Fall of Rome by Jason Meyers

Ana Callens

2018-05-01 20:08:57 UTC

1. The decline of moral values in the USA is practically an updated version of the drop in moral values of Rome. Like the gladiator games and violent video games. In

the gladiator games people came to watch people kill each other just like how in some video games you get points for killing people.
2. Military spending. the USA has been putting off funding for scientific studies that could stop diseases and many deaths and putting it to war just like the Romans did.
3. Inflation. Prices for thing have rapidly increased over the pasted few years. If Prices keep rising soon no one ill be able to afford food or close.
4. Political Corruption. I don't think i need to talk about this mush so here.
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes also cuz it is so controversial right now

Samuel Joseph Whiting

2018-05-01 20:16:07 UTC

1. Unemployment is a problem that is definitely a problem in today's society, because there are so many people, and only so many job opportunities, which was also a big problem when rome was struggling as well as when it was prospering. (Discovery ED)
2. Some jobs were life-long, so that took away job opportunities for people. Unemployment was very wide-spread and there could be 10,000 unemployed people in one city.https://prezi.com/0dczdwtwb3dn/the-fall-of-rome-unemployment/
3. In ancient Rome, they like to conquer many places, which made their population of their empire grow, making more people who needed jobs, as well as having to pay their taxes. In today's society, we have a lot of immigrants coming into America all the time which has the same effect.
4. In Rome they had large amounts of taxes, which made it so some people couldn't pay for a home and stuff, and that is the case sometimes here in modern America. (Discovery ED)

Max Curtis Spieser

2018-05-01 20:19:25 UTC

1.Inferior Technology is a big problem in the U.S., I mean, if your sink was broken, you wouldn't do it yourself, you would call someone else to do it. AND WE DO NOT NEED A NEW I PHONE VERY THREE MONTHS. We waste so much time on unneeded comforts.
2.Political Corruption is a very big thing and I think it should be stopped before everyone suffers. The presidents that have been elected in the past few decades are some of the worst, wasting money and angering neighboring countries.
3. Decline in Morals and values is a big problem as well. We play video games and watch movies with so much gore and death, it's becoming a problem. Our lives have become so emerged in thee blood fests, that we barley respond to it anymore.
4. Inflation is a problem as big and as bad as the others, I just chose to do it last. But we have been upgrading our prices since we started to use money of our own in the U.S., we have things so expensive that the rich still need to work. We, (also like Rome), Are suffering from large amounts of inflation.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/US_Historical_Inflation.svg

Henry J. Leonard

2018-05-01 20:56:15 UTC

1. I say that one way that the United States will fall is through inflation. Inflation may be slow, but in the near future, it will be costly, and we may have to leave the United States. Also, inflation could cause governments to stop working, because no one will buy their products. The U.S. will have a crisis, then will fall. Take a pack of gum, for instance. A pack of gum use to cost,back in 1945,$0.05. Now, in the present day, it is nearly $1.10
2. Another reason I think that the U.S. will fall is unemployment. Unemployment has caused Spain, a once thriving country, to die down. The figures say that there is a %62 unemployment in Spain. The U.S. could suffer from the same problem. Some people are fine with this, so they can relax, but think about how they would get their money to feed them and probably their kids.
3. The third reason I reckon that the U.S. will fall is probably morals and value. Because we are a strong nation, people might think that it is okay to mock other people beliefs and religions. If other people started mocking and laughing at people beliefs, then the ones who got mocked because of their religion will get mad and protest against the president. Then, all the the citizens will walk out in rage because the president did not make the right choice, thus, leading to a downfall.
4. The last thing that might cause the fall of the United States is inferior technology. As it says in the link: However, "the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, [that] they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently." This was one of the reasons why Rome fell. Could it happen to us? To find this information, go to these websites:
1. https://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp

2. https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+unemployment+in+spain&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&oq=percent+of+unemployment+in+sp&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.13036j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&surl=1&safe=active
3. http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_morals_ethics.htm
4. see down http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.03.07_u

LEO Haener-Pope

2018-05-01 20:57:10 UTC

1. The U.S. is having a HUGE unemployment rate, just like Rome. The U.S. recently has over the past few years been decreasing the unemployment rate, but, in January, there was a major bump. This is a very big problem that could lead to the fall of the U.S.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
2. Political Corruption is beginning to happen in the United States. People have been showing some revolt into paying the government, saying that they pay the government through taxes. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/event-summary-political-corruption-in-the-united-states-and-around-the-globe/

Jack Swanson

2018-05-01 20:58:47 UTC

1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election.

Lucy Porter

2018-05-01 21:00:22 UTC

1) Unemployment
Similarly to Rome, the unemployment rates of the US have been going up. However in the US it is because machines have been taking over jobs that people have done previously. I feel like we should learn from Rome and keep

2) Price Inflation
Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year.

3) Urban Decay
In the US urban decay is happening. The housing and rent prices are going up and people are moving out.

4) Military Spending

Jaden Waldbillig

2018-05-01 21:02:26 UTC

1) Inflation
Prices have been increasing by large amounts. No we are paying more for less food. For example gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again.

2) Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military more than any other country. We spend 581 billion on military where the second highest amount is 129.4 billion from China.

3) Moral and Values

" Simulating violence such as shooting guns and hand-to-hand combat in video games can cause real-life violent behavior."
https://videogames.procon.org/

Matthew P. Nicholes

2018-05-01 21:05:09 UTC

1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from:
_{http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/}
2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*).
3. The third thing that is happening is Decline in Morals and Values. These days, if there is a school shooting, what usually happens? We shrug it off. We are being de-sensitized to these things. We just feel like there is no change to killing, cursing, nudity, bad muffins, or pollution. We've just stopped caring.
4. Then there's Unemployment. Sure, there's a lot of different shops and factories in the world and stuff, but there's not enough jobs. Some people did one thing wrong and they're stuck on the streets for life. It's not right, but the robots are taking all the work, and there's not enough jobs. It's just like Rome in about 586 A.D.
I'd have an unemployment chart, but then it would be too big. So, https://www.google.com/search?q=american+unemployment+rate&safe=active&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS760US781&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5oJPj9-faAhWKrFQKHQY2C_IQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=637&surl=1#imgrc=k00GFccS_3asPM:
5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea!

Zoe Phillips

2018-05-01 21:07:13 UTC

1. Political corruption.
In the United States, we are electing people into government who do nothing to support our country. They may have a specific view, but they don't see how it is effecting the general public. Take President Trump's idea of the boarder wall. He was wanting to build a large wall on the boarder of Mexico and the United States, which would not only cost a lot of money, but could be disruptive to the ability to get past to Mexico from the United States. Our politicians aren't as bright as we see them, either. Take for example, the 2016 election, where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went off face to face. They threw each other down and made staged promises to the country in order to win, and we still elected a corrupted person, though there was no other route. We need more people who will not ruin our country to run it, not children in grown bodies.
2. Inflation
Inflation is another huge thing causing the United States to head to it's end. I mean, a cup of coffee was $2.74 just 20 years ago, but now it usually costs $3.94. Taxes are higher, for example, 20 years ago, people payed $828,586.00
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Samantha Hoopes

2018-05-02 02:45:49 UTC

1)Decline in moral values

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Garrett Hunke

2018-05-02 19:51:44 UTC

1 Public Health
Rome suffered terrible strains of disease due to their lack of hygiene. I feel we are falling into the same loop, but we are being much sneakier about it. We are also a bit more brash about it.I found a chart depicting the results of a poll where people were asked where they have, err, relieved themselves. (see chart 1 )
2 Political Corruption
Let's face it. The elections here in the U.S that aren't as honest as we think they are. Also, the politicians are getting wild with the attempt of winning.

3 Urban Decay

Gwendolyn Nelson

2018-05-02 19:52:00 UTC

1)Decline in Morals and Value
Modern media like video games, movies, TV, and even some literature has definitely been desensitizing the USA to violence. The Romans also desensitized themselves to violence by watching the gladiator contests. Video games themselves may not cause violence, but they get us used to it.
Source: National Center for Health Research (NCHR)
2)Unemployment
The unemployment rates in the USA have gone down, and are at 4.1% as of February 2018, which is unlike Rome, that had a very big problem with unemployment in the decline of its empire.
Source: US Department of labor statistics

Grace Johnson

2018-05-02 19:53:00 UTC

1.) Decline in moral values
Crimes and violence are a big problem to the USA
2.) Unemployment
Because people loose their jobs, they also loose their homes and money
3.) Political Corruption
A lot of the Presidents got assassinated, like the Roman Emperors. But empowerment can overpower a person, like a lot of Romans.
4.) Public Health
There are many health problems that the USA has. Because of unemployment, poverty, and taxes, not everyone has good health. The Romans had a very bad lack of hygiene

Rebecca Hopper

2018-05-02 19:53:07 UTC

1- Political Corruption
Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes
2- Decline in Morals and Values
http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx
says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think the are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.
3- Inferior Technology
Today, one single cell phone can cost as much as $1,000 from apple and many other places. the price is so high because we are becoming shorter on resources needed to make all of this technology that we have invented.

Jaycen Koffer

2018-05-02 19:53:08 UTC

1 video games are encouraging bad behavior and crimes. for example, the game GTA 5 encourages young children to commit crimes

2inflation is happening, for example , trumps wall will cost about 7 billion dollars to build
3 bread used to be 1$ a loaf and it costs about 5$ now
4sodas used to be 50cents, and now they're like 8$

Bodin Champion

2018-05-02 19:53:30 UTC

1. Urban Decay there are many people living in poverty. There are currently 43.1 million people living in poverty in the US according to poverty.ucdavis.edu and with many people living in small houses or no houses our economy is slowly falling apart.
2. Unemployment
In the US 4.1% of the people are unemployed according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
3. Military Spending The US is spending way more money than other countries. The US spends 611 billion dollars in defense while other countries combined only use 595 billion
4. Political corruption
Trumps wall will cost about 70 billion dollars to build and 150 million dollars a year to maintain. This is a pointless wall that will cause more war. www.nytimes.com

  www.pgpf.org Military Spending

Elyse Shurbet

2018-05-02 19:54:13 UTC

1) Inflation-
The economy has crashed in america multiple times. When it does, it effects us greatly. The Great Depression was even caused by a crash in the economy.

2) Decline in Morals and Values-
There is too many video games with violence where you get rewarded for killing things. Take fortnite for example. It's rating is 13+ but people way younger that are playing it and loving the deaths that they cause in-game.
Sources:
1. https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046 and http://www.cland.k12.ky.us/userfiles/13/Classes/441/5%20causes%20of%20the%20great%20depression.pdf?id=8459 and https://tradingeconomics.com/charts/facebook.png?url=/united-states/unemployment-rate
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Ava Gross

2018-05-02 19:54:28 UTC

1) Decline in morals and values.
One piece of evidence supporting this claim is that as more people play things such as video games and watch movies that romanticize drug use, more and more people start to abuse drugs. For example, in 1999 only about 7 million people were using illegal cannabis but in 2008 11.1 million people started to abuse cannibas.https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/2.0_Drug_statistics_and_Trends.pdf
2) Military spending.
One example of excessive military spending is the US. In 2015 over (54%)598 billion dollars of the federal discretionary funds were used on Military, whereas only 100 billion dollars were used on Transportation and Education combined. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
3) Inflation
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/12-fast-food-prices-then-versus-now/

Lucas Brooks

2018-05-02 19:54:49 UTC

Political Corruption is a big problem today because the government is fighting inwardly and for it's own benefit. They are not listening to the people as much as they should.
Decline in Moral Values is another problem because there is too many violent realistic games about killing people and there is more shootings. According to BBC, there were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870.
Military Spending

Jared Wasden

2018-05-02 19:54:50 UTC

1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/
2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society. There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that are rasing every year.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

Kara-Elise Grossman

2018-05-02 19:54:55 UTC

1. Political corruption
I think political corruption was a big factor in the fall of Rome and can be a big factor today. lots of people just want to become in power for their own purposes. a lot of people like the idea of being powerful.
2 unemployment was a big factor in Rome, and a big factor today some people are very rich, and live in big houses, while other people are poor. in fact more people are poor than rich. a lot of people don't want to work and rely on cheeseburgers from McDonald's, and get fat
3. inflation today prices have gone up you used to be able to get a soda for 20 cents but today you can get it for 1$
also coffee from Starbucks is expensive JUST GET PLAIN BLACK COFFEE.
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Kayla Broadhead

2018-05-02 19:55:09 UTC

1 Urban Decay
2 unemployment
3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)
4 Inflation The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=truehttps://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true

Lorien Williamson

2018-05-02 19:55:13 UTC

1) Decline in Moral Values
Video games that promote violence is one thing that is happening today, and with more and more gun violence, in the last year over 307 shootings have occurred, injuring 5 or more people almost every time. Also these games promote alcohol and drug usage.
2) Political Corruption
This is another big problem in the US, just like in Rome we also have difficult times choosing our government officials and other important roles. Lots of times there might be cheating or they might mess with the voting system.
3) Unemployment
I think that is is another very large problem. When citizens stop working, they lose homes and if they can not find another job they beg on the streets. This is true for both Rome and the US, the US with more than half a million. This can also increase the crime rate for food and money.
4) Inflation
One example of this is when

