News Articles:
USA Today April 19, 2010
Europe flights resume air traffic could be half its normal value today if ash lessens
Today European air carriers are sending flights back up into the sky since the volcano. Over 63,000 flights have been canceled throughout Europe. Test flights were flown on Sunday to make sure it was safe to take passengers up into the air today.
USA Today April 19, 2010
Pope meets abuse victims, vows to protect the young
Pope Benedict XVI met on Sunday with sex-abuse victims to tell them that the Catholic Church was sorry for what had happened. The Pope was “ashamed and sorrowful” for what had happened. Several people are attempting to sue that catholic church for what has happened.
USA Today April 22, 2010
Gulf blast appears to be ‘blowout’
Ships and helicopters went out today to search for eleven crew members who are missing after an offshore oil drilling accident. The Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig, exploded at 10 p.m. on Tuesday. At this time eleven people are still un accounted for.
USA Today April 22, 2010
Secondhand shops at forefront of economic pinch
With the tough economic times, thrift stores have been receiving less donations, but the demand has gone up. The demand and needs is around ten times more than what they can supply. Because of the increased demand they need more demands to help.
USA Today April 22, 2010
Going truly green might require detective work
Spending in the green marketplace and sales in healthy products have gone up 41% since 2004. Many customers are beginning to agree that it is worth the extra cost to buy green products that are better for the environment.
USA Today April 26, 2010
States seek new ways to restrict abortions
Many of the states are debating or passing restrictions on abortions. According to Mary Spaulding Balch this year has been successful at trying to reduce abortions. The most significant legislation is a Nebraska law that would ban abortion at the 20th week of pregnancy.
USA Today April 26, 2010
Economists say recovery looks strong
The US is recovering stronger than expected. Even though the economy is regaining strength the jobless rate is still high. The risk that we will have a return recession anytime soon is unlikely the experts say.
USA Today April 27, 2010
Young adults less devoted to faith
A survey of over 1,2000 of people 18 to 29 72 percent claimed to be more spiritual than religious. There has been a steady decline in young adults who attend church. The survey found that about 15% were devoted to their faith.
USA Today 27, 2010
Nancy Drew still draws readers after 80 years.
Nancy drew books have been popular for over 80 years. There have been over 371 books created. The books are written to appear to young readers.
USA Today April 28, 2010
Keeping a lid on salt: not so easy
For years Americans have been consuming too much salt. Last week a report from the institute of medicine suggested that the government reduce the maximum amount of sodium that manufactures can use. Salt is one of the main causes of many peoples high blood pressure. If sodium intake was cut it could potentially prevent many early deaths caused by hearth attacks.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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USA Today April 13, 2010
Technology transforms giving
With the new technology it is making it easier for people to donate their money. Through text messages and internet it is now easier for people to donate money. More than $32 million dollars has been raised through texting for the Red Cross Haiti relief.
USA Today April 14, 2010
Girl, 11, rescued from Fla. Swamp
A girl was rescued today after spending four days in a Florida swamp. She had been reported missing and was found by a member of their families church. It is unknown why the girl was near the swamp.
USA Today April 14, 2010
Huge planets found orbiting backward
European astronomers reported that two of the nine planets were rotating backward from their normal orbit pattern. This is caused when planets stars bend light in a different direction so this causes the plants to do the same.
USA Today April 15, 2010
Deaths, close calls at animal parks
Sea world, Bush Gardens, and Six Flags have had animals kill three people and injure 16. Many minor incidents are not reported. With the increased accidents these parks are taking extra precautions to make sure their visitors are safe.
USA Today April 15, 2010
Library of Congress Plans to archive Twitter Posts
The Library of Congress will acquire every public tweet. There will be over billions of tweets archived. They are doing this because it will offer historical data throughout history.
USA Today April 13, 2010
Technology transforms giving
With the new technology it is making it easier for people to donate their money. Through text messages and internet it is now easier for people to donate money. More than $32 million dollars has been raised through texting for the Red Cross Haiti relief.
USA Today April 14, 2010
Girl, 11, rescued from Fla. Swamp
A girl was rescued today after spending four days in a Florida swamp. She had been reported missing and was found by a member of their families church. It is unknown why the girl was near the swamp.
USA Today April 14, 2010
Huge planets found orbiting backward
European astronomers reported that two of the nine planets were rotating backward from their normal orbit pattern. This is caused when planets stars bend light in a different direction so this causes the plants to do the same.
USA Today April 15, 2010
Deaths, close calls at animal parks
Sea world, Bush Gardens, and Six Flags have had animals kill three people and injure 16. Many minor incidents are not reported. With the increased accidents these parks are taking extra precautions to make sure their visitors are safe.
USA Today April 15, 2010
Library of Congress Plans to archive Twitter Posts
The Library of Congress will acquire every public tweet. There will be over billions of tweets archived. They are doing this because it will offer historical data throughout history.
