Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Congress of berlin: This was a meeting of European great powers.
Partition of Africa: The cause of most of Africa's borders today.
Scramble for Africa: It was a process of invasion, attack, occupation, and annexation of African territory by European powers.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Title:Mexican Drug Trafficking
Author:
Date of the article: October 21 2010
website:Nytimes
This topic is about a war with well financed drug cartels. The mexican goverment sent 10,000 soldiers and federal police to take them on. All of the drug gangs fought for domain and territory. It has also strained relations with America to. A lot of marijuanna and weapond have been smuggled in. American security officers know that it could be a threat to national security. More federal polic are securing the border.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Hw#20

1.Laissez faire: the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.
Adam smith: He defended the idea of free economy, or free market.
Capitilism:an ecomonic system in which money id transvested in business ventures.
utilitartianism:judge ideas, institutions, and actions based on their utility.
socialism:the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all.
Karl Marx: He introduced the radical socialism of Marxism.
Comunism: a form of complete socialism that is owned by people.
union:collective bargaining.
collective bargaining:negotisnts between workers and their employers.
strike: to hit

2.Capitalism:it is inested in business ventures.
both: both of them have to do with money.
Marxism: it argued about bad conditions for poor workers.
3.The main problems were that the union did not want to replace the skilled workrers. They weren"t helping the poor workrers a lot. But then the unions shared goals of making safe conditions and raising wages.
4.i think it is very important because economy is money. If it goes down it's bad. It has to be ina good level.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Hw #19

1.Industrial revolution: the increased output of machine -made goods.
Enclosure: larger fields.
crop rotation: best developments of the scientists farmer.
Industriliziation:The process of developing machines.
factors of production:sources needed to produce goods.
factory: A place that makes stuff.
entrepreneur: a person who organizes,man ages, takes on the risk n business.