Hailee Clark

2018-05-02 19:55:37 UTC

1) Public Health
I think public health was a problem in Rome because the wealthy death rate was very high.
This may happen to the US if we are not careful about our water, our # of people living on the street, and our alcohol usage.
2) Political Corruption
I think political corruption was an important factor in Rome's fall because they couldn't choose a leader very well, and without a leader, the country can't run. The US has problems voting sometimes because it takes a VERY long time to vote and people argue about who to vote for VERY seriously. This could be quite a problem

Madero Tassi

2018-05-02 19:57:07 UTC

1.)Inflation
"January and February 2012 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics both months had inflation rates of 2.9%. However, our data shows inflation in January as 2.93% and in February as 2.87%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..." https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true
2.) Military Spending
military spending is projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
3.)Unemployment
The US unemployment rate stood at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent for the sixth consecutive month in March 2018, slightly above market expectations of 4 percent. The number of unemployed decreased by 121 thousand to 6.59 million and employment fell 37 thousand to 155.18 million. The labor force participation rate dropped to 62.9 percent from a five-month high of 63 percent in February. Unemployment Rate in the United States averaged 5.78 percent from 1948 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

4.)Public Health
Americans are below average on most measures of health — from obesity to infant mortality — when compared with other rich countries, and they're falling behind on lifespan, too, according to the latest survey.
https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/were-no-26-us-below-average-most-health-measures-2D11635080

Landon Jensen

2018-05-02 19:57:38 UTC

1. Public Health decreasing
public health is decreasing more people are getting sick every year and more people have died. we are getting less healthy and less healthier the U.S. public health funding steadily falling, new study shows "By 2014, public health funding had plummeted 17 percent from 2002 levels (a 9.3 percent drop since 2008) with just 2.65 percent of total health spending, or $255 per capital, devoted to public health initiatives like smoking cessation and disease prevention. That adds up to a $40.2 billion loss of funds that could have been devoted to public health between 2009 and 2014, the study authors said."
2. Military Spending
we are spending way too much on border defense because that trump wants to build his wall the estimated cost is 70 billion dollars that is for the military for illegal immigration.
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Brooklyn Lewis

2018-05-02 19:57:42 UTC

1.) Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat.
2.) Inflation
3.) Public Health
4.) Decline in Morals and Value is a common occurrence today. According to http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their galdiator combats, the US is producing violent videogames and movies.

Jackson Wickard

2018-05-02 19:58:10 UTC

1. Inflation- Imagine going to a fast food restaurant. Would you want the big hamburger(refer to the picture) or the small hamburger. This is how inflation has acted.
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Emmie Lind

2018-05-02 20:00:43 UTC

Our money is spent on things that do not benefit us in healthy ways. Taxes are being raised. Immigration allows people to travel in and out of the country, but diseases can be brought into America, causing epidemics of plagues. Some political leaders are not qualified to lead the U.S.A., causing disruption among states. Jobs are now needing more experienced employees, causing many people to go into unemployment.

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Brooklyn Searle

2018-05-02 20:07:40 UTC

1. Inflation
Many things have gone up in price over the years like recently the battery on my Xbox died and before it was $2.00 but now it is $20.00.
2. Urban Decay
Most poor people

Mori Kurland

2018-05-02 20:07:43 UTC

1.Inflation: According to the source below allsalary rates are going down. SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm

Abigail Takeuchi

2018-05-02 20:08:56 UTC

1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html
2. Political Corruption is another huge problem. Politics have become such a hot topic. People have been getting too aggressive. One of the biggest problems is campaigning problem.

Anna Waters

2018-05-02 20:10:19 UTC

1. I think that Decline in Morals and Values is could happen to the US. Cyber bulling is leading to out of control anger, depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide.

Dylan Price

2018-05-02 20:10:52 UTC

1)I think that are morals are decreasing very fast. The Romans enjoyed watching criminals fight to the death. Today we find it entertaining to play games that involve murder.

2) Inflation. If you take the amount of money it took to buy something small like a baseball 20 years ago to now, it is very different.

Amelia Farr

2018-05-02 20:14:35 UTC

1. Decline in Morals and Values
I think that Decline in Morals and Values might happen to the U.S the same way that it happened to Rome. The people in Rome started to enjoy watching people die. In the U.S today, people die in video games all of the time. In some games, you can get extra points just for killing people.
2. Public Health
3. Inflation
4. Urban Decay

Samuel Joseph Whiting

2018-05-02 20:15:28 UTC

Political Corruption
1. Back then they didn't set up a strong system to pick a new leader so sometimes they would sell the throne to the highest bidder. Today, some people bribe others to vote for them.
2.In ancient Rome, the emperor may be assassinated because of something, and that can also happen in america to the president.

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Lucas Coltrin

2018-05-02 20:38:29 UTC

1. Decline in Moral Values.

Look at how many rated R movie to rated G movies there are. There are so many more violent movies now and that is bad. That is a sign that people who watch movies are going to watch more rated R and PG13 movies. That could also mean that PG13 movies are getting more violent and lots of kids watch PG13 movies so that could be like exposing them to R rated movies at 13 or under.
2. Unemployment

While the unemployment rate is decreasing, a 4.5% as of last year is not a good thing. That means that about 14 million people are unemployed in the USA. The other problem is the machines are becoming able to do jobs better than we can. This could be one of the leading causes of unemployment.
3. Inflation
The average cost of a house in 2000 was $134,150.00, now it is about $369,900 that is over 2.5 times as much as it used to be

4. Military Spending.
With Trump as president he is putting so much more money into the military than any other president this is how much bigger our military costs compared to other countries.

Trinity Gillispie

2018-05-02 20:41:48 UTC

1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.

2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. People are even viewing us as worse than what we used to be. In this graph, you can see that people think our morals and values are poor.

3) Political Corruption
We all know that our current president isn't that well liked. Or that the 2016 election wasn't the smoothest. Although some people support our president, he is getting a lot of hate on the media. This shows that the USA is weak because we can't respect our president or anything he does, and if we do, we get hated on.

Bruce Salisbury

2018-05-02 20:42:29 UTC

1. Inferior Technology
As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react.

2.If you've ever seen Wall-E you may have known that the people were quite obese. That could be the future of the human race.
as you can see there are the most overweight people

Colten Bullington

2018-05-02 20:42:59 UTC

#1 Inflammation
imagine your mother said you had two choices for dinner the image on top, or the image on the botom

exactly

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Lily Hoellwarth

2018-05-02 20:44:27 UTC

1. Inferior Technology
I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.

2. Inflation
The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices

3. Decline in Morals and Values
In ancient Rome, the streets had become chaos, people were fighting, and the cities were unsafe. I believe that the U.S is somewhat like this. People walk down the allies, just to fight somebody!

Henry Williamson

2018-05-02 20:44:32 UTC

1) Decline in Morals and Value
There are video games and movies that are lowering morals and value by desensitizing people into thinking violence is okay and introducing people into porn.
"Blood and gore. Intense violence. Strong sexual content. Use of drugs. These are just a few of the phrases that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) uses to describe the content of several games in the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the most popular video game series among teenagers."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/violent-video-games-and-young-people
2) Inflation
Inflation is growing in the U.S. and in 2013, prices were 22.75 times greater than in 1913. These higher prices may cause poverty in America.

3) Unemployment
Unemployment is a big problem in America with almost 10% of citizens unemployed in 2000. This unemployment could cause many to go into poverty.

4) Public Health
Public health is a problem in the U.S. with cancer related deaths and heart disease always rising. These problems could cause many families to go into mourning over a lost sibling or spouse and affect the overall U.S. happiness rates.

These are the 4 main reasons why I think America may fall.

Jora Kurland

2018-05-02 20:45:21 UTC

1) Decline in Morals and Values
People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school
Evidence:

All this proves is that only 75% of companies provide dress codes. People are not even "supposed" to wear business attire.

Enoch Bate

2018-05-02 20:45:28 UTC

1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed.

2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....

(Morals and Values graph) https://www.google.com/search?q=decline+in+morals+and+values+graph&safe=active&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQtJmo9ufaAhUUVWMKHRMkAxgQsAQINQ&biw=1440&bih=769&surl=1#imgrc=sYsuFjm1wKZnjM:

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

2018-05-02 20:46:01 UTC

Hannah Scoville

2018-05-02 20:46:47 UTC

1.) Political Corruption

In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected. Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power?

CITATION: “Impeachment in the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 May 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States.

Bekah Barton

2018-05-02 20:46:54 UTC

1. Unemployment
I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom).
2. Political Corruption
This past election and many other of the elections, there were many arguments about who should be president and if they were the right fit for America. Many candidates could not have been chosen for president simply because they were a Republican, or Democratic, or even because of race or gender. This possibly could have made many people frustrated or disappointed.

Mia Wang

2018-05-02 20:46:54 UTC

1. Decline in Morals and Values
Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem. movies and video games make violence seem normal, which is causing us to be influenced in a way that makes us too.

Elle Hamaker

2018-05-02 20:47:05 UTC

1. Decline in Morals and Value
In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more people play violent video games, the more violent they become. The crime rate has gone up because of violent video games.

2. Infaltion
There is a lot of inflation in the US 20 years a

2018-05-02 20:48:45 UTC

Matthew Martino

2018-05-02 20:48:58 UTC

1. Decline in morals and values

The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/

2.) Inferior Technology
The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever.

https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

Victoria Metzler

2018-05-02 20:49:20 UTC

1. Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media. There is a lot of games that have a lot of violent content. People have parties and they just drink alcohol and become ill.
Evidence:

2018-05-02 20:49:50 UTC

Samantha Hoopes

2018-05-02 20:50:08 UTC

1) Decline in moral values
A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today often play violent or crude games such as Call of Duty or Mortal Combat. The whole objectives of these games is kill your opponents and be the last one standing. On TV, which most people of all ages watch, is also filled with inappropriate images and language

Brooklyn Smith

2018-05-02 20:51:09 UTC

1.1. Unemployment
I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity. Some people don't have enough money to go to college. Many people today don't have a job.

Tess Campbell

2018-05-02 20:51:13 UTC

1. Decline of morals and values.
When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any. I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane!
2. Military spending
When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military. Why? Our army is fighting alongside the Afgan military in

Liam Gabbard

2018-05-02 20:51:35 UTC

1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane. This could change the way people grow up completely. It could also change their personality and their attitude.

2018-05-02 20:51:56 UTC

Leo Haener-Pope

2018-05-02 20:52:42 UTC

1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. Over the past 50 years, the prices have just been rising and rising. It has stayed pretty steady over the past years, but it could go even higher.

3. The US is also spending a lot of money on military/army things. As the afghanistan wars continue, and the deadly attacks in Syria, the US is paying a lot of money to the military, which could be bad.

2018-05-02 20:54:29 UTC

2018-05-02 20:55:04 UTC

2018-05-02 20:57:27 UTC

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2018-05-02 20:58:02 UTC

2018-05-02 20:58:07 UTC

Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope 1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs. 2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This Trinity Gillispie Trinity Gillispie 1) Inflation Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be. 2) Decline in Morals and Values People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. Matthew Martino Matthew Martino 1. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games

