Chapter 23

I think what I found most interesting is that globalization had so much of an impact on countries in a good way that immigration became such a boost in the US. On page 1145 it really shows how much change happened through the development. The inequality of the people that lived in low income was so explicit that you can obviously tell there weren't that many resources for those countries to support their people. For example, in the deaths of infectious diseases aspect of globalization there is a high percentage of people dying because of the income as a whole. This goes back to the countries wealth and how important it is for a country to have money and give back to its people.
Some of the issues that rose up from globalization was womens rights and feminism as a whole. Different countries took this issue in different views and I think the Muslim community was the one that did not take it to well. According to Strayer they opposed the equality of inheritance for women and men.

Chapter 22

During this chapter I learned that two of the countries that struggled the most with obtaining their freedom was India and Africa. The people of India believed that they knew their own people more than foreigners did. An important thing that I learned is that Ghandi married at age 13 and was an intellectual student at the age of 18 he was offered to go study law in England. Ghandi's believes were very revolved and strong around using non-violence to make his point. Along with this he also created a political philosophy , he didn't want a drastic change to happen in society but more of a transformation of people's morals.

Revolution, Socialism, Global Conflict

Communism was described by Marxist theory because of how society was collective and socially equal in a sense that there was no private property.Communism was taking over Asia, Russia, Korea, and Vietnam. In Vietnam a locally based communist movement was under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh as it said in the book (Strayer, p. 1037). The Russian Revolution was one of the most powerful and fast revolution that took in the year of 1917. I think an important event that happened in 1917 Tsar Nicholas II had lost control of the country and that's where the power shifted and the revolution started. When a powerful figure in a country is pushed off power because of the people that's when revolutions start and that's been the case.

China & The Ottoman Empire

What I learned the most about this chapter is specifically how China struggled to get by the European states and trying not to give in. Three of the main challenges that China faces are the military pushes and the political ambitions that European states push through. Another thing was industrialization because China did not want to give in to industrialization. Instead they suffered the consequences and they were not able to keep up with the demand regarding the crops. China was so unstable that it did not collect any taxes, or did not have any flood control or social welfare. The Taiping Uprising was probably the light in China for women and men because of the power that they gave to the people. They also promoted change in marriage since in the past marriage was planned based on family interests and now they were changing things around by promoting mutual attraction over family interests. They also gave men and women a equal opportunity to buy land.                            

Call to Action Day

Today I had the honor to take part of the volunteer site on campus by helping out with the mural that will be put in the library. The mural that will be placed in the library is a symbolism from the incident that had happened in the beginning of the year. It was a hate crime that had happened to one of the RA's in her hall where someone or a group of people decided to write degrading things in the room tags of the residents there.
The school never talked to its students about this certain incident that happened because we like to hide things from going public out to the world. I know a lot of the school did not know about this incident and it was obviously because the school and the students were not open to talk about it.
For call to action day the students that attended did their own individual tiles representing the incident or their own diversity. The tiles will be placed as a border around the mural when it is finally up in the library.

Hopefully in the future we make a sort of event about what had happened before and how we can improve the way we deal with these situations.

Industrial Revolution

I think the industrial revolution really made an impact towards our earth and it has been kept this way since the industrial revolution has started. Looking at how the world has been platformed now you are able to realize that this industrial revolution. People keep building things that keep damaging the environment to make it easier for us to have faster this, faster that but to be honest we don't take in consideration how some things have a huge impact in the environment. The other day I was at work and a lady came up to me as I was changing the paper towel roll that it takes a whole tree to make one little roll holder. 

Another thing I found interesting was house the British Aristocracy completely decreased because of the industrial revolution.

Blog #12

I think what shocked me more about this chapter and mostly at the beginning when the topic of races shows up. I think Europeans took it to the extreme when they started to degrade certain races because the European race was superior. They started to compare the other races to animals and things/people who were below them. Not only that but they believed that race was everything as one of the man that was quoted in the book said. Whites became first and then anything else came below whites, this was the beginning of when racial issues became explicit, slavery was the foundation of it.
Even now people still act favorably towards people of lighter skin color just because of their appearance. I learned in my psychology course that if you put a Caucasian women, Caucasian man, and a colored female along with a colored male in a car dealer the Caucasian male would get the best deal. The woman of color would get the highest price that they could sell the car for and it's just prejudice and racial profiling.

SND Post 9

I think learning about the two women that founded the school is just astounding because they're stories I have never considered to even read. One of the things I learned about Julie Billiart was that there were a lot of events happening to her in a short amount of time. One of them being that her father was almost murdered and the stress it caused among her family. I find it quite interesting how two women who were so different founded a school through their friendship and beliefs from the experiences they lived before.

Post #7

What I thought was important about comparing both the American and French revolution were the purposes of both of the revolutions. With the American revolution it was mostly based off getting their independence from the British. The fact that they organized themselves into colonies and were revolting about.
The French Revolution in the other hand was just the conflict between their own society. There were people that weren't being treated equally.

