First assigned blog summaries(For today):1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll-Emily made a video and it had some issues so this one will be tomorrow.2. South Sudan-It became a country July 9 and basically just became free from northern Sudan. The two have pretty much had a civil war since 1955 off and on. Then 2005 they became an official country. They are very different. The north is arabic and the south is black african; the north had an islamic religion while the south had a catholic/animist; and the south had oil while the north didn't have as much. So, these things/differences helped trigger this civil war between them.By:Nick Hough3. Libya-This was mine.4. US Supreme Court and videogames- In 2009 California passed a law that anyone that sold a 17+ video game to a minor would be charged 1000 dollars. So the U.S. supreme court this summer ruled that video games were protected under the first ammendment rights. So, they pretty much considered video games as rights to speech and all that good stuff.5. New York and gay marriage- In 2009 the government of New York rejected gay marriages. THere was questioning about it so on June 4 2011 they passed another law and gay marriage is now allowed in New York.6. Drawdown in Afghanistan7. Al-Zawahri and al-Qaeda8. US debt ceiling crisis-problem and solution9. NFL lockout-problem and solution10. US/French Embassies attacked in Syria11. Famine in Somalia12. Norway incident13. Women's World Cup-look at history of Women's World Cup and results
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