Justin Esser
1. Social Issues
Abortion- Their is Pro life who think it is wrong. They believe it is killing an innocent person and it causes danger to the woman. It also has emotional scars on people which is also not a good thing. You could always put the baby up for adoption which is great if you can not afford the baby.
Then their is Pro-choice which people believe in abortion. If the mother has a mental and physical disability or a there will be a severe problem with the child. Even like if the woman may bass like and STD to a child it is their body and deserve to do what they want.
Gay Marriage- Democrats are more into believing in it than republics. They feel that there should be a separation between religion and law. Just because it is frowned upon in the bible does not make it a law. Then also that people should be able to have freedom. It is not like they chose this if you like the same sex why are you any less than someone who likes the opposite.
The republicans are more against it. They believe it is not a real marriage if they are the same sex. It would dinie the child from a father or a mother. Also almost all major religious groups are against this. There are more states legalizing gay marriage and Iowa is one of them they were third. There is now 13 states that have legalized it. This is becoming more common for states.
Gun Control- The problem is that certain parts of the government want to control some of the laws so that the laws are stronger. Also there have been lots of school shootings with assault rifles. It is coming more common that we are putting more laws on this.
The weird thing is is that it is harder to get a pistol rather than a long gun. The democrats again are for making the gun laws more strict. Which I do agree with but they are trying to stop the wrong weapon there are more killings with pistols than rifles. Then they say rifles they want to ban because of their high capacity magazines which will not make a difference. It takes someone who has very little experience 3 seconds to reload a gun. and if you think about it that is very little time for them to start shooting again.
The republican want to keep it the same which it won't make a difference what they do some how someway somebody is going to get a gun and do whatever they want with it.
Legalizing Marijuana- This has been coming more common every year. Republicans are usually are against it democrats are for it. The problems with this is the people who will do overdoses and using it inappropriately. Which they could not be thinking straight and hurt or kill somebody.
The good thing about it is for medical reasons. A doctor can give it to his patient and if taken correctly it is in good use. That is if the patient is then there is no reason to give it to them.
Illegal Immigration- The illegal immigrants keep coming here and we need to do something about it. The bad is that they have drugs and other things like that. Also they are getting payed american money when they aren't even an american citizen.
The good thing about it is I have a dream act. So if they create some great new thing we want them to stay here so we can make more money which is great. Democrats want them to stay more and republicans want them to go back.
2. Main economic and political systems in the U.S.
Monarch- A monarch is having full power over a country with no guidelines. So the king or queen pretty much has full power over everybody in that country.
Constitutional Monarchy- Where the king or queen has to follow the constitution and pretty much has no power like the rest of the people.
These are political systems.
Direct Democracy- People have all of the power. They get to choose what they want to do and how they will do it.
Representative Democracy- Where the people pick who they want to represent them and make their decisions.
These are also political systems
Theory Communism- Was something thought up by by the name of Karl Marx. Communist states are often dominated by a single party, or a group of people. A planned economy is often part of the governing class, and in many cases resources are taken and then redistributed to others, at the top of the system. Everybody almost has the same power. This is a Political system.
Practice of Communism- Government has complete control of everything. This is a political system
Dictatorship- I person rules the country and has a say in anything and everything. This is a political system.
Socialism- Is an economic system that a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Capitalism- an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
3. Democrats vs. Republicans
1. The trickle down theory is a thing that the republicans believe in which is that the rich will make new businesses and opens more jobs for people. Which will bring people out of poverty.
Then there's the Democrats who want to give their money directly to the poor. To better their lives right away.
2. Republicans believe in rugged individualism which is pretty much letting everybody kind of fend for themselves.
Then there's the Democrats who are more will to help people and loan out money.
3. The Republicans also believe in Laissez-faire which is keeping the government out of businesses.
The democrats want the government to control more things like businesses.
4. What is income inequality
It is the device of people who live in poverty and the amount of people who has all of the money. The ways they are trying to stop it is. Raising the minimum wage so people who do work will get more money for what they are doing and have more money to pay for things.
Then breaking social barriers so the rich and the poor will communicate and go to the some schools. Also their is also the trickle down theory which I already explained about.
