current event 1 ½-2 pages will the country of egypt ever be secure and stable?

•Current Event 1 ½-2 pages•Will the country of Egypt

ever be secure and stable?•How can Egypt prevent

another football riot from happening again?

•Will Egypt’s new democratic government last?

• 73 people were killed in a brawl between rival groups of soccer fans after a match last Wed. Deadliest soccer riot in 15 years.

• Fans faulted police for failing to conduct gate searches , and unwilling to control violence. (video shows officers standing still.)Conspiracy?Destablizing country?

• Started half way through match. After match fans stormed the field. Knives, clubs and stones.

• “People are dying and no one is doing a thing” said one witness. Bloody bodies littered the field.

• Die hard soccer fans-ultras-(agst Mubarak and military regime)

• Gov trying to stir up chaos?

Info about Egypt

• Egypt is going though a transitional gov.

• Currently, the military is in power, but parliamentary elections have happened. A civilian rule hoping to happen by June. Many angry want military rulers to surrender immediately, before a new constitution and president.

Religion•Egypt•Muslim 90%•Christianity 10% Minority (often

violence agst Christians)•Terrorist attacks on Christians

in Africa, Middle East, and Asia increased greatly from 2003 to 2010.

•Egypt financial crisis•Debts•12% unemployment•New rule= financial

instability.

• History in the last year• Jan 25, 2011 Mass protests

after uprising in Tunisia. • Protestor took control Cairo’s

Tahrir Square taunting police and protesting Mubarak rule.

1 year ago• Mubarak resigned on Feb 11,

2011 rending 30 years of tyrannical rule.

• Military took power since Mubarek many wondered will our gov be any different?

• Egypt is under martial law with a military council.

• MB- radical underground force in Egypt and other Sunni countries, promoting strict moral discipline and opposing Western influence

• Jan 23 Egypt first democratically elected Parliament in more than 60 years. Elections brought conflict.

• Muslim Brotherhood-Islamist group half of seats newly elected Parliament.

• US and Egypt = tense! 30 yr alliance

• US-Turn over authority to civilians asap!

• US gives 1.3-2 billion dollars in military aid a year.

• Egypt’s gov thought Non profit financing should pass through gov first and go only to licensed groups. US directly financed non profit groups. 19 Americans put to trial.

Quiz TimeScientific

Revolution 1500-1800

Scientific Revolution

Period of time when Period of time when people began to people began to define scientific define scientific method and apply it method and apply it to search for truth.to search for truth.

• Isaac Newton has just theorized that the universe is not a dark mystery, but a system whose parts work together in ways that can be expressed mathematically. A series of arguments have been occurring that have challenged old ways of thinking in fields from astronomy to medicine.

• Why might people have difficulty accepting new ideas or ways of thinking?

• What are the risks of embracing a different idea? What are some risks of always refusing to do so?

Causes•People challenge religion and question ideas accepted for hundreds of years.

•““rebirth” of learning rebirth” of learning during the Renaissance during the Renaissance promoted debate of promoted debate of classical material.classical material.

•Exploration fueled Exploration fueled scientific research; new scientific research; new technology.technology.

•European scholars European scholars translated many works translated many works by Muslim scholars; by Muslim scholars; astronomy, physics and astronomy, physics and mathematics.mathematics.

•Printing press GutenbergPrinting press Gutenberg

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hodYUDDfsY

Francis Bacon•Experimental thinking

•New scientific method of observation and experiment.

•Gather information Gather information and then draw and then draw conclusions.conclusions.

Rene Descartes•Math and logic- the

founder of geometry.•Doubt until proved by

reason (math). •“I think, therefore, I am.”• analytical geometry analytical geometry

(linked algebra and (linked algebra and geometry). geometry).

• urged data collection, urged data collection, math, in all math, in all experimentation.experimentation.

• Scientific Method-logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas. Problem or question through observation, form a hypothesis (unproved assumption). Hypothesis tested in an experiment or on data, scientists analyze and interpret their data to reach a new conclusion. Conclusion confirms or disproves hypothesis.

