First Year English - Sam

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...

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 ...

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...