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Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

2008-01-14T05:06:00.000-08:00

totalitarianism means a centralized government that does not allow peoples of different opinions and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life. Joseph Stalin used totalitarianism to rule the Soviet Union with an iron fist. Stalin took control after the death of Lenin. Stalin controlled everything, he also controlled the media, he choose what the people of the Soviet Union could know.

dr zhivago

2008-01-11T05:28:00.000-08:00

Dr. Zhivago depicted a society in the middle of war, with itself and other countries. It depicted this by the people trying to defeat the Russians and they ended up getting killed. They also showed the soldiers abandoning the war so that they would not have to be there anymore for they wpuldnt get killed or anythingg. The Russian people wanted to change because the government was treating the people like they were crapp. This is why people wanted to make change, tom prevent them from having to deal with a ruler who does not care about them. They depicted communism as a political system that was unorganized. They showed this by having 13 different families living in one house, even though it originally belonged to Doctor Zhivago. He was shocked when he saw it being run like this. He was also confused on how it worked.

cause of wwi

2008-01-04T05:16:00.000-08:00

the world war one was pretty dangereous. alot of people got hurt and killed during this event.Militarism is a nations policy to maintain strong armed forces. The reason why is because they were competing for land. As they were, there military was increasing. Great Britain and Germany were competing for the largest navies. France, Russia, and Germany were competing for the largest military. This also put pressure on other countries to increase the number of soldiers and arms that they have. Another cause of World War one is nationalism. Nationalism is when you feel that you feel extremely loyal to a nation and concern for its welfare. Some countries wanted independence from bigger countries, meanwhile, the bigger countries thought that they were greater then anybody else.

the opium war

2007-12-12T05:18:00.000-08:00

What happened during the opium wars?

pium was a very addicting drug kind of thing that the Chinese used to heal pain and diarrhea and the British found that giving opium to the Chinese was their only way to open a trade connection with china. But this opium which they got from India wasn't so original in fact it made the Chinese people very lazy and they couldn't meet their expectations then soon they were addicted to this drug. During the Opium War china battled with Britain because the Chinese emperor ordered Britain to stop trading and selling opium to the Chinese citizens. Since the British didn't want to stop , that's when the war broke out. The war broke out on sea. Eventually china was no match for Britain. The British had vast steam operated ships and rifles that the Chinese couldn't get close to.The Chinese had Boats that were old and not as much modernized a the British so the British ended up beating china.

The White Man's Burden

2007-12-10T05:32:00.001-08:00

"The White Man's Burden" means that the the white man has certain duties to do in life. Relating to the poem, the white man's duty is to convert the Philippines into a civilized democratic place to live which was a difficult task for the white man.

The Scramble for Africa

2007-12-06T15:16:00.000-08:00

The term Scrabble for Africa meant how European countries , Spain, Germany, Italy, were so obsessed with the new land that everybody anted Africa for their resources. They were all competing for resources. There resources were gold, wood,rubber, iron, tin, diamond, silver, copper. They were able to dominate Africa because they just inventedthe machine gun and they also found the cure for malaria. With the cure of malaria they were able to go to the jungles and not die of the mosquitoes bites. This Scrabble affected the African people because the whites thought that they dominated the country and that they were the first race and the best race. They took advantage of the African people and made them into slaves. The Europeans killed thousands of Africans and separated people within their tribes leading to also separation of families.

Film Lesson Mountains of the Moon

2007-12-06T15:05:00.000-08:00

Europeans faced many hardships as they went to africa.the native African people would ambush and kill Europeans.The journey was so long, that many people died of heat ansd tiredness.the lake that is the center of the Nile river is named after a British queen is because an Englishman found it and then named it after the queen of England.The Europeans had guns, while the Africans had spears. The Europeans would eventually get machine guns and a cure for Malaria. This would allow it to be easy through the heart of Africa.

The meiji restoration of japan

2007-11-27T05:14:00.000-08:00

I think Matthew perry bullied the Japanese by dropping of 26 anchors of the coast of edo Tokyo the capital of the country,it also states that perry wanted to intimidate the Japanese so he brought ships to the port where the Japanese were located.but on march 31 the treaty was signed by japan to open two ports for the U.S.
The thing that i think the japaneses was so imprssed by was that matthew perry brought a naval force to make the japanese sign the treaty.the japanese observed European countries and the way they were run. Japan sent many people to the West to study the way countries were run. For example, Japanese men studied the German Constitution.

karl marx and communism

2007-11-13T05:05:00.000-08:00

i think karl marx ideas of being a communis is he changed in his twenties.he was goin to be a philosopher he changed his liufe around and went to study economics and politics.i think the meaning of communism is a political or economic system based on each person is paid and eother her or him are equally to their needs.the reason why i think karl marx wants communism to tske over the world because it was bring in new technologys each in every day,the people who lived there were going to changed their society around and make it clean,and take all the disfunctional stuff out like rotten stuff.i think so of the good guys are

karl marx and the industrial revolution

2007-11-09T05:27:00.000-08:00

karl marx was a german philosopher.