Post #6- The scientific revolution

One of the most surprising things that I learned from this chapter was that what really sparked the scientific revolution was the universities and the students. The Catholic church's version of how God created the Earth in 7 days. The change of Europeans thought about where Earth stood and that it was also not the center of the universe created a lot of controversy.

I think this also relates to school now because there was a time and I believe there still are schools where they teach that God created the world in 7 days without getting into other theologies. Even now being in a private catholic university there are certain things that can't really be in the curriculum because of the catholic church. My psychology professor repeatedly says that there are some things that she can't talk about sexuality because of the reason that the school is catholic.

Post # 5- Women in Religion

I was reading through the book and found some new interesting things that I did't know before from history class. One of the first things that I realized from women's experiences in religion was that Protestants stopped worshiping female saints like Virgin Mary and it was solely the male Christ figures that would be worshiped. Like Catholics, majority of protestants with the exception of the Quakers did not offer women a position to be involved in churches. This also plays a role in today's religion even though women can read the scriptures and now play a role in the altar. Women still can't play a role of being priest or the pope and people have different opinions in this.

I remember being in my Religions of the World class and having a discussion whether women should play a role in being priests in a Catholic church and a classmate of mine disagreed because he said that Jesus was a man and our whole lives it has been a tradition for the men to take role in Catholic institutions.

Other than the fact that women could not be involved in the important roles of their religion they also had limited access to education outside of their home. The Bible was a very important role in the Protestant church  and as quoted in the book "reading the Bible for oneself stimulated education and literacy for women" (Strayer,722). In our culture today women can read and write and have access to education, but it is different in other cultures because women are still under male supervision.

The African Slave Trade

I think this chapter has been a bit uncomfortable to read in some areas just because of how Europeans thought about Africans back then. I think its horrific how Europeans treated other human beings just because of their skin color because that seemed to be one of the reasons. In the book I remember there was a European that said that Africans were more submissive to slavery since they had "little that is essential to humans" (pg 690). If I'm correct in the way I was processing information I believe people in Europe were pretty religious so what exactly went through their minds when they agreed that Africans were not humans due to their skin color. 

Another thing that shocked me was that there were African sellers that were selling their own people to Europeans and to the Caribbean.  

A great reference to this chapter would be 12 years a slave because it was so explicit and it really spoke about the labor that the slaves had to go through. One of the things that reminded me to what I read in the book would be when the main character has to whip the girl because she misbehaved. In the book it said that not all slaves were treated equally. It was mostly based on what they had to offer and how they could be useful, so children were most of the time shadowing their parents in labor that they would grow up to do during their life span. 

Entry #3-economic transformation

What I learned from this chapter of the reading was that the Atlantic Slave Trade was not the only thing during that century that created networks from one country to another. As the book states, it was only one component of the international networks. The Spanish America got silver from the mines and this was a great treasure in which people used to buy other goods like spices. One movie I could think of the relates to the Spanish coming into Mexico is The Road to El Dorado. The movie focuses on the journey of two young men who are arrested by Hernán Cortez and taken on the journey to Mexico but throughout the journey they ended up being lost. They made their way through the City of Gold which is where Hernan Cortez was headed. 

 Fur was a good from North America from the Native Americans and also from Siberia. The Russians looked a lot into the fur that the Siberians were making because it would completely benefit them. 

I also learned that the European goods weren't really popular in the Asia Markets, and I think this is because it was two different setting with two separate needs.

Slavery & Sugar in the Caribbean

Most of the sugar colonies were established in Brazil and the Caribbean where majority of the African slaves were taken in and pushed into labor. The working conditions were horrible mostly because of the process of cane sugar production. This is why the slaves were forced to do this type of job because of the harsh conditions and since Europeans did not think they were also humans.
The process of cane sugar was that it had to be in a hot area where the cane sugar would be produced in large scales. Not only were slaves used for the production of cane sugar but also tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo.

Modern Age=European Age

I believe we have moved on from the Modern age because of the fact that we have moved into the technology age. It is safe to say that the modern age was dedicated to the Europeans because of the great influences that they had on the world. The cultural influence that the Europeans forcefully pushed upon other countries. I think that is why we have moved away from the modern age and it would be safe to say that we have moved into the technology stage. Where everything is surrounded by technology and now computers run faster due to the fast WiFi we have access to know.

I think expanded ideas were mostly forced upon other countries and cultures. An example of this is how Christianity was pushed upon the Native Americans, while also being stripped down from their language. The land ownership changed too by a document that agreed that the colonists now took ownership of the land that the Native Americans always lived on. Along with the migration of the Europeans to America they brought along different food, agricultural ways, and diseases to America.

Not only does this support the modern age also being the European age but also because a lot of the things that we have today have originated or been influenced by Europe.

Yas I'm done.