#1Economical and Politcal Systems=
(Use the flashcards)
#2Differences between major politcal parties/rep. philosophies=
Laissex-faire(means to let alone in french)= means that the government should have a limited role in society; hands off government
Trickle Down Theory= means tax cuts to big buisnesses and eventually trickles down to the middle and hopefully even lower classes.
Rugged Individualism= means people need to step up, help themselves, and earn their way in life and in this country.
*The tea party is very liberatarian which means they believe that the government should stay out of things, also do not like illegals in the United States.
*Republicans are conservative, they favor tradition, and believe in less government, and favor less taxes,
*Democrats favor change, believe in larger government, and believe in increasing taxes for programs.
Abortion:
D= favor because they believe in staying out of people's private lives.
R=do not favor because it's like taking a life; based on religious beliefs.
Death Penalty:
D=oppose; two wrongs dont make a right
R=favor it; more an eye for an eye
Prayer in School:
D=oppose; seperation of church and school
R=favor because of religious beliefs
Natural Enviorment:
D= favor because they are willing to spend more money
R=they support the rich so they feel if they set laws for the environment it will limit the factories and harm big businesses.
Global Warming=
Humans: Pollution and fossil fuels causes a rise in the co2 level
Natural: The climate is changing drastically and there was a time when the temps got super cold during the ice age period so maybe this is a warming instead of a cooling.
Overpopulation=
People have better medicine, healthier habits, and tend to live longer than we used too. There are also places in developing countries where woman are not educated properly and have numerous babies to make sure that if one of a few of them die they will have others to help them when they grow old. There has been a higher birth rate and lower death rate because of some of these examples.
Iraq=
Why we went there?.... We went there in 2003 because we believed they had weapons of mass destruction and that Sudam Hussane was hiding them.
People didn’t like it because….. they thought we stayed way to long.
We got out just last week.
Afghanistan=
Why we went there?...... We went in 2001 because Osama Bin Laden and his terrorists, AL-queda and the Taliban, attacked us in the United States and we wanted to avoid them coming back so we went to them and fought the terrorists of Afghanistan.
Hoping to get out by the end of 2012 and we killed Bin Laden.
Iran=
The president there, Ahmadinehjad, is a little on the crazy side and makes comments about wishing Isreal didn’t exit and it is believed that they have nuclear weapons there or are working to get nuclear weapons and that worries the United States.
Darfur=
There has been a mass genocide in South Sudan called Darfur. There are the black Africans or non-arab citizens and there are the arab citizens and government who sponsored theses arabs to fight the Africans for a very rare land area with oil. This even has been called acts of genocide. There was a peace agreement last june but it did not turn out as well as hoped because some killing still occurs.
Rawanda=
In 1994 a mass genocide happened between two main ethnic groups, the Hutus and Tutsies. The hutus were trying to regain control of the Tutsies and ended up killing their leader. Eventually the Tutsie rebels regained control, but not in time especially since no other country seemed to be helping them as much as they could.
Samalia=
It has been an anarchy since 1992 and there are terrorists controlling the country. This is one of the most dangerous places right now and worries people.
Revolations=
Countries near the middle east have had leaders that the people wanted to overturn. The main countries were…
Egypt- the leader stepped down peacefully
Libya- Moamar Qudaffi was the leader and the people ended up rebelling to have more of a democracy and Quaddaffi was killed eventually.
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