1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
- Monarchy- where the kings and/or queens have some control.
- Absolute Monarchy- is where king and/or queens have absolute control.
- Anarchy- no government which creates complete chaos.
- Constitutional Monarchy- they have a king and/or queen whos power is limited by a constitution.
- Capitalism- is where the people have own and run businesses.
- Constitutional Monarchy- they have a king and/or queen whos power is limited by a constitution.
- Direct Democracy- form of government that people have complete power in the government.
- Representative Democracy- people elect representatives to make laws for them.
- Communism Theory- Karl Marxx is theory is that the poor people will rise up and take over the rich people to eventually a class of society where everyone is equal.
- Communism Practice- has complete power over the people. They run and control everything!
- Dictatorship- where one ruler has complete or total power.
- Socialism- where the government controls some of the businesses.
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
Democrats and Republicans
- Democrats are more liberal. They are more constitutionally based.
- Republicans are more conservative. They are more bible based.
* Some topics consist of.
Democrats believe that abortion is up to the mother. -pro choice
Republicans are against it for it's murder.
Republicans are for praying in school as democrats believe that it state and religion should be seperate.
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
Global warming is theory that the earth is trapping the greenhouse gases that we put off and causing the climate to gradually warm. Global warming is known as a hoax. Senator James Inhofe states the global warming is just a weather cycle considering that there are cooling and warming cycles. Worsening droughts, stronger hurricanes and water shortage are some effects.
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
Over population is where we have way to many people for the carrying capacity. It is causing space issues and hunger problems. It may cause an extintion to the whole human race.
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization.
Globalization is where the world is flattening as we are able to communicate in many different ways via new technology. Globalization 1.0 is it shrunk the world large to medium and countries globalized. Globalization 2.0 is where it shrunk the world from medium to small and people globalized by businesses. Globalization 3.0 is where it shrunk the world from small to tiny because people started globalizing.
6. Students will be able to locate major countries of the world.
Countries- Knowing the Latin America map.
7. Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent
current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, North/South Korea).
Iraq- We invaded Iraq because of the idea that they had weapons of mass destruction. We didn't find any and Obama recently pulled out most of the "combat" troops and is focusing more on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan- We were attacked by the Al-Queda terrorists whos location is in Afghanistan causing war from 9/11. Obama is manly focusing on them.
Iran- Iran has the ability to make nuclear weapons and are a threat to the U.S.
Darfur-
Conflict: It all started with JEM (Justice & Equality Movement) started saying that the Sudanese Government didn't like the non-Arabs. For the reasons of their color, black arabs being discriminated. The government sent out rebels called the Janjaweed. These men killed anyone they didn't like which led to chaos. They raped women, killed children and families, and also went through villages in rage, burning everything in sight, forcing the people to flee all for the reasons of wanting land.
Rwanda- is the mass killing of 800,000 tutsies by the hutus. Tutsies were favored for having more of a european look and were accused of killing the hutus government leader. Hutus lashed out, but the tutsies ended up winning.
Somalia- Somalia has been a failed state for 18 years. Terrorists are all over and it is complete chaos.
North and South Korea- North Korea bombed South Korea. They never actually ended the war in the first place.
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