What Negative Characteristics does a President have

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• Much has been said  about Tony Blair, the Prime Minister's, presidential characteristics.
• He is refered to as "The President of England."
• People say that Mr Blair spends too little time in Parliament, ignores the Cabinet in making desisions which by effect exploits political patronage in his plans to have four-fifths of the House of Lords appointed.
• The people who want change want to make his job much more practical by focusing it on delivering changes to schools and hospitals rather than writing uneccisary memos to ministers.
• To break 100 years of tradition by appointing a non-mandarin to the job would be symbolic by itself but, it would also cause huge controversy among the people.
• The Cabinet Secretary writes the agenda and takes notes at Cabinet meetings, but what makes so powerful is that they can make or break a minister's career with a word in the Prime Minister's ear.
• At a time of international crisis, voters want a leader to be strong and decisive; characteristics that fit a president.
• Why do good leaders have negative characteristics along with positve ones?
• Why are the good leaders letting their negative actions shade their positive ones?

Gems of War

Database: Global Issues in Content
Title: The Gems of War
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-Sierra Leone officials believe they have evidence that the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and its leader, Foday Sankoh, have traded illicit gems for guns for the war.
-Sankoh also traded illicit gems for heoine and cocaine, which emboldened the child warriors to fight. 
-In the summer of 1999, the Lome accord was signed, which was a deal that gave Sankoh a role of government as head of a proposed commission responsible for marketing the country's diamonds.
-Attorney General Solomon Berewa shared details that proved that Sankoh logged over 2,000 diamonds mined by the RUF during the course of his ten months in government.
-These gems were never reported to authorities, therefore making them logged illegally by Sankoh.
-Now all over Africa, rebel groups fight over mining areas so that they can maraud a country's resources and pay for their weapons for the war.
-In 2000, the World Bank reported that the struggle for diamonds had taken over politics as the biggest cause for civil war globally.

Questions:
What recent activity has Fodar Sankoh been up to since 2000?
Is Sankoh still using gems to fund for guns and drugs for his rebel group?

World Health Organization (WHO)

-the WHO has a mandate as well as expertise to coordinate international public health matters
-their goal is to promote the health of all people of the world, and specifically, to combat diseases, especially critical infectious diseases
-WHO is best known for its management of global health issues
-WHO alerts are based more on transmissibility and susceptibility than lethality
-WHO officials declared that the novel influenza outbreak in Mexico (with milder cases initially also reported in the United States) was a "public health emergency of international concern"
-many people believe the WHO's alerts are too narrow and shoule put more emphasis on health and disease awareness alerts
-WHO officials continue to offer recommendations for individuals and communities concerning disease and health management

Does WHO really cover the entire world?
Does WHO look to help those less fortunate?
Does WHO have a specific goal to achieve?

Why Brazil is the odd BRIC

Global Issues In Context
Why Brazil Is The Odd BRIC

• Brazil has always had a slow growth in their economy.

• Touting-: to try to attract customers or support, especially in an aggressive or persistent way

• Clout-the power to direct, shape, or otherwise influence things

• Brazil's economy grows half the rate at which China's and Inda's economy grows

• It has no nuclear weapons

• Brazil has agreed with the U.S. in favor of having agricultural markets

• Brazil's economy grows at two thirds the rate of Russia's government

Will Brazil stay with the BRIC countries?

How many immigrants have crossd the border and taken our jobs?

Wikipedia: Illegal Immigration tol the United States

-around 11 million illegal immigrants cross the border in the census of 2008.
-about 56% of them come from Mexico.
-13.3 million US citizens were unemployed in 2011.
-8 million illegal immigrants are working here in the US.(if they were kicked out, that would lead to more jobs for unemployed US citizens.
-their willingness to accept low wages drives down wages in some industries. 
-lowering standards in education.
-Filling of prisons.
-Gangs/drug cartel. 
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Education in Developing Countries #3

