country leaders

In today’s class we talked about some of the different leaders of the countries we have just recently researched. First we started talking a little about the Taliban and what they are, the Taliban is a group of terrorists that kill people who the think are wrong. There was a girl named Malala who was protesting for women’s rights to get the same education as men in her country, the Taliban thought that this was wrong so they shot her in the head. She went to the hospital and has to receive reconstructive surgery on her head, this story instantly became famous.  We went on to talk about the leader of Iran; Mahmud and how he was against women’s rights and then we talked a little about coup d’état, this term means trying to overthrow the government and trying to take over. Probably the most interesting person we talked about today was Angela Merkel, the leader of Germany. Angela was arrested for coup d’état and she was tortured while a prisoner, they would hang her upside down and torture he with electrical shocks to her body, this method was called the bird perch. Even through all these terrible events she still fought for what she wanted, she did not back down and she became the first woman to become a chancellor of Germany. Another thing we talked about was how some leaders want to form a coalition government, which means they do not believe in women’s rights, we kind of skimmed through a couple more leaders, not really getting into much detail but we tossed around Mr. Schick’s Globe and pointed out the country that we talked about, and that was the ending of today’s class.