Political and Economic Systems:
Dictatorship is where a country is ruled by one leader (like when Hitler had power).
Anarchy is when a country has no form of government or control. Ex: Somalia
Absolute Monarchy is a form of government where one person has all power mostly with kings and queens
Constitutional Monarchy is when a country has kings and queens as figure heads, and the parlament has the power.
Communism theory: nothing would really get done, people would have to step up and take control, it’d be more of a dictatorship
Capitalism: (economics) Where people are aloud to own and control their own businesses, U.S. has this, it allows men to peruse goals
Socialism: (economics) An economic system where the government owns and controls the businesses. Some countries have mixes of Socialism and Capitalism
Political Parties of the United States-
- Republicans are more conservative and are a lot more religious based, and they base a lot of their decisions off the economy. While Democrats aren't so consverative and are more enviromentally friendly.
- Abortion: Democrats think that getting an abortion is a woman’s choice and should be an option. Republicans believe that it is killing a live, and should be illegal.
- Flag Burning: Democrats believe that when you burn flags it’s just like freedom of speech and should be allowed. Republicans believe we should set a law on flag burning into the constitution and make it illegal.
- Gun Control: Democrats believe that we need more gun control and make it harder for people to obtain a gun for a safer life. Republicans believe that we should have less gun control because it is unconstitutional.
- Environment: Democrats think we need to have more protections on the environment to help protect the world we live in. Republicans think that by having strong laws on the environment it hurts our economy. Ex: Not being able to drill into the oil in Alaska is giving us one less place to get good oil, but saves the animals.
- Race Relations: Democrats think we need to keep the same amount of laws we have for anti-discrimination on, and favor affirmative action. Republicans don’t like affirmation and believe that people can be trusted in our newer years not to discriminate, often anti-discrimination laws can get in the way.
- Minimum Wage: Democrats believe we need to raise the minimum wage to help people afford more items. Republicans believe that it should stay the same, if it raises, businesses have to pay their workers more and in return have to raise their prices more, fire workers, exc.
- Healthcare: Democrats think that the government should supply a healthcare available to everybody. Republicans believe that private businesses having control over insurance is better for a government controlled system.
- Taxes: Democrats believe that if we raise the taxes for the wealthy it will help benefit the country, and keep taxes the same amount on the poor. Republicans think that if we cut taxes for everybody it will help the economy.
- Military: Democrats think we should spend less on the military and have more benefits for veterans, and help other countries by supporting the U.N.. Republicans are the opposite and think we should spend more on the military and have less benefits for the veterans/ let other countries work out their own problems.
- Death Penalty: Democrats believe we should not have a death penalty because we often kill innocent lives. Republicans think we need it because it’s effective and reliable.
- Gay Rights: Democrats favor gay rights, it’s a persons choice. Republicans oppose and believes that couples that marry should be between a man and a women.
- Prayer in School: Democrats don’t think that they should allow prayer in school to be led by a teacher, it separates church and state. Republicans think it’s a religious right and should be allowed, it’s Christian.
- War in Iraq: Democrats favored it at first until president Bush made mistakes in Iraq, and want to get more support from other countries so that we can focus on Afghanistan. Republicans think we shouldn’t leave until we accomplish what needs to be accomplished, we need to wait until their government is stable enough to withdraw.
Global Warming:
Our global warming causes include volcanic ashes, continental drift, the atmosphere and ocean heating up and changing, surface reflectivity allowing heat to get stuck in the atmosphere, the green house effect, car exhaust, and oil spills in oceans.
The global warming effects from all these causes include the sea levels rising from melting ice caps and snow, the sea temperatures rising, natural disasters increasing, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and heavy droughts.
The main areas getting affected by these are: The Great Barrier Reef, Bangladesh (Asia), Sudan (Africa), Caribbean, Alps Mountain Range (Europe) and Britain.
Over Population-
Over population is when too many organisms occupy one area or habitat and exceeds carrying capacity.
Causes: an increase in number of births, a decrease in deaths due to advance in medicine, increase in immigration, a limit in the amount of resources.
Effects: animal population decreasing and becoming extinct, more pollution, increase in solid waste produced, recourses and wetlands are dwindling, higher poverty and birth rate, low life expectancy, high unemployment, dryer farmland, and a higher crime rate.