5.Discuss 9-11 and the impact it had on the US
9-11 was a terrorist attack from al-qaeda. There was 4 plains 2 hit the twin towers, one hit the pentagon, and the other crashed in a field in pennsylvania because the passengers took over the plain and saved people.
The impact was very bad, but kind of brought people in this country closer together. It kind of shifted our eyes to the war we were starting in Afghanistan from the one in Iraq.
6. Discuss the Iraq War and the impact it had on the US.
We went in because we thought that they had WMD and that they were using them on their people. Then it was said that they had none and did not do that to their people so then the Iraqi government, under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, openly defied the United Nations repeatedly and threatened the security of the United States through Saddam's clear intentions of dominating the Middle East region and thereby providing favorable conditions for such terror groups as Al Qaeda. Not a very good effect just a lot of people dying and some people think we should have no troops their.
7.The situation in Iran
They have agreed to stop their nuclear weapons by so much margin if we agree to take of some of the tariffs for trading and such. So they and their people will get what they want and we do not have to worry about them as much. They were not aloud to have these because they were not one of the major powers of the world.
8. What are some of the major problems in the world
Global Partnerships- Aimed toward sub-saccharin Africa. It is to help other countries to get better technology so they can trade with other countries. G20 was trying to argue that all of the tariffs put on trade. AD want developing countries to get them help with vaccinations. Like trying to make it affordable to them. Then they want to make new technology for schools and access to the internet. Also to get them cell phones.
Promote Gender antiquity- Men and woman sure have the same treatment unless of a different reason. They wanted to end this by 2015 everywhere. Only 230 countries have done this for all schooling. 40 out of every 100 jobs were held by woman. Many countries women are a second class system. Poverty is a major problem for women in these countries. They usually just give the man the job. 80% of men hold the government positions.
Mortality Rate- In Africa one in every 10 children die before 5. Since 1990 the death toll has went down 50 percent. There is an organization in Uruguay and people sign up to get help. The girls that are pregnant they keep them on a healthy schedule so the baby has the best chances. !7,000 less children are dying each day. 6.6million died last year from not getting easy treated meant vaccines. Children with educated mother are more likely to survive.
Maternal health- They want to improve the health of women who are pregnant or just has a baby. Undeveloped countries are 15 times higher on the mortality rate. Family planning has been being used more to have the baby. Improving maternal health increases every year.
Combat HIV Aids- Halt and trying to stop the spread of HIV aids- which is an STI. Then since you have that your body is working to fight that of instead of like the flu or something. There's more people than ever living with HIV. There is 2.5 newly infections each year. To receive universal treatment for everyone with AIDS. There are 7 million people who need it but cant get it. Halt the spread of malaria. Decreased by 17 percent since 2000. Same thing with also other major diseases.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger- To decrease the poverty in the world by half their are 384 million people who live on less then a dollar a day the numbers are decreasing very well and have already met their goal. Poverty is really the mother of all problems. Then to achieve full productive employment. Then decrease the people who suffer from hunger. 1 out of every 8 people worldwide are starving.
Universal Primary Education- The official goal is to have every kid finish primary schooling 2015. There are 57 million children who have no education then dropped. Woman who are getting education is getting better. Educating children help reduce poverty. Brazil is the worst place with people not attending school. And this does not include secondary.
ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
This is pretty much helping out people, environment, animals. So there's the people who don’t have water and the people who do. It was very bad in 1990 of the people who did not have access to good clean water, but at 2010 more than two billion people gained access to good clean water. Which is a huge rise with the technology of getting people to get the water compared to now. So the percent of people who has this water was at 76% and rose all the way up to 89%also over 40% of the people who don’t have it are in sub-Saharan Africa. Since that is such you huge amount we should mainly focus on getting them water then the rest of the 60%.
They also talked about slum dwellers which are people who live in a very populated urban place with now very good housing. We are supposed to improve 100 million slum dwellers lives by 2025. Which is a very high number I thought but I guess not with the technology we have now. The percent of people living like this has went down from 2002 to 2012 to 39% to 33%.
We are also losing more trees than we are gaining which is not a good thing. Since that provides us with the air we breath. South America and Africa have been have huge losses of trees over the last ten years.
Around 58% more of the animals in the world are being better protected now since 1990. Their is around 12% of all land safe for animals to live and only 1% for water animals.
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