Posted by 4Savanna on December 19, 2011 at 11:14am
The main political and economic systems of the world:Direct and Representative Democracy - a governement where the people make the decisionsRepresentative - where people are elected to make decisionsCapitalism - allows people to trade and invest freely in an open market and people own the businessesTheory of Communism - people have no belongings that are their own, they belong to everyone.Practice of Communism - a very controlling governement where the citizens have no sayAbsolute Monarchy - a government with a ruler whose actions have no limitConstituational Monarchy - have powers somewhat limited to the constitutionDictatorship - a governement controlled by one person that takes over freedomsAnarchy - not having a governmentSocialism - where the governement owns the businessesThe differences between the major political parties in the United States:Republicans - favor tradition and the status quo. Laissez-faire system - believe government should stay out of business. Believe people should help themselves and not rely on the government. Favor lower taxes. Believe in the trickle - down theoryDemocrats - Favor change. Oppose government interventionin ones social life. Like watching economic activity and businesses. Willing to increase taxes. Believe in helping environment, african americans lifes, ect.Causes and Effects of Global Warming:Human - it is caused by pollution and CO2. Many scientists believe this because it seems to be that the more CO2 there is in the air, the higher the temp goes.Natural - it's natural for the world to heat up, it's just part of the earths history to naturally heat up and cool back down and repeat the process. They believe that it is not the humans that are causing this.Results of this is ice caps melt, oceans rise, floods, displacment of people, drought, lack of rain, warming of the oceans, more storms, ect.Causes and Effects of Over Population:In many third world countries reasons for over population is that there are not educated, they do not have or can not afford contriception, they are boy crazy, meaning that they want boys not girls so until they get boys they will continue to keep trying to have boys. Effects is poverty, resources being overused, children dying, ect.Iraq:We went over to Iraq because we thought that they had weapons of mass destruction. The war went until just December 15 of this year when we completely pulled out because Obama wanted to focus more on Afghanistan.Afghanistan:We went into afghanistan in 2001 because al queada was there and we thought that they were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and we were specifically going after Sadum Husein. This year Obama has really put his focus into this war.Iran:We went over to Iraq because we thought that they had weapons of mass destruction. Hoever, Obama wanted to put his focus more on Afghanistan. Their leader Ahmmenijad did not believe in the holocaust and wanted isreal to be wiped of the face of the earth and they are and have been a main concern to us.Darfur:They had a civil war against two different ethnic groups one of which was the janjaweed who the government supported, the other were the JEM and the SLM who were the rebels (the good guys). Just this year they signed a peace agreement to try to end the war after many peacekeepers had been sent there to try to help.Rwanda:They had a civil war between teo different groups called the Hutus and the Tootsies. They had a mass genoicde killing millions of people because the Hutu's did not like the tootsies so they were killing them with machetes and things. UN members were some of the only people to intervene and try to keep the peace. This ended a couple of years back.Somolia:In Somalia they have no government and terrorists are like controlling the country and taking over. Pirates are also takin gover the areas of the oceans around it and its really just a messed up situation.North Africa/ Middle East:Their leader Mommar Ghadafi was killed this year by US people and now the rebels are taking over which is good. Ghadafi was known to kill a lot of innocent people and was really a bad leader and person. Since he has been dead things have been a lot better.
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