Thursday, January 21, 2016

Current Events Reminders

I hope you all did well on your first semester finals and mid-terms.  I've seen many of you diligently working to complete the blogging portion of your pre-requisite assignment.  The last several months have been filled with many news stories of national and international significance.  I thought you might appreciate a reminder of some of these stories as you prepare for your current events quiz on the first day of class.

  • Elections in Myanmar, Argentina, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, & Taiwan
  • Terror attacks in Egypt, Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Iraq, San Bernadino, India, Turkey, Indonesia, & Burkina Faso
  • Conflict in Syria, Yemen, & Burundi and tensions between Saudi Arabia & Iran and China & Vietnam/Philippines/US and Turkey & Russia
  • Diplomacy between Iran & the US and South Korea & Japan
  • Politics in Brazil
  • International climate talks
  • Epidemic diseases in West Africa and South America
  • North Korea nuclear testing
  • Scientific developments
  • Flooding in India and the Mid-West & drought in Ethiopia
  • Developments in "drug war"
  • Refugee crisis
  • IMF & the yuan
  • Obama's executive action
  • Candidates for US president 
  • World leaders (especially leaders of G-8, G-20, and BRIC countries)
If you choose to keep a journal of news stories, you must bring a PAPER copy to class to use it during the current events quiz.



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  1. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2016 at 12:24 PM

    November 8, 2015- Mayanmar Elections:
    On November 8, 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi was elected onto the parliament. The National League for Democracy (NLD) now holds the majority of the seats in Parliament, that was previously majority ruled by the military. The NLD now holds 348 seats in the lower and upper houses of parliament and 329 is the majority rule. Aung San Suu Kyi was just recently released from house arrest (under orders from the oppressive military) and is banned from presidency; however, this provides hope for the construction of a democratic government in the country.

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