Angel's Global Blog

Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

2008-01-14T15:22:00.000-08:00

The word Totalitarianism means a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. A totalitarian government seeks to control not only all economic and political matters but the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population, erasing the distinction between state and society. The citizen’s duty to the state becomes the primary concern of the community, and the goal of the state is the replacement of existing society with a perfect society. the way stalin used Totalitarianism to the Soviet Union was that the citizens were included with the society. and the goverment saw there was alot of political matters but they had attitudes. Also Joseph Stalin was part of the totalitaranism and he was in charge of it two. The people had to obey the goverment no matter what they say and what they do. They have their own secret police called the "thought police" and they all have one leader they must love "Big Brother". The book is really good and it's very similar to the life of Russia under Stalin's rule. Just like the people in Russia the people in the book were also being brainwashed into liking their leader and doing everything they are told.

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

2008-01-10T10:16:00.000-08:00

The way this film depict Dr. Zhivago in the russian revolution was that he didnt realy like the russian people at all and there was a war going oncause the russian and the german didnt like each other at all. so the german gave like there own speach about the russian and the russian gave there own message and both of them had little kids talking one from the german were talking bout the russians and one from russians talking aboout the germans. the reason why the Russian people wanted a change was beacause workers were not treated fairly and they didn't want no more war.also Russian become a communism country and People have to share everything such as houses. In a part of a film ,after Dr. Zhivago came back to Moscow he went to his house and it was all full of people, people that he didn't know.

Causes of WW1

2008-01-04T10:14:00.000-08:00

what cause the ww1 to happen was that on September 17,1796 President Washington said: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,and humour. World War I was caused in part by the two opposing alliances developed by Bismarckian diplomacy after the Franco-Prussian War. In order to diplomatically isolate France, Bismarck formed the three emperors league in 1872, an alliance between Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary. This alliance, unlike others, endured until war in 1914. It was this clause that Austria-Hungary invoked in calling Germany to her aid against Russian support for Serbia (who in turn was protected by treaty with Russia).In this ww1 there was alot of agreements and many of countries were going to war and many soldiers died during does wars.

The Opium Wars

2007-12-13T16:41:00.000-08:00

What happen during the opium war was that the britian and the chinese fought and they had some tradings going on during thee 1830's to 1840's. the chinese were self-sufficient witch means independence. also the chinese emperor was interested in the gadgets that the english had brought him because it was easier for the english to track the chinese people and make sure what they doing is being hiddin and not letting the chinese knowing what they doing. the chinese didnt like to trade at all but what the english did was that they trick the chinese into trading so thats what they did. What they had trade was opium. opium was a drug witch the doctors had been using it to relieve pain for a hundred years then the britian merchants smuggled opuim into china for non medical use. also they were getting more and wanting more of the opium that they got so addicted to it and they were getting sick and injured and it killed 12 million. chinese people. The group who won the war where the england people because they had stronger boats and it was to much for the chinese people to handle there boat where very weak and there weapons were to.

The White Man's Burden

2007-12-10T10:11:00.000-08:00

What this quote you can say is that the white man's burden is about a man who was a soilder and he was fighting for his peoples and fought in a war by himself and many people who belived in him were talking bout the things went throught werebacking him out plus such of things he went through. yes i agree with this analysis because the man was a solider and so much he went thrugh for his trops and the people wanna take this thing away from him so he faught for his rights and from begining to end hthe white man went through trouble from his chilld hood and now plus he didnt realy have that much of freedom in himself. Also he had took over the spainish countries. well now and days the last one hundred years later we can live in a whites man's burden and sometimes we don't. like now and days many man take tried to take over something big and so they end up getting killed and then the man's life is done and that is what happens but they doing there part and trying to help there country.

The Scramble For Africa

2007-12-08T12:13:00.000-08:00

The quote for scramble for africa i think it means so much problems thats going on with africa and different kind of countries involve in it also.the countries who were involve in it was spain, portugal, italy, german, france, great britian this were involve in this scramble. what these people were lookin for in africa was they wanted some soliders and they wanted there power and they were doing alot of trading with these countries. what these countries did to take over africa was the all had different things like in plans and so they all had different tradings to take over africa so the countries gathered and took over africa. The way it affected the africn people was that they had no places to live destroyed all of africa with no food and place to sleep thats how bad it was.

Mountains oF The Moon

2007-12-05T16:21:00.000-08:00

In the movie mountians of the moon there were many african people were in wars and and many of them were killed and were tourched and stabed. these two men who explored and were almost killed cause of the other group of african. they reason why they named the river after a British queen was because the explores had took over and so they planned it and they named it. also they gatherd some of them who were good and they all wanted to go to the Nile River and when they got there they were walking there the guy who was the compus that he knew where was the river he had both of his legs damaged because of the walking alot so they all got to the river but when they got there they got happy and rushed to the water but there was something wrong with it. the water had some kind of sickness and half of the majority got sick and all died and they were put to the ocean cause of the water. The reason why it was so easy for the europeans was beacause they found many ways to take over them and thats what they did the got got more weapons and ships and took over.

The Mejii Restoration of Japan

2007-11-27T10:15:00.000-08:00

On march 1854 there was a treaty trade treaty going on with Japan and the USA after three years negotiation. the US Commodore Perry came to an agreement with the Tokugawa opening two ports to US vessels for allowing the appointment of a consul, and guarantee for better treatment for wrecked ship sailors. The Treaty of Kanagawa was followed within two years by similar agreements with Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands, and in 1858 by the more wideranging Treaty of EDO with the USA, and marked the beginning of regular political and economic intercourse between Japan and the Western nations. What he had to empressed the japanese was that he had alot of soldiers and weapons like shotgun and big cargo ships and they used steam to destroy during wars. also he had ships that were made wit steam and were strong boats. also plus they used some of these strong weapons they had.

