Thursday, August 30

We started our morning with a couple current events such as the republican nomination and hurricane Isaac. Then he talked about self evaluation on our project ans think about how well we did. He then gave the group that went yesterday a bit of construstive critisism .

The next group up was John's group. They had democracy. Countries that have democracy are Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland.Direct Democracy is voting on things directly rather than representatives.Representative Democracy is when people vote for representatives to vote for policies instead of direct voting.Merriam Webster- by the people for the peopleThe current leader of the Democratic party is President Barack Obama. Current Republican Nominee is Mitt Romney. Next up was Austin Ethan and Travis. They were assigned communism.Communism is where a leader changes everything and the government takes the peoples rights. Everyone is equal.Countries with communism- China Laos North Korea Vietnam. Karl Marx's idea of communism was that the government controlled everything and people had to pay huge taxes. In communism today the government is very controlling.

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