Egypt

This year in Egypt there has been an uprising of the people there because the people no longer like who was in power, President Hosni Mubarak. In the beginning of the protest Mubarak had told Egypt that he was going to stay on for the rest of his term but not run again. Though that did not sit well with the people of Egypt so the protests continued, until Mubarak finally stepped down on Feb. 11 2011. It took about 18 days of protesting and the loss of support from the military and the U.S. for him to finally take that step in leaving office. I chose Egypt for my report because it's a major event that is taking place right now and the fact that the country can just shut down technologie in order to try and save their bad government and not let the world know what i happening at every moment intriges me. The world was basically on a stand still waiting for info from Egypt and it was crazy, i personally didn't know what was happening when i saw all the messages that said "Pray for #Egypt" on Facebook and other cites and when i asked people most didn't know either, it took me at least a day to find someone who actually knew what that meant and what was going on. The whole time i was just thinking with all the resources and technologie how is it that no one i knew could tell me anything about that message, "Pray for #Egypt". Now that I'm researching it i found that that message was the last tweet from a man named Wael Ghonim, an executive from Google Egypt, before he was imprisoned for 12 days without anyone knowing of his whereabouts. So to me this whole situation is fascinating and that's why i chose Egypt.