Karl Marx and Communism

2007-11-13T10:25:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx ideas for the communism is that to me is i think Karl Marx ideas were wrong. the reason why i say that is because Karl Marx's ideas on communism are incorrect based on his ideas of economics.Marx believed that labor would be free.few if any people would work for free which nothing is free in life they can do anything like fore example; they could go to the movies,theme parks and other entertainment but where would they get the money from. Karl Marx ideas were that there will be no currency in the future Few if any people would work for free, if they get bored, they could go to the movies, theme parks, and other entertainment but where would they get the money from. His ideas that there would be no currency in the future are also wrong. Humans have lived for thousands of years, we have gone through time periods where barter was the only trade.what i think Communism means is Communism has been a major historical theme since the Bolshevik Russia Revolution of in 1917. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels popularized the communist in their 1848 work, Communism manifesto. Vladimir Ulrich Lenin, founder of the Bolshevik Party, was inspired by this work and eventually became the first Communist ruler of Russia. The reason why Karl Marx wanted to take over the communism was because many of the people needed needed religion en order to work and he didn't like religions at all and many people were taking ova and worshiping the government so he took ova and changed rules that were there. the good guys that he saw i think were the workers and the bad guys he saw were the guys from the people in the party.

Karl Marx the Industrial Revolution

2007-11-09T10:21:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was born in 1818 and he was born a jew. when he was a little younger he knew that his father converted the family to Christianity in order to get a job. also karl Marx didnt belive in god and thought workers were controlled by religion and he said religion is the opiate of the people and that Opium is a drug. what he felt aboyut the industrial revolution iks he didnt realy like it because olf the workers he saw that the they were controling thee goverment all because his ideas werent used in communist countries. and most communist nations were pressed censord.the way the Industrial Revolution inspire Marx to invent Communism is that he wanted to change the rules which was already set to the industrial revolution which u had to be in the religion in order to work and dont let the workers were controling the goverment. so he started a new which was different kind of rules so now everything has been changed.

Nationalism and The Creation Italy

2007-10-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

Nationalism is when people have different kinds of culture and celebrates there culture and have flags.for me to show that im a nationalistic is i celebrate parades for my culture like for example im from puerto rico and likie 4th july i celebrate to because its where i live and my state so i celebrate with y family.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolution

2007-10-15T10:13:00.000-07:00

The reason why Simon Bolivar was famous was beacuse Simon Bolivar wanted independence for his homeland. It took 14 years of struggle, but his courage, cunning, and fierce determination carried him to victory. His belives in victory released millions of South Americans. also he had led and won the struggle for South americans independence becoming a hero in five nations. Also there was a country named out of the man in south america. he faught a guy name boyaca on august 7, 1819 was a great victory for Bolívar and his forces also That year, Bolívar created the Angostura Congress which founded Gran Colombia. But by 1827 ivalries among the generals of the revolution, civil wars exploded which destroyed the South American unity for which Bolívar had fought. Surrounded by factional fighting and suffering from tuberculosis, Simon Bolivar died on December 17, 1830.

French Revolution: Social Causes

2007-10-12T11:16:00.000-07:00

The three estates of the french revolution was the Holland, Prussia, and Sardinia. it was replaced by the National Convention, which proclaimed the Republic. The Enlightenment was a movement of thinkers who believed that science could explain everything in nature. Until then, most peoplebelieved that god controlled the universe in a "metaphysical" manner. Metaphysical means "beyond physical," and suggests that it is impossible for humans to comprehend things that happen in our environment. The French Revolution began in 1789 with the meeting of the States General in May. On July 14 of that same year, the Bastille was stormed: in October, Louis XVI and the Royal Family were removed from Versailles to Paris. The King attempted, unsuccessfully, to flee Paris for Varennes in June 1791.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2007-09-11T10:17:00.000-07:00

The heliocentric system was Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system. The ordering of the planets known to Copernicus in this new system is in the following figure, which we recognize as the modern ordering of those planets.In this new ordering the Earth is just another planet (the third outward from the Sun), and the Moon is in orbit around the Earth, not the Sun. The stars are distant objects that do not revolve around the Sun. Instead, the Earth is assumed to rotate once in 24 hours, causing the stars to appear to revolve around the Earth in the oppsite direction.
The Geocentric system Geocentric means that the earth is in the center.In the geocentric system, the earth is statically located at the center and the rest of the planets revolve around it, including the sun, which was also considered a planet.The planet nearest to earth is the moon, which completes a single revolution about the earth in one month. Further out are the rest of the planets: Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Evolution vs. Creation

2007-09-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

The Evolution vs Creation- Evolutionists find the evidence they've sought since the beginning of the modern Evolutionary movement about 150 years ago, there is actually no debate at all. Creation is the default. Evolutionists insist that complexity developed from simplicity despite the contradiction to known physical laws. Moreover, Evolutionists maintain that this simplicity just sprang into existence without any cause at all. The Evolution vs. Creation debate further seeks to solve the riddle of complexity. Creationists believe the universe was designed to be complex by an Intelligent Designer. Evolutionists, in their effort to exclude a designer, contend that complexity has developed from simplicity over time. Evolutionists view time as their solution. However, hard science tells us that time is the enemy of complexity.