In class today, we almost finished discussing country world leaders. We learned many interesting and helpful facts. Something that I and my classmates picked up on was that most of the older brothers in line for the "throne" ended up dying in mysterious ways. You can't help but wondering is it really coincidental. We looked at rulers who are good, and not so good as well. A good example of someone who is mostly loved by their country is Justin Trudeau. An example of a not so good leader would be Vladimir Putin.
Today's class was one of the most interesting ones we've had so far. Today's discussion focused mainly around what thinking globally and acting locally means. What do they mean? An example used in class today was farming. If everyone starting farming for their fruits and vegetables, it would affect grocery stores. Now of course the stores wouldn't go out of business, the fruits and vegetables rate being sold would increase. So in other words, something we did locally would effect globally. But besides this discussion we talked about our thoughts on voting. How more older people tend to vote more nowadays. This brought up the discussion of weather or not the age for kids to be able to start voting should be lowered to age 16. In my opinion, I think at this age we are too young and immature to be asked and vote for political affairs, because honestly everyone would just think the same as their parents. You hear kids arguing politically, but you know it's just them tal...
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