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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
Little is known about the Dunning’s (my paternal familial lineage) prior to their arrival in the United States in the mid 19thcentury. Our family has yet to do extensive research about the genealogy. However, w […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
Both Declarations of Independence resemble each other as they both have a tone of rightful ownership to the land the claim. They both discuss how their people have been forced out of the land discussed for […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
Throughout the last few weeks of class we have learned about the various implications of colonialism and how they affected the entire continents of Latin America and Africa.
To begin, it is valuable to compare […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
One of the thematic shapes Judt identifies is the reduction of ‘master narratives’ within European history. These narratives were the driving force behind much of the conflict that destroyed Europe in the […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
Many issues that plague Africa today are the result of decades of imperialism, exploitation and misrepresentation of the continent. To begin, too often the entire African continent is discussed and analyzed as one […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
One could make the argument that the women of East Asia were most negatively affected by the Japanese Empire throughout the early 20th century. While the rest of the region was beginning to grant women equal […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
This week through two major lectures from guest professors, as well as a journal article, we learned about three new specific places throughout the world that experienced colonization and the resulting reactions […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
Throughout this week while focusing on individual examples such as Beijing and Rio de Janeiro, one overarching theme that connected our examples was revealed. This theme was the idea that beginning in the early to […]
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Lillian Dunning wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
Another resonating issue that is growing in connection to what Bright and Geyer explain as Globalization is the struggle between people, many living in the same geographic regions, to continue participating in the […]