2018-05-02 21:00:51 UTC

2018-05-02 21:01:32 UTC

Boş Bruce Salisbury Bruce Salisbury 1. Inferior Technology As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react. 2.If you Enoch Bate Enoch Bate 1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed. 2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days.... (unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope 1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs. 2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This Trinity Gillispie Trinity Gillispie 1) Inflation Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be. 2) Decline in Morals and Values People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. Matthew Martino Matthew Martino 1. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games 📎 Photo Matthew Martino Matthew Martino 1. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/ 2.) Inferior Technology Image result for graph on Image result for graph on decline of scientific achievements in the us Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope 1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs. 2. America is dealing with inflation problems. A lot of times, prices suddenly burst up, then gradually go back down. The stock market is being affected very badly. Matthew P. Nicholes Matthew P. Nicholes 1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from: http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/ 2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*). 3. 4. Not sure yet. 5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea! Liam Gabbard Liam Gabbard 1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane. Colten Bullington Colten Bullington #1 Inflammation imagine your mother said you had two choices for dinner the image on top, or the image on the botom or Tess Campbell Tess Campbell 1. Decline of morals and values. When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any. I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane! 2. Military spending When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military. Why? Brooklyn Smith Brooklyn Smith 1. Unemployment I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity Samantha Hoopes Samantha Hoopes 1) Decline in moral values A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today often play violent or Empty Victoria Metzler Victoria Metzler 1. Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media. There is a lot of games that have Evidence: Elle Hamaker Elle Hamaker 1. Decline in Morals and Value In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more kids play violent video games, the more violent kids become. Mia Wang Mia Wang 1. Decline in Morals and Values Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem. Hannah Scoville Hannah Scoville 1.) Political Corruption In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected. Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power? Empty 📎 Photo Bekah Barton Bekah Barton 1. Unemployment I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom). 2. Political Corruption Jora Kurland Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school Evidence: All this proves is that only 75% of companies provide dress codes. People are not even "supposed" to wear business attire. Lily Hoellwarth Lily Hoellwarth 1. Inferior Technology I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S. 2. Inflation The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices Lucas Coltrin Lucas Coltrin 1. Decline in Moral Values. Look at how many rated R movie to rated G movies there are. There are so many more violent movies now and that is bad. That is a sign that people who watch movies are going to watch more rated R and PG13 movies. That could also mean that PG13 movies are getting more violent and lots of kids watch PG13 movies so that could be like exposing them to R rated movies at 13 or under. 2. Unemployment While the unemployment rate is decreasing, a 4.5% as of last year is not a good thing. That means that about 14 million people are unemployed in the USA. The other problem is the machines are becoming able to do jobs better than we can. This could be one of the lead Henry J. Leonard Henry J. Leonard 1. I say that one way that the United States will fall is through inflation. Inflation may be slow, but in the near future, it will be costly, and we may have to leave the United States. Also, inflation could cause governments to stop working, because no one will buy their products. The U.S. will have a crisis, then will fall. Take a pack of gum, for instance. A pack of gum use to cost,back in 1945,$0.05. Now, in the present day, it is nearly $1.10 2. Another reason I think that the U.S. will fall is unemployment. Unemployment has caused Spain, a once thriving country, to die down. The figures say that there is a %62 unemployment in Spain. The U.S. could suffer from the same problem. Some people are fine with this, so they can relax, but think about how they would get their money to feed them and probably their kids. 3. The third reason I reckon that the U.S. will fall is probably morals and value. Because we are a strong nation, people might think that it is okay to mock other people beliefs and religions. If other people started mocking and laughing at people beliefs, the 4. The last thing that might cause the fall of the United States is inferior technology. As it says in the link: However, "the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, [that] they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently." This was one of the reasons why Rome fell. Could it happen to us? To find this information, go to these websites: 1. https://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+unemployment+in+spain&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&oq=percent+of+unemployment+in+sp&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.13036j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&surl=1&safe=active 3. http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_morals_ethics.htm 4. see down http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.03.07_u Jared Wasden Jared Wasden 1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/ 2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society. There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that are rasing every year. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi Empty 📎 Photo 📎 Photo 📎 Photo Samuel Joseph Whiting Samuel Joseph Whiting Political Corruption 1. Back then they didn't set up a strong system to pick a new leader so sometimes they would sell the throne to the highest bidder. Today, some people bribe others to vote for them. 2.In ancient Rome, the emperor may be assassinated because of something, and that can also happen in america to the president. Amelia Farr Amelia Farr 1. Decline in Morals and Values I think that Decline in Morals and Values might happen to the U.S the same way that it happened to Rome. The people in Rome started to enjoy watching people die. In the U.S today, people die in video games all of the time. In some games, you can get extra points just for killing people. 2. Public Health 3. Inflation 4. Urban Decay Anna Waters Anna Waters 1. I think that Decline in Morals and Values is could happen to the US. Cyber bulling is leading to out of control anger, depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. Abigail Takeuchi Abigail Takeuchi 1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html 2. Political Corruption is another huge problem. Politics have become such a hot topic. People have been getting too aggressive. One of the biggest problems is campaigning problem. Dylan Price Dylan Price 1)I think that are morals are decreasing very fast. The Romans enjoyed watching criminals fight to the death. Today we find it entertaining to play games that involve murder. 2) Inflation. If you take the amount of money it took to buy something small like a baseball 20 years ago to now, it is very different. 3) Elyse Shurbet Elyse Shurbet 1) Inflation- The economy has crashed in america multiple times. When it does, it effects us greatly. The Great Depression was even caused by a crash in the economy. 2) Decline in Morals and Values- There is too many video games with violence where you get rewarded for killing things. Take fortnite for example. It's rating is 13+ but people way younger that are playing it and loving the deaths that they cause in-game. Sources: 1. https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046 and http://www.cland.k12.ky.us/userfiles/13/Classes/441/5%20causes%20of%20the%20great%20depression.pdf?id=8459 and https://tradingeconomics.com/charts/facebook.png?url=/united-states/unemployment-rate 2. Jackson Wickard Jackson Wickard 1. Inflation- Imagine going to a fast food restaurant. Would you want the big hamburger(refer to the picture) or the small hamburger. This is how inflation has acted. 2. 3. 4. Mori Kurland Mori Kurland 1.Inflation: According to the source below allsalary rates are going down. SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm 2. Empty Emmie Lind Emmie Lind Our money is spent on things that do not benefit us in healthy ways. Taxes are being raised. Immigration allows people to travel in and out of the country, but diseases can be brought into America, causing epidemics of plagues. Some political leaders are not qualified to lead the U.S.A., causing disruption among states. Jobs are now needing more experienced employees, causing many people to go into unemployment. Ana Callens Ana Callens 1. The decline of moral values in the USA is practically an updated version of the drop in moral values of Rome. Like the gladiator games and violent video games. In the gladiator games people came to watch people kill each other just like how in some video games you get points for killing people. 2. Military spending. the USA has been putting off funding for scientific studies that could stop diseases and many deaths and putting it to war just like the Romans did. 3. Inflation. Prices for thing have rapidly increased over the pasted few years. If Prices keep rising soon no one ill be able to afford food or close. 4. Political Corruption. I don't think i need to talk about this mush so here. https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes also cuz it is so controversial right now Brooklyn Searle Brooklyn Searle 1. Inflation Many things have gone up in price over the years like recently the battery on my Xbox died and before it was $2.00 but now it is $20.00. 2. Urban Decay Most poor people Rebecca Hopper Rebecca Hopper 1- Political Corruption Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes 2- Decline in Morals and Values http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think the are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today. 3- Inferior Technology Today, one single cell phone can cost as much as $1,000 from apple and many other places. the price is so high because we are becoming shorter on resources needed to make all of this technology that we have invented. Landon Jensen Landon Jensen 1. Public Health decreasing public health is decreasing more people are getting sick every year and more people have died. we are getting less healthy and less healthier the U.S. public health funding steadily falling, new study shows "By 2014, public health funding had plummeted 17 percent from 2002 levels (a 9.3 percent drop since 2008) with just 2.65 percent of total health spending, or $255 per capital, devoted to public health initiatives like smoking cessation and disease prevention. That adds up to a $40.2 billion loss of funds that could have been devoted to public health between 2009 and 2014, the study authors said." 2. Military Spending we are spending way too much on border defense because that trump wants to build his wall the estimated cost is 70 billion dollars that is for the military for illegal immigration. 3 Samuel Joseph Whiting Samuel Joseph Whiting 1. Unemployment is a problem that is definitely a problem in today's society, because there are so many people, and only so many job opportunities, which was also a big problem when rome was struggling as well as when it was prospering. (Discovery ED) 2. Some jobs were life-long, so that took away job opportunities for people. Unemployment was very wide-spread and there could be 10,000 unemployed people in one city.https://prezi.com/0dczdwtwb3dn/the-fall-of-rome-unemployment/ 3. In ancient Rome, they like to conquer many places, which made their population of their empire grow, making more people who needed jobs, as well as having to pay their taxes. In today's society, we have a lot of immigrants coming into America all the time which has the same effect. 4. In Rome they had large amounts of taxes, which made it so some people couldn't pay for a home and stuff, and that is the case sometimes here in modern America. (Discovery ED) Hailee Clark Hailee Clark 1) Public Health I think public health was a problem in Rome because the wealthy death rate was very high. This may happen to the US if we are not careful about our water, our # of people living on the street, and our alcohol usage. 2) Political Corruption I think political corruption was an important factor in Rome's fall because they couldn't choose a leader very well, and without a leader, the country can't run. The US has problems voting sometimes because it takes a VERY long time to vote and people argue about who to vote for VERY seriously. This could be quite a problem Brooklyn Lewis Brooklyn Lewis 1.) Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 2.) Inflation 3.) Public Health 4.) Decline in Morals and Value is a common occurrence today. According to http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their galdiator combats, the US is producing violent videogames and movies. Lorien Williamson Lorien Williamson 1) Decline in Moral Values Video games that promote violence is one thing that is happening today, and with more and more gun violence, in the last year over 307 shootings have occurred, injuring 5 or more people almost every time. Also these games promote alcohol and drug usage. 2) Political Corruption This is another big problem in the US, just like in Rome we also have difficult times choosing our government officials and other important roles. Lots of times there might be cheating or they might mess with the voting system. 3) Unemployment I think that is is another very large problem. When citizens stop working, they lose homes and if they can not find another job they beg on the streets. This is true for both Rome and the US, the US with more than half a million. This can also increase the crime rate for food and money. 4) Inflation One example of this is when Kayla Broadhead Kayla Broadhead 1 Urban Decay 2 unemployment 3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html) 4 Inflation The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=truehttps://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true Kara-Elise Grossman Kara-Elise Grossman 1. Political corruption I think political corruption was a big factor in the fall of Rome and can be a big factor today. lots of people just want to become in power for their own purposes. a lot of people like the idea of being powerful. 2 unemployment was a big factor in Rome, and a big factor today some people are very rich, and live in big houses, while other people are poor. in fact more people are poor than rich. a lot of people don't want to work and rely on cheeseburgers from McDonald's, and get fat 3. inflation today prices have gone up you used to be able to get a soda for 20 cents but today you can get it for 1$ also coffee from Starbucks is expensive JUST GET PLAIN BLACK COFFEE. 4. Madero Tassi Madero Tassi 1.)Inflation "January and February 2012 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics both months had inflation rates of 2.9%. However, our data shows inflation in January as 2.93% and in February as 2.87%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..." https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true 2.) Military Spending military spending is projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/ 3.)Unemployment The US unemployment rate stood at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent for the sixth consecutive month in March 2018, slightly above market expectations of 4 percent. The number of unemployed decreased by 121 thousand to 6.59 million and employment fell 37 thousand to 155.18 million. The labor force participation rate dropped to 62.9 percent from a five-month high of 63 percent in February. Unemployment Rate in the United States averaged 5.78 percent from 1948 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate 4.)Public Health Americans are below average on most measures of health — from obesity to infant mortality — when compared with other rich countries, and they're falling behind on lifespan, too, according to the latest survey. https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/were-no-26-us-below-average-most-health-measures-2D11635080 Lucas Brooks Lucas Brooks Political Corruption is a big problem today because the government is fighting inwardly and for it's own benefit. They are not listening to the people as much as they should. Decline in Moral Values is another problem because there is too many violent realistic games about killing people and there is more shootings. According to BBC, there were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. Military Spending Ava Gross Ava Gross 1) Decline in morals and values. One piece of evidence supporting this claim is that as more people play things such as video games and watch movies that romanticize drug use, more and more people start to abuse drugs. For example, in 1999 only about 7 million people were using illegal cannabis but in 2008 11.1 million people started to abuse cannibas.https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/2.0_Drug_statistics_and_Trends.pdf 2) Military spending. One example of excessive military spending is the US. In 2015 over (54%)598 billion dollars of the federal discretionary funds were used on Military, whereas only 100 billion dollars were used on Transportation and Education combined. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/ 3) Inflation https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/12-fast-food-prices-then-versus-now/ Bodin Champion Bodin Champion 1. Urban Decay there are many people living in poverty. There are currently 43.1 million people living in poverty in the US according to poverty.ucdavis.edu and with many people living in small houses or no houses our economy is slowly falling apart. 2. Unemployment In the US 4.1% of the people are unemployed according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. 3. Military Spending The US is spending way more money than other countries. The US spends 611 billion dollars in defense while other countries combined only use 595 billion 4. Political corruption Trumps wall will cost about 70 billion dollars to build and 150 million dollars a year to maintain. This is a pointless wall that will cause more war. www.nytimes.com www.pgpf.org Military Spending Jaycen Koffer Jaycen Koffer 1 video games are encouraging bad behavior and crimes. for example, the game GTA 5 encourages young children to commit crimes 2inflation is happening, for example , trumps wall will cost about 7 billion dollars to build 3 bread used to be 1$ a loaf and it costs about 5$ now 4sodas used to be 50cents, and now they're like 8$ Grace Johnson Grace Johnson 1.) Decline in moral values Crimes and violence are a big problem to the USA 2.) Unemployment Because people loose their jobs, they also loose their homes and money 3.) Political Corruption A lot of the Presidents got assassinated, like the Roman Emperors. But empowerment can overpower a person, like a lot of Romans. 4.) Public Health There are many health problems that the USA has. Because of unemployment, poverty, and taxes, not everyone has good health. The Romans had a very bad lack of hygiene Gwendolyn Nelson Gwendolyn Nelson 1)Decline in Morals and Value Modern media like video games, movies, TV, and even some literature has definitely been desensitizing the USA to violence. The Romans also desensitized themselves to violence by watching the gladiator contests. Video games themselves may not cause violence, but they get us used to it. Source: National Center for Health Research (NCHR) 2)Unemployment The unemployment rates in the USA have gone down, and are at 4.1% as of February 2018, which is unlike Rome, that had a very big problem with unemployment in the decline of its empire. Source: US Department of labor statistics Vide Samantha Hoopes Samantha Hoopes 1)Decline in moral values Zoe Phillips Zoe Phillips 1. Political corruption. In the United States, we are electing people into government who do nothing to support our country. They may have a specific view, but they don't see how it is effecting the general public. Take President Trump's idea of the boarder wall. He was wanting to build a large wall on the boarder of Mexico and the United States, which would not only cost a lot of money, but could be disruptive to the ability to get past to Mexico from the United States. Our politicians aren't as bright as we see them, either. Take for example, the 2016 election, where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went off face to face. They threw each other down and made staged promises to the country in order to win, and we still elected a corrupted person, though there was no other route. We need more people who will not ruin our country to run it, not children in grown bodies. 2. Military Spending Another problem is using a majority of military funds on things we may not even need. I mean, now the POTUS(President of the United States) has banned transgender persons from joining the military because "They cost too much to be able to take care of 3 4 Jaden Waldbillig Jaden Waldbillig 1) Inflation Prices have been increasing by large amounts. No we are paying more for less food. For example gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again. 2) Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military Garrett Hunke Garrett Hunke 1 Public Health Rome suffered terrible strains of disease due to their lack of hygiene. I feel we are falling into the same loop, but we are being much sneakier about it. We are also a bit more brash about it.I found a chart depicting the results of a poll where people were asked where they have, err, relieved themselves. (see chart 1 ) 2 Political Corruption Let's face it. The elections here in the U.S that aren't as honest as we think they are. Also, the politicians are getting wild with the attempt of winning. 3 Urban Decay Jack Swanson Jack Swanson 1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there. 2.) Political Corruption We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with LEO Haener-Pope LEO Haener-Pope 1. The U.S. is having a HUGE unemployment rate, just like Rome. The U.S. recently has over the past few years been decreasing the unemployment rate, but, in January, there was a major bump. This is a very big problem that could lead to the fall of the U.S. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf 2. Political Corruption is beginning to happen in the United States. People have been showing some revolt into paying the government, saying that they pay the government through taxes. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/event-summary-political-corruption-in-the-united-states-and-around-the-globe/ Lucy Porter Lucy Porter 1) Unemployment Similarly to Rome, the unemployment rates of the US have been going up. However in the US it is because machines have been taking over jobs that people have done previously. 2) Price Inflation Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year. 3) ur Henry Williamson Henry Williamson 1) Decline in Morals and Value There are video games and movies that are lowering morals and value by desensitizing people into thinking violence is okay and introducing people into porn. " Blood and gore. Intense violence. Strong sexual content. Use of drugs. These are just a few of the phrases that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) uses to describe the content of several games in the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the most popular video game series among teenagers." https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/violent-video-games-and-young-people 2) Inflation Inflation is growing in the U.S. and in 2013, prices were 22.75 times greater than in 1913. These higher prices will cause poverty in America. 3) Unemployment Unemployment is a big problem in America with Trinity Gillispie Trinity Gillispie 1) Inflation Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be. 2) Decline in Morals and Values People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. People are even viewing us as worse than what we used to be. In this graph, you can see that people think our morals and values are poor. Max Curtis Spieser Max Curtis Spieser 1.Inferior Technology is a big problem in the U.S., I mean, if your sink was broken, you wouldn't do it yourself, you would call someone else to do it. AND WE DO NOT NEED A NEW I PHONE VERY THREE MONTHS. We waste so much time on unneeded comforts. 2.Political Corruption is a very big thing and I think it should be stopped before everyone suffers. The presidents that have been elected in the past few decades are some of the worst, wasting money and angering neighboring countries. 3. Decline in Morals and values is a big problem as well. We play video games and watch movies with so much gore and death, it's becoming a problem. Our lives have become so emerged in thee blood fests, that we barley respond to it anymore. 4. Inflation is a problem as big and as bad as the others, I just chose to do it last. But we have been upgrading our prices since we started to use money of our own in the U.S., we have things so expensive that the rich still need to work. We, (also like Rome), Are suffering from large amounts of inflation. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/US_Historical_Inflation.svg Applying changes made elsewhere ...

