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Sam Pastol : Research Project pt.2

Sam Pastol Now it’s time to ask yourself, “so what?” Who else should care about the topic you wrote about? Why should they care? Why is it important? Identify a category of people who should know more about your research – for example young women, or US voters, or people over 50, or college students, etc. They are your audience. The category of people that should known more about this subject should be all college students and here why. Students nowadays leave high school without a sufficient understanding of Slavery and its development throughout our history, rise and fall.  Having said that, schools struggles finding a better job teaching American slavery and it’s impact on the world. Teaching this topic and going into details including the violence, ideologies and more can make a lot of people uncomfortable with implications raised from the past and present.  taking freedom for granted What portion of your research is most important for your audie...
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BLOG 13 : Chapter 23 - Capitalism and Culture (The Acceleration of Globalization since 1945)

Sam Pastol Chapter 23 highlights about Reglobalization, World of Economy and Capitalism: Reglobalization was the quickening of global economic transactions after World War II, whcih resulted in total world output returning to the levels established before the Great Depression and moving beyond them. From the viewpoint of world history, the genealogy of globalization reached far into the past. Reglobalization had to do with a massive global trade since 1945: "World Trade, for example, skyrocketed from a value of some $57 billion in 1947 to about $18.3 trillion in 2012." (STRAYER pg. 1026) In addition, there was foreign direct investment, capital and personal credit. Where money comes from and where it is going is a major part of history because it moves as investments for example in industrial projects in other countries. Finally, new patterns of humans migration was present as well. Like I said previously, money moves but people too. The chapter talks about Capitalism, s...
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BLOG 12 : Chapter 22 - The End of Empire (The Global South on the Global Stage)

Sam Pastol Moving on from the Modern Era; science was challenged a a way of understanding physical reality, people embracing their own cultural identity, Anti-colonialism/recognition of co-equality of all people and Erosion of Enlightenment ideas. TIMELINE (China + Indian Ocean Trade)----(Modern Era)-----(Conquest of Africa)----(20th Century)---| China                                                        + Renaissance            + Australia.               + WW2         on the rise                                             + conquest of the Americas                             ...
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BLOG 11 : Chapter 21 - Revolution, Socialism and Global Confllict

Sam Pastol Chapter 21 begins by an introduction of the word communism. "Communism was a phenomenon of enormous significance in the world of the twentieth century. Communist regimes came to power almost everywhere in the tumultuous wake of war, revolution, or both." (STRAYER pg. 930) In other words, communism is a type of government as well as an economic system and having a communist system basically means that individuals do not own land, factories and etc. Instead, the government control all of that. "Modern communism found its political and philosophical roots in nineteenth century European socialism, inspired by the teachings of Karl Marx." Karl Marx also known as Karl Heinrich Marx was philosopher, author, social theorist and economist famous for his theories. He is commonly known for writing and publishing "The Communist Manifesto" which embodies the author's materialistic conception of history. "In Marxist theory, communism also referre...
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BLOG 10 : Chapter 20 - Collapse at the Center (World War, Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power)

Sam Pastol Chapter 20 - Collapse at the Center (World War, Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power) 1914 - 1970s WORLD WAR The First World War: European Civilization in Cris, 1914-1918 This first part is divided into two little chapters: An Accident Waiting to Happen and Legacies of the Great War. An Accident Waiting to Happen: "Europe's modern transformation and it's global ascendancy were certainly not accompanied by a growing unity or stability among its own peoples - quite the opposite." (STRAYER pg.882) The arrival on the international scene of a powerful and rapidly industrializing Germany, seeking its "place in the sun," was a disruptive new element in European political life, especially for the more established powers, such as Britain, France and Russia. Europe was a good chess player when it came to competing nation-states in the West and some multi-ethnic empires in the East. Although these conflicts dramatically threaten Europe...
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BLOG 9 : Chapter 19 - Empires in Collision

Sam Pastol Chapter 19 has around 30 pages and is divided into 3 specific different parts: China, The Ottoman Empire and Japan. Our group focuses on The Ottoman Empire while the two other groups did on China and Japan. CHINA "China was among the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrializing West while maintaining its formal independence, unlike the colonized areas discussed in Chapter 18." (STRAYER pg.833) Population growth and environmental pressures are one of the reasons that wracked China: from about 100 million people in 1685 to some 340 million in 1853. The growing pressure on the land and the massive increase of the population led to unemployment, impoverishment and starvation. Additionally, "by 1942, little more than a century later, China's long-established imperial state has collapsed, and the country had been transformed from a central presence in the global economy to a weak and dependent participant in a European-dominated world system ...
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BLOG 8: Chapter 18 - Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

Sam Pastol Chapter 18: Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania, 1750-1950 This chapter titled "Colonial Encounters in Asian, Africa, and Oceania" focused on Europe's economic and industrial technologies expansions. Europe's growing industry caused a need for more raw material such as: "wheat from the American Midwest and southern Russia; meat from Argentina; banana from Central American Midwest; rubber from Brazil; cocoa and palm oil from Wet Africa; tea, copra, and coconut oil from Ceylon; gold and diamond from South Africa; gutta-percha, a natural latex red to insulate underwater telegraph lines, from Southeast Asia. This demand radically changed pattern of economic and social life in the countered of their origin." (STRAYER, pg.788) In class we talked about two different phase: the first phase was named "conquest" and the second phase named "colonialism". As well as 5 different pictures/drawings that had a lot of v...
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