Today for the beginning of class Mr. Brun's asked if anyone wanted to take the test and Marielle said that she would just to study them and she did very well. Then as a class we went over the Europe map.
Now going to go over our assigned blogs again.
Egupt
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The president of Egupt stepped down and went along and listened to the protesters. The protesters in Egupt were protesting because of the freedoms getting taking away well most of them. Raising food prices also caused the people to protest and fight. The United States didnt really do anything to help Egupt out but they did help with aid.
Morocco
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They found people in the streets and they thought it had to do with a protest and the protesters in Morocco aren't very peaceful. The King is Mohammed 6th ruled since 99. Unemployment, poor, and cruption.
Tunisia
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Lack of jobs. College student set imself on fire because to show a mager point that they need to do something. Because the goverment took this kids only source of income away-fruit cart. This where all the protests started. People who have facebook in Tunisia leacked wrong information about what was going on. Ben Ali had to try to get it undercontrol by shutting down facebook and twitter. What happened to Ben Ali is that he stepped down flewed to Sudi Arabia. Cruption was a down fall. United States is going to support what is going on. New Presisdent took over.
Yeman
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Unemployment rate: 35%. Population: 23 million. Biggest protest they had was 20 thousand people. Protesters call for down fall of their president.U.S has helped crack down on Al-quida. They are in a really tough spot right now. They want everything to change. The President said he will step down after this year.
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