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Grace Meisenheimer 

2018-05-02 21:03:54 UTC

1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Undertale, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Yandere Simulator to name a few. The first three are not primarily based on killing, but the others are.

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more_vert Grace Meisenheimer Grace Meisenheimer 1.Morals and values There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Yandere Simulator, and Undertale Empty Jack Swanson Jack Swanson 1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there. 2.) Political Corruption We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say.

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1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed. 2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days.... (unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate more_vert more_vert Grace Meisenhe more_vert Grace Meisenheimer Grace Meisenheimer 1.Morals and values There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Yandere Simulator, and Undertale Empty Jack Swanson Jack Swanson 1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there. 2.) Political Corruption We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say. 📎 Views of U.S. Moral Values Slip to Seven-Year Lows Grace Meisenheimer Grace Meisenheimer 1.Morals and values There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Undertale, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Yandere Simulator to name a few. The first three are not primarily based on killing, but the others are. Empty Jack Swanson Jack Sw

2018-05-02 21:08:39 UTC

Leo Haener-Pope (REAL!)

2018-05-02 21:21:27 UTC

4. Unemployment is also a problem in the US. But, the U.S. is doing better, having the lowest unemployment rate since 2001. This could still be a major problem in the US in the near future.

Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People (including girls) shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school. People also have lowered their values for themselves, more and more people are doing stupid things like getting their nose pierced or a tattoo. Evidence:

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https://pilotonline.com/business/jobs/article_51495504-1a4d-5f3c-b8ce-5e04f007b79b.html
my source
2)Urban Decay
More and more Americans, sadly, are homeless, or their houses are falling apart. It isn't a lot, but that is a lot of people once you get down to it.

https://www.onefamilyinc.org/Blog/2011/09/29/increases-in-homelessness-on-the-horizon-but-not-inevitable/

3)Unemployment
This issue is one with at least some hope, thanks to Trump. But unemployment rates are still pretty high. At least he created jobs. :)
National Unemployment Rate at 4.1 Percent Through March 2018. Approximately 103,000 jobs were created in March 2018, and the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job growth increased in manufacturing, health care and mining.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx
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4)Inflation
Prices are getting higher and higher.

2015 | -0.1 | 0.0 | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1
2016 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.3
2017 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.1
2018 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.4
Inflation Rates
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/
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Kayla Broadhead

2018-05-02 23:04:49 UTC

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2 Unemployment In America in 2017 4.1% percent of people capable of having a job, who are actively looking for a new job, were unemployed. A study was tested about unemployment to the crime rate in Australia. "The study, therefore, confirms the age-old hypothesis that the rate of unemployment is directly proportional to crime rate." This could have a hand in leading America to its downfall. (https://opinionfront.com/does-unemployment-increase-crime-rate)

3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " says David Olson (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)

Most of the nominees are just trying to win, using any means possible, corrupting the government and people.
4 Inflation "The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse." (https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true) Rome had super high taxes and then it was killed off. This could happen to America. We have very high taxes. In fact, the average American pays 10,489 dollars a year.

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I think one of the problems in

Mori Kurland

2018-05-02 23:35:42 UTC

1. Inflation
According the source below, since 2010 salary rates have been going down, including salaries that were already below minimum wage are going down (in Texas, USA)
https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm

2. Morals and Values

According to the graph below the amount of violent crimes in major cities like Chicago and Dallas is going down, but not down far enough. Still 500 people out of every 100,000 are going through being a victim. That's a whole 0.5%. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but imagine the consequences in a huge city like NYC.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/broken-windows-broken-theory-crime/

3. Public Health
According to Stephen Guyenet from the website below, Americans are increasing their sugar consumption, and as everyone knows, although sugar helps with energy release, according to the second link, sugar is just plain bad for you.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/02/by-2606-us-diet-will-be-100-percent.html

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-disturbing-reasons-why-sugar-is-bad

4. Unemployment
The current unemployment rate is about 5.60%. That means about 1 out of every 20 people do not have a job. Even though that is a low number, that means a lot of people don't have a job to support their families.
SOURCE:http://fortune.com/2015/02/04/unemployment-rate-gallup/

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2018-05-02 23:40:20 UTC

Hailee Clark The Finished One...

2018-05-02 23:43:00 UTC

1) Public Health
I think public health was a big problem for Romans because the wealthy citizens' death rate was high, which leads to the problem of not getting enough money because all of the rich people are dying. This could happen to the US if we aren't careful about our water and the homeless, who aren't wealthy enough to care for themselves.
2) Political Corruption
The Romans had trouble picking new emporers, which took a very long time.
This could happen to the US because voting takes a VERY long time and people often try to convince others to vote for who they are voting for, sometimes in harsh ways, which could lead to problems...
3) Unemployment
I think unemployment was a big issue in Rome because people wouldn't be getting money to help care for themselves or help the economy at all. There are more and more people that are unemployed in the US, so it is possible that this could happen to us.
4) Inflation
I think inflation was a big problem in Rome because most of the hard-earned money was going to luxury items for the rich! We have very high prices and a lot of people, some of which don't even have the money to pay for the things they need. This could happen to the US because we have many people who don't have jobs, and who knows when the government will start wasting money for ridiculous purposes? We could run out of supplies to make money eventually...Not very soon, but it could still end up being a problem

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games and me

Victoria Metzler

2018-05-03 01:14:37 UTC

1. Decline in Morals and Values

Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media. There is a lot of games that have a lot of violent content. People have parties and they just drink alcohol and become ill. In Rome, they used to have parties with them eating and drinking until they became ill. They also like watching violence in Rome.
Evidence:

2. Inflation

Inflation is happening in the U.S. and some people can't afford the high prices. An example, would be the cost of houses in California. The houses are not that big but cost a lot. In Rome after they stopped conquering land, the amount of gold decreased because people started to pay more gold to buy luxurious items. Which means there wasn't enough of gold for coinage.

Example:

3. Political Corruption

Political corruption is happening in the United States. For instance, there are people that don't agree with Donald Trump with building a wall and some do agree. In Rome it was hard to choose a new emperor.

Example:

4. Unemployment

Unemployment is happening in the US. There are a lot of people in the US that are not employed. There are 9.48 million people in the us that don't have a job and has been looking for a job in the last 4 weeks.

Example:

2018-05-03 03:04:17 UTC

Victoria Metzler
Victoria Metzler
1. Decline in Morals and Values
Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media. There is a lot of games that have a lot of violent content. People have pearties and they just drink alcohol and become ill. In Rome, they used to have parties with them eating and drinking until they became ill. They also like watching violence in Rome.
Evidence:

2. Inflation
Inflation is happening in the U.S. and some people can't afford the high prices. An example, would be the cost of houses in California. The houses are not that big but cost a lot. In Rome after they stopped conquering land, the amount of gold decreased because people started to pay more gold to buy luxurious items. Which means there wasn't enough of gold for coinage.
Example:

3. Political Corruption
Political corruption is happening in the United States. For instance, there are people that don't agree with Donald Trump with building a wall and some do agree. In Rome it was hard to choose a new emperor.
Example:

4. Unemployment
Unemployment is happening in the US. There are a lot of people in the US that are not employed. There are 9.48 million people in the us that don't have a job and has been looking for a job in the last 4 weeks.
Example:

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Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People (including girls) shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school. People also have lowered their values for themselves, more and more people are doing stupid things like getting their nose pierced or a tattoo. Evidence:
Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People (including girls) shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school. People also have lowered their values for themselves, more and more people are doing stupid things like getting their nose pierced or a tattoo. Evidence:

https://pilotonline.com/business/jobs/article_51495504-1a4d-5f3c-b8ce-5e04f007b79b.html
my source
2)Urban Decay
More and more Americans, sadly, are homeless, or their houses are falling apart. It isn't a lot, but that is a lot of people once you get down to it.

https://www.onefamilyinc.org/Blog/2011/09/29/increases-in-homelessness-on-the-horizon-but-not-inevitable/

3)Unemployment
This issue is one with at least some hope, thanks to Trump. But unemployment rates are still pretty high. At least he created jobs. :)
National Unemployment Rate at 4.1 Percent Through March 2018. Approximately 103,000 jobs were created in March 2018, and the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job growth increased in manufacturing, health care and mining.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx
My source
4)Inflation
Prices are getting higher and higher.

2015 | -0.1 | 0.0 | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1
2016 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.3
2017 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.1
2018 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.4
Inflation Rates
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/
My source

Note:
When it says "My source" it is referring to the link above it.