Global Issues in Context:
Developing countries and Education

• 64% of children in South-Sahara Desert are in primary school
• child labor is the top cause for little to no education
• Asia has 122 million children working for little wages in fields and factories
• MDG: Millenium Development Goals- eight goals to decrease poverty, hunger, disease, maternal-infant mortality, education, women’s rights, and healthy enviornment
• education can be too expensive and religious or customary acts don’t let girls be in primary school.
• ⅓ of India is illiterate and 70 million children have no education.  THere is now a law that all children 6-14 must attend school- this is very expensive for the government and may be too expensive
• The Taliban in Afghanistan threatens schools and teachers. 4 million do not go to school because they are so scared
• Chile now offers grants and student loans through a 4 billion dollar education fund.  there were still people saying that this was not good enough and took part in a peaceful protest.

1-3 Questions:

1. What will be done to get these children out of child labor?
2. How do girls survive in life in places where they have no education?
3. How many kids total are there in the world without education?

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Hiding from Nazis- Lauren Cangelosi

- Global Issues in Context
-Notes from underground; In 1943 a Catholic man kept Jewish families alive in the sewers under Lvov, safe from the Nazis, for more than a year. Now their story has been turned into a movie -- and it's nominated for best foreign film at next week's Oscars. Ariel Leve meets Krystyna Chiger, the only remaining survivor.
-In 1943, Polish Jews took refuge in sewers of Lvov, Poland.
- Survived for 14 months with the help of a Catholic sewer-worker.
- Jews were being forced into concentration camps by 1943.
-The Chiger's ghetto was being liquidated and final liquidation of Lvov Ghetto on May 30th, 1943.
- Many people who decided to leave the sewer were shot by the Ukranian police or the Germans.
- If you were not old enough to be in the army you would join the Hitler Youth.
-In 1945, New Communist government emerged after the liberation and a new wave of anti-Semitism started.
Questions
How was the family not killed by diseases?
Did any of the family members develop PTSD?
Why did the new communist government bring on a new wave of Anti-Semitism?

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Mayan Calendar Article-Blog#3

Database: Enyclopedia Britannica
Title of Article: Calendar
Link to article: http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-60226
Underlined words: words that might be helpful for future research

• Basic structure of Mayan calendar is common to the civilized part of ancient Middle America
• Ritual cycle of 260 named days but a total of 36 in a year
• 52 years of 365 days called "Calendar Round"
• Name for 260-day cycle for Mayans is unknown
• some authorities call it the Tzolkin or the Divinatory Calendar, the Ritual Calendar, or day cycle
• Mayan calendar has nothing to do with astronomy
• Determinants-"indicate with a remarkable degree of accuracy how far the 365-day year had diverged from the solar year since the beginning of the Long Count,"-the article stated abov

1. When did the Mayan calendar end?
2. How was the Mayan calendar found?
3. When was the Mayan calendar created?

Is the World Going to End in 2012?

1. Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
2. How did ancient people (ex.Aztecs) measure time?
3. What caused use to believe the world would end?
4. How is the world supposed to end?
5. When can we doto keep the human race alive if the world ends?
6. What will happen leading up to the world ending?
7. Has the world been predicted to end any other time in past/future? If yes, when/why?

What do I already know about my topic?
-Supposedly it is supposed to end in an apocalypse
-It was predicted by the Mayans that it was ending
-Apparently it was supposed to end in 2000 as well.
-Global warming is supposedly helping cause the world ending.

Mythology Eor End of World in 2012

Article Name: Mythology
Link: http://www.school.eb.com/all/comptons/article-205120?query=world%20ending&ct=null

• Mayan Theories-Floods legends was one way about how the Earth was going to end (most of life forms)
• Native American Theories-"End of the world recurred in a cycle, followed by a new creation."
•  Aztec Theories- There had already been 4 seperate destructions of the world and one more was expected
• Each world ending was marked by the ruler disapearing (In all of them it was the Sun)
• Some mythologies blamed "human wickedness" for the end of the world (ex. the story of Noah and the flood)
• All modern religions look forward to the end of the world, for a new fresh creation to occur
• *Cataclysm*
• Judaism-coming of Messiah announces the end of the world and the "restoration of paradise"

Do ALL religions believe in the end of the world?
How was all mythology created?

