Today in
Human Geo we talked about the information that we came up with. I had come up
with 4 pieces of information for each leader. Almost each person had shared one
piece of information.
President
Enrique Pena Nieto:
1. He announced his presidential candidacy
in September of 2011, four days after he left the office of governor.
2. He officially registered in November
of 2011.
3. He received 38% of the votes in the
election.
Chancellor Angela
Merkel:
1. She earned a
doctorate as a physical chemist.
2. She entered
politics in the wake of the revolutions of 1989.
President
Bashar al- Assad:
1.
He attended post- graduate studies at the Western Eye
Hospital.
2.
In 1994, his older brother got killed in a car crash.
President
Xi Jinping:
1. He served as the Governor of Fujian
between 1999 and 2002.
2. He is now the leader of the People’s
Republic’s fifth generation leadership.
Prime
Minister David Cameron:
1. Cameron first stood for parliament of
Stafford in 1997.
2. He rose to become head of policy
co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign.
Monarch
Elizabeth II:
1. She visited the Republic of Ireland.
2. She was born in London and privately
educated at home.
President
Pranab Mukherjee:
1. Mukherjee was sidelined from the
congress during the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi, Indira’s son.
2. When the
Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came
into power in 2004, Mukherjee, never a mass leader.
1. He was born in Rouen to a middle
class family.
2. His mother was a social worker.
Emperor
Akihito:
1. During
the American firebombing raids on Tokyo in March 1945, Akihito and his younger
brother, Prince Masahito, were evacuated from the city.
President
Vladimir Putin:
1. He was an officer in the KGB, for 16
years.
2. He rose
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he retired to enter
politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991
President
Dilma Rousseff:
1. After
her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre
with Carlos Araújo, who would be her partner for 30 years.
2. Both
helped found the Democratic Labour Party.
President
Reuven Rivlin:
1. He was first elected to the 12th
Knesset in 1988.
2. He also served as Likud chairman from
1988 to 1993.
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