First Year English - Sam

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...

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...

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                             ...

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...