What is the effect of 2012 on people currently?

  http://www.december212012.com/faq.htm
  "What is really going to happen on December 21 2012?"
This article helped me because it informed me about who made the predictions and why. I also began to learn how people are reacting to the 2012 predictions.

- 2012 was also predicted by modern scientist along with ancient people
- Tourism around the Mayan civilization has increased
- Dec 21, 2012 is about when it is predicted to happen may be before or after the exact date
- The economy is also expected to decline
- Clothes are being made supporting the belief of 2012
- The 2000 prediction were based on man made destruction
- 2012 prediction are based on events out of our control and backed by scientists and ancient civilizations

- Will it be related to space?
- Are people preparing for 2012?
- Do governments support the 2012 predictions?

2-Stefani: World peace

GIC Article

• War has something to do with mental illnesses as a negative deviance while Peace is more of the positive deviance of creativity.
• Most peace thinking has centered on the problem of how power shall be distributed among the nations of the world.
• Since the Renaissance time it had not passed beyond the stage of individual thought.

What guns are used by both sides?
What tactics do the United States use to advance into enemy territory?
How many casualties are there on both sides annually and what contributes to the casualties.
How do the United States determine civilians from terrorists.

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9403325
-the population of Iraq is 27,818,000
-Unemployment rates in Iraq reached 50-60%
-The first general elections to be held in Iraq following the U.S. occupation took place as scheduled on Jan. 30th 2005.
- Americans have started the use of drones into Iraq.
-Iraq caualties are 500-750% more than U.S casualties.
-Americasns use adavanced blitzkriegs when advancng into enemy territory.
-Iraq and U.S have been at war now for 8 years.
-Iraq refuses to give the U.S one of its military drones back.

Medicine Background

-the average life expectancy in 1900 grew 30 years by the year 2000
-in 2002 the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to combat the trio of devastating diseases
-the program estimated that it saved more than 1.5 million lives by at least 1.75 million people receiving drug treatment for HIV/AIDS, 3.9 million were receiving TB treatment, and 59 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets were distributed to malaria-ridden countries
-a global polio eradication initiative was begun in 1988, at which time about 350,000 children in 125 children on five continents were crippled each year by the highly contagious viral disease that attacks the nervous system
-in 1910 the discovery of Salvarson turned out to be the first drug effective against syphilis, beginning the era of modern antimicrobial drug therapy
-smallpox, one of the most deadly and debilitating scourges the world had ever known, represents one of the greatest accomplishments in modern medicine
-in 1980 AIDS aroused caused by the HIV which rapidly grew into a global pandemic

How do different places in the world take care of medical issues?

What are the differences from American hostpitals to South African hospitals?
Do countries with different medical issues contain different specialists?
Can some hospitals in different places in the world only heal specific problems?
Do any cultures not allow medical attention?

Education in Asia #2

Education and Health in Asia

• Japan has high standards for Education and health care
• in developing countries there a major problems for their large populations
• large populations is a problem because so many people are young
• 40-50% are under the age of 21
• young people in asia usually only have a primary education, or none at all.
• few go to secondary school and even fewer go to college
• with low incomes and poor nutrition they have young life expectancies
• 96% is literate

• http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-196773?query=education%20in%20asia&ct

Why do people believe in 2012?

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- The Mayans date bact to 2600 BC.
- Charles Entien predicted the shifting of the poles on Dec 21, 2012
- The Mayans predicted the world to end on Dec 21, 2012 also
- A similar event was predicted for the beginning of the year 2000
- Polor shift- switch of North and South poles witch equals worldwide destuction
- Millennium- 1,000 years
- Prophecy- communications through a prophet

1) Where there any other prediction for Dec 21, 2012?
2) Why is this any different then the 2000 prediction?
3) What percent of people believe in this conspiracy?
4) Are people preparing for 2012?
5) Are governments preparing for 2012?

