Social Issues
Gun Control- Gun control is getting more and more strict because of school shootings, you can’t stop people from having guns because people will refer back to the constitution saying that we have rights. They are used for hunting and protection so that is a reason to have them inside your house. Since the government is banning large magazine weapons the shooters are just going to bring in extra mags. Most of the weapons used for murder is a handgun and the government isn’t banning those so murders keep happening all the time. Weapons should be banned because kids have died from school shootings, the Sandy Hook school shooting killed 20 children and 6 adults including himself which is just crazy.
Gay Marriage- Obama supported it in 2012 which gave him more votes during the election. It’s starting to become legal in more states as the years go. People are judged on this like crazy, such as freedom of speech.
Legalization of Marijuana- Only legal in Washington and Colorado at this time, it’s debatable if it should become legal in more states. It makes money for the country because of taxes but it can cause death in some ways. It’s becoming more popular because of medical use for marijuana.
Immigration- When people come over from different countries they need to take a test. Some people come over for religion, freedom, sports, education, etc. I think it’s becoming more popular because our country is a free country and not many countries have that so people want that. Dreamers are people that come here to get a job and become citizens of the U.S.
Abortion- There is two different kinds of choices that people believe when it comes to abortion and that is if you should have the choice to keep the baby or get rid of it and having to keep the baby otherwise it’s considered murder.
Direct Democracy- Everybody votes, majority of votes win and that decision is made.
Representative Democracy- Everybody votes for people to make laws for the country, majority vote.
Absolute Monarchy- King and queen have full power, similar to dictatorship.
Constitutional Monarchy- King and queen don’t have full power, have to follow the constitution on the rules.
Dictatorship- one person has control of everybody, whatever the person in charge says you must do.
Anarchy- absence of government, people do what they want.
Communism- Government has complete control, all money is distributed evenly.
9/11-
killed 3,000 people
brought our country together
made us go to war with Afghanistan
we are still in the war
Iraq war-
Iraq said they had nuclear weapons to scare off Iran
Confused America
People didn’t like it
Obama brought the troops back
Iraq situation-
back in 1957 when Iraq, Iran, and the U.S were allies there wasn’t any talk about nuclear weapons and people being worried about them being launched on anyone. Iran was part of the program until they were believed to be making nuclear weapons in 1979, once Iran was believed to be making weapons the U.S pulled out. The reason Iran was given such a hard time was because they were part of the program and they created nuclear power plants. They said that the weapons were only made for peaceful reasons. The biggest threat is that Iran starts making WMD’s and threatens the west. We have stopped them so far which is the first time in decades.
Millennium Goals-
Eradicate poverty/hunger- Halving the proportion of people with an income of <$1.25 per day by 2015
Achieving full productive work for all, women and young people included
Halving the proportion of people living in hunger by 2015
Universal Primary Education
All children go to elementary school before 2015
90% of children attend
Up from 82% in the 90s
Education helps stop poverty
61% of those not going to school are women
Gender Equality
Provide equal opportunities/empower women
Middle East, SE Asia, Southern Africa have the biggest problems
Brazil has an online program for women going through domestic abuse
Uruguay role in politics
Yemen women are getting education
Child Mortality
Death of children before age 1
Children born into poor families are 5x more likely
Highest rate in Sub-Saharan: 1 in 10
Children of mothers with education are more likely to survive
Improving Maternal Health
Health while pregnant/soon after birth
Reduce mortality by 3/4
Combat HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases
Reversed by 2015
On the decline
No cure as of right now
Find a treatment by 2010
Still none found in 2011
More people being treated
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Reverse loss of environmental resources
Forests are poor peoples' fallback
Basically stop deforestation
Africa/South America
Sanitation
Halved proportion of people without clean water 5 years ahead of schedule
Proportion of people using clean water went up 80% since the 90s
40% of the people without clean water are in Sub-Saharan Africa
Keeping people from slums
Dropped 6% in 12 years
UN hopes to accomplish by 2020
200 million of these people gained access to improved water sources, sanitation facilities or durable/less crowded housing
Global Partnerships
Protect the trade
Get countries what they need but still make money on what they export
Address the needs of developing countries
Seems pretty straight forward
Landlocked countries
Difficult to export goods
Debt of developing countries
Provide drugs and medicine
Access to benefits of technology
Internet access
Business opportunities
Education
Cellular reception
Democrats vs Republicans-
Helping people out vs rugged individualism
More government involvement vs Laissez faire (less government)
Help the poor directly vs trickledown theory(less taxes so rich can create businesses)
Income Inequality-
How unequally wealth is spread across a population
In America, the top 1% of people have 40% of the income wealth
Bottom 80% of people have 7% of income wealth
Can be improved by-
Breaking the social barriers
Giving money to the poor at random times
Raising the minimum wage
Trickle Down Theory
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