Hailee Clark The Finished One...
Hailee Clark The Finished One...
1) Public Health
I think public health was a big problem for Romans because the wealthy citizens' death rate was high, which leads to the problem of not getting enough money because all of the rich people are dying. This could happen to the US if we aren't careful about our water and the homeless, who aren't wealthy enough to care for themselves.
2) Political Corruption
The Romans had trouble picking new emporers, which took a very long time.
This could happen to the US because voting takes a VERY long time and people often try to convince others to vote for who they are voting for, sometimes in harsh ways, which could lead to problems...
3) Unemployment
I think unemployment was a big issue in Rome because people wouldn't be getting money to help care for themselves or help the economy at all. There are more and more people that are unemployed in the US, so it is possible that this could happen to us.
4) Inflation
I think inflation was a big problem in Rome because most of the hard-earned money was going to luxury items for the rich! We have very high prices and a lot of people, some of which don't even have the money to pay for the things they need. This could happen to the US because we have many people who don't have jobs, and who knows when the government will start wasting money for ridiculous purposes? We could run out of supplies to make money eventually...Not very soon, but it could still end up being a problem

Mori Kurland
Mori Kurland
1. Inflation
According the source below, since 2010 salary rates have been going down, including salaries that were already below minimum wage are going down (in Texas, USA)
https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm

2. Morals and Values
According to the graph below the amount of violent crimes in major cities like Chicago and Dallas is going down, but not down far enough. Still 500 people out of every 100,000 are going through being a victim. That's a whole 0.5%. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but imagine the consequences in a huge city like NYC.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/broken-windows-broken-theory-crime/

3. Public Health
According to Stephen Guyenet from the website below, Americans are increasing their sugar consumption, and as everyone knows, although sugar helps with energy release, according to the second link, sugar is just plain bad for you.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/02/by-2606-us-diet-will-be-100-percent.html

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-disturbing-reasons-why-sugar-is-bad

4. Unemployment
The current unemployment rate is about 5.60%. That means about 1 out of every 20 people do not have a job. Even though that is a low number, that means a lot of people don't have a job to support their families.
SOURCE:http://fortune.com/2015/02/04/unemployment-rate-gallup/

Leo Haener-Pope (REAL!)
Leo Haener-Pope (REAL!)

1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. Over the past 50 years, the prices have just been rising and rising. It has stayed pretty steady over the past years, but it could go even higher.

3. The US is also spending a lot of money on military/army things. As the afghanistan wars continue, and the deadly attacks in Syria, the US is paying a lot of money to the military, which could be bad.

4. Unemployment is also a problem in the US. But, the U.S. is doing better, having the lowest unemployment rate since 2001. This could still be a major problem in the US in the near future.

1. Unemployment-Though

1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed.
2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

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1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Yandere Simulator, and Undertale
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1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say.

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Grace Meisenheimer
1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Undertale, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Yandere Simulator to name a few. The first three are not primarily based on killing, but the others are.
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2 Unemployment In America in 2017 4.1% percent of people capable of having a job, who are actively looking for a new job, were unemployed. A study was tested about unemployment to the crime rate in Australia. "The study, therefore, confirms the age-old hypothesis that the rate of unemployment is directly proportional to crime rate." This could have a hand in leading America to its downfall. (https://opinionfront.com/does-unemployment-increase-crime-rate)

3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " says David Olson (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)
Most of the nominees are just trying to win, using any means possible, corrupting the government and people.
4 Inflation "The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse." (https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true) Rome had super high taxes and then it was killed off. This could happen to America. We have very high taxes. In fact, the average American pays 10,489 dollars a year.
Enoch Bate
Enoch Bate
1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed.
2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....

(Morals and Values graph) https://www.google.com/search?q=decline+in+morals+and+values+graph&safe=active&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQtJmo9ufaAhUUVWMKHRMkAxgQsAQINQ&biw=1440&bih=769&surl=1#imgrc=sYsuFjm1wKZnjM:

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
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Jack Swanson
1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say.

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1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Undertale, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Yandere Simulator to name a few. The first three are not primarily based on killing, but the others are.
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Jack Swanson
1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election.

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Bruce Salisbury
1. Inferior Technology
As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react.

2.If you
Enoch Bate
Enoch Bate
1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed.
2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

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Leo Haener-Pope
Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This

Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.
2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised.

Matthew Martino
Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values

The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games

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Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values

The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/

2.) Inferior Technology

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Leo Haener-Pope
Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. A lot of times, prices suddenly burst up, then gradually go back down. The stock market is being affected very badly.

Matthew P. Nicholes
Matthew P. Nicholes
1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from:
http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/
2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*).
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4. Not sure yet.
5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea!
Liam Gabbard
Liam Gabbard
1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane.
Colten Bullington
Colten Bullington
#1 Inflammation
imagine your mother said you had two choices for dinner the image on top, or the image on the botom

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Tess Campbell
Tess Campbell
1. Decline of morals and values.
When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any. I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane!
2. Military spending
When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military. Why?
Brooklyn Smith
Brooklyn Smith
1. Unemployment
I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity
Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes
1) Decline in moral values
A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today often play violent or
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Victoria Metzler
Victoria Metzler
1. Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media. There is a lot of games that have
Evidence:
Elle Hamaker
Elle Hamaker
1. Decline in Morals and Value
In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more kids play violent video games, the more violent kids become.
Mia Wang
Mia Wang
1. Decline in Morals and Values
Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem.
Hannah Scoville
Hannah Scoville
1.) Political Corruption

In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected. Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power?

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Bekah Barton
Bekah Barton
1. Unemployment
I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom).
2. Political Corruption

Jora Kurland
Jora Kurland
1) Decline in Morals and Values
People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school
Evidence:

All this proves is that only 75% of companies provide dress codes. People are not even "supposed" to wear business attire.
Lily Hoellwarth
Lily Hoellwarth
1. Inferior Technology
I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.


2. Inflation
The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices
Lucas Coltrin
Lucas Coltrin
1. Decline in Moral Values.

Look at how many rated R movie to rated G movies there are. There are so many more violent movies now and that is bad. That is a sign that people who watch movies are going to watch more rated R and PG13 movies. That could also mean that PG13 movies are getting more violent and lots of kids watch PG13 movies so that could be like exposing them to R rated movies at 13 or under.
2. Unemployment

While the unemployment rate is decreasing, a 4.5% as of last year is not a good thing. That means that about 14 million people are unemployed in the USA. The other problem is the machines are becoming able to do jobs better than we can. This could be one of the lead
Henry J. Leonard
Henry J. Leonard
1. I say that one way that the United States will fall is through inflation. Inflation may be slow, but in the near future, it will be costly, and we may have to leave the United States. Also, inflation could cause governments to stop working, because no one will buy their products. The U.S. will have a crisis, then will fall. Take a pack of gum, for instance. A pack of gum use to cost,back in 1945,$0.05. Now, in the present day, it is nearly $1.10
2. Another reason I think that the U.S. will fall is unemployment. Unemployment has caused Spain, a once thriving country, to die down. The figures say that there is a %62 unemployment in Spain. The U.S. could suffer from the same problem. Some people are fine with this, so they can relax, but think about how they would get their money to feed them and probably their kids.
3. The third reason I reckon that the U.S. will fall is probably morals and value. Because we are a strong nation, people might think that it is okay to mock other people beliefs and religions. If other people started mocking and laughing at people beliefs, the
4. The last thing that might cause the fall of the United States is inferior technology. As it says in the link: However, "the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, [that] they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently." This was one of the reasons why Rome fell. Could it happen to us? To find this information, go to these websites:
1. https://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp

2. https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+unemployment+in+spain&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&oq=percent+of+unemployment+in+sp&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.13036j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&surl=1&safe=active
3. http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_morals_ethics.htm
4. see down http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.03.07_u
Jared Wasden
Jared Wasden
1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/
2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society. There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that are rasing every year.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
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Samuel Joseph Whiting
Samuel Joseph Whiting
Political Corruption
1. Back then they didn't set up a strong system to pick a new leader so sometimes they would sell the throne to the highest bidder. Today, some people bribe others to vote for them.
2.In ancient Rome, the emperor may be assassinated because of something, and that can also happen in america to the president.
Amelia Farr
Amelia Farr
1. Decline in Morals and Values
I think that Decline in Morals and Values might happen to the U.S the same way that it happened to Rome. The people in Rome started to enjoy watching people die. In the U.S today, people die in video games all of the time. In some games, you can get extra points just for killing people.
2. Public Health
3. Inflation
4. Urban Decay
Anna Waters
Anna Waters
1. I think that Decline in Morals and Values is could happen to the US. Cyber bulling is leading to out of control anger, depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide.

Abigail Takeuchi
Abigail Takeuchi
1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html
2. Political Corruption is another huge problem. Politics have become such a hot topic. People have been getting too aggressive. One of the biggest problems is campaigning problem.
Dylan Price
Dylan Price
1)I think that are morals are decreasing very fast. The Romans enjoyed watching criminals fight to the death. Today we find it entertaining to play games that involve murder.

2) Inflation. If you take the amount of money it took to buy something small like a baseball 20 years ago to now, it is very different.

3)
Elyse Shurbet
Elyse Shurbet
1) Inflation-
The economy has crashed in america multiple times. When it does, it effects us greatly. The Great Depression was even caused by a crash in the economy.

2) Decline in Morals and Values-
There is too many video games with violence where you get rewarded for killing things. Take fortnite for example. It's rating is 13+ but people way younger that are playing it and loving the deaths that they cause in-game.
Sources:
1. https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046 and http://www.cland.k12.ky.us/userfiles/13/Classes/441/5 causes of the great depression.pdf?id=8459 and https://tradingeconomics.com/charts/facebook.png?url=/united-states/unemployment-rate
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Jackson Wickard
Jackson Wickard
1. Inflation- Imagine going to a fast food restaurant. Would you want the big hamburger(refer to the picture) or the small hamburger. This is how inflation has acted.
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Mori Kurland
Mori Kurland
1.Inflation: According to the source below allsalary rates are going down. SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm

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Emmie Lind
Emmie Lind
Our money is spent on things that do not benefit us in healthy ways. Taxes are being raised. Immigration allows people to travel in and out of the country, but diseases can be brought into America, causing epidemics of plagues. Some political leaders are not qualified to lead the U.S.A., causing disruption among states. Jobs are now needing more experienced employees, causing many people to go into unemployment.
Ana Callens
Ana Callens
1. The decline of moral values in the USA is practically an updated version of the drop in moral values of Rome. Like the gladiator games and violent video games. In
the gladiator games people came to watch people kill each other just like how in some video games you get points for killing people.
2. Military spending. the USA has been putting off funding for scientific studies that could stop diseases and many deaths and putting it to war just like the Romans did.
3. Inflation. Prices for thing have rapidly increased over the pasted few years. If Prices keep rising soon no one ill be able to afford food or close.
4. Political Corruption. I don't think i need to talk about this mush so here.
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes also cuz it is so controversial right now

Brooklyn Searle
Brooklyn Searle
1. Inflation
Many things have gone up in price over the years like recently the battery on my Xbox died and before it was $2.00 but now it is $20.00.
2. Urban Decay
Most poor people
Rebecca Hopper
Rebecca Hopper
1- Political Corruption
Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes
2- Decline in Morals and Values
http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx
says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think the are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.
3- Inferior Technology
Today, one single cell phone can cost as much as $1,000 from apple and many other places. the price is so high because we are becoming shorter on resources needed to make all of this technology that we have invented.

Landon Jensen
Landon Jens

Rebecca Hopper 1- Political Corruption Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes a bit how just last time when Obama was elected, people who weren't happy about didn't start protests in the streets calling for impeachment. They let it be. Now, with Trump being elected, there are still many protests out there calling for Clinton in the office. No one can let anything go. 2- Decline in Morals and Values http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think they are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.

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3- Inflation Now a days, the cost of an average hamburger is about $4.49, but it wasn't always like that. In 1985, that same hamburger was only about 50 cents! That means in the past 33 years, inflation has gone up about 90%. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/ has a graph about inflation rates in the United States from 2000-2018.
4- Military Spending Military spending has admittedly gone up in the United States, but I think we have a strong enough leader to handle it. I also think that military spending is at least required if you have any intention of protecting your country.
In conclusion, I do think the U.S. will end at one point, but as the saying goes, "All good things must come to an end." However, I do not believe it will be because of inflation or military spending. I really think it comes down to Political corruptness and decline in morals and values. Clean politics are essential to running a truthful country, and so is having the right morals and values. If you grow up with bad morals and values, you have bad people leading our country, which creates corrupt people. 4-

2018-05-03 03:30:11 UTC

1- Political CorruptionPoliticians have

Brooklyn Lewis1.) Unemployment Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 2.) Inflation Rome's prices went up just like the US's did. The coins became worth less and less. In the US, prices keep rising and rising. Making it harder to stay cheap. Poor people are having a hard time getting the necessities as the prices raise.3.) Public Health Romans had bad water and were exposed to a lot of lead. Similarly the US is processing food. Processed food is not usually healthy. In fact most of the time it just causes negative impacts. Processed food has less nutritional value and exposes your body to foods it doesn't know how to process. Also most of our streets are filled with liter, hurting the environment. If it continues on like this we may not have much left to care about. 4.) Decline in Morals and Value According to http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their gladiator combats, the US is producing violent videogames and movies. These sources of entertainment can train one's mind into thinking violent and harmful thoughts.

2018-05-03 03:51:07 UTC

Lucy Porter REAL ONE!

2018-05-03 03:54:19 UTC

3) Urban Decay
In the US urban decay is happening. The housing and rent prices are going up and people are moving out.

4) Military Spending
If the military stopped spending money for 8 days, there would be enough to have every child in the world get 12 years of free schooling.

