Voices | Alex Pollitt | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/apollitt23/activity/ Activity feed for Alex Pollitt. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:49:54 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a372b91fab7366623f3557b245a61647 Alex Pollitt's profile was updated https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/13326/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:48:12 +0000 0 45ae3b33048b480402aa2f571479e23c Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=619 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:34:09 +0000 Throughout this week we covered, read, and discussed different aspects of recent cities and urbanization within modern history. Beginning with the Bayly chapter reading for Monday, the first thing we examined was […]

]]> 409d39a2c275e20269765a4eed9f7d83 Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=572 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:53:57 +0000 When looking into my family’s immigration history, I found that my father’s side of the family came from a german background and my mother’s side is Irish. My parents/grandparents were unable to tell me the german […]

]]> d7e1556b58146a1652eed802e4520d0b Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=554 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:20:34 +0000 When looking at structure, one can see many similarities within the two documents. They both begin with brief religious histories for each country respectively talking essentially about religious displacements […]

]]> 5789ca9e594a2d656ebf6a7b567715f1 Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=478 Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:18:21 +0000 This article discusses broad Latin American ideologies and concepts while focusing specifically on singular events and countries. The time period would be late 19 century and into the 20th century as well. Mexican […]

]]> 1240eb0681e4f4275b8c0741e663b0da Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=368 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:29:40 +0000 Through our reading and lectures for this week, we learned and discussed the transformation of Europe in the 20th century. We read a piece by Tony Judt showing his take on these events as well as some primary […]

]]> 35fe05686cb8f70c9d2ff1078cb1e048 Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=328 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:28:48 +0000 This weeks reading and lectures included primary themes of the decolonization in Africa, imperialism, and the overarching racist views of Africa itself.

Europe and other western powers had a lot of influence on […]

]]> a37c2e0331645bf857cbd5ca57c1c49f Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=297 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:07:05 +0000 This week we discussed, read, and learned about East Asia in the 20th century. Since the Qing was now falling in China, Japan began to take over and soon was in complete control.  After being relatively isolated […]

]]> 0144e01ac8db6f32465e77aed1af6da3 Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=251 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:41:52 +0000 During Week 4 we have talked about various topics including: The industrialization of the Rhineland in Germany, Bombay and Jaffa’s growth, and we read about the race war of the Philippine/American War.  The […]

]]> 931ac9ab89df1941e0985e3bbd33d4eb Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=160 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 01:11:50 +0000 There are many ways and means by which nations can modernize and adapt to rapidly changing times. However, While countries attempted and proposed different means of modernization throughout the discussed time […]

]]> e0d989cbcc9c58a6388f9d38631b7b2e Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=36 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:18:48 +0000 I thought that within the reading Bright and Geyer raised many interesting ideas about globalization. They very thoroughly covered the accomplishments of globalization as they discussed the replacement of old […]

]]> e66d5f469b7ebdcc2bb5d0e5c57750f6 Alex Pollitt became a registered member https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/5925/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:01:07 +0000 0