- What were President Obama's accomplishments/issues as President?(10 points)
- Barack Obama got rid of the don’t ask don’t tell program in the military which prevented people from being openly homosexual in the military. He also made what is commonly referred to as Obama Care. Which made it so everyone gets health care and will not be denied. He pulled us out of Iraq and
- Describe the main political and economic systems in the world.(10 points)
- Absolute Monarchy: There is a king and queen and they get to do as they please and make rules and are supreme ruler.
- Constitutional Monarchy- There is a king and a queen but there mainly there for looks they have strict guidelines they have to follow but the prime minister acutely runs the country.
- Representative democracy. The people elect leaders of their choice to make the laws for them and get their voices heard threw them.
- Direct Democracy-Every person gets a saw and represents themselves there is no country with an absolute direct democracy government.
- Practice Communism-The lower overthrow the upper class people but they don’t get to do what they want usually because someone takes charge there are 5 countries with this in the world today.
- Theory communism-. Where the people can come together and do what they want without people telling them what to do. Lower take out upper for equality. This isn’t used because someone always stands up and takes charge. Karl Marks said that 1 percent of people have 99 percent of money and these people live like kings. And that poor people should rise up and over throw these people.
- Anarchy-There is a lack of government usually ends in complete chaos
- Capitalism-the people own the businesses and they get to run them how they want to.
- Socialism-The government owns the businesses and everything and they have control and distributes the profits.
- What are the major divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the US?(10 points)
- Democrats are in support of a larger government and want progression. Republicans want to keep older ways. More conservative and less concerned about the land.
- What are the options to curb gun violence in the United States?(10 points)
- Some ways to change it is a better back ground check and requiring them at gun shows and not allowing over the internet buying of them.
- What happened on 9-11-2001?(10 points)
- There was a terrorist attack from al Quida on the United States. They hit the twin towers and the pentagon as well as one that crashed landed in Pennsylvania with the people that were heroes that saved many more lives by sacrificing themselves.
- What impact did 9-11 have on the US?(10 points)
- It made the United states people realize we are not untouchable and that we can be attacked. It taught us that there are more people out there wanting to hurt us then we realize and if we are not careful then we could be wounded badly.
- Why did the US go to war in Iraq and what impact did that war have on the US?(10 points)
- Iraq: Started with Persian Golf War- Operations Desert Shield 8-90 and Desert Storm 1-91. Iraq invaded Kuwait because of oil money theft and disputes. We sent troops to Saudi Arabia to defend them because that’s where we get all our oil, so to protect them but also send a message to Husain to back out of Kuwait. Then we had operation Desert Storm which is where we went and freed Kuwait of Iraq. The whole point of the mission was to free them and it was accomplished in under a month with a small amount of deaths. We then later went to complete war with them because there leader was using illegal warfare and we also believed they may have weapon of mass destruction. Which in the end they didn’t.
- 8. 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-10 points)
- Darfur-- The Janjaweed and Sudanese government attacked the black African people and put them in a refugee camp and when they tried to get away the killed men tortured kids and raped women. They wanted the land because it was good pasture land.
- Syria- There was a civil war between the people and the government and the people of Syria because the people were being treated unfairly and didn’t like it. The government attacked the people that were speaking out against them. The wanted there good pasture land.
- Rwanda-The Hutus and the Tutsis are two different types of African people and they didn’t get along very well due to the European countries that were there and favored the Tutsis. The Hutus had the government and killed there president and blamed it on the Tutsis and so they started a war which the Tutsis won and took over the country.
- Kony- Joseph Kony lives by Uganda and he captures and tortures people and claims he is building a religious army called the Lords Resistance Army. He considers himself a prophet of God.
- South Sudan vs Sudan- The people of South Sudan wanted to keep there oil land and they couldn’t get along with the north so they fought over the land in two different civil wars and after the second on the south because a new country.
- Somalia- There were many different ethnic groups put into a small country but they couldn’t get along and they started fighting like terrorist and then they killed a lot of people including US people that we send over In what is known as Black Hawk.
9. 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-10 points)
•End poverty and hunger- the world wants to end hunger and poverty and we got over half of the people that were under 1.25 a day (the line for absolute poverty) to over that. Then they wanted to get jobs for women and children and get 3 meals a day to everyone around the world.
•Universal education-Get everyone an primary education so they can get a job which will also help end world hunger and poverty.
•Gender equality-Men and women should be treated equally. They should have same rights and get paid equal and should be able to go to same schools just as long. Women are there in some countries to have kids and make food and clean.
•Child health- Make the number of children that die before 5 less. Most die because of lack of food easy, sickness due to no shots, and not enough money to pay for them.
•Maternal health-Mothers dying around child birth and kids living. This happens because there are not enough doctors to check up on them to make sure they will be okay. They want more doctors to help take care of this too. This has been reduced 47 percent since 1990.
•Combat HIV/AIDS-They want to get medicine to help with this and to stop spread of malaria and keep people safe and then completely ride of all stds. They want to get lifesaving meds to everyone pronto.
•Environmental sustainability-We want to keep people from destroying the rain forest even thou it’s easy for the poor to make a living by destroying them. We need the rain forest because there are cures for things that might be found there and its home for many animals. We also want to give people good drinking water so everyone can have water to drink and live. Most people without good water live in water. We also want to reduce the number of poor people in a populated and run down place know as slums.
•Global partnership-The strong more developed countries are trying to get the not as developed countries get resources they need to become developed. Strong countries trade schooling technology and medicines to get every country to have these. There was a big amount of money promised that didn’t get there because the economy crashed and they lost the money.
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