Friday, December 11, 2015
Political Geogrphy Test
Today we took the most frustrating test ever. As soon as Mr. Schick read the directions, he announced that we could use our blogs. Great. Except that my computer took 40 out of the 50 minutes to update and restart. It wasn't like it was a hard test, I did it without my blogs. Then I got on my blogs and realized all of my countries project didn't post and I only had Dilma Rouseff's biography. It was all on word instead.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Dilma Rouseff's youth
Dilma Rouseff is a Brazilian economist and politician currently serving as the 36th President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office. She was previously the Chief of Staff of the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010. The daughter of a Bulgarian entrepreneur, Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. She became a socialist during her youth, and following the 1964 coup d'état joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was eventually captured and was jailed between 1970 and 1972, during which time she was reportedly tortured.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Somalian Pirates
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War in the early 21st century. Since 2005, many international organizations have expressed concern over the rise in acts of piracy. Piracy impeded the delivery of shipments and increased shipping expenses, costing an estimated $6.6 to $6.9 billion a year in global trade in 2011 according to Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP). A United Nations report and several news sources have suggested that the piracy off the coast of Somalia was caused in part by illegal fishing by foreign boats taking advantage of the war, which resulted in lost fishing income to local communities. Combined Task Force 150, a multinational coalition task force, took on the role of fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia by establishing a Maritime Security Patrol Area (MSPA) within the Gulf of Aden. The increasing threat posed by piracy has also caused concern in India since most of its shipping trade routes pass through the Gulf of Aden.
Monday, November 30, 2015
History of Israel
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine. This UN plan specified borders for new Arab and Jewish states and also specified an area of Jerusalem and its environs which was to be administered by the UN under an international regime. The end of the British Mandate for Palestine was set for midnight on 14 May 1948. The borders of the new state were not specified in the declaration. Neighboring Arab armies invaded the former Palestinian mandate on the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Isis solution day 2
The problem Isis presents is very complex, there is no definitive, or proven way to remove Isis from the Middle East. One way to stop the financing of Isis would be to further fortify nearby cities, and towns that could become potential targets. To reinforce these cities, and towns we should add a larger military presence by adding more soldiers or more air support. This could be done by slowly bolstering forces in Syria and Iraq with some US soldiers that could help train local forces. After that we could handle Isis by targeting their oil refineries, and try to take them over with soldiers. Isis makes approximately one to three million dollars a day by selling oil to different black market dealers. It is also theorized that Isis sells oil to the Syrian government. If we were to take over some of the oil refineries controlled by Isis it would be a detrimental blow to their finances and also to their moral. To capture the oil refineries we would have to send in ground troops to acquire the resources, or train enough locals to allow them to conduct the raids themselves. This would be made even more possible if we were to ally with other nations like France, and Russia to send in troops. This could both relatively contain Isis, and further damage their economic situation. The only problem with this solution is that we have to send in our own troops to solve the problem. But in the end the US, and allies will most likely end up sending ground troops in anyways. So we should attempt to eradicate Isis before they become more of a problem for the world.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
ISIS Solution
The problem of Isis is very complex, there is no definite way to remove Isis from the Middle East. One way that we could handle Isis would be to target their oil refineries, and try to get rid of them with firebombs. Isis makes approximately 1.5 million dollars a day by selling oil to different black market dealers. It is also hypothesized that Isis sells oil to the Syrian government. If we were to get rid of the oil refineries controlled by Isis it would be a detrimental blow to their finances and also to their moral. To capture the oil refineries we would have to send in ground troops to acquire the resources. This would be made even more possible if we were to ally with other nations like France, and Russia to send in troops. Another way to stop the financing of Isis would be to further fortify nearby cities, and towns that could become potential targets. This could both relatively contain Isis, and further damage their economic situation. The only problem with this solution is that we have to send in our own troops to solve the problem. But in the end the US, and allies will most likely end up sending ground troops in anyways. So we should attempt to eradicate Isis before they become more of a problem for the world.
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