1. Describe the main political and economic systems in the world.
A dictatorship is basically a country that is usually thought to be ruled by one person, but it can actually be a royal family, an army, a certain political party, or even a religious organization. Everyone is pretty familiar with Adolf Hitler, who was the dictator of Germany during WWII. Another country that has a dictatorship is North Korea.
Democracy can be broken down into two sections- direct democracy and indirect democracy. Direct Democracy is where the citizens vote directly for things that go on in their country. Indirect democracy is where the people vote for other people to go vote on decisions. A really good example of an indirect democracy would be America. The reason we don't have a direct democracy is because we have a rather large population, and we cannot go and all vote at once on every problem.
There are also two types of Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy and Absolute Monarchy. A constitutional monarchy is pretty self explanatory, as it is a monarchy that follows a constitution. An absolute monarchy is where the King or Queen or royal family has all the power over their people. England, for example has a constitutional monarchy.
Anarchy is the complete lack of government. Somalia has been in a form of anarchy since january 1991.
The main economic (and political) systems are capitalism, socialism, and communism.
Capitalism is actually both an economic system and a political system, and basically the country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners, and the owners collect the profit.
Socialism is where the ownership of companies is shared- thus social-ism.
Communism was created by a man named Karl Marx, who created it to break down the barriers between the upper class and middle class.
2. What are the major divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the US?
The major divisions are found in their philosophy, economic ideas, stances on abortion, gay marriage, and death penalty.
The democratic philosophy is liberal, whereas the republicans are conservative and have things like the trickle-down theory, and rugged individualism.
The democrats favor minimum wages and higher tax rates for higher income brackets, republicans taxes shouldn't be raised.
Democrats usually support gay marriage, republicans usually oppose. I say usually because some democrats oppose it and some republicans support.
Democrats are pro choice and support Roe V. Wade, republicans are pro life.
Democrats are in support of the death penalty, republicans oppose.
3. What were the results of the 2012 Presidential election? What caused President Obama to win?
President Obama won the election. He won because he had the minorities such as women, hispanics, and african americans voting for him. Women voted for him because he is pro-choice, which allow them to have abortions, as well as using contraceptives.
4. What are the major social issues facing the world due to overpopulation, poverty and inequality?
We end up killing animals for food and money and fancy things that we can all live without. There is also global warming which is caused by our technology like cars and planes, as well as factories that we use to create technology, that then pollutes our air further. Water is polluted by sewage, and even the land gets polluted by pesticides and herbicides that we use on food.
With poverty, an incredibly huge number of people live on less than a $1.25 a day, and some of them don't have proper shelter, or clean water to drink which leads to many diseases and there is the fact that they don't have enough money to buy food, so they starve and are terribly malnourished. They don't have enough money to buy medicine for when they are sick, so many die. Women die from giving birth, then their children die from starvation or other diseases.
With inequality some women and girls, and in some places men, cannot get proper education.
5. What major issues have specific areas in Africa had in the last thirty years(that we discussed in class)?
One thing going on in africa is the whole civil war in Uganda, which has been going on for about 20 years between the Ugandan Military and the Lords Resistance Army. The LRA want to control Uganda so that they can establish the 10 commandments as the laws. The LRA and another rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces he bother been kidnapping children to use as child soldiers and sex slaves. Almost 1.8 million people live in internally displaced persons camps because they have been forced from their homes.
The second thing is the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been independent from Belgium since 1960. They had a president named Mobutu Seko, who America liked because he was anti-communist. However he had human rights violations and a cult of personality. They had two wars, the 1st Congo War and the 2nd Congo War. The 2nd Congo war was the deadliest war in african history, with 5.4 million people dead and millions displaced. However in 2003 a transitional government was created and run by president Joseph Kabila.
THird thing, Libya.
From 1912 to 1943 they were controlled by Italy, and they were controlled by Great Britain from 1943 to when they got independence in 1951. In 1959 they found oil, and ten years later Gaddafi seized power from their kind. Gaddafi then supported the terrorists until 9/11 happened and changed his views, and he started giving us information.
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