earth. History is a need for us to compare with reality. In a way, history is an example of our present. We feel better by knowing that we improved after all these years. I would conclude it as an exceptional relief. Personally history has always affected me in an uncertain way. One example of the french colonial influence on me as a Moroccan is that now i naturally speak french, and i have a double culture. It makes me wonder how different life is from the past and how would it be in the future. I could probably say that I love history because of what it teaches us, which is in my point of view knowing what happened before us and how different it was so that we can be ready for anything that might occur tomorrow. There is a quote I always use as a reference which is about life and that it's a crazy ride and we never know what is going to happen tomorrow.

French colonization in Morocco

France was controlled by Morocco until the year of 1956.When it was finally done, many things done in Morocco still follow the way France did things, like the banking system, some business and many others. While the majority of people in Morocco know a certain amount of French, there are many who know little or none.

In Morocco you can see the influence of the French everywhere, especially in the architecture.
In some areas of northern Morocco people speak more Spanish than they speak French.

Not only is the language left in morocco, there is still some of the French cuisine and culture here also. Arabic is the first language but French is taught in most of the schools as a second language.

Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing

The Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing weighs 1620 kg so it can get from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds and can travel at a speed of 317 km/h. The Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing will be sold at 177,310 Euros when the car goes on sale in the spring of 2010 The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, is going to celebrate its world premiere on 15 September 2009 at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt/Main.

ESPARAT+G

Basically ESPRAT+G is an acronym of seven words which are: economics, sociology, political science, religion, arts, technology, and georgraphy. All these terms share a common feature: they are all used and helpful in the study of Social Studies

Picture of H1N1 virus

The images below of the newly identified H1N1 influenza virus were taken in the CDC Influenza Laboratory.

Prediction of Increasing H1N1 flu as schools open

The virus that was spread from pigs and birds to humans around the globe is now particularly dangerous in the schools. The CDC predicts that the H1N1 flu increases as schools open, and because of that many schools in Europe, and America have been closed. In many schools in America, people are sick especially in the Washington State University, more than 2,000 students have the sickness. Now the student's population are becoming healthier but they should constantly visit their doctor regularly. The biggest hit in the area of the country is the Southeast, and students have been in school for four weeks. During the summer, there were sickneses in camps and now in the schools. The good news so far is that the virus is not becoming more deadly, but it's a microb in state of evolution. If the weather gets very warm the disease might stop and come back during the winter, but the weather doesn't seem to get warmer so the virus will just stay until the scientists find a vaccination against the virus.

Main Skill Points

The main skill points my parents shared with me were love and family spirit for family skills. Knowledge and serioussness for work skills. Finally sharing ans caring in a community. Organization and generosity appeared a few times in the three skills. Ithink these are the main points and really help in a society like family, work, community.

The conversation with my parents so I decided to shorten it a little bit. The important life skills they need in there families are lots of love, patience, trustworthiness, respect, commitment, generosity, and familly spirit. For work they must have knowledge, efficiency, organization, teem spirit, seriousness, improvement, goals. And finally for community the important skills were sharing, helping, generosity, caring.

About Me

Tahar EL Yacoubi is born in Canada, Montréal, and I now live in Morocco, Casablanca. I go to an American School, I've been there for 12 years now. I speak 4 languages : French, Arabic, English, and Spanish. This isn't my first school blog i've already created one last year in biology class introducing the endangered life of pandas and I am very pleased to create other blogs.

Why should students blog ?

The five main reasons why students should blog are :

Sharing (to be able to share information that will be the read by others who will respond)

Interaction (to communicate and listen to others or read others' blogs)

Engagement (maybe to have total attention towards anything on her/his or others' blog)

Creativity (to be able to create their own blogs with own stories, decoration, questions)

To give students a voice (everyone could take part in discussions or debates)

MY Goals for 9th grade

Hi my name is Tahar and my goal for this year are:

To have as much good grades as possible in all the classes in order to move on to the difficult levels in the school and to have a good IB to be accepted in future universities.

My next goal is to start reading more and have the chance to learn many things i don't know.

My last goal is to succeed in the final exams of the end of this year and in order to do so i will need to work extremely hard and well to earn good grades and a good education and knowledge.

These are my only goals for this year and the next years for work.