1. What were President Obama's accomplishments/issues as President? In my mind the number of accomplishment easily outways the issues, but since I have to list both I think I will start with the issues. Some say that Obamacare is an issue due to the fact some deem it as “unconstitutional”. Our nation being trillions of dollars in debt and remaining in a recession. The unemployment rate being at an all time high since the great depression. However, I think the accomplishments greatly out number the “issues”. I view Obamacare as the push that our country needed to move forward. I also strongly support that Obama got rid of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy established by President Clinton. The moral issues are what I find most important. Such as supporting gay brothers and sisters in our nation, and the push to make immigration to our country a whole lot easier.
2. Describe the main political and economic systems in the world. Absolute monarchy is a government where the ruler doesn't have to follow a set of rules. Constitutional Monarchy there is a main ruler but the leader has to follow the rules of some sort of constitution. Head of state. Dictatorship is a government that's ruled by a person who holds lots of power. Representative Democracy is like ours. Where we elect people to vote how we hope they will. Communism id s government controlled by a small group of people who want complete control over the country. Theory of communism is that people in poverty can overthrow government and have no government. It’s classless society. Anarchy means no government. Potential chaos. There has been no successful Anarchy. Direct Democracy the people vote. There is no country with actual direct democracy. Capitalism everyone has individual rights. People would own business. Socialism is the theory everyone is equal. It’s a larger government.
3. What are the major divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the US? Well I could make this answer very complex, or simple. I will try my best to not make this bias. Democrats tend to be more liberal and progressive. They tend to be a fan of “big government” persay. However, they are more able to touch those in minorities and women. They tend to be pro-choicers and favor same-sex marriage. They are concerned about the environment. Republicans tend to be more conservative. They are a fan of more citizen owned. Less government. They are pro-lifers and stand for “traditional” marriage. They don’t typically think it’s the federal government’s job to regulate environment. They like to let states decide. Kids typically just go with what their parents think, and they care more about moral issues because taxes and such don’t concern us quite yet.
4. What happened on 9-11-2001 and what impact did it have on the US? September 11, 2001 was when Al Qaeda attacked the United States. Two planes flew into the twin towers, another into the pentagon, and a final one crashed into a field due to bravery of the passengers. Americans lost over 3,000 lives that day. It brought our country together in such a patriotic way. We all mourned as one nation, and were on edge. Due to those attacks we now have increased security at airports, unjust bigotry (Islamophobia), and two new wars.
5. Why did the US go to war in Iraq and what impact did that war have on the US? Well the Iraq war is very controversial. There was a report of Weapons of Mass Destruction. We thought those could get into the hands of the wrong people and we invaded Iraq. After discovering no trace of WMD’s we didn’t leave. We stayed and trained Iraqi soldiers to defend themselves. It became a very heated topic among Americans. It impacted us by how we voted and soldiers sent there and money we spent.
6. Describe the problems the following African countries(and Middle East) have had or are currently having as discussed in class: Rwanda, Darfur in Sudan, South Sudan vs Sudan, Somalia, Lords Resistance Army(Joseph Kony) in Uganda/Central African Republic, Syria(Two of the following-20 points) I choose first Rwanda, because the movie really showed me a more in depth look vs. just our presentations in class. It’s how the Hutus and Tutsis have always had a strong hatred for one another. The Hutus were more darker African and did not resemble Europeans at all. The Tutsis did. The Europeans came and assisted the Tutsis because the similarity in looks. However, when the Europeans left the Hutus attacked and there was a mass genocide of the Tutsis people. Yet, the rebels (Tutsis) overthrew the Hutus in power and the Hutus were forced to leave.
Darfur in Sudan had the Janjaweed and the Sudanese government attacked the black African people and put them in refugee camp. When the people tried to escape they killed men and tortured and raped women and children.
Somalia is a land occupied by multiple ethnics when put together. They didn’t get along. They started fighting. Terrorists. They killed a lot of people. Some US citizens that we sent over to end the figthing.
Kony is a person who takes children and puts them in the Lord’s Resistance Army. Some guy tried to make a campaign to stop him. He considers himself a prophet of God.
Syria had a civil war between the people and the government. The government attacked the people that were speaking against.
Then I choose South Sudan vs Sudan. This about the conflict between these two countries. South Sudan separated from Sudan after two civil wars and approximately 2.5 million casualties. The north part of Sudan is populated with mostly Arabs and South Sudan is black christian Africans. Fighting over religion ensued. That was a major cause of the fighting. Then oil was a problem too. That is the only export from Sudan or South Sudan. South Sudan has more oil rich land than Sudan so they made an agreement to share. However, Sudan still steals the oil from the South and there is a constant struggle. No one has ever really helped either side. They just came in to end the mutiny with the two religious groups fighting.
7. What are some of the major problems the world is facing, what are the causes of these problems and what is being done to help solve these problems?(Two of the following-20 points)
•End poverty and hunger- The goal was to have poverty be cut in half. Poverty is living under two dollars a day. The goal was met. Under half the world’s population lives under that. Everyone has opportunity for jobs.
•Universal education- is making sure everyone can get an education.
•Gender equality- The goal of Gender Equality was to get equal learning opportunities for girls across the world. The fact that there was not education being offered to girls in some parts of the world was very upsetting. The UN made it a goal to change that by 2005. The goal is slowly progressing as girls are being given an education, however in some seclusive parts of the world women still come in second rate.
•Child health- to reduce child mortality. Hasn’t worked.
•Maternal health- dying giving child birth. Not enough doctors, not enough prenatal care. Birth control.
•Combat HIV/AIDS- They want to get medicine to stop and help people with HIV and Aids. Protected intercourse.
•Environmental sustainability- save the rainforests and animals that live there. give people safe drinking water.
•Global partnership- bigger richer countries are trying to help the poorer countries get resources and just help them out in general. Aid. Money got too tight because of economic fall.
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