Globalization:
The world has 6.7 billion people and the United states has 300 million people. Globalization is the process of the world becoming ‘flatter’. As the world becomes more advanced, people become closer, and the world seems to ‘shrink’. With new technology advancing we are able to communicate with people on the other side of the world in mere seconds. It becomes smaller when people are able to work in countries thousands of miles away from them or give a presentation to a group of people in a different room.
Current Events:
- Iraq- Saddam Hussein became the president of Iraq in 1990 and wasn’t the best. He worked the country into being more of a dictator ship, and made people have to be a certain religion, and killed the Shiites. Then because he had so many relatives die mysteriously and wouldn’t let people into the country for weapon inspections he got hung in Bagdad.
In 1990 we went to war with Iraq because Saudi Arabia asked us and the U.N. to when Iraq started to invade Kuwait, blaming them for taking oil from their country. We went into Iraq and never left after the Persian Gulf War, who’s main focus was to get Iraq people to leave Kuwait alone. So then we started to get terrorists and Iraq to hate us.
We invaded Iraq in 2003 because we believed Saddam was working on weapons of mass destruction. Our belief in this was from Saddam not letting weapon inspectors in. Now we cannot leave Iraq because a huge civil war may break out between it’s people. Bush had a surge in Iraq, and said we should be out in 2009.
- Iran- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the current president of Iran. He says that they have successfully gotten Uranium from the ground and are working towards developing nuclear energy. To him Israel should be knocked off the face off the earth, we planned 9-11, and the Holocaust never really happened. We believe that he isn’t just trying to use his nuclear power for energy, he’s trying to create weapons also. Many people think that when Ahmadinejad was elected, the election was rigged.
The supreme leader of Iran is Ayatolla Ali Khamenei, and many people think Ahmadinejad is his puppet. He never does any interviews, and pulls the strings in the country.
Iran is giving Iraq bombs to use against us, support Iraq, and deny that they support Iraq although we have proof. Iran has two main religions that don’t always get along. Iran doesn’t like America because we used to bully them around and killed their leaders if we didn’t like them, once they started using people we supported they began to despise us and elected more Islamic people.
- Afghanistan- Has a steppe climate and Hindu Cush Mountains which make it difficult to find runaways and attack the country from certain sides. The Taliban came into power in Afghanistan in 1996, they were anti-women and made them wear burqas. They aren’t in power anymore but might be making a comeback. Nineteen terrorists from al-Queida in Afghanistan crashed the twin towers that killed about three thousand people. When Bush was the President he increased attacks on Afghanistan, Bush saw countries as either with or against us and anybody who supported terrorism was a threat to us, if countries didn't help us Bush didn't see them as our friends, in two thousand and three we invaded Iraq and it changed our whole focus, Democrats saw that as a mistake.
- Darfur- Currently in Darfur, about 500,000 people have been killed. The land in Sudan is being taken over by desert, so the Janjaweed (a group of Asians) are trying to get all the Black Africans off the land and get more land, water, and cattle for themselves by killing the Blacks. People are fleeing to Chad. The government has been accused of helping the Janjaweed, and the country is suffering from government neglect, leaving them in poverty. Many people live in camps short of food and supplies.
- Rwanda- In 1994 a genocide started in Rwanda that killed about 800,000 people in 100 days. The three main groups of Rwanda are the Hutus, Tutsis, and the Twa. Long before 1994 Rwanda was a part of Belgium, and the Belgium’s favored the Tutsis because they looked more European. Then they left them in 1962 and Rwanda became independent. The feud between the two groups remained, and cards that determined if you were Hutu or Tutsi sometimes determined life or death. In 1994 the president who was a Hutu and had just signed a peace treaty with the Tutsi. The Hutus blames the Tutsi and a mass fight broke out, people where killing each other with machetes daily. It continued for about a hundred days until a cease fire was called. Eventually the Tutsis might have won by pushing the Hutus into Congo, and many events have occurred between the two since then. No nations really wanted to be involved, and the United Nations sent over 55 hundred troops, which wasn’t nearly enough.
- Somalia- Somalia is the number one failed state in the world. They’re experiencing piracy, terrorism, and lack of leadership. Many warlords are trying to fight for power since they lost control of their government in about 1993. The al-Shabaab have most control over the country of the three terrorist groups. Somalia is in a state of lawlessness or anarchy.
Look over south america, europe, africa, and asia.
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