World military spending

I feel like the US can learn from Rome's mistakes but it will only prevent the inevitable

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I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom).

2018-05-03 14:31:27 UTC

Bekah Barton Part 2

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2. Political Corruption
It seems like every election more and more people are disappointed in the outcome of who became president. Whether it has to do with who you like better or who is Democratic or Republican, but no matter what someone is always angry. Not every president makes choices you like either. Some people feel as if the president has too much power and some feel like they don’t have enough.

3. Inflation

The prices of almost everything has gone up considerably in just as much as twenty years. The prices you see at a grocery store are slowly going up and robbing us of our money. In 1980 a movie ticket was $2.69, now a movie ticket is $5.16 on average (see picture at bottom).

4. Decline in Morals and Values

When compared to the Romans, most people think we are very humane and polite people, but when we really think about it, we are not. Every day there is something completely unmoral going on. It could be a habit you are used to as well. Americans have almost become used to the idea of bad language, bad treatment of others, and bad media and videogames and movies (see picture below).

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Victoria Metzler "PART TWO"

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1. Decline in Morals and Values

2. Inflation

Example:

3. Political Corruption

Example:

4. Unemployment

Example:

Garrett Hunke Pt. 2

2018-05-03 16:24:25 UTC

3 Urban Decay
Have you ever noticed that houses are much lower quality than in years past? Builders are being negligent about the homeowners and the common man.
Note: In my last post, I meant to describe the second graph, not the first one. Sorry for the mix-up.

Bekah Barton part 3

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Gwendolyn Nelson pt 2 (I couldn't go back and edit the original)

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3)Inflation
Inflation definitely happened in Rome, and it is still sort of happening in the USA. Things like soda cans that you could once get for about 50-75 cents you now get for two or three dollars.
Source: usinflationcalculator.com
4)Political Corruption
We may not be as bad as the Ancient Romans, but we still have at least a slight form of corruption in our society as a whole. In the USA, politicians do a wide spectrum of things. From something as harmless as planting signs in lawns to purposely making the other candidates look bad and unfit for the job, corruption still exists in our society today.

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Jack Swanson (Real) 1.) Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.2.) Political CorruptionWe have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election

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3.) Inflation

Inflation has been happening in the US and many people have been struggling to keep up with the rise of the high prices. Back in the 20th Century things were way cheaper than what they are today. after the reign of Marcus Aurelius Rome struggled against the rising prices of everything. this is showing that the U.S. is in the same boat of inflation.

4.)Morals and Values

Kayla Broadhead

2018-05-03 22:02:23 UTC

1 Decline in Morals and Values "may be understandably shocked to learn that around 85% of video games contain some form of violence" (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/...video-games...gaming.../406391002/)

Meanwhile in Rome " For more than 650 years, people flocked to arenas across the empire to watch these armed and highly trained warriors engage in a blood-soaked spectacle equal parts sport, theater and cold-blooded murder." (https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators)

This violence could have part of what to do with Rome falling. We may fall to. Most video games have some sort of violence in them.
2 Unemployment In America in 2017 4.1% percent of people capable of having a job, who are actively looking for a new job, were unemployed. A study was tested about unemployment to the crime rate in Australia. "The study, therefore, confirms the age-old hypothesis that the rate of unemployment is directly proportional to crime rate." This could have a hand in leading America to its downfall. (https://opinionfront.com/does-unemployment-increase-crime-rate)
3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " says David Olson (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)

Chase McOmber:

2018-05-03 22:25:29 UTC

1. Decline in Morals and values. Today, video games are inappropriate and can cause bad behavior. Young children tend to think more aggressively when they play bad video games. Kids may act how their video game character game acts. 90% of popular games have violence. Children from ages 12-17 have a 97 percent chance of having violence. There was a Roman party where everybody would drink until they became ill.
2. Military spending.
Trump's wall would cost nearly 90 billion dollars and 150 million a year to keep it going.
3. Unemployment.
Unemployment is a problem in the US. Around 6.85 million people are unemployed in the United States. That loses us 121,00 dollars a month and 568,00 dollars a year. The rise on unemployment in the US is a bad thing.
4. Inflation.
The prices of goods we buy have gone up. In the 60's, gas costed 31 cents a gallon (35 cents of today's money.) In 1980 it cost just over a dollar at 1.19 Now it costs over 3 dollars almost everywhere you go.
In 1994, movie tickets costed $4.08. According to natooline, a movie ticket costs about $9. It costs $8.97

Samantha Hoopes

2018-05-03 22:26:13 UTC

1) Decline in moral values
In today's society, it feels like our values have been flipped on its head. What is wrong is suddenly now right, and what is right is suddenly now wrong. For example, when has killing the innocent ever been okay? According to https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm ,in 2014 alone, an estimated 652,639 legal abortions took place in just the United States. Furthermore, majority of abortions were from parents who were "just not ready yet" whether it be money or maturity and people who fooled around at parties and other social gatherings like the Romans did. It's honestly very irresponsible and cruel of parents to dispose of life for their mistakes or for their convenience. If that doesn't make someone want to puke, I don't know what will. Yet, many people stand by this sort of thing and sometimes even praise it. Though it might be traumatic for the mother, the only time I think it should be okay is if the mother's life is at risk. The fact that people stand by just any reason the mother gives just goes to show how little people think of life nowadays.

2) Unemployment
Just like how the Romans starting rapidly losing their jobs to others, the US's unemployment rate is going up in the same manner. According to https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htmm, our unemployment rate from March of this year was 4.1. The unemployment rate in the US luckily hasn't gone up and has stayed at 4.1 for the past 6 months. However, if it does starts to increase as it has in past years or possible even faster than that, it could play a major role in the fall of the US just like it did with Rome. We need jobs to further better our finical situation, because right now it isn't so good with our trillions of dollars of debt we have accumulated. We can't keep buying with a low source of income. If we really want to help build back up our economy, creating jobs would be the way to do it.

3) Political Corruption
Lately, candidates and politicians seem to only have their benefits mind and not America, making elections rough. For someone who plans on ruling a large amount of people, yourself included, and a large amount of land, you'd hope they'd have your best interest in mind. America first would always be the way to go, not the candidate or anyone else. That might be why the latest election took such a turn. Many people probably sought out someone who had their benefit in mind, and they thought he did. And the same goes for any side whether you are Republic or Democrat and in other elections, the common factor is people wanted someone who will help and benefit America.

4) Public Health
Another factor that might play into America's downfall is our health. What Americans consume nowadays have caused a lot of health issues like problems in the heart, high blood pressure and obesity. Everything now is loaded with sugars like high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, GMOs, and too much caffeine. People also often go to places extremely unhealthy like McDonald's and Burger King instead of eating fresh food at home because it is more convenient. But even when Americans try to be healthy and drink water, it's still hurting them with all the lead, copper, rocket fuels and more that slip into to our tap water according to https://greatist.com/health/whats-actually-your-tap-water.

Lucas Brooks 2

2018-05-03 23:02:02 UTC

I'm doing this at home and I can't edit my main one here. This is a resumed version of my main one.
3. Military Spending
Our country is spending millions of dollars on our defense when they don't need it. They have billions of dollars in savings.
Graph:
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Lorien Williamson 2

2018-05-04 01:28:38 UTC

some products that keep rising in value in the US is food, and these prices do not seem to get any lower anytime soon. In grocery stores you used to be able to get everything you needed for 20 dollars or less, now that will probobaly only get you 5 items! Somthing like this happened on Rome too, when they has stopped conquring others, the gold flow decreased, and to make up for this merchants had to start charging more to make a profit.

2018-05-04 02:07:19 UTC

Jared Wasden (REAL, don't read my other one)

2018-05-04 02:08:07 UTC

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
3. Decline in Morals and Values is also a lot of what is happening to in this era and in the last era. We both have violence for fun whether it is in a video game where you shoot people for fun and you get rewards for it or it can be in real life and they could still do it for fun. This in my eyes is a real decline of morals and values. The Kentucky state Governor said "We can’t celebrate death in video games, celebrate death in TV shows, celebrate death in movies, celebrate death in musical lyrics and remove any sense of morality and sense of higher authority and then expect that things like this are not going to happen." https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-end-the-debate-about-video-games-and-violence-91607
Here are charts from another source. They have checked to make sure that these were not just coincidences.

https://www.polygon.com/2014/9/12/6141515/do-violent-video-games-actually-reduce-real-world-crime
4. Urban Decay is also a lot in common with some of the third world countries. People in the Africa, for example, are really poor but there is always those people who are really rich and live in nice, fancy, and spacious houses right next to the poor people.

There is an example of the houses they had to live in. They were unclean, dirty, and not very easy to live in, not to mention dangerous.

2018-05-04 02:26:59 UTC

Abigail Takeuchi (#2)

2018-05-04 02:51:22 UTC

Abigail Takeuchi
1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html

2. Public Health is another problem in our economy. Americans are known to be overweight. Being overweight is not only not preferable, but it also is extremely dangerous. Obesity can cause heart diseases, high blood pressure, arthritis, high cholesterol levels, and strokes. In the graph below, 2% of Americans are underweight; 38% are normal; and 60% obese.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/diet-physical-activity/body-weight-and-cancer-risk/health-issues.html
3. Urban Decay is a third problem. In our urban areas, we have polluted so much it has left a scar on the world. Some of the biggest types of pollution are air, noise, and visual pollution. http://ecolonomics.org/7-types-of-urban-pollution-that-everyone-ought-to-know/
4. Unemployment is another issue that Americans face today. So many Americans today have moved to theft in replacement of a job. According to President Donald Trump,  “We have a real unemployment rate that’s probably 21%. It’s not 6. It’s not 5.2 and 5.5. Our real unemployment rate–in fact, I saw a chart the other day, our real unemployment–because you have ninety million people that aren’t working. Ninety-three million to be exact. If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%.”
 This is a graph representing our employment rate.
https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/08/20/donald-trump-is-right-about-42-of-americans-are-unemployed-if-you-include-my-88-year-old-grandma/

Jack Swanson ( REAL don't read other one)

2018-05-04 02:55:07 UTC

1.) Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.2.) Political CorruptionWe have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election

3.) Inflation

4.) Decline inMorals and Values

In this age we have violent movies, games, and TV shows. we have violent games that adults and even kids are addicted. This is just like in Rome, In Rome people took their whole family to go see the gladiators kill each other in the coliseum. They Loved watching those people kill each other. http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/ This link shows that the violence in kids Is effected by games with and without blood and violence.

Trinity Gillispie pt 2

2018-05-04 03:10:17 UTC

4) Unemployment

This graph shows that are rates of unemployment are going up, not down. I don't know how accurate this is, because almost every other source says otherwise. However, if this is true, our fate will be very much like that of the Romans.

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2. Public Health is another problem in our economy. Americans are known to be overweight. Being overweight is not only not preferable, but it also is extremely dangerous. Obesity can cause heart diseases, high blood pressure, arthritis, high cholesterol levels, and strokes. In the graph below, 2% of Americans are underweight; 38% are normal; and 60% obese.

Brooklyn Smith (Real)

2018-05-04 03:38:19 UTC

Unemployment

Unemployment is a problem because many people in America don’t have jobs. They may not be able to find a job fit for them. In Rome some jobs didn’t pay well. Neither does some jobs today. Evidence:

Inflation

Inflation has happened in the US. What used to cost 20 dollars now costs much more. The cost of items has been increasing. Rome began to stop using coins and traded instead. It hasn’t happened in the US, but it could. Costs have been increasing. Evidence:

Decline in moral values

Decline in moral values is happening because of violent video games. Many games include getting points for killing. In Rome there began to be much crime. All this violence can cause crime in the US. This decline in moral values helped lead to Rome's downfall. Evidence:

http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx

Political Corruption

Sometimes bribery happens in an election. People sometimes lie to get into office and then change what they said they would do. In Rome it was just everyone fighting to be emperor, you can see a resemblance of that today. In the source below, it explains 4 types of political corruption. Some types are preferential treatment, blackmail, graft and embezzlement, and payoffs and bribes. Evidence:

https://www.houstoncrimedefense.com/4-types-of-political-corruption/

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Garrett Hunke Pt.3

2018-05-04 14:10:31 UTC

Here's the graph for urban decay: (see bottom graph)
4 Decrease in Technology
This is probably the sneakiest problem of them all. Rather than we downgrading to worse technology, we actually are becoming so advanced that most people can't keep up. We don't understand the new technology, so we don't use it properly, damaging the technology and ourselves.

