1. What were President Obama's accomplishments/issues as President?(10 points)
Obama care
Obama care is designed to make health insurance for all us citizens and to reduce the growth in health care spending. That would help a lot of people who could never really afford it. It would all so the women because women expenses are greater at the hospital than the men
2. Describe the main political and economic systems in the world.(10 points)
Capitalism
Capitalism is the economic system that we have. It is were people own their own companies and make investment and is more likely to be pared with political systems like democracy and republic.
Socialism
This is generally know as something that a communist country would do because they hand every thing out evenly and everything is own by the capital. Most communist countries like this one because if no one owns a company that person doesn’t think that they can over come the country and take down the system
Direct Democracy
Classically termed as pure democracy is where the people vote on policy initiatives of the government. We have a mixture of this one and representative democracy. If we don’t like something then we vote on it.
Representative Democracy
People vote for representatives who then decide one the policy initiatives and goals of the government. This is one of the very many reasons why we have this government combined with the direct democracy.
Republic
A state in which the people elect representatives and which has an elected or nominated president. We have this government, too.
Absolute Monarchy
Absolute monarchy is where there is a king or a queen in charge and what every they say goes. Like if a prince cam into power and wanted every one to bring them their finest goods then they have to obey otherwise the prince could kill them or could do other things to them
Constitutional Monarchy
This is where the king or queen is kind of a role model and has to abide by the rules in the constitution that is set for them and there is usually a chancellor to guide the king or queen in certain problems
Communism
This is a theory that was devise by Karl Marx. It is a system of social organizations where everybody owns the same amount of land and the government is the people united
Dictatorship
Dictatorship has this person called a dictator who gets his power from the military. He takes over and then every body in that country has to obey him or he will do something to that person.
Anarchy
There is no government to govern the people and every one is equal
3. What are the major divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the US?(10 points)
Democrats
Democrats believe in a larger government and implement tax plans to try to help the less privileged. They tend to believe the government must look for the greater good above the individual person in terms of welfare and do what is necessary for the government and the nation as one.
Republicans
Republicans are more conservative and believe that the answers do not lay with the government generally, but rather with the people like voting for a new president. They want less government interference and tend to believe more strongly in property rights and they don’t like gays and abortions. Most christen people are republicans.
4. What happened on 9-11-2001 and what impact did it have on the US?(10 points)
terrorist took over some planes that were near the world trade center and flew them into it and blew it up. The terrorists were Alkida and they where ran by asama binladin and they were using the government of afganistan for their base
5. Why did the US go to war in Iraq and what impact did that war have on the US?(10 points)
Iraq War
Some people know this war as the second gulf war a war that saw Saddam Hussein finally toppled from power. This war started in Thursday, March 20, 2003 and we went in because we believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they kept messing with our inspectors that were suppose to keep them in check and that is why we attacked
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)
Rwanda
This was a genocide and this was between the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Tutsis were favorite by the Europeans and gave more opportunities and more education. This cause racial tensions between the Hutus and the Tutsis. In 1994 there was the 100 day killing starting with the president. That is how the Hutus got away with killing all the Tutsis
LRA
The LRA or the Lord’s Resistance army is ran by this crazy dud named Joseph Kony. This guy has an arm and some of these people in his army came willingly but most are kid solders that he has up ducted and he says this is gods plan when I know that it is not. From 1994 to 2002 Sudan was an ally but they aren’t any more
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)
Obamacare
Know I have a lot of good things about Obamacare but there is more to it than meets the eye. Did you know that the people that couldn’t afford health care. When they are going to make the health care go up for every one else because how are the health care companies going to make their money. They are going to charge every one else to make up for the gap. Also because of this hospitals are going to have to cut back and lay off some people. Even thought you like Obama think of those people.
•End poverty and hunger. this goal was ment in 2010 but there is still people who will still be living under 1.25 a day. The second goal is children and women have the chance for a jobs. there are children who eat less than three meals a day
•Universal education the target for this one is give every child the oppotunity to go to school and make it even like about same number of girl in school as boys. this is also going to help the first one
•Gender equality did you know that there are some countries girls are propoty. they get raped and then died giving birth. the way to stop this is teach them that they are equal. universal education should help this goal because the learn in school then they get a job then they go into political job and then they pass laws that benifit women
•Child health to reduce child mortality by the end of 2015. most of the problems are diseases because the babies don't get the shots that they need. some of them are going to die of natural causes but most of them are from life threating diseases. there has been a decrease in this number by 5 million. The universal education should help this one as well
•Maternal health this is when the mother dies after the baby is born and they have cut this in half since the 1990s and proverty causes all of these problems. undeveloped countries have more deaths then developed countries. They are trying to set laws
•Combat HIV/AIDS to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS and major diseases like malaria
•Environmental sustainability this is basicly compating deforestation and this is in south america. they are plant trees to stop the ozone depleating gases. if we were to cut down all of the rainforsets then the climate will drematicly change and then we might lose medicine. we are also trying to get people safe drinking water. They are also trying to stop the deforestation so rare animals don't die. they are also trying to reduce the number of slum dwellers that live in the africa. a slum dweller is a person that is poor living in unsanitary areas.
•Global partnership other countries are trying to help the undeveloped countries and most of the targets were on the thought of the countries help others to get resouces. In a nut shell countries help others
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