Today went over the states map, and finished our blog discusions. we did the powerpoint thing today too.
1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll
-Iowa straw poll is held in ames iowa before. Its informal just gives them some good press and motivation. Michelle Bachman got the most votes shes from minniosota. Ron Paul got second in the iowa straw poll. Jon Huntsman they see him as a Bill Clinton. Rick perry is a governer and hes leading all the the polls. Mitt Romney is leading some of the polls.
2. South Sudan
-40 out of the last 50 years Sudan has been in civil war. Ended in 2005. July 9 they became the newest country of the world. why they were at war; ethnic groups, religions, wanted to gain control of south. People in North Sudan are Arib. South is Black Africans. From the north Islamic from the south are Catholic. Most oil is in the South, and they have better farmland.
3. Libya
-people in libya wanted freedom and stuff and then gadafi told his people to kill innocent people so he could keep his power. we set up a no fly zone so more people could be protected.
4. US Supreme Court and videogames
-its the parents who have to watch this not the goverment ruled in favor of the people.
5. New York and gay marriage
-Tried passing it two times.
6. Drawdown in Afghanistan
-President obama said 10,000 troops will be out of there by this year. Will be completely out in 2014 hopefully. we are pulliung out ad letting the people fight for themselves.
7. Al-Zawahri and al-Qaeda
-al-Qaeda is a terrorist group the leader was osama bin ladan. they have diffrent small groups all over the place. Al-Zawahiri hes the new leader of al-qaeda. he was a physician. Had a part in a bombing.
8. US debt ceiling crisis-problem and solution
- started in WW2. the goverment keeps raising the debt ceiling, but everytime we raise it we go more in debt.
9. NFL lockout-problem and solution
- It was because the players wanted more money but the owners thought they were getting too much money. they wanted an 18 game season so they could get more money and stuff.
10. US/French Embassies attacked in Syria
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11. Famine in Somalia
-somalia has been without an orignized goverment for 20 years. Second worst drought they've has in 50 years. 10s of thousands have died because of malnutrion.
12. Norway incident
-The end of July this guy named bravick parked a car in front of the exuctive building that blew up killing a lot of people. A couple hours later he went to an island and he dressed up as an officer told the lots of people to gather around for safety reasons and he started to fire. The island was a summer camp so he was killing young teenagers. Many people say this is like the oklahoma bombing. They arrested him and no more than 21 years in jail. He might get out sooner since 21 years is his max.
13. Women's World Cup-look at history of Women's World Cup and results
-Its a soccer tournament where all these countries get together and compete. It started in 91 (the womens). Happens every 4 years. Japan, America twice, Germany twice, and Norway have one over the years.
Births minus deaths is how we get natural increase numbers. Roughly 80 million people are added to the world population each year. Birth rate is how many babies are born out of every 1000 people. Fertility rate is how many babies each women has in their lifetime. Death rate is how many people die out of every 1,000 people. Population growth rate is the rate of the population growth. Population denisty is the amount of people that live in one area. List of top ten most populated countries are;
1. China
2. India
3. US
4. Indonesia
5. Brazil
6. Pakistan
7. Nigeria
8. Banglidesh
9. Russia
10. Japan
Top 10 most populated cities
1. Tokyo, Japan
2. Guangzhou, China
3. Seoul, South Korea
4. Delhi, India
5. Mumbai, India
6. Mexico CIty, Mexico
7. New york City, USA
8. Sao Paulo, Brazil
9. Manila, Philippines
10. Shanghai, China
We reached a billion people in 1804. It will take about 12 years to add another billion people. It took all of human history took get to the human history, 130 years for the second one, 30 years for the the third, 14 for the third, 14 for the fourth, 12 for the sixth, and 12 for the seventh billion. People living longer because of better medicine/healthcare. Our natural increase is slowing down because women arent having as many kids as before, and they dont need to have as many since they know that they have a better chance of living. Fewer kids are being born. Population is trending older. Women having fewer babies. Birth control and education is becoming more common. There are more old people than young people since women are only having 2 or 3 kids now instead of 9 or 10. In Veitnam 92% of women only want to have 2 kids. The south is getting more population and north is becoming less populated.
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