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2) Price Inflation Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year. 3) Urban Decay In the US urban decay is happening. The housing and rent prices are going up and people are moving out. 4) Military Spending If the military stopped spending money for 8 days, there would be enough to have every child in the world get 12 years of free schooling. World military spending I feel like the US can learn from Rome's mistakes but it will only prevent the inevitable Lucas Brooks 2 Lucas Brooks 2 I'm doing this at home and I can't edit my main one here. This is a resumed version of my main one. 3. Military Spending Our country is spending millions of dollars on our defense when they don't need it. They have billions of dollars in savings. Graph: http://www.sdvfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/proposed-dicretionary-fy2013-np.jpg Boş Bruce Salisbury Bru Boş Bruce Salisbury Bruce Salisbury 1. Inferior Technology As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react. 2.If you Enoch Bate Enoch Bate 1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed. 2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days.... (unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope 1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs. 2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This Trinity Gillispie Trinity Gillispie 1) Inflation Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be. 2) Decline in Morals and Values People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. Matthew Martino Matthew Martino 1. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games 📎 Photo Matthew Martino Matthew Martino 1. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/ 2.) Inferior Technology Image result for graph on Image result for graph on decline of scientific achievements in the us Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope 1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs. 2. America is dealing with inflation problems. A lot of times, prices suddenly burst up, then gradually go back down. The stock market is being affected very badly. Matthew P. Nicholes Matthew P. Nicholes 1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from: http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/ 2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*). 3. 4. Not sure yet. 5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea! Liam Gabbard Liam Gabbard 1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane. Colten Bullington Colten Bullington #1 Inflammation imagine your mother said you had two choices for dinner the image on top, or the image on the botom or Tess Campbell Tess Campbell 1. Decline of morals and values. When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any. I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane! 2. Military spending When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military. Why? Brooklyn Smith Brooklyn Smith 1. Unemployment I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity Samantha Hoopes Samantha Hoopes 1) Decline in moral values A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today often play violent or Empty Victoria Metzler Victoria Metzler 1. Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media. There is a lot of games that have Evidence: Elle Hamaker Elle Hamaker 1. Decline in Morals and Value In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more kids play violent video games, the more violent kids become. Mia Wang Mia Wang 1. Decline in Morals and Values Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem. Hannah Scoville Hannah Scoville 1.) Political Corruption In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected. Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power? Empty 📎 Photo Bekah Barton Bekah Barton 1. Unemployment I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom). 2. Political Corruption Jora Kurland Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school Evidence: All this proves is that only 75% of companies provide dress codes. People are not even "supposed" to wear business attire. Lily Hoellwarth Lily Hoellwarth 1. Inferior Technology I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S. 2. Inflation The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices Lucas Coltrin Lucas Coltrin 1. Decline in Moral Values. Look at how many rated R movie to rated G movies there are. There are so many more violent movies now and that is bad. That is a sign that people who watch movies are going to watch more rated R and PG13 movies. That could also mean that PG13 movies are getting more violent and lots of kids watch PG13 movies so that could be like exposing them to R rated movies at 13 or under. 2. Unemployment While the unemployment rate is decreasing, a 4.5% as of last year is not a good thing. That means that about 14 million people are unemployed in the USA. The other problem is the machines are becoming able to do jobs better than we can. This could be one of the lead Henry J. Leonard Henry J. Leonard 1. I say that one way that the United States will fall is through inflation. Inflation may be slow, but in the near future, it will be costly, and we may have to leave the United States. Also, inflation could cause governments to stop working, because no one will buy their products. The U.S. will have a crisis, then will fall. Take a pack of gum, for instance. A pack of gum use to cost,back in 1945,$0.05. Now, in the present day, it is nearly $1.10 2. Another reason I think that the U.S. will fall is unemployment. Unemployment has caused Spain, a once thriving country, to die down. The figures say that there is a %62 unemployment in Spain. The U.S. could suffer from the same problem. Some people are fine with this, so they can relax, but think about how they would get their money to feed them and probably their kids. 3. The third reason I reckon that the U.S. will fall is probably morals and value. Because we are a strong nation, people might think that it is okay to mock other people beliefs and religions. If other people started mocking and laughing at people beliefs, the 4. The last thing that might cause the fall of the United States is inferior technology. As it says in the link: However, "the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, [that] they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently." This was one of the reasons why Rome fell. Could it happen to us? To find this information, go to these websites: 1. https://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+unemployment+in+spain&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&oq=percent+of+unemployment+in+sp&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.13036j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&surl=1&safe=active 3. http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_morals_ethics.htm 4. see down http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.03.07_u Jared Wasden Jared Wasden 1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/ 2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society. There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that are rasing every year. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi Empty 📎 Photo 📎 Photo 📎 Photo Samuel Joseph Whiting Samuel Joseph Whiting Political Corruption 1. Back then they didn't set up a strong system to pick a new leader so sometimes they would sell the throne to the highest bidder. Today, some people bribe others to vote for them. 2.In ancient Rome, the emperor may be assassinated because of something, and that can also happen in america to the president. Amelia Farr Amelia Farr 1. Decline in Morals and Values I think that Decline in Morals and Values might happen to the U.S the same way that it happened to Rome. The people in Rome started to enjoy watching people die. In the U.S today, people die in video games all of the time. In some games, you can get extra points just for killing people. 2. Public Health 3. Inflation 4. Urban Decay Anna Waters Anna Waters 1. I think that Decline in Morals and Values is could happen to the US. Cyber bulling is leading to out of control anger, depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. Abigail Takeuchi Abigail Takeuchi 1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html 2. Political Corruption is another huge problem. Politics have become such a hot topic. People have been getting too aggressive. One of the biggest problems is campaigning problem. Dylan Price Dylan Price 1)I think that are morals are decreasing very fast. The Romans enjoyed watching criminals fight to the death. Today we find it entertaining to play games that involve murder. 2) Inflation. If you take the amount of money it took to buy something small like a baseball 20 years ago to now, it is very different. 3) Elyse Shurbet Elyse Shurbet 1) Inflation- The economy has crashed in america multiple times. When it does, it effects us greatly. The Great Depression was even caused by a crash in the economy. 2) Decline in Morals and Values- There is too many video games with violence where you get rewarded for killing things. Take fortnite for example. It's rating is 13+ but people way younger that are playing it and loving the deaths that they cause in-game. Sources: 1. https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046 and http://www.cland.k12.ky.us/userfiles/13/Classes/441/5 causes of the great depression.pdf?id=8459 and https://tradingeconomics.com/charts/facebook.png?url=/united-states/unemployment-rate 2. Jackson Wickard Jackson Wickard 1. Inflation- Imagine going to a fast food restaurant. Would you want the big hamburger(refer to the picture) or the small hamburger. This is how inflation has acted. 2. 3. 4. Mori Kurland Mori Kurland 1.Inflation: According to the source below allsalary rates are going down. SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm 2. Empty Emmie Lind Emmie Lind Our money is spent on things that do not benefit us in healthy ways. Taxes are being raised. Immigration allows people to travel in and out of the country, but diseases can be brought into America, causing epidemics of plagues. Some political leaders are not qualified to lead the U.S.A., causing disruption among states. Jobs are now needing more experienced employees, causing many people to go into unemployment. Ana Callens Ana Callens 1. The decline of moral values in the USA is practically an updated version of the drop in moral values of Rome. Like the gladiator games and violent video games. In the gladiator games people came to watch people kill each other just like how in some video games you get points for killing people. 2. Military spending. the USA has been putting off funding for scientific studies that could stop diseases and many deaths and putting it to war just like the Romans did. 3. Inflation. Prices for thing have rapidly increased over the pasted few years. If Prices keep rising soon no one ill be able to afford food or close. 4. Political Corruption. I don't think i need to talk about this mush so here. https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes also cuz it is so controversial right now Brooklyn Searle Brooklyn Searle 1. Inflation Many things have gone up in price over the years like recently the battery on my Xbox died and before it was $2.00 but now it is $20.00. 2. Urban Decay Most poor people Rebecca Hopper Rebecca Hopper 1- Political Corruption Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes 2- Decline in Morals and Values http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think the are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today. 3- Inferior Technology Today, one single cell phone can cost as much as $1,000 from apple and many other places. the price is so high because we are becoming shorter on resources needed to make all of this technology that we have invented. Landon Jensen Landon Jensen 1. Public Health decreasing public health is decreasing more people are getting sick every year and more people have died. we are getting less healthy and less healthier the U.S. public health funding steadily falling, new study shows "By 2014, public health funding had plummeted 17 percent from 2002 levels (a 9.3 percent drop since 2008) with just 2.65 percent of total health spending, or $255 per capital, devoted to public health initiatives like smoking cessation and disease prevention. That adds up to a $40.2 billion loss of funds that could have been devoted to public health between 2009 and 2014, the study authors said." 2. Military Spending we are spending way too much on border defense because that trump wants to build his wall the estimated cost is 70 billion dollars that is for the military for illegal immigration. 3 Samuel Joseph Whiting Samuel Joseph Whiting 1. Unemployment is a problem that is definitely a problem in today's society, because there are so many people, and only so many job opportunities, which was also a big problem when rome was struggling as well as when it was prospering. (Discovery ED) 2. Some jobs were life-long, so that took away job opportunities for people. Unemployment was very wide-spread and there could be 10,000 unemployed people in one city.https://prezi.com/0dczdwtwb3dn/the-fall-of-rome-unemployment/ 3. In ancient Rome, they like to conquer many places, which made their population of their empire grow, making more people who needed jobs, as well as having to pay their taxes. In today's society, we have a lot of immigrants coming into America all the time which has the same effect. 4. In Rome they had large amounts of taxes, which made it so some people couldn't pay for a home and stuff, and that is the case sometimes here in modern America. (Discovery ED) Hailee Clark Hailee Clark 1) Public Health I think public health was a problem in Rome because the wealthy death rate was very high. This may happen to the US if we are not careful about our water, our # of people living on the street, and our alcohol usage. 2) Political Corruption I think political corruption was an important factor in Rome's fall because they couldn't choose a leader very well, and without a leader, the country can't run. The US has problems voting sometimes because it takes a VERY long time to vote and people argue about who to vote for VERY seriously. This could be quite a problem Brooklyn Lewis Brooklyn Lewis 1.) Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 2.) Inflation 3.) Public Health 4.) Decline in Morals and Value is a common occurrence today. According to http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their galdiator combats, the US is producing violent videogames and movies. Lorien Williamson Lorien Williamson 1) Decline in Moral Values Video games that promote violence is one thing that is happening today, and with more and more gun violence, in the last year over 307 shootings have occurred, injuring 5 or more people almost every time. Also these games promote alcohol and drug usage. 2) Political Corruption This is another big problem in the US, just like in Rome we also have difficult times choosing our government officials and other important roles. Lots of times there might be cheating or they might mess with the voting system. 3) Unemployment I think that is is another very large problem. When citizens stop working, they lose homes and if they can not find another job they beg on the streets. This is true for both Rome and the US, the US with more than half a million. This can also increase the crime rate for food and money. 4) Inflation One example of this is when Kayla Broadhead Kayla Broadhead 1 Urban Decay 2 unemployment 3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html) 4 Inflation The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=truehttps://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true Kara-Elise Grossman Kara-Elise Grossman 1. Political corruption I think political corruption was a big factor in the fall of Rome and can be a big factor today. lots of people just want to become in power for their own purposes. a lot of people like the idea of being powerful. 2 unemployment was a big factor in Rome, and a big factor today some people are very rich, and live in big houses, while other people are poor. in fact more people are poor than rich. a lot of people don't want to work and rely on cheeseburgers from McDonald's, and get fat 3. inflation today prices have gone up you used to be able to get a soda for 20 cents but today you can get it for 1$ also coffee from Starbucks is expensive JUST GET PLAIN BLACK COFFEE. 4. Madero Tassi Madero Tassi 1.)Inflation "January and February 2012 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics both months had inflation rates of 2.9%. However, our data shows inflation in January as 2.93% and in February as 2.87%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..." https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true 2.) Military Spending military spending is projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/ 3.)Unemployment The US unemployment rate stood at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent for the sixth consecutive month in March 2018, slightly above market expectations of 4 percent. The number of unemployed decreased by 121 thousand to 6.59 million and employment fell 37 thousand to 155.18 million. The labor force participation rate dropped to 62.9 percent from a five-month high of 63 percent in February. Unemployment Rate in the United States averaged 5.78 percent from 1948 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate 4.)Public Health Americans are below average on most measures of health — from obesity to infant mortality — when compared with other rich countries, and they're falling behind on lifespan, too, according to the latest survey. https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/were-no-26-us-below-average-most-health-measures-2D11635080 Lucas Brooks Lucas Brooks Political Corruption is a big problem today because the government is fighting inwardly and for it's own benefit. They are not listening to the people as much as they should. Decline in Moral Values is another problem because there is too many violent realistic games about killing people and there is more shootings. According to BBC, there were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. Military Spending Ava Gross Ava Gross 1) Decline in morals and values. One piece of evidence supporting this claim is that as more people play things such as video games and watch movies that romanticize drug use, more and more people start to abuse drugs. For example, in 1999 only about 7 million people were using illegal cannabis but in 2008 11.1 million people started to abuse cannibas.https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/2.0_Drug_statistics_and_Trends.pdf 2) Military spending. One example of excessive military spending is the US. In 2015 over (54%)598 billion dollars of the federal discretionary funds were used on Military, whereas only 100 billion dollars were used on Transportation and Education combined. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/ 3) Inflation https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/12-fast-food-prices-then-versus-now/ Bodin Champion Bodin Champion 1. Urban Decay there are many people living in poverty. There are currently 43.1 million people living in poverty in the US according to poverty.ucdavis.edu and with many people living in small houses or no houses our economy is slowly falling apart. 2. Unemployment In the US 4.1% of the people are unemployed according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. 3. Military Spending The US is spending way more money than other countries. The US spends 611 billion dollars in defense while other countries combined only use 595 billion 4. Political corruption Trumps wall will cost about 70 billion dollars to build and 150 million dollars a year to maintain. This is a pointless wall that will cause more war. www.nytimes.com www.pgpf.org Military Spending Jaycen Koffer Jaycen Koffer 1 video games are encouraging bad behavior and crimes. for example, the game GTA 5 encourages young children to commit crimes 2inflation is happening, for example , trumps wall will cost about 7 billion dollars to build 3 bread used to be 1$ a loaf and it costs about 5$ now 4sodas used to be 50cents, and now they're like 8$ Grace Johnson Grace Johnson 1.) Decline in moral values Crimes and violence are a big problem to the USA 2.) Unemployment Because people loose their jobs, they also loose their homes and money 3.) Political Corruption A lot of the Presidents got assassinated, like the Roman Emperors. But empowerment can overpower a person, like a lot of Romans. 4.) Public Health There are many health problems that the USA has. Because of unemployment, poverty, and taxes, not everyone has good health. The Romans had a very bad lack of hygiene Gwendolyn Nelson Gwendolyn Nelson 1)Decline in Morals and Value Modern media like video games, movies, TV, and even some literature has definitely been desensitizing the USA to violence. The Romans also desensitized themselves to violence by watching the gladiator contests. Video games themselves may not cause violence, but they get us used to it. Source: National Center for Health Research (NCHR) 2)Unemployment The unemployment rates in the USA have gone down, and are at 4.1% as of February 2018, which is unlike Rome, that had a very big problem with unemployment in the decline of its empire. Source: US Department of labor statistics Vide Samantha Hoopes Samantha Hoopes 1)Decline in moral values Zoe Phillips Zoe Phillips 1. Political corruption. In the United States, we are electing people into government who do nothing to support our country. They may have a specific view, but they don't see how it is effecting the general public. Take President Trump's idea of the boarder wall. He was wanting to build a large wall on the boarder of Mexico and the United States, which would not only cost a lot of money, but could be disruptive to the ability to get past to Mexico from the United States. Our politicians aren't as bright as we see them, either. Take for example, the 2016 election, where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went off face to face. They threw each other down and made staged promises to the country in order to win, and we still elected a corrupted person, though there was no other route. We need more people who will not ruin our country to run it, not children in grown bodies. 2. Military Spending Another problem is using a majority of military funds on things we may not even need. I mean, now the POTUS(President of the United States) has banned transgender persons from joining the military because "They cost too much to be able to take care of 3 4 Jaden Waldbillig Jaden Waldbillig 1) Inflation Prices have been increasing by large amounts. No we are paying more for less food. For example gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again. 2) Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military Garrett Hunke Garrett Hunke 1 Public Health Rome suffered terrible strains of disease due to their lack of hygiene. I feel we are falling into the same loop, but we are being much sneakier about it. We are also a bit more brash about it.I found a chart depicting the results of a poll where people were asked where they have, err, relieved themselves. (see chart 1 ) 2 Political Corruption Let's face it. The elections here in the U.S that aren't as honest as we think they are. Also, the politicians are getting wild with the attempt of winning. 3 Urban Decay Jack Swanson Jack Swanson 1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there. 2.) Political Corruption We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with LEO Haener-Pope LEO Haener-Pope 1. The U.S. is having a HUGE unemployment rate, just like Rome. The U.S. recently has over the past few years been decreasing the unemployment rate, but, in January, there was a major bump. This is a very big problem that could lead to the fall of the U.S. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf 2. Political Corruption is beginning to happen in the United States. People have been showing some revolt into paying the government, saying that they pay the government through taxes. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/event-summary-political-corruption-in-the-united-states-and-around-the-globe/ Lucy Porter Lucy Porter 1) Unemployment Similarly to Rome, the unemployment rates of the US have been going up. However in the US it is because machines have been taking over jobs that people have done previously. 2) Price Inflation Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year. 3) ur Henry Williamson Henry Williamson 1) Decline in Morals and Value There are video games and movies that are lowering morals and value by desensitizing people into thinking violence is okay and introducing people into porn. " Blood and gore. Intense violence. Strong sexual content. Use of drugs. These are just a few of the phrases that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) uses to describe the content of several games in the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the most popular video game series among teenagers." https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/violent-video-games-and-young-people 2) Inflation Inflation is growing in the U.S. and in 2013, prices were 22.75 times greater than in 1913. These higher prices will cause poverty in America. 3) Unemployment Unemployment is a big problem in America with Trinity Gillispie Trinity Gillispie 1) Inflation Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be. 2) Decline in Morals and Values People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. People are even viewing us as worse than what we used to be. In this graph, you can see that people think our morals and values are poor. Max Curtis Spieser Max Curtis Spieser 1.Inferior Technology is a big problem in the U.S., I mean, if your sink was broken, you wouldn't do it yourself, you would call someone else to do it. AND WE DO NOT NEED A NEW I PHONE VERY THREE MONTHS. We waste so much time on unneeded comforts. 2.Political Corruption is a very big thing and I think it should be stopped before everyone suffers. The presidents that have been elected in the past few decades are some of the worst, wasting money and angering neighboring countries. 3. Decline in Morals and values is a big problem as well. We play video games and watch movies with so much gore and death, it's becoming a problem. Our lives have become so emerged in thee blood fests, that we barley respond to it anymore. 4. Inflation is a problem as big and as bad as the others, I just chose to do it last. But we have been upgrading our prices since we started to use money of our own in the U.S., we have things so expensive that the rich still need to work. We, (also like Rome), Are suffering from large amounts of inflation. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/US_Historical_Inflation.svg Applying changes made elsewhere ... Leo Haener-Pope Leo Ha Leo Haener-Pope Leo Haener-Pope 1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another. https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs. 2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This Trinity Gillispie Trinity Gillispie 1) Inflation Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34" (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be. 2) Decline in Morals and Values People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. Matthew Martino Matthew Martino 1. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games Bruce Salisbury Bruce Salisbury 1. Inferior Technology As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react. 2.If you've ever seen Wall-E you may have known that the people were quite obese. That could be the future of the human race. as you can see there are the most overweight people Matthew Martino Matthew Martino