Chapter 8 and 10
Chapter 8 Current and Former Communist Regimes
I. Communism:
a.China, North Korea, Cuba, and a few other countries are the only communists countries left.
b. The first communists regime was the (USSR) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
c. the Leninist State: 1. The Communists Party completely controlled political life. 2. Until the late 1950’s the Soviet Union controlled the entire Communist World. 3. In the late 1950’s the Communist world began to splinter.
d. Command Economy: The government owned all industrial enterprises and retail sales outlets.
e. In the 1980s the Communist countries found themselves in deep economic trouble.
II. Socialism, Marxism, Leninism
a. Socialism: Four characteristics
1. means of production are flawed.
2. most liberals are satisfied if a society can achieve equality of opportunity, which theoretically offers everyone the same chance to succeed.
3. democracy as practiced in liberal, capitalist society is too limited.
4. socialisms claim that providing for public ownership and control of a substantially more egalitarian society will improve human relations in general.
b. Marxism
1. Karl Marx
2. believed that societies passed through stages, evolving from primitive groups of hunters and gatherers and eventually turn into an industrialized society.
3. societies shift from one stage to another in a process called dialectic.
4. progress occurs as a result of changes in the distribution of economic power, historical materialism.
5. process occurs as a result of conflict between classes.
6. Marx thinks capitalism is a step forward
c. Stalinism
1. Joseph Stalin
2. totalitarianism: Stalin used the party, the mass media, and campaigns of terror to subjugate the population and then mobilize the people in pursuit of the leadership’s goals.
d. De-Stalinization
1. de-Stalinization: when his colleagues replaced him and they had a period of relaxation and reform
III. The Marxist-Leninist State
a. The Party State
b. The intuitions of the party state were its secretariat and politburo
c. The most important individuals were the general secretary and the members of the Politburo
d. Western observers called these regimes totalitarian
IV. The Crisis of Communism Suicide by Public Policy
a. In 1985 the European Communism’s final act began.
b. Glasnost: more openness in the political system
c. Democratization, beginning with the introduction of a degree of competition to the way the Communist Party was run.
d. Perestroika, economic restructuring, including a degree of private ownership
e. New thinking in foreign policy, especially improved relations with the West.
f. Revolutions first started in Poland
g. There are only 5 communists countries left: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.
V. Transitions
a. most conditions have improved in these countries
3 questions:
1. I think it was interesting how Marx says that society is slowly making progress over time even when they have their downs they are still slowly headed upward.
2. I am just curious in these countries with communist’s leaders how does the leader come to power. Like how does the country decide who will be in charge of everything since they can not vote?
Since the countries that call themselves communists are not really fully communists why do they object to becoming capitalists nations when they do not fully accept communism either?
Chapter 10: China
I. Thinking about China
a. The worlds most populated country.
b. remains a very poor country even though all the progress it has made
c. Hu Jintao currently governs China
II. The Evolution of the Chinese State
a. Confucianism: a code of social conduct that revolves around a few key principles.
b. China has gone through stages of ups and downs
c. Sun Yat-sen- one of the first Chinese to be westernized
d. Kuomintang or Nationalist Party
e. May Fourth Movement- against Confucianism
f. Mao and the Longest March
g. Zhou Enlai- form a united front to fight the Japanese
h. Lin Biao-gained control of Manchuria and started moving south
i. Great Leap Forward- where China attempted to make rapid progress in the transition to socialism and communism under Mao’s rule
j. Jiang Qing- eliminating anything Western and non-ideological from the theatres and airwaves.
k. The Gang of Four-Jiang, Zhang, Yao, and Wang
l. In 1973, Zhou announced that China would concentrate on the four modernizations-agriculture, industry, science and the military.
II. Political Culture and Participation:
a. Collectivism
b. Struggle and Activism
c. Egalitarianism and Populism
d. Self-Reliance
e. The average citizens actually participate in political life more than their counterparts in the west.
f. Democracy Wall-1978
g. Democracy Movement: the first large, reasonably well-organized protest movement against the CCP and its policies.
h. Falun Gong- organization that is hard to fit into western conceptual schemes.
III. The party State
a. one common denominator in Chinese politics since 1949- domination by the CCP.
b. The CCP has a smaller population the total population than the communists party of the Soviet Union.
c. The CCP leadership still controls all major appointments in the government and in the party itself.
d. Central Advisory Commission- advise the politburo and the rest of the official leadership.
IV. Public Policy: Perestroika Without Glasnost
a. some believe china will make one of the worlds leading economic powers in the near future.
b. China has remained one of the worlds poorest countries and has taken steps towards improving its conditions.
c. Special Economic Zones-created in 1979, foreign investors were given special tax rates and other incentives in these areas
3 Questions:
1. Hauss says that china will become one of the worlds economic powers someday, if so they why has the country been so poor?