BRIC countries background

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• outmoded- no longer acceptable, current, or usable
•  GDP- Gross domestic product
• What are the tiger economies?
•  infrastructures- the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country,city, or area, as transportation and communication systems,power plants, and schools.
• If they keep putting money in to education they can really dominate the world economy as most of the developed countries
• Tiger countries- Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
• large population and income make a strong economy
• Why do you need a big population for a strong economy?
• When will the BRIC countries become powerful?

What Positive Characteristics Allows a President to Solve Big Problems

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• Robert Kennedy was young, energetic, and tough-minded,who emerged from the shadow of his older brother.
• After establishing himself as a prominent federal attorney, Robert Kennedy served as the United States Attorney General
•  After the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963, Robert Kennedy emerged as one of the leading members of the Democratic party's liberal wing until in 1968 he too was  assassined during his  campaign for the presidency.
• The Kennedy's were a prestigious Irish American family long involved in public service
• Joseph Kennedy, Sr., the son of a prominent Massachusetts politician and a self-made multimillionaire, demanded that his children compete intensely in school and in sports 
• Although started out being shy but, Robert Kennedy, like his brothers and sisters, nevertheless inherited his father's commitment to academic excellence and civic-mindedness.
•  Robert, perhaps more so than his siblings, also developed the keen competitive instincts that had distinguished his father.
•  After the death of his oldest brother, Robert Kennedy withdrew from Harvard and enlisted in the United States Navy.
•  In 1951 he accepted a post as an attorney in the United States justice department, but he resigned the following year to serve as the manager of John Kennedy's campaign for a seat in the United States Senate.
• Not yet 30 years old, Robert Kennedy had already established himself as a strong-willed and gifted attorney with a kind attitude and a forceful will.
• Following the assassination of John Kennedy in November of 1963, Robert Kennedy briefly withdrew from public life and feeling ostrasized.
• Why did Robert like his whole family want to continue in the family buisness in politics?
• Once he saw that his brother was assasined did he continue his presidency campagn cause he was determined to change the world or was he plain stupid?

Blood Diamonds

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-Some of the best diamonds in the world come from Sierra Leone, but unfortunately most of them are illegally smuggled out of the country.
-About 17 million dollars worth of diamonds leave Sierra Leone each year, but only 11 million is exported by the government.
-Logically speaking, that means that 6 million dollars worth of diamonds are illegally smuggled out of Sierra Leone each year.
-This means that Sierra Leone is losing millions of dollars each year because of rebel smugglers.
-The Sierra Leone government believes that people are smuggling most of their diamonds into Liberia because when you compare exports, Sierra Leone exports only 11 million each year, while Liberia exports close to 100 million each year.
-Both Liberia and Guinea export diamonds each year, but most of them are believed to be smuggled from Sierra Leone.
-Back in 2000, Sierra Leone tried out a new system that was meant to trace a diamond's origin from mind to retailer, but smuggling still continues.
-The Sierra Leone government says that smuggling activity has gotten better, but it still poses a huge problem in Sierra Leone.

Questions
Has the Sierra Leone government tried any other systems to reduce smuggling?
If so, what are they and have they succeeded in any way?
What are some of the ways that people have successfully smuggled diamonds out of Sierra Leone?

immigration blog 2

In this article, I learned...
-the border between Mexico and the US is 1950 miles long.
-In 2000, the census said over 4.8 million immigrants are living in the US thought to be moved illegally.
-Many farmers and factory owners approve of these immigrants because they could pay them so little.
-Immigration has created a "Third Country"
-Immigrants put financial strain on public services.
-Most of the illegal drugs sent in from Mexico come in from Florida.
-In 1986, the Congress passed a law saying that employers who know they are hiring illegal immigrants could be fined and penalized.
-Some immigrants are allowed to stay here sometimes if they pay there fines to stay.

Some questions that this articles rises for me are...
-How much money must the immigrants pay to stay here?
-How many of these illegals have taken Americans' jobs and thus cause us to suffer?
-If they know that lots of drugs come in to Florida from Mexico, why don't they keep a tighter security to keep them form coming in?

