War on Poverty
1. Current Events/Global Issues
About the "Current Events and Global Issues" that are going on right now I learned that many countries even if they have good economy, government, and good land, they have many problems that they are facing right now, the most worldwide common issues, and the most important to take care of are...
- Poverty
Poverty is an issue that is increasing slowly and in some countries are deep in this issue, for example Africa and some parts in South America.
- Drug traffic
Drug trafficking is getting crazy around the world and I think is because it moves lots of money to other countries, this one of the biggest issues in Germany, USA, Mexico, and most of South America.
- Air Pollution
This is everywhere... mainly in big cities, and is getting worse as the time goes.
- Less water
Some countries don't have enough water, and I think this causes Poverty, because it a country or any land doesn't have water, the country will not be able to produce food for people, or to export it to other countries. (I think this is the root of all Issues in the world)
- Government
In some places of the world Government is crazy, and the worse thing is that the crazy governments are trying to get other countries involved with them, a big example of crazy Governments are Venezuela and Cuba, and some other countries around the world, but this two are the only ones I know. :D
This are current and global issues that are affecting the world. And national leaders are working together to stop or reduce this issues.
History of the 20th century
2. History of the Twentieth Century
The XX century was an era of wars, "wars for peace," in the XX century many countries wanted to have power, and territories. Also there were many revolutions for the goal to have a better government. The most important, but catastrophic events that happened in the XX century were the World War I and the World War II. But conflicts and injustice start before the XX century, so, what happened in the XX century were like prophecies that had to be fulfill.(One think lead to another thing and so on.)
Like I mentioned before, the XX century was an era of worldwide wars. In the early 1900's (exactly September, 1910) Mexico had a revolution, because they wanted to have a better government, they wanted to have equal rights, and land.
Conflicts got spread around the world...
The most famous conflict or catastrophe was the WWI, it was interesting how the entire world fall into war for the cause of the dead or assassination of one person, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, because of this, Austria-Hungary and Seribia had a war, in which Germany get involved, involving other countries of Europe, making the Great War.
In March, 1917, Russia sparked a revolution that overthrew the czar and paved the way for more radical changes, few months after that, in November, 1917, Lenin came to power and he hoped to build a communist state based on the ideas of Marx.
Between 1919 and 1939, in Eastern Europe many things happened, first they were like "reborn" after the WWI, they failed in a great depression, they made great scientific discoveries, the worse thing was that Hitler rose to power by appealing to extreme nationalist, they created 3 systems of government,democracy, Communism, and fascism.
Human Diversity
3. Human Diversity
About Human Diversity I learned tha everyone has something in common and that many people don't like to accept, and is that we all are humans and we all are the same, when I said that many people don't like to accept it, I mean that some "ism's" are going on righ now, like, Nationalism, Communism, Rasism, etc... People still feel that feeling of nationalism the feeling that they are the best, or better than others. I learned that Humans are not just divided on their color of skin, but in their culture and the name of their country, now in this time people categorzie themselves however they feel they are. For example, some black people say that are white, and some white people say that they are black. I think that's because they ansestors get mixed, and that's why they feel special, or different from others.
4. Places on earth.
About places on earth I learned that India is not in the Middle East. :) Well, I learned a little more than what I already knew, and also I learned a little about countries that I didn't know that they existed, also I learned more names of countries that are situated in the middle east, for example, Serbia, Jordan, "Qatar",(one of the countries I didn't knew it exist) Yemen, and other countries, well about this countries I learned that they have a long history sinse the time of Jesus Christ, also I learned that Egypt is also in the Middle East and that Egyptians invented most of the things girls use to look "pretty". In the class and presentations I learned about the government and the current issues of countries, and their geography.
5. Cultures of the world's societies.
About the different cultures of the world I learned that there are some interesting cultures, and some cultures that are very extreme on what they do.For example, in Iran's culture, family is very important, any family member is proud of their family, but they take this very serious, In Iran if a girl lose her virginity before she gets married, a family member can kill her becasuse she broke the pride of the family.
Other cultures have many parties and they celebrate getting drunk, like Germany, beer is one of the most important things in Geman Culture.
Religion is also another impotrant part of every culture in the world. I think that culture and religion have to be together all the time, one doesn't exist wihtout the other. But this is also a problem of the Middle East, different religion fight with others like if is a war between religions.
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