Which of the steps do you consider to be the most important and why?

Problem: My car won't start. Hypothesis: If I put gas in my car, it will

start. First, I will call my friend Bill and ask for a

ride to the gas station. I will take the five gallon gas can and fill it with five gallons of gasoline at the pump. After paying the gas station owner for the gasoline, I will get a ride back to my car and put the gasoline in the tank. Once the gasoline is in the tank, I will attempt to restart the car.

• Results: The car started on the first try. • Conclusion: When I put gas in my car, it

started. •

Old Way of Thinking Geocentric Theory

• Earth centered view-Geocentric theory.

• Idea from Aristotle. Medieval view

• Ptolemy expanded theory• Christianity taught God

deliberately placed earth at center of the universe.

Geocentric Theory

Nicholas Copernicus

•Heliocentric theory-sun is the center of our solar system

•The earth is one of several planets revolving around the sun.

•Tycho Tycho BraheBrahe developed developed a research center and a research center and believed that believed that mathematical data mathematical data could disprove could disprove Copernicus. He died Copernicus. He died before making sense of before making sense of the data.the data.

Johannes Kepler•Planets follow an elliptical (egg shaped), not a circular, orbit in revolving around the sun.

•Supported Copernicus

•proved planets revolve around the sun.

•Galileo, an Italian Galileo, an Italian scientist, published book scientist, published book Starry Messenger Starry Messenger in 1610. in 1610. Reported:Reported:–Law of Pendulum Law of Pendulum –sun had dark spotssun had dark spots–Jupiter had four moonsJupiter had four moons–Laws of MotionLaws of Motion

Galileo Galilei

•First European to make observations through telescope

•Father of modern science

•Law of falling bodies

•Confirmed Copernican theory

Galileo Trial 1633• Protestants and Catholics upset Protestants and Catholics upset

by scientific findings, went by scientific findings, went against church teaching and against church teaching and authority. authority.

•Taught Copernican theory as truth, published book.

• Pope summoned Galileo to stand Pope summoned Galileo to stand trial before the Inquisition. trial before the Inquisition.

• Forced to state he would never Forced to state he would never support Copernicus.support Copernicus.

• Sentenced to house arrest & Sentenced to house arrest & silencesilence

• Inquisition-church held by court to suppress heresy. Heretic-views differed from church

• People questioned for weeks and tortured, sometimes burned at the stake.

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjviFLHH7c&feature=related

Isaac Newton• Invented

calculus•Story-apple fell

on head.•Formulated the

Laws of Motion•Calculated the

Law of Gravitation

•Explained same physical laws governed motion both on earth and in the heavens.

Vesalius•Undertook dissections of the human body

•Founded anatomy

Edward Jenner

•Edward Jenner-vaccine to prevent smallpox. Inoculation (injecting germ into body to create immunity to disease.). Used cowpox to produce world’s first vaccine to cure smallpox.

Black Plague 1300’s

• Pandemic killed 30-60% of population.

• 25 million dead 1 out of every 3

• From fleas living on the black rats on merchant ships. It spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe.

Medieval people did not know about germs causing disease.

What were the symptoms of the plague?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek•Perfected the microscope to observe bacteria, examined red blood cells. (1670’s)

Robert Boyle

•Founder of modern chemistry.•Challenged Aristotle’s idea.•Matter made up of smaller primary

particles that joined together in different ways.

•Boyle’s law-volume, temperature and pressure of gas affect each other.

(1500-1600)The Great European Witch Hunt

• Witchcraft was seen as a pact made with the devil

• During 16th and 17th centuries, between 40,000-60,000 people were executed 75-85% tried were women, single , over 40

• Legal changes were made to facilitate massive trials

• Most trials began with a single accusation which grew into numerous accusations

• Thus a “witch-hunt”• Doubts and skepticism eventually

brought trials to a halt