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Lily Hoellwarth 1. Inferior Technology I I I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S. 2. Inflation The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices.

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Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values

The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/

2.) Inferior Technology
The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever.

https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

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Garrett Hunke Final Pt. 4

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Here's the graph that shows that we don't always use medicine, or we take some even after the symptoms have died away.

Lily Hoellwarth

2018-05-04 19:58:05 UTC

(This one has my actual stuff. Do not look at my other one).

1. Inferior Technology

I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.

2. Inflation

The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices.

3. Decline in Morals and Values

In ancient Rome, crimes and violence filled the streets. The Emperor wasted money, and they had cruel games that were played at sporting events. I think the U.S. relates to this because, people walk down allies to fight other people. The U.S. is in a lot of debt, and some sports can cause much harm.

4. Political Corruption

Ancient Rome had trouble electing new leaders. I don’t think the U.S. has a big problem with this, but Rome also had 20 out of 37 leaders assassinated. Some of our most famous, and not famous, presidents have also been assassinated.

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Hannah Scoville

2018-05-04 20:33:56 UTC

Urban decay:

In some cities like Detroit, gangs, crime, and riots are a way of life. They have gotten used to the fact that they might walk out on the street and see fights everywhere

Besides the fact that cities are becoming more and more dangerous, the housing market has gone up really fast and really high. “Looking for a new Treasure Valley house priced under $200,000? They’re an endangered species. Commercial builders have stopped building them in Boise, Meridian and Eagle.” _In other words, it is almost impossible to buy a house under $200,000. With the prices so high, some people may not be able to afford houses and would be forced to live in crammed smelly, dirty, apartments.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/business-insider/article209631409.html#storylink=cpy

Hannah Scoville

In 2013, more than 2/3 of the movies released were PG13r R. Besides movies, video games are also becoming too violent. There are games where you can

Matthew Martino. Decline in morals and values The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video. games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/ 2.) Inferior Technology The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever. https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

2018-05-04 20:48:14 UTC

Political corruption
With the election in 2016 the nation was very split between democrat and republican. many people are still mad about the election. They have started protests. and we are making the Country weaker by fighting. in the last election we were so weak that Russia hacked the election.
https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking
inflation
When in Rome, they saw a lot of prices going up. no in the us, lots of prices are going up too.

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/sep/3.html

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Jaden Waldbillig (real one) 1) Inflation Prices have been increasing by large amounts. Now we are paying more for less food. For example, gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again. 2) Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military more than any other country. We spend 581 billion on military where the second highest amount is 129.4 billion from China. 3) Moral and Values We may not go to places to watch people fight to the death, but we do have very violent games. As time progresses violent video games are coming more popular. There are several games where you get points for killing or hurting people. These makes people more violent in real life. " Simulating violence such as shooting guns and hand-to-hand combat in video games can cause real-life violent behavior." https://videogames.procon.org/ 4) Urban Decay In Rome many people couldn't afford to live in a house which led to several homeless people making the streets filthy. In the United States we have tons of people who are homeless. In New York City alone, there are 62,692 homeless people each night in New York City Shelters as of 2017.

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Hannah Scoville (Real)

2018-05-04 22:34:13 UTC

Urban decay:

In some cities like Detroit, gangs, crime, and riots are a way of life. They have gotten used to the fact that they might walk out on the street and see fights everywhere

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/business-insider/article209631409.html#storylink=cpy

Hannah Scoville

In 2013, more than 2/3 of the movies released were PG13r R. Besides movies, video games are also becoming too violent. There are games where you can win by murdering and killing people. Is that how we try see entertainment? Killling?

4.) Inflation

These days, things are getting more and more expensive. A loaf of bread used to cost about 10 cents. Now it can get up to $3. With higher and higher prices, it will be harder to get the necessities. Some people will likely go into poverty and the U.S. will likely colapse.

Enoch Bate REAL

2018-05-07 14:43:32 UTC

1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still 6,585,000 people that are unemployed.

2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days.... they are so bad

3. Public Health- People are nasty

4. Naughty politicians

2018-05-07 14:44:08 UTC

Kyra Christensen

2018-05-09 02:36:42 UTC

1.) Inflation
Just like Rome, the U.S.A has tons of inflation. If you track the gas prices over the years- In 1960 to about 1970, you could get gas for about 50 cents a gallon. Then, gas prices increased, at about 1990 to 2000, gas prices were at about a dollar 50. Now, gas prices are at about 4 bucks! That's a lot of change. I can think of a lesson that can be learned in this situation, we need to stop raising prices. The Roman Empire started to raise prices, and look where that got them. The people that couldn't afford food started to die out, and so the population started to decline.

2.)Political Corruption
In Rome, the choice for a new emperor was a debate between the old emperor, the Senate, the Praetorian Guard, and the army. In the USA, the way a new president is elected through the electorial college. The popular vote does not get to decide. Sure, the electorial college is based off of the popular vote, but, as shown in the last presidential election, the electorial college and the popular vote do not always line up. In the downfall of Rome, the Praetorian Guard ended up choosing the new emperor. Maybe the same thing will happen with the electorial college. I think the lesson that we can take from this would be that we should start electing the president from the popular vote.

3.)Decline in Morals and Values
Morals and values in the Roman Empire decreased in the end. By the time the Roman Empire fell, it's people could hardly define what it meant to be a Roman Citizen anymore. People today are quite disrespectful. If you tell a teenager to be more polite to people who are older then them, they would most likely just scoff, and go complain to people they hardly know on Face Book. A lesson that we can take from this, is that people should be more respectful. If we keep on going like this, more and more people will learn to be disrespectful, and the world will be filled with cruelness and unkindness at every bend.

4.)Public Health
In Rome, the streets were filled with nasty stuff, and probably had rats in every gutter. In our world today, all the cars are releasing carbon monoxide into the air, and that can poison good people. Our lesson from this might be that we need to take better care of the world that we live on. If we have been blessed with good air, good water, and good land to live on, then we shouldn't be poisoning it. We need to take better care of the planet that we live on.

miles hemmert

2018-05-11 01:21:40 UTC

1. Inflation
Caused by decrease in the value of money. Between the 90s and now prices shot up a bit because money means so much less! Back in the day you could earn a dollar and feed your family the same day, now a day you earn a dollar a day, you'll starve. and that is a fact!

2.Unemployment
people who are unemployed. I don't think I have to say much to help people know that theres a lot of people without jobs. Mainly cause we give them all to china. It may be going down but not fast enough.

3. Military spendings
we spend a lot on military causing more debt as we go. The reason we win so much is the money we spend into it.

4. Decline in morals and values
a decline in morals and values is not a good thing because it makes us so used to gore and stuff. One example is fortnight, a king of the hill mixed with the ground is lava were your on an island and you kill people to make yourself the last man standing in a storm that is slowly closing in.