Holocaust-Cangelosi, Lauren 4/5

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- Holocaust is derived from the Greek word, holokauston, which means burnt sacrifice to god.
- Adolf Hitler planned to exterminate Jews as early as 1919 which as 14 years before the Nazis came to power.
- Nurnberg Laws- the protection of German blood and honor.
- Kristallnacht("Night of Broken Glass")- 48 hours where rioters burned many synagogues and broke the windows of Jewish Businesses.
-T4 Program- "euthanasia" and the murder of physically disabled, mentally retarded, and emotionally disturbed.
- Lebensraum("Living Space")- They thought they needed more room to live so they wanted to destroy the polish society.
-Judrate- ("Jewish Council")- 24 men which were rabbis and Jewish Leaders.
Questions

Why did Adolf Hitler want to eliminate Jews?
How was he able to gather followers for his movement?

What allows a president to solve big problems?

To answer the overall research question, I will try to find out:
1. What measures must they take to get through the problems?
2. What characteristics must they have?
3. How do they narrow down which problems to do first?

This is what i already know about this topic and what i want to find out:
I know about problems in the world and what juristiction the president has. what i want to know iss what goes thru a leader's mind when they have to make a big decision or find ways to fix a problem.

Why do some cultures practice genocide?

1.What cultures practice genocide?
2.How many people are killed in a genocide?
3.What causes genocide?

What do you already know about your topic?

I know a little bit about the Rwanda Genocide. I learned that the Hutu President's plane was shot down and that's how the genocide began. I also know that many Tutsis died in this genocide. I also know about the Holocaust and that Hitler wanted to eliminate Jews.

Should women want diamonds?

1. Why do women want diamonds in the first place?
2. Smuggling diamonds in the Sierra Leone? Blood diamonds?
3. What happens to the men in the Sierra Leone?

I have watched to movie, Blood Diamonds, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which deals with smuggling diamonds in the Sierra Leone. I am going to focus in on diamonds in the Sierra Leone for this project.

How does education in countries around the world differ#1

1. literacy rates in different countries
2. graduation rates in different countries
3. schools resources in different countries
4. how countries encorporate religion/customs through school

I already know that the schooling in Africa is not as high as in other places in the world such as Europe.  Also, there is not a large percentage of graduation in Africa. Also, some countries encorporate religions and customs in school.

Why Won't the US Secure the Borders with Mexico?

-How many illegal immigrants have crossed our border?
-How many US jobs would we have if the immigrants were not employed by US companies?
-Should immigrants that have been living here for over 25 years be given amnesty?
-Would american workers do the same work as the immigrants would do?

So far, I know that most of the immigrants are coming from Mexico. Also, i know that many US citizens have lost jobs because of these illegal immigrants coming over the border from Mexico. I believe that if these immigrants were controlled and not so many of them were here, there would be less job crisis, which makes everyone happy.

Why do people think the world is ending in 2012?

Are people preparing for 2012?
Why do people believe in 2012?
Who is predicting it?
Are countries ready/prepared about what their people will do?

2012 or doomsday is predicted to be on Dec. 21st 2012. As I know it was predicted by the Mayans and other sources. I am not sure if any evidence has been found but I know it is scaring people and I want to learn more.

Why can't we achieve world peace?

Why Can't We Achieve World Peace?

1. Why do conflicts happen?
2. Why can't people get along?
3. Who has attempted world peace and why it failed?

I already know that the world is barracaded by hate and greed. However, there is a glimmer of light that will shine down on it. I know that if there's not a war here than there's a war over there. That our world mostly consists of leaders that have serious trust issues, and have motives lead by greed. I know that treaties are very hard to come by and if there's a war, than there has to be a victor that rises up against it.

What makes the BRIC countries the future economies of the world?

In order to answer this overall research question, I will try to find out answers to my sub research questions.

1. It is true only a deomcracy can be a successful form of government?
2. What are the BRIC countries?
3. What are they doing which makes them successful?
4. How high is the GDP rising in these countries?
5. Are these BRIC countires being wealth as a whole or are the rich becoming wealthier and the poor becoming poorer?

What i know already is that the BRIC countires are going to be the top future economies of the world. BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India, And China And they are going to be the top economies of the world.