Assignment; ONE AND ONLY

1.     Familiarize yourself with your nations; capitals, locations, and major geographical forms should be the first things out of the way.

2.     Distinguish the defining issues they face. An easy way to do this is just do a CNN.com search and identify a common thread through the first few hits.

3.     Begin highlighting your countries by filling out this template (below) for of your countries, copy/paste and email complete ones to nxletso@sbcglobal.net.

4.     The next meeting will be Monday February 19, 2006 and you should have highlighted at least a half of you countries by then.

Countries:

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(*Remember that all countries are not created equally; unfortunately for the Bahamas, the United States holds a little more international sway than they do; hence who ever is assigned the Bahamas should do the bear minimum 10 facts, and the United States should do 5X that amount in a proportional fashion: the 3 mandatory people should become a list of 15 of that nation’s who’s who and so on with the rest of the facts).

 Stay focused on facts of international significance; UN controversies, qualms that could result in war, etc. Basic facets, such as what language they speak, capitals, geography, and their majority religion, should not be named here yet be your core responsibility. Think almanac. Current events should be ones that have decided elections and people the ones that dictated those elections and stole headlines, historical background is comprised of past events which still hold significance in that country’s doings, and trivia is just something randomly interesting about the respective societies.

I.                   Current Events Overview

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II.                People

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III.             Historical Background

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IV.           Trivia

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