President Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. Accomplishments during his terms include stopping enhanced interrogation techniques, ended war in Iraq, ended ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’ and he killed Osama bin Laden. On his second day in office, Obama forbid waterboarding. In October of 2011, Mr. Obama said he wanted all troops home for the holidays. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is when the army won’t ask if you are gay, and you don’t tell them; he repealed it. On May 2, 2011 Osama bin Laden was killed by seal team six. Barack Obama had quite a few issues during his first term. The state of the economy was one of the biggest problems Obama had. The US fell $17 trillion in debt. President Obama was going to take down Youtube and other pirated sited in SOPA. Google rebelled and he didn’t go through with it.
There are 8 political parties. In an absolute monarchy kings or queens don’t follow a set of rules. In a constitutional monarchy kings and queens must follow rules from a constitution and the king or queen is just a figure and the actual leader is the prime minister. The US is a representative democracy because we elect representatives to make laws. The United States is also a direct democracy because the government is in the hands of its people. Communism is controlled by a small group of people who want complete control over country’s citizens and there are only 5 countries to ever have this. Karla Marx came up with the communist theory which is where the lower class overthrows the government or the rich people so everyone is equal. Kim Jong-un is the dictator of North Korea; this means he has complete control over everyone and everything in his country. There has never been a country to ever have anarchy, but the closest place to ever having no government is Somalia. There are 2 economic systems. When everyone has individual rights there is capitalism, but when the government distributes everything, there is socialism.
Demarcates believe in a bigger government with more control and republicans are more in favor of a small government. Republicans aren’t concerned about the environment as much as democrats. They are more conservative while democrats stand for change. Young people want democrats and traditionally older people are more republican.
On September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took four planes and crashed them into major US landmarks. Among these places, two crashed into the twin towers sending them down. It was around 8:30 in the morning when the first plane hit the north tower. A few minutes later, a second plane hit the south tower. Another place that got hit was the Pentagon. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. I went to DC in eighth grade, and we went to the Pentagon. There are benches that look like air plane wings on the side that got hit. I thought it was super sad when we went there. They didn’t let us take pictures because they are scared that someone will try to scope the place out. The man who led this is Osama bin Laden who was killed on May 2, 2011. He was the leader of al-Qaeda, the largest world terrorist group. The United States helped out Afghanistan rebels to stop their communism, so that is why they hate us. We declared war on Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
The United States went to war with Iraq because we suspected they had weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was supporting al-Qaeda. Saddam Hussein kept kicking weapon inspectors out and letting them back in, so President Bush said that if they didn’t let them in, they would have to have consequences. We went to war with them in 2003 and stayed there for eight years. Saddam Hussein was later found in a hole a put on trial. He was sentenced the death penalty. President Bush said that if he would have known earlier, he would have taken him out then. Nobody though it was a good idea to go to war in the first place, so nobody supported Bush, even Obama voted against it. Everyone wanted Bush to put a time limit on the war, but Bush never said anything, instead he actually had a surge which was really successful. Obama pulled out troops in late 2011.
Over the years, Africa has had its difficulties. Rwanda is a place in Africa where the Hutsus and Tutsis have been fighting for a long time. The Hutsus blamed the Tutsis for killing the Rwandan president, when actually they did it. They did that, so they had a reason to kill the Tutsis. The Tutsis had better jobs, and they were treated better because they looked more European. In the end, the Tutsis won. The Sudanese government attacked the Arab people because they were speaking out about treating them badly and wanted their farm land. In Sudan, the Sudanese Government along with the Janjaweed committed genocide against the black Africans. They raped the women and children. The UN put tough sanctions on them. In the issue between South Sudan vs. Sudan, there was an oil dispute. The Sudanese government and the Sudan’s people liberation army were the two in the argument. In this region religion and state are not separated, so religion just added flame to the fire. The south region has more oil, so they are sharing, but only a very minimum with Sudan. In Somalia northern Somalia and the government were against the south rebels like Al Shabaab. The northern government took over and is fighting the terrorist from south because they couldn’t agree. They fought over land and food as well as weapons. Black Hawk Down is about how we sent over troops, and they tortured our troops they captured. The government is less than a year old, and they have a new president. Joseph Kony is a self-claimed prophet of God. He abducts children, and he makes them be in his army known as the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord’s Resistance Army is a cult. They go into villages and loot things. The reason Kony thinks he can do the things he does is because he is ‘following the 10 commandments.’ He goes into the Bible and finds examples of where people are killed and then goes and kills others.
The UN has eight millennium development goals the first is to end poverty and hunger. The goal was meet in 2010 by halving the people who live on less than a $1.25/day. The UN wants women and children to have jobs to support their families. By 2015 the UN wants everyone to have a primary education (elementary school) and a secondary education, but that isn’t a main concern. That goal was Universal Education and the next one is Gender Equality. In 2005 the goal was to have equality for everyone, but it focused on education because with an education you can support yourself. We want women to have the same rights as men in education and politics. Between 1990 and 2015 the UN’s goal is to reduce child deaths under the age of five by 2/3. Some countries have increased the amounts of deaths by almost 1/3. In general it is getting better in developed country. To reduce Maternal Health by ¾ by 2015 will be a long shot. Since 1990 the number of deaths during pregnancy has been cut in half. In 2010, nearly 287,000 women died due to pregnancy. A minimum of four visits, lessening teen pregnancy, increase the use of contraceptives, and family planning are needed to be done in order to keep the number decreasing. Combat HIV/AIDs and Malaria is the sixth UN millennium goal. The overall goal is to stop the spread of HIV, AIDs, and Malaria. The goal of having the number reduced was met in 2010, but they would like it to be halted by 2015. To lessen the epidemic people are supposed to wear condoms and get better houses. AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease and Malaria is spread through mosquitos and water. Environmental Sustainability is the seventh millennium goal. People are planting trees to have clean air and save animals lives. Reducing bio laws, safe drinking water, and reducing the number of slum dwellers are other goals. The safe drinking water goal was achieved in 2005. In 2005 two billion people had safe drinking water. When developed countries help less developed countries with trade, their economy, schools, and technology, it is the UN Global Partnership goal. These countries need help because of location or economy or pretty much anything.
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