1. Main political and economical systems of the world.
Economical:
- socialism: government controls some of the businesses.
-capitalism: people own and run businesses. private ownership. government lets businesses do what they want.
-mixed economy: almost every country in the world is mixed economy. some businesses are controlled by government. some are controlled by people. Schools and such are government controlled.
Political:
direct democracy: no country has it. it would be completely run by the people of the country. it would be very challenging to run an efficient country under direct democracy.
representative democracy: people elect representatives to make laws for them. USA has representative democracy.
absolute monarchy: king or queen has complete power.
constitutional monarchy: there is a king or queen, but their powers are limited to what the constitution says. Great Britain is a good example.
dictatorship: government where one person has complete or total power. Adolf Hitler of Germany.
theory of communism: started with Karl Marx. thinks rich people control everything. in his book he says the poor people will rise up and overthrow the rich people and make a classless society and everybody would be equal. people wouldn't be as motivated to work if they don't have to. eventually someone would probably emerge as the leader. never has happened in world history.
practice of commnunism: government controls what people do, what people say, they control and own businesses. people don't have much freedom. it really isn't seen as a nice government to have. Countries that are communist are China, Vietnam, Loes, and Cuba.
2. Major Political Parties of in the United States
Republicans believe in laissez faire which is where the government keeps their hands out of things.
they also believe in the trickle-down theory. it's like where if you cut taxes for big businesses, it will trickle down and help the middle and lower classes.
rugged individualism - people do things more by themselves and earn their way in life without so much help from the government.
republicans are conservative, more traditional, think there should be less government in the country and favor less taxes
democrats believe there should be higher taxes for programs, more government and favor change.
Abortion -
democrats believe it is a woman's right and should be legal.
republicans believe it should be illegal and restricted by the government cause it's like killing.
gun control -
D - gun control is needed.
R - oppose, gun control is unconstitutional because of the right to bare arms.
gay rights -
D - favor. it is a civil right.
R - oppose, marriage is a sacred trust between a man and a woman.
3. Causes and effects of global warming.
humans: some say that its humans that are causing global warming and because of all the pollution people put out in the world, global warming is happening.
but other people say it is natural. they say that the earth naturally goes through times when temperatures everywhere get warmer.
4. Causes and effects of overpopulation
over population is like where women aren't very well educated on things like birth control so then a lot more babies are being born and then there are a lot of people in the world and sorta limited resources.
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).
we went to iraq in 2003 because we wanted to make sure there weren't weapons of mass distruction which we though Sadam Hussane was hiding. we are officially out as of last week.
Afghanistan - we went to afghanistan in 2001 after the 9/11 attack. we went there to protect America from Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda group. Bin Laden was recently killed in May.
Iran - In iran, their president Ahmadinejad was saying lots of crazy things like the holocaust never happened. he was also saying that Israel should be wiped off the map. we also wanted to make sure they didn't have any nuclear weapons but they said they were only using it for nuclear power.
darfur - there has been mass genocide in darfur. the arab citizens there are fighting african people there for a part of land that has oil. there was a peace agreement last june but it hasn't helped as well as they thought.
rwanda - in 1994 there was acts of genocide between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's because the hutu's were trying to regain power of the Tutsi's and they ended up killing there leader. eventually the Tutsi rebels got control.
samalia - since 1992, they haven't had government. terrists pretty much control the country and there are lots of pirates.
Revolutions:
egypt - the leader peacefully stepped down after the government realized people wanted more opportunities.
Lybia - Ghadafi was the leader. he attacked people who were rebelling against him. there is going to be more of a democracy.
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