1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
capitalism- people own the businesses
socialism- goverment owns the businesses
dictatorship- goverment run by one person.
anarchy- there is no goverment!
direct democracy-a government which people make decisions for themselves
constitutional monarchy- where the king and queen are in control but they have to follow the constution.
absolute monarchy- ruler has no limits
representative democracy- when you elect people to represent you.
Theories of communism- people have no property or goods that are their own. Belongs to everyone (Karl thinks this was suppose to happen)
Practice of communism-(what is happening in the world today)-a government that is very controlling and the citizens have no say in anything
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
represtenatives-
trickle down theory- tax cuts on big business and and the rich. if you help them you help the rest because they will be able to open business and help everyone else.
-conserverative. lazie fair- geverment stays out of businesses.
-rugged invidualism. people must defend for themself.
more religious and more traditional.
democrats-
enviroment friendly. more about helping the lower class and middle class people. they also believe that people should have rights and be able to choose things even tho it may not be the right thing.
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
natural cause- you cant help the temp of the earth. it shows that it changes.
humans-CO2. carbon dioxide more in the air makes the temp higher. major changes in the poles. when the ice melts make the oceans rise, running out of land. drought, lack of rain. can lead to flooding. the ocean is getting warmer it can lead to severe storms.
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
woman are not educated. not all of the children might survive so they are having more just in case some die. with todays technology and knowledge we have better medicine and better health services and new treatments cure and surgeries. we also know how to take care of our bodies better and to have better hygine.
7. Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, Revolutions in North Africa/Middle East).
afghanistan- us went in at 2001 after 911 we believed that osama bin ladin we getting permission to train terriorists and we have been there ever since.
iraq- we are now out of iraq completely! we have been there since 2003 and we believe that sodam hosan had weopons.
iran- we believe they are developing nucleur weapons. president omadidy jod made statements about how the holocaust didnt happen and how he wants to take isreal off the face of the earth.
darfur- first there was a country called sudan then when north and south sudan split there begen to have violence between the two countries. north and south sudan are very different with ethnic groups and religion and that caused many problems. also they only have one natural resource which is oil. A group of people felt that they were not being equal so they complained to the goverment and the goverment in north sudan wants south sudans oil and land. the goverment sent the ganguieed to ran sack the towns and hurt the villiagers of south sudan. now the south sudan people have fled to chad and the ganguieed is paid by stealing and raping women.
rwanda- in the early years of rwanda the belgium people came and seperated the people in two different ethnic groups, hutu and tootsies. the tootsies were considered better because they looked more europian. after the belgium left the hutus were mad and took over because there were more hutu than tootsies. then in 1994 the hutu president was murdered and the hutus blamed it on the tootsie and started killing them. many tootsies and hutu moderates were killed. the genocide ended when the tootsie rebels took over.
somalia- there was a big drought and that caused a famine and many people have died of malnutristion. the un and other aid services n have been trying t help but they are slowly running out of resources. the people from somalia are fleeing to yemen. also they are under anarchy. they have know goverment so the terriorist have taken over.
revolutions- ever since the egyptians protested and president mobarck stepped down peacefully other countries have followed this example and protested and not all of the rulers have stepped down peacefully. in libia gadafi did not want to step down and stayed in hiding for a long time he has also been accused of helping terriorst invade the us until just this year he was killed by rebels.
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