Larissa's Global Blog

Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

2008-01-11T10:32:00.000-08:00

Joseph Stalin was a powerful and murderous dictator in history.

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

2008-01-10T10:11:00.000-08:00

This film was about Doctor Zhiago and how the Russian war had changed how he lived when he came back after the war. He was a doctor that had came home from war and had found families living in his house. The families were in his house because they had no were to live and Doctor Zhiago had a big house.

Causes of WWI

2008-01-04T10:11:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of reasons for the cause of the First World War. Britain and Germany were competing to have the most powerful navy in the world. This had caused tension in Europe. But historians said that the war had been building up for a long time.

The Opium Wars

2007-12-14T10:10:00.000-08:00

The Opium War was about that was the drugs that the Britian was selling to China. The war happened around 1839 to 1842. The Opium War is also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars.

"The White Man's Burden"

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

The White Man's Burden is

"The Scramble for Africa"

2007-12-05T10:23:00.000-08:00

The Scramble for Africa is

Film Lesson: ''Mountains of the Moon''

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

This film is about European explores that wanted to know where the Nile River had started from. The people of Arica had went and travled wit them. On this trip, they had been throw so much. They had goten attact so many times by the local villagers. They had went on two trips to africa. They had found a river at the first trip but to their suprize it wasnt the Nile River. Some of the people that went with them on this first trip got realy sick. On the second trip the comander got sick and then had to be carryed throw some of the trip. He couldnt walk and was in so much pain. He was left behind in a village, while the other people were on their way to find where the Nile River starts. While they were walking they came to a realy big lake. Thats when he know tha it was the Nile River, and he wanted to name it Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is the third largest lake in the world. When one of the man came back to the village to see his comander he told him that he found the lake. But he didnt belive it. When they finaly came back to Europe after 6 months they went to name and say what they found. But when they came back, both the explorers had their own stuff to say. One of the two man was so made and had killed himself.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

2007-11-27T10:16:00.000-08:00

Commmodore Matthew Perry was a man who went to Japan to make a trade. He travled from the United States to Japan. He went to the "negotiate" opening traderelations with the United States. The Japanese had nocentive to open their contry to foreign intervebtion.

Karl Marx and Communism

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

Karl Marx and Industrial Revolution

2007-11-13T10:17:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was borna jew, and his father had converted his family to Christianity so they could get a job. He didnt believe in god. Workers were controlled by religion, and he said "religion is the opiate of the peolpe." Marx had died in 1883. As for his ideas that formed in 1917. Mongolia had become the second communist nation in 1921. By the end of the war (world war II) many governments were overthrown by communists. He was mad that the people who worked in factories in Europe were being treated unfaer. The conditions in the factories were unsafe. He thought that the works instead of landlords should be the ones to control the factories, and also control the farms. He had works unite all over the world to fight for their rights. Karl Marx wrote "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." He wrote this to show what wealth should have been. Marx's ideas were not used bycommunist countries.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

2007-10-19T10:14:00.000-07:00

Nationalism is when a group of people that have the same culture, history and belief. Like a nation-sate is the nation that have their own independent government. "...nationalism and nation-state grow out of the French Revolution. Revolutionary leaders stressed the equality of all French people. The idea of equality fostered a sense of national pride in the French."

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

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

Simon Bolivar was born on July 24, 1783. He was born into a wealthy family, his parents died befor he was reached is teens. He married a spanish woman at the age of nineteen. But soon after his wife had died of yellow fever. He soon went back to Europe and

The French Revolution: Social Causes

2007-09-27T10:15:00.000-07:00

The third estates felt use because they had to pay the most taxes of the people. They were most of the population. The third estate were forced to wear traditional black robes and had to enter the Estates-General meeting hall by the side door. The first estate was clergy and second estate was nobility and respectively.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2007-09-27T10:13:00.000-07:00

Scientific Revolution

2007-09-10T10:29:00.000-07:00

The Scientific Revolution is the new way where people experiment. when scientes experimente over and over again in order to prove or disprove an experimant. They would do an experiment for hours to
days.

Evolution vs. Creation

2007-09-06T10:26:00.000-07:00

Darwin's theory of Evolution is that all life is related. He thinks that people and animals evolve from different things. Like over time living things change the way they live or the was they look. Like some people think that humans came from monkeys, but other people think that god had made use. People from the church was mad at the fact that people had different looks of how things are created. The church put the people to jail that said tha we were evolved from monkeys.

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2007-09-05T10:37:00.000-07:00

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