The Opium Wars

http://del.icio.us/mmoloneyiths/history/opium-wars

these are the links that i will be using for this blog.

British were big fans of tea. And in order to get the tea they thought that they would trade with china. But China was not a big fan trading and in order to get the tea The british started to think and that is when they came up with the drug opium. Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpods, and used to produce heroin. The drug was mainly produced in and shipped from the East Indies to China by British merchants. This addictive drug had gotten many Chinese badly hooked by the early 1800s.

"The White Man's Burden"

http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/sfcall.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
These are the links that will be using the poems from.

Under constuction

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

During class we watched parts of a movie called, "Mountians of the moon".
In the movie two explorers traveled to find the main sorced of the nile river.
They went through some pretty rough things along the trip though.
Like insects and dangerous animals. For example lwhen the 2 explorers had to sleep outside, mthe had to sleep under a some kind of net to keep the bugs off. But one of the men forgot to put it over their bed and a beetle went in his ear. Then he stabed himself in the ear. Thats is an example of what some of things were that they went through. Some of the advantages that the europeans had over the aficans were that they had guns and weapons.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

http://del.icio.us/mmoloneyiths/history/meijijapan
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Karl Marx and Communism

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Marx.html\
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUmarx.htm

These are the links that i will be using for this blog.

Karl marx wanted communism to take over the world.Why he wanted it to take over the world was because Communism was the inevitable end to the process of evolution begun with feudalism and passing through capitalism and socialism.
The good guys that he was talking about were the workers around the world. He was telling them to unite.Marx held that history was a series of class struggles between owners of capital (capitalists) and workers. He had thought this because As wealth became more concentrated in the hands of a few capitalists, he thought, the ranks of an increasingly dissatisfied proletariat would swell, leading to bloody revolution and eventually a classless society.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

http://www.mrdowling.com/707-marx.html
http://crf-usa.org/bria/bria19_2a.htm
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Karl Marx was a german who did not like the way that european workers were getting treated in the european factories. He thought that the factories were very unsafe and very harsh to their workers.Marx expected that once the proletariat had taken control of all capitalist property, wealth would flow more abundantly for the benefit of all. Then in the "higher phase of communist society," individuals would finally be free to develop their abilities and talents to the fullest. Marx put it this way: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Film Lesson/ Modern Times

During Class we watched a movie from a collections dvd from the director/writer/and actor Charlie Chaplin. In the movie Charlie Chaplin played a factory worker who worked along with other factory workers in a huge factory, who all worked for this man who sat around and did nothing but boss people around. In the factory Charlie Chaplin gets out of control when he gets stressed about himself not being able to keep up with the machine when he had to tighten the bults. I do not think he liked the way thgat the factory workers were being treated because of the way he acted when he had gotten stressed. He had started to squirt oil on the workers as they worked causing them to mess up the flow of things. He also would turn off the machines while they were working to annoy them. In the movie an inventor came to the boos of the factory with an invention to help the workers eat and work at the same time.

This machine would feed them soup, meat, and would wipe there mouthes with this a sponge. They tryed to innvent this so that factory workers would not have to stop what they were doing and could make more products a day. But the machines malfunctioned and the boss refused to take the offer.

The lindustrial Revolution was very unfair to workers, children , and towns . There were many inventions that helped factories and dangered factories. But that all changed after 1833.

Industrial revolution/ Child labor

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children.htm
This is the link i will be using for my response.

Back in 1801, Children were used by factories and others jobs to do very harsh and difficult. Children had to report to work at times like to six oclock in the morning all the way till 7 in the evening. And on top of that if the children got tired then their supervisors would hit them with wips to keep them awake. Children also had to work around very dangerous machines that they were sometimes forced to fix or use. While using them they would get injured really bad like loosing hands and just really being hurt bad.

Industrial Revolution/ Inventions

http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ind-rev-open.htm
this is the link i will be discussing.

Some of the top 5 inventions that seem the most important to me are the following five.
1)The spinning jenny: This simple machine allowed a worker to spin 6 or 8 threads at a time.
2)The automobile: In 1886, the German scientist, Gottlieb Daimler, built the first internal combustion engine. It was fueled by gasoline. Later he put the engine in one of the first automobiles.
3)The Airplane:People also tried to put an engine in a flying machine. Finally, in 1904, Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully flew their Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Another era began.
4)Photograpy:The Daguerreotype, a metal plate coated with silver iodide, was exposed to light through a small hole in the camera.The plate was removed and treated with mercury fumes. Later the plate was washed and treated with table salt to prevent fading.
5)Electricity:incandescent light bulb and electric generating are just a few of the inventions of Thomas Edison.

These five inventions are the most important to me because without them we would still be cave people writing on the cave walls with our fingers nails and carving our vocabulary into stones.
LOL

Nationalism

http://mmoloneyiths.com/nationalism.html
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My definition of nationalism is when the people of a country love and stand behind there country during any war or dispute the country may have.
But the actual definition is: Nationalism is basically belonging to, rooting for, and fighting for, your own country.
Some things people do to show nationalism is hang flags outside their homes, throw barbeques on holidays such as Forth of july, when we won our independence, Columbus day, when america was dicovered, and etc. I also do all these things to celebrate america even though i dont like america that much many any.

Geography of Latin American Revolutions

When the and french revolutions were over, the aftermath influenced many other countrys like
latin america. Latin america saw the feedback that america and france were getting after the fight for their freedom. so thats when latin america decidied to fight for their freedo as well.

Simon Bolivar

http://del.icio.us/mmoloneyiths/history/simon-bolivar
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Simon Boliver organized and led military forces to free northern portion of south america from spanish rule in the early nineteenth century. Thats why he was so famous, and that there is a country in south america named after him.

Latin america revolution

http://mmoloneyiths.com/larevs.html
This is the topic i will be disscussing.

The first revolution was by black slaves against their masters. About 100,000 slaves fought for their independence. They had finally won their independence in 1804, and haiti became the first black colony 2 win its independence from european power. Back in Europe, Napoleon controlled Spain and inserted his brother as king of Spain. The people across the ocean in Latin America were supposed to be loyal to the Spanish king, but why should they be loyal to a king that . The revolutions of Latin America were swift and thourough. In 20 years time (1810 - 1830), the entire continent of South America rose up and won its independance from European powers.
wasn't even Spanish? They started to question their role as colonies of Spain.