CHAPTER 22-23
Many things
happened in chapter 22 and 23 but my mom always used to tell me” things happen
for a reason.” Maybe this is our way to identify our mistakes and learn from
them. Although the First World War brought so much devastation, as well as the
second war there were so many things that I often wonder if our world would
have been different if the British Empire would not had colonized each of these
colonies. However, I go back to what my mother would say, “Things happen for a
reason.” It is best that I leave it alone and let other who are the experts
figure it out. Such devastation only left us the beginning of communism,
confusion, corruption, imperialism, militarism, the holocaust, Atomic weapons, and
few small wars to deal with.
I often wonder if
the ideas of enlightenment, capitalism, humanism can actually be obtain as a
whole, and if in fact place us on the right path. I find it amazing how many
countries converted into communism and had their own version or what Karl Marx
was trying to teach us. Instead making our world better I believe it caused
many confusion and perhaps even greed. What these country did not realized was
that it caused many issues and only brought devastation to all those who were
brought under communism. This is why I and many of us cherished
self-determination, because it provides us with the ability to choose freely,
and determine our own path. Which leads me to next subject famous people who
tried to make a different in our world and who either succeeded or failed? Gandhi
and Nehru in India, Sukarno in Indonesia, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Nkrumah in
Ghana, and Nelson Mandela in South Africa were leaders drawn to Independent
organized political parties who work so hard and making our world better. In
some cases, it provided new ideas on how to obtain self-determination or to
make a difference in our world. Some of these people gave their life or died
not knowing if they ever accomplish these changes. It is so sad to learn how
each of these people had to endure with all the atrocities in order to make a
difference in our society and globally. However, we can only continue to strive
and hope that each of can make a differences in our world.
The economy has
always been a ripple effect in the past and in our world today. Perhaps none of
know how to manage our economy as well as we think. I recently watch a
documentary on Netflix called the “End of the Road” the movie entail Wall
Street is being occupied. Europe is collapsing in on itself. It provided you
how people are consume by fear, anger, and questions. The movies takes you back
to how the world came to be in such a state, after World War II to our current
time. It discusses our current challenges, troubles, and some of the world’s
top economic issues as well. I highly recommend this documentary. Well here, we
are our very last blogL.
I must say I learned a lot and everyone in the class was great. Thank you Ms.
Andrews for making this class fun and I felt that this course was well rounded enough
for us to learn about world history. You provided me with an entire new
prospective not just our history, but globally.