monday- Presentations
tuesday- Class Quiz, Practiced Upcoming quiz, and current events.
wednesday- Fragile States
thursday- Went over Latin America map and Ukraine
friday- No School
Capitalism- People own things and help with government to a degree.
- Poverty
- Once in it, it is hard to get out.
- Kids don't start with as much education
- Teachers can pinpoint "strugglers"
- Pyramid
- As you go up the pyramid numbers of people go down why wealth goes up.
- Competition
- Helps nation thrive.
Socialism- Society owns everything, and promotion of equality.
- Money
- People work hard but get same pay as other people.
- If your lazy you still get the same pay.
Oligarchy- Power with the wealth.
- Russia
- Leader uses wealthy to help make laws.
- USA
- Top leaders in the USA help government.
- Britain
- Government
- Works with rich people
- Doesn't pay much attention to the poor
- poor are getting poor.
Mixed Economy- Mixture of communism and socialism
- Every country has some sort of mixed economy.
Current Events
ISIS
- Doings
- Killing anyone to everyone
- Leaving people to question what they want
- Targeting cartoonists for
- Making fun of the Prophet Muhammad
- Example Charlie Hbdo
- Europe
- Lone Wolf attacks happening in Europe
- Libya
- ISIS grows to Libya
Fragile States
- South Sudan
- #1 Fragile State
- Genocides are occurring
- Countries
- Middle East
- Africa
- North Korea- Lack of property rights
- Farmers don't own there farm.
- Farmers are losing ambition and effort.
- The government takes the pay.
- Uzbekistan- Forced Labor
- Children
- Leave School to pick cotton.
- Have quota to fill.
- Don't get a good amount of money
- Government takes money.
- South Africa- tilted playing field
- Discrimination
- Helps aid the failure of government.
- Egypt-Big men get greedy
- Competition
- No Competition
- Things don't need to improve to get sold
- Money
- Small group of people making all the money
- No one else can get any money
- Austria and Russia-Elites block new technology
- Countries blocking tech
- Don't Want people to see how other people have it.
- Don't want other countries to be able to see what they are doing.
- Rail Road
- Brought U.S. together
- trade
- Moving people around
- North Korea
- Doesn't want people to be able to come together to overthrow.
- Somalia- No law and order
- Stateless Societies
- Groups Raised up (Clans)
- Officials of clan got together to make decisions
- Africa countries
- Europe came over and ruled
- Forced Africa to make it like Europe
- Took Resources
- Things they had
- Then left.
- One Resource
- Owner of that one resource controls the government.
- Columbia- Weak Central Government
- Government
- Half official government.
- Half Drug Lords Run government.
- Peru-Bad Infrastructure
- Roads
- Acomayo
- Poorer even though they grow that crops
- Eat there own crops
- Roads don't go to there.
- Calca
- Grow crops to sell
- Roads go there
- Bolivia- Political Explotation
- People
- Fight over the power
- Ends up in big civil war.
- Sierra Leone-Fighting over Spoils
- Groups
- Fight for power
- Want the resources like diamonds ect.
Ukraine
- Capital- Kiev
- Population- 44 million
- Official Language- Ukrainian
- Type of government- Republic
- Ethnic groups- 77.8% Ukrainian. 22.2% Russian
- Per capita income- $7,400
- Controlled By:
- Lithuania
- Poland
- The Ottoman Empire
- Austria-Hungary
- Russia
- WWI
- Fought on Russia and Hungary's side
- After war became part of the Soviet Union
- Ukraine became independent in 1991
- Ukraine has had numerous problems with Russia.
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