NATIONALISM AND THE CREATION OF ITALY

2007-10-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

definition: the definition of nationalism is devotion and loyalty to ones own nation.i am nationalistic because every morning i do the pledge of allegiance,and also i celebrated the holidays.the thing that i do to show im nationlistic is that i stand up to for my country.
I think nationalism was uesd to create itlay by a new set of people or a geberatiojn came and took over itlay.it was like the new society tasken over the old societyy.a whole new group of people.itlay was a state before it became itlay.they had a flag that was red white green and had a symbol in it now it is just rew white and green.

simon bolivia and latin americans revolut

2007-10-15T05:06:00.000-07:00

The thing that Bolivia accomplished was that he helped out the Spanish to get Spain out of south America and he did just that by defeating them in a war.The reason why he is so famous is because he helped out south America they let him be the new president because he did such a good job.The reason there is a country named after him is because when he was planning an attack with Sucre they accomplished what they wanted to do and then Sucre destroyed the last of the Spanish Army and now they cant come back to the south America.So than Sucre called the congress of upper Peru and which he created the republic of Bolivia,which was relating to him.The army that Bolivioa defeated was the Spanish army.He did that because they were trying to take of south America so him and some guy named Sucre stopped them from destroying south America.

~french revoloution blog number1~

2007-09-27T05:13:00.002-07:00

question 1- Explain some of the causes of The French Revolution..ONE OF THE CAUSES ITS AFTER THE 25YEARS AND THE 7 YEARS OF WAR THE GOVEREMENT COULD NOT MANAGE HIS FINANCES ON A DAILY BAISIS.
QUESTION2- What were the three estates and why did the third estate feel used..THE FIRSST ESTATE WAS THE CHURCH.PEOPLE WENT TO THE CHURCH TO PRAY FOR GOOD REASONS AND FOR THERE SINS.THE SECOND ESTATE WAS THE NOBILITY.THE NOBILITY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT(=KNIGHTS).THE THIRD ESTATE WAS THE PEASANTRY.THE PEASANTRY WAS THE PEOLE THAT PRODUCED FOOD FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND ESTATE.THE THIRD ESTATE FELT LIKE IT WAS BEING USE BECAUSE IT HAD TO SUPPLY FOOD FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND ESTATE AND THE GET NOTHING OUTT OF THE DEALS BETWEEN THE OTHER ESTATES.

french revoloution blog number1~

2007-09-27T05:13:00.001-07:00

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2007-09-11T10:27:00.000-07:00

The heliocentric In Astronomy heliocentric is the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe. This word cames from the Greek, helios means "sun" and kentron means "center". Philosophical arguments on heliocentrism stated that the sun is at the center of the universe or that some or all of the planets revolve around the sun. Galileo was put on trail for somthing he believed in and that belief was the Copernicus doctrine. He was interrogated on April 12 1633, He was treated as a special prisoner he was not sent into the prison cells he was put in a apartment that was used by inquisition officals then on june 22 1633 he was sent in prison for life.

Scitentific revolution:scientific method`

2007-09-10T10:33:00.000-07:00

Scientists started to experiment. A Great example "Aristotle had a theory that heavy objects fell faster than lighter objects. And for about 1,500 years, people believed him. Well, in the late 1500’s a young Italian named Galileo tested this theory. According to legend, he went up to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped stones of different weights to the ground". He proved the Aristotle was wrong and found what we know today objects of different weights fall at the same speed.

"I. The scientific method has four steps

1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.

2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.

3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.

4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments."

creation vs evoltion

2007-09-06T10:37:00.000-07:00

There are many different ways people say when u were created.Some people think that u were created by animals, but i think u were created by god.i went t religion my whole life and one day i asked my teacher how was people created.so one of my teachers said god so i wuss like a llright but then the other teacher was like we were created by like monkeys.so that why i think there is a lot of many different ways you could be created.