Friday, April 15, 2011
Community Based Learning Project
So I thought I would make this blog post a little different and actually talk about what my class and more specifically, my group has been working on this semester for our CBL project. My group worked on a project called Freedom Sunday, but it more so took place on Saturday. This was about speaking up for those who are now free from sex slavery. My group and I did much preparation work for this project, we had many team meetings and I myself met with Father Tom many times to prepare with him what exactly we needed to do for this project. My group and I attended the Church services on both Saturday and Sunday and on Saturday we collected close to 300 dollars from people in the community who were willing to help our cause. This money will be going towards the Not For Sale club on campus and also to the Somali Mam Foundation to help educate the young girls who are now free from slavery. The second project I, Greyson, and Gio are working on is a bake sale on 4/20. It is Earth Day and although many people think 4/20 has an alternate meaning, we think this is a perfect day for a bake sale to raise money for our cause. SO EVERYONE COME TO THE FRONT OF THE CAFETERIA ON APRIL 20TH FROM 12-2 TO PURCHASE BAKED GOODS FOR OUR PROJECT!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Chapter 23
It is rather interesting because as I opened my book to read chapter 23, I actually looked at the book in some amazement becuase we are literally at the end of this text. I am so surprised because very rarely do you ever reach the end of textbooks in a class, so I was pretty excited, and also, this chapter deals with issues from modern day, something you rarely deal with in a world HISTORY class.
In this chapter, the end of Empire in World History. In 1900, European colonial empires in Africa and Asia appeared as permanent features of the worlds political landscape. Before the end of the 20th Century, they were all gone. The first major breakthrough occurred in Asia and the Middle East in the late 1940s, when India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel achieved independence. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Africa gained their independence, colony after colony.
India also ended British rule in their country. There were attempts in early centuries to do this, but they never truly succeeded. Unlike previous rulers, the British never assimilated into Indian society due to their small sense of racial and cultural distinctiveness. This served to intensify Indians awareness of their collective difference from their alien rulers. There was a prominent role of Islam in Turkey and also in Iran. There were many experiements with Freedom during this period of about 100 years. There were attempts to create political order to contend with a set of common conditions. Populations were booming, and expectations for independence ran high, exceeding the available resources. Most delevoping countries were culturally diverse with a small amount of loyalty to the central state. Nonetheless, public employment ballooned as the state assumed greater responsibility for economic development. Colonial rule had been highly authoritarian and bureaucratic with little interst in African participation, during hthe 1950s, the British, French and Belgians attempted to transplant democratic institutions to their colonies. They created legislatures, permitted elections, allowed policial parties to operate, and in general anticipated the development of constitutional, parliamentary, multiparty democracies similar to their own. By the early 1970s, there were very few regimes left among the new states of Africa, and many had led the struggle for independence. Those that did lost mass support and were swept away by military coups.
In this chapter, the end of Empire in World History. In 1900, European colonial empires in Africa and Asia appeared as permanent features of the worlds political landscape. Before the end of the 20th Century, they were all gone. The first major breakthrough occurred in Asia and the Middle East in the late 1940s, when India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel achieved independence. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Africa gained their independence, colony after colony.
India also ended British rule in their country. There were attempts in early centuries to do this, but they never truly succeeded. Unlike previous rulers, the British never assimilated into Indian society due to their small sense of racial and cultural distinctiveness. This served to intensify Indians awareness of their collective difference from their alien rulers. There was a prominent role of Islam in Turkey and also in Iran. There were many experiements with Freedom during this period of about 100 years. There were attempts to create political order to contend with a set of common conditions. Populations were booming, and expectations for independence ran high, exceeding the available resources. Most delevoping countries were culturally diverse with a small amount of loyalty to the central state. Nonetheless, public employment ballooned as the state assumed greater responsibility for economic development. Colonial rule had been highly authoritarian and bureaucratic with little interst in African participation, during hthe 1950s, the British, French and Belgians attempted to transplant democratic institutions to their colonies. They created legislatures, permitted elections, allowed policial parties to operate, and in general anticipated the development of constitutional, parliamentary, multiparty democracies similar to their own. By the early 1970s, there were very few regimes left among the new states of Africa, and many had led the struggle for independence. Those that did lost mass support and were swept away by military coups.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
This is probably one of the most famous images of the Great Depression.
The Great Depression has always been a topic of interest for me to learn about. It is thought that the main causes of the Great Depression were the unequal distribution of wealth, overproduction in agriculture, war debts and high tariffs, and the stock market crash. The main effects can be summed up as: widespread hunger, poverty, and unemployment, a worldwide economic crisis, democratic victory in the next election, and the "New Deal".The stock market crashed in 1929 and by the spring of 1933, unemployment had risen from 8 to 15 million, so almost doubling. The Great Depression finally ended when the federal government imposed rationing, recruited 6 million defense workers, drafted 6 million soldiers, and ran deficits to end World War 2.
A line of citizens trying to get welfare money or find jobs during the Great Depression
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