- Describe the main political and economic systems in the world.
Representative Democracy- Type of government where the people chose representatives to make there choices.
Direct Democracy- Is a type of government where the people vote directly on issues
Dictatorship- One person with complete power of everyone and everything that happens.
Communism Theory- To equal everyone out. No one is rich or poor.
Communism Practice- The government limits and controls everything
Absolute Monarchy- A queen or king have total power
Constitutional Monarchy- A king or queen are ruling, but they have constitutional laws, or rules, they have to follow to make decisions.
Socialism- The government controls some of the businesses.
Capitalism- The people completely control over their businesses
Anarchy- No government
2. What are the major divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the US?
Republican-
Trickle down theory- Is when you tax the rich less which creates more jobs and helps the economy.
Laissez-faire- A rule that says the government won't control any businesses
Democratic-
Roe vs. Wade- The trial that legalized abortion
Affirmative Action- A law passed that made business's keep from discrimanating against sexual orientation, religion, gender, race, etc.
3. What were the results of the 2012 Presidential election? What caused President Obama to win?
President Obama was re-elected, mostly because of the issues he supports. For example gay marriage, and abortion (which he is in favor of). By saying that it obviously means that more people supports those issues than don't. President Obama also had a better chance behttps://mrbruns.ning.com/profiles/blogs/semester-test-blog-822/editcause of the confidence he had which actually is very helpful in elections.
4. What are the major social issues facing the world due to overpopulation, poverty and inequality?
Overpopulation- Is a problem due to the eventual and present lack of resources in the world. Overpopulation is mostly caused by women's inequality which basically end up with women having more children. More people are being born than dieing. If it gets worse we eventually run out of food (worse than it is already in third world countries) and resources to keep us alive.
Poverty- Mostly in 3rd world countries poverty is the most extreme. Due to lack of education, and lack of accessible jobs. Inequality is a big problem with this because women aren't allowed to get a education, so they won't be able to get a job.
Inequality- Women's inequality is a big problem in third world countries. With the poor being taxed more than the upper class is and women's discrimination.
5. . What major issues have specific areas in Africa had in the last thirty years (that we discussed in class)?
Somalia- Their civil war has been on going since 1991. Piracy and terrorist attacks are major problems, and they are trying to take over the country. The new president was attacked by terrorists, he is safe.
Libya- They were once ruled by Britain in 1951 they found oil which caused conflict. Qudaffi seized power from the king and a military coup. Quaddafi uses Sharia law, which is kind of like and eye for an eye, and Purges, which is if you don't like someone you can just get rid of them. A revolution in 2011 got rid of him. Before that he used to help the US by giving us weapons and giving us intel.
Sudan and South Sudan- There disagreements started over oil, which also cause a war between the Arabs and the black Africans. The Arabs obtained independence from Egypt in 1956. In 1955 the first war began killing approximately 1.5 million and ended in 1972. The other war was started in 1983, cause by oil, and ended in 2005 killing millions. After the last war, in 2005, they created the comprehensive peace agreement which ended the war and started a democratic govt.
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