1. Describe the major social issues in the United States that we discussed in class.
Gun control, abortion, gay marriage,drugs, immigration...
Gun control:efforts to regulate or control sales of guns.The citizens have more guns than police. And gun sales have exploded, but homicides with firearms are down and “other crimes with firearms” are down.And own a gun is a citizen's rights(2nd amendment), only the large capacity guns should be banned. And we can take actions, make laws to make sure people are safe. But there are still school shooting or whatever.Lots of people died.
Same-sex marriage is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex and/or gender identity. Legal recognition of same-sex marriage or the possibility to perform a same-sex marriage is sometimes referred to as marriage equality or equal marriage, particularly by supporters .
Legalize state: IA,MI,CA...
Pro-All are equal before the law.Anti:opposite side
Abortion:One kind of people think even the baby in mum's belly is a life, we should save their lives. The other kind of people think we should let the mum make the choice, and the women might are rape victim, the kids might have disease.
Drugs(marijuana):Some people think we take marijuana just for relaxation, for fun. The others think that will make people lose control, be forgetful, can't concentrate.
Legalization:CA,CO,MI
Immigration: They might get jobs from Americans. Or the dream act or quota act, housing availability...
2. What are the main economic and political systems that are practiced in the world and how do they differ?
Economy:
CAPITALISM:Individual doing trade/business, they get benefit
SOCIALISM( and maybe COMMUNISM):government control major(all)the business chain, people are equal(benefit)
(TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM- What is produced and what each person does is
determined by birth. A person might be expected to do what his father did. The share of wealth
is determined by custom or one's position in society.
COMMAND ECONOMIC SYSTEM- the individual has very little say as to how the basic
economic questions are answered.
MARKET ECONOMIC SYSTEM- What is produced and what each person does is based on
the activity within the market. Buyers and sellers decide for themselves what goods and services will
be produced. Individuals decide for themselves the amswers to the basic economic questions. The United
States is classified as a market economy.
Mixed Economic system:some are owned by private/company , some are state owned)
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/13b.asp
Government:
Democracy: a system of government where the people are involved
Direct: people control country,ancient Athen.
Representative: people elect representatives,like USA
Monarchy: a monarch leads
Constitutional: King/Queen is just a symbol of the country, the government handle the daily issues
Absolute: King or Queen has full power, ultimate control
Communism: everyone is equal in benefits
Practice: China (maybe)
Theory: Carl Marx theory.
Dictatorship: One person controls the government
Anarchy: No government
3. What are the major differences between democrats and republicans in the United States?
One is more liberal, sepsrate religion and politics,big government, better social benefit(of course, the democrates want to develop economy too, but also higher taxes).
Republicans are more traditional, they usually are christian, small government, develop economy- laissez fare(capitalism), trickle down theory, rugged individulism.
4. What is income inequality, why is it an issue and what can be done to help improve it?
The gap between the rich and the poor( the top 1% people have more money than the 80% on the bottom). It might make people unsatisfied, and being threat to the society. We should make everyone receive better education so that they have chance to change their life. And maybe make better social benefits like financial support(basic living). Raise the lowest wage.
5. Discuss 9-11 and the impact it had on the US:
(9-11,2001)Al QAEDA made 4 planes crashed in America(east coast), and it destroyed the twin towers and pentagon building, lots of people died, big economy loss (even stock market), and it leads to the war in Afghanistan(then lots of people died too), and the homeland security was set.
6. Discuss the Iraq War and the impact it had on the US:
Fight against terrorists and help them build a democratic government( and it says they have weapons of mass destruction, but that's not true. And america had war in persian bay before, and maybe because their leader make an agreement with european countries that they could use euro to buy fossil oil).
It makes thousands of soldiers lost their lives, many families broken, and the government has a big debt after that(and it makes some people doesn't like President Bush). And then America help Iraq recover from the war.
7.Situation in Iran:
Iran is developing nuclear technique, and they might make nuclear weapon though they signed some kind of agreement( nuclear nonproliferation treaty), so it's a big threat to other countries, so they ask them to stop (and it makes Israel unhappy).
And Iran's religion belief is different(branch) with many Arabic countries.
And they have hostage crisis and other problems on the history, make western countries unhappy, they made economic sanctions .
8. 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?
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