Jason's Global Blog

The White Man's Burden

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

The white man's burden is a load or a responsibility that the white people have to do or accomplish. It's the job of the white man to accomplish conquering and ruling other countries or lands. Europeans felt obligated to take over another country and adapt to westeren ways to better themselves such as the Philipinnes. U.S. brought U.S troops such as the best sons just to go to Philipinnes .

" Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers! "

The Scramble for Africa

2007-12-05T10:13:00.000-08:00

I think that the term " Scramble for Ameria" is basically talking about how the end of the 18th century colonialism seemed to have a thing of the past. Britain had lost its Thirteen Colonies in America, Spain and Portugal that lost most of South America and Holland had a hard time holding onto the East Indies. Afica seen the most dramatic colonisation, it was divided up as if it been a cake split between greedy Euopean leaders. The main Europeans that were involved in the scramble of Africa was France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. All these nations were looking for the rich natural resource and land. Since Europeans believed they were the best race in the world they believed that they could take over any country they wanted to. They would use these natural resources to make new manufacture goods for the people of Europe and also to sell to the people of Africa. They would also send these new resources back to Europe to become goods for the people. Theses nations would also take control of the areas because the more land they controlled the more power they had. This Scramble affect the African people in the way that they were slaves. They were treated badly and were used as a trade known as slave trade.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

2007-12-03T10:12:00.000-08:00

In the film " Mountain of the Moon", were some hardships that Europeans faced as they explored Africa. It was hard for the Europeans to explore because the Africans thought they were their enemies but they were helping them. These Europeans had to learn how to live just like the Africans so it was hard for them. So during the movie, a group of Africans and two mens were exploring there way to survive n find a lake. While they was traveling, they found the Nile River. Exploring the Nile River was very hard for them, they had to face alot of stuff. People didnt have enough energy and there were disease, they couldnt drink some water in some lakes because its been poisoned.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

2007-11-13T17:04:00.000-08:00

" The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of thinsgs proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally. "

Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)

Marx was a solcial scientist, philsopher, historian, and also a revolutionary. Karl Marx felt that the hard working people in factories and farms should be in control of everything instead of having owners or landlords to order them. He viewed the world as a feudalism because of the fact that the higher class owned everything. He also viewed that workers would sell theme selves to work in factories for life to make money. Marx thought that people who was rich n wealthy would stay the way they are right now buh if you were poor n didnt have enough money, wells he thought poor peoples was going to stay or continue to be poor.He believed that their should'nt be social classes were some people owned lands or had the most money.He came up with the idea of Communism so the whole world can change. So that in the world no one would be different in political, social, and income wise. He's been working all over the world to fight for their rights. He thought that the landlords should be the once to control the factories, and also control the land and farms.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

2007-11-13T16:49:00.000-08:00

I think that Nationalism is a devotion to the culture of one nation like having a flag for you country n having colors that represents the meaning of your flag. Its also the belied that nations will benifit from acting independently than international goals. I think that im nationalistic because i celebrate holidays such as the 4th of July every year. We celebrate this "holiday" because it was te day America gained it's independence from british. And everyday in school we do the Pledge of Alligance to support and remember that we are American and to support our troops thats in war right now.
Italy came to be joined by an Italian named Camillo Di Cavour which he concluded that for him the only way he coulda won was by helpin the French emperor Napoleon III. Once they got back from Northern Italy, Cavour had helped from France n Sardinia to get everything else from the two empires.

Simon Bolivar

2007-10-15T10:13:00.001-07:00

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolution

Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas on July, 1783. Simon Bolivar received an excellent education from hid tutors. Over the years Bolivar became familiar with the works of the Enlightenment as well as those of classical Greece and Rome.Bolivar lost his parents so when growing up, his uncle took care of Simon. By the time Simon was fifteen years old, his uncle Carlos Palacios sent him to Spain to continue his education.
As he returned to Venezuela, Bolivar joined the group of patriots that seized Caracas in 1810 and proclaimed independence from Spain. He went to Great Britain in search of aid, but could get only a promise of British neutrality. When he returned to Venezuela, and took command of a patriot army, he recaptured Caracas in 1813 from the Spaniards.
Bolivar crushed the Spanish army at Carabobo in Venezuela on June 24, 1821. Next, he marched into Educador and added that territory to the new Colombian republic. After a meeting in 1822 with another great liberator, Bolivar became dictator of Peru. His army won a victory over the Spaniards at Auacucho in 1824, which needed Spanish power in South America. Upper Peru became a separate state, named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements.

Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

2007-09-28T10:12:00.000-07:00

During the night of August 4 1789, noblemen made grand speeches and they was declaring their love of liberty and equality. Noblemens joined other memebers of the National Assembly in sweeping away the fuedal privileges of the First Estate and the Second Estate.

The French Revolution: Social Causes

2007-09-27T10:14:00.000-07:00

In the 1700's, France was considered the most smart or advanced country of Europe. It was the center ofthe Enlightment and it had a large population and a prosperous foreighn trade. France was always busy, caused by high prices, high taxes, and disturbing questions raised by the Enlightenment ideas od Rousseau and Voltaire.
There was about 98 percentage of the people that belonged to the Third Estate. The three groups that made up this estate differed greatly in their economic conditions. The first group were merchants and artisans. they were well learned and beleived strongly in the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality. Many felt that their wealth entitled them to a greater degree of social status and political power. So the First Estate made up of clergy of Roman Catholic Church. The Second Estate was made up of rich nobles that held the highest offices in government. They Disagreed about Enlightenment ideas. The Third Estate was an urban lower class, and peasant farmers. They did have no powers to influence government but they embraced Enlightenment ideas.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2007-09-11T10:15:00.000-07:00

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

Galileo and the Star gazer was presented by the Greathall Productions. There were alot of scientific observers n they were suprised to find that their answer or conclusions did not always match up the accepted truths. These scientist were discussing about this by the year of 1550 through the year of 1700. Scientific Revolution did not happen all at the same time, they didnt even have a date they really started doing this experiment. There was a scientific revolution of sorts in the high Middle Ages that in many ways rivalled the later scientific revolution in all there changes but all the cultural components werenot in place.

Evolution VS Creation

2007-09-06T10:30:00.000-07:00

Evolution VS Creation

There are different kinds of thoery such as Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Many people think that human raised started of as animals, such as the monkey. People say that thier our ancestors then we were developed as people because our brains developed more better.

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2007-09-05T10:36:00.000-07:00

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