Voices | cquigley20 | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/cquigley20/activity/ Activity feed for cquigley20. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:27:23 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a0dac4089d50b0cca10aeb317e23bf6c cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=604 Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:05:19 +0000 My family’s migration story isn’t very unique or special. From what I know, my mother’s side of the family came from Sweden. They moved to Andersonville in Chicago, the Swedish area. My father’s side came from Ir […]

]]> 420a3ebf0366f8890f3fbdc470301ce6 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=560 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 19:36:14 +0000 Both documents are structured similarly. They begin with their religious history, talking about the discrimination they of their groups. They also both illustrate the idea that they have an inherent right to […]

]]> 0196a59217ca574d6ce26714de977215 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=521 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:54:37 +0000 This past week, we learned about Britain’s imperial rule in South Asia, specifically Pakistan and India. In the reading, India at 70, the author discusses the promises and the failure to meet them 70 years after I […]

]]> a3d17be0e87f616436f49f7d9f40170c cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=453 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:45:02 +0000 This past week we learned and discussed Latin America and the effects of colonialism and American intervention. Western intervention in developing countries has been a theme of other weeks as well. In Latin […]

]]> 5b1765953e9fc6e7a7383936499bce40 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=379 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 05:07:33 +0000 One of these “thematic shapes” that Judt discusses is the reduction of European nations. World War 2 brought about immense change in Europe and one of those changes is Europe’s power. European nation’s inter […]

]]> 3b2e5b1d1882b59c318ccbe9224650d3 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=342 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:46:43 +0000 The process of decolonization in Africa changed the course Africa was on forever. From a continent largely occupied by European powers to a continent of independent nations. One of the negative ramifications of […]

]]> 84d7c7c2cd0eb146cbebb6f92143d671 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=308 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 22:27:33 +0000 East Asia was in a state of fluctuation. The once-powerful Qing Empire in China was left reeling from the Opium Wars and Western intervention. Japan saw this as an opportunity to fill the void. Japan sought to […]

]]> 979cccc005399631872d7767fda41e97 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=244 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:40:41 +0000 This week we talked about the industrialization of the Rhineland and Ruhr Valley in Germany, as well as the growth in Bombay and Jaffa. On top of that, we read about the race war of the Philippine-American War. […]

]]> 98b1e83ce0d8831778d711d47d679356 cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=196 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:36:16 +0000 At the beginning of the “The Export Boom as Modernity” reading, I found the comment that the export boom can be explained or told in many different lights. It shows that even in history, it is possible to spin a s […]

]]> 7d823a290fab81295364f7f516cd1f4c cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD http://mcw2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=85 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:41:40 +0000 One of the main points that Bright and Geyer talk about is their dislike of the “catching up” model. They do not like the metaphor of Western Europe innovating and then the rest of the world is playing catch up. […]

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