2. I wonder why China is so set at rejecting western ideas.
3. I also why China claims to be a communists country but is communism light, they are not fully communists.
Chapter 8 Current and Former Communist Regimes
I. Communism:
a.China, North Korea, Cuba, and a few other countries are the only communists countries left.
b. The first communists regime was the (USSR) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
c. the Leninist State: 1. The Communists Party completely controlled political life. 2. Until the late 1950’s the Soviet Union controlled the entire Communist World. 3. In the late 1950’s the Communist world began to splinter.
d. Command Economy: The government owned all industrial enterprises and retail sales outlets.
e. In the 1980s the Communist countries found themselves in deep economic trouble.
II. Socialism, Marxism, Leninism
a. Socialism: Four characteristics
1. means of production are flawed.
2. most liberals are satisfied if a society can achieve equality of opportunity, which theoretically offers everyone the same chance to succeed.
3. democracy as practiced in liberal, capitalist society is too limited.
4. socialisms claim that providing for public ownership and control of a substantially more egalitarian society will improve human relations in general.
b. Marxism
1. Karl Marx
2. believed that societies passed through stages, evolving from primitive groups of hunters and gatherers and eventually turn into an industrialized society.
3. societies shift from one stage to another in a process called dialectic.
4. progress occurs as a result of changes in the distribution of economic power, historical materialism.
5. process occurs as a result of conflict between classes.
6. Marx thinks capitalism is a step forward
c. Stalinism
1. Joseph Stalin
2. totalitarianism: Stalin used the party, the mass media, and campaigns of terror to subjugate the population and then mobilize the people in pursuit of the leadership’s goals.
d. De-Stalinization
1. de-Stalinization: when his colleagues replaced him and they had a period of relaxation and reform
III. The Marxist-Leninist State
a. The Party State
b. The intuitions of the party state were its secretariat and politburo
c. The most important individuals were the general secretary and the members of the Politburo
d. Western observers called these regimes totalitarian
IV. The Crisis of Communism Suicide by Public Policy
a. In 1985 the European Communism’s final act began.
b. Glasnost: more openness in the political system
c. Democratization, beginning with the introduction of a degree of competition to the way the Communist Party was run.
d. Perestroika, economic restructuring, including a degree of private ownership
e. New thinking in foreign policy, especially improved relations with the West.
f. Revolutions first started in Poland
g. There are only 5 communists countries left: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.
V. Transitions
a. most conditions have improved in these countries
3 questions:
1. I think it was interesting how Marx says that society is slowly making progress over time even when they have their downs they are still slowly headed upward.
2. I am just curious in these countries with communist’s leaders how does the leader come to power. Like how does the country decide who will be in charge of everything since they can not vote?
Since the countries that call themselves communists are not really fully communists why do they object to becoming capitalists nations when they do not fully accept communism either?
Chapter 10: China
I. Thinking about China
a. The worlds most populated country.
b. remains a very poor country even though all the progress it has made
c. Hu Jintao currently governs China
II. The Evolution of the Chinese State
a. Confucianism: a code of social conduct that revolves around a few key principles.
b. China has gone through stages of ups and downs
c. Sun Yat-sen- one of the first Chinese to be westernized
d. Kuomintang or Nationalist Party
e. May Fourth Movement- against Confucianism
f. Mao and the Longest March
g. Zhou Enlai- form a united front to fight the Japanese
h. Lin Biao-gained control of Manchuria and started moving south
i. Great Leap Forward- where China attempted to make rapid progress in the transition to socialism and communism under Mao’s rule
j. Jiang Qing- eliminating anything Western and non-ideological from the theatres and airwaves.
k. The Gang of Four-Jiang, Zhang, Yao, and Wang
l. In 1973, Zhou announced that China would concentrate on the four modernizations-agriculture, industry, science and the military.
II. Political Culture and Participation:
a. Collectivism
b. Struggle and Activism
c. Egalitarianism and Populism
d. Self-Reliance
e. The average citizens actually participate in political life more than their counterparts in the west.
f. Democracy Wall-1978
g. Democracy Movement: the first large, reasonably well-organized protest movement against the CCP and its policies.
h. Falun Gong- organization that is hard to fit into western conceptual schemes.
III. The party State
a. one common denominator in Chinese politics since 1949- domination by the CCP.
b. The CCP has a smaller population the total population than the communists party of the Soviet Union.
c. The CCP leadership still controls all major appointments in the government and in the party itself.
d. Central Advisory Commission- advise the politburo and the rest of the official leadership.
IV. Public Policy: Perestroika Without Glasnost
a. some believe china will make one of the worlds leading economic powers in the near future.
b. China has remained one of the worlds poorest countries and has taken steps towards improving its conditions.
c. Special Economic Zones-created in 1979, foreign investors were given special tax rates and other incentives in these areas
3 Questions:
1. Hauss says that china will become one of the worlds economic powers someday, if so they why has the country been so poor?
2. I wonder why China is so set at rejecting western ideas.
3. I also why China claims to be a communists country but is communism light, they are not fully communists.
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