Monday - We finished taking the group test. We got 100% on it.
Tuesday - We talked about weekly blogs and the options about it. We went over the map, study Central America. We are starting a new project, called Econamical/Political Project, where we take a term and create a PowerPoint about them. Our topics are Absolute Monarchy and Constitutional Monarchy. Our expectations are
--Start with a title slide
1. book definition(5)
2. student friendly definition(10)
3. give five examples of countries that have had or currently have your political/economic system(include pictures)(10)
4. Act out your system(s).(20)
5. List your sources-Use Easbib(5)
ISIS
- Kayla Miller
- Held captive
- Death confirmed
- Says she was killed by Jordanian airstrike
- Taken August 2013
- Captured leaving Doctors Without Borders
Brian Williams
- Lied
- Iraq story
- Supposedly hit by RPG
- "The Fog of Memory"
- He wasn't in the helicopter
- He has stepped down
- Fact checking Brian Williams
- Supposed body floating down French Quarter
- Some witnesses say their was barley any water
- Iraq war reports are under investigation
- Suspended 6 months without pay
Wednesday - We went over some Current Events. Today is work day for most part and we are doing presentations tomorrow. The class map quiz over Central America is tomorrow also.
ISIS
- President asks Congress to fight ISIS
- Authorize 6 month military effort
- Obama will speak with public today
- Last time Congress declared war was 1941
- President can only use troops in Foreign fights for about 90 days
Shooting
- 3 college students shoot
- North Carolina
- Possible hate crime
- Students were Muslim
- Killed by 46 year old man
- Possibly over argument of parking places
Thursday - We took class quiz over Central America and got a 10/10. Presentations started today.
Dictatorship
- Government ruled by someone with complete power
- Dictators
- Adolf Hitler
- worst dictator of all time
- WW2
- Holocaust - 11 million people killed (& counting)
- Committed suicide at end of war
- Saddam Hussein
- Leader of Iraq - proved effective
- 1973 National Oil, was furthering economy
- Torture, rape, assassination, and chemical weapons used for army techniques
- Executed political foes, people of Iraq (200,000)
- Caught in a hole...in the ground (he was on the run)
- Arrested for: Crimes against humanity
- Sentenced to death by hanging 2006
- Josef Stalin
- "Steel", changed name to Stalin during Russian Revolution
- 3 million killed over policies
- 'Alliance' with Hitler until 1941
- Killed 20 million during WW2 (over working people, shoot children [prove power], famine)
- Kim Jong II
- "Fearless Leader" seen/known as
- July 1994, gained power
- Esteemed/God-Like
- Play boy
- Had 3 wives
- Only 3 kids live in palace and are recognized
- Is claimed to be have 72 kids
- All of them live richly
- Died in 2011 from heart-attack
- Mussolini
- Used WW1 to come into power
- Created the fascist party in Italy
- Fascist party preaches about being the best country/people
- Black Shirts - Mussolini's military
- Killed people voting against him
- Brought money and jobs to people, furthered economy
- Invaded Ethiopia, Greece, and sent troops to SC War
- Axis Powers, WW2
- Italy eventually switched sides and killed Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
Anarchy
- No effective government in the country, no order
- Anarchist
- Somalia
- 1991-2006
- Somalia Civil War
- Government didn't have any control
- Military took over
- Then terrorist started running rampant
- Al Qaeda funded
- Pirates in the cost of Somalia
- Soviet Union
- Late 1980's, early 1900's
- Supply products not wanted by people
- Wasting money
- Government fell apart
- Chaos
- Iceland
- Lose control over economy
- 2008-2011
- Money supply went down
- Somalia
Friday - We are doing more presentations. We reviewed forum post tips.
ISIS
- ISIS is looking to attack Europe
- Lone wolf attacks
- Islamic people living in Europe travel to ISIS through Turkey
- Then go back to Europe and attack
Gay Marriage
- Iowa second to approve gay marriage
- California was 1st state
- Only 13 states don't allow
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Mississippi
- Texas
- Ohio
- Tennessee
- Nebraska
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Separation of church and state
- Courts are saying you can't ban gay marriage
- Goes against constitution
- Southeast is the "Bible Belt"
Forum Post Tips
- Pick Interest stories
- Maybe add a picture
- Great title that attracts audience
- Ask questions that bring discussion
- Stay away from yes and no question
- Educate audience if topic is challenging
- Don't be too brief in summary
- Eliminate grammatical/capitalization errors
- Hyperlink story
- Reply frequently throughout week
Fragile State
- People don't like being called Failed States so they were changed to Fragile States
- States of Anarchy
- Somalia was #1 on fragile state list
- South Sudan is now #1 on list by .3%
- Africa is the content filled with Anarchy states/states near anarchy
Direct Democracy
- Citizens basically all of the say in the laws
- They decide decisions and can ask/oppose laws
- Switzerland
- People get a vote in laws
- Call for referendum 50,000 people sign
- Government Veto
Representative Democracy
- Instead of people voting for laws people for other people to make and enforce laws
- United States
- We have congress
- Canada
- Cambodia
- Chile
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