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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 3 months ago
With this lecture on the environment, the discussion surrounded the environmental history of the 20th century, the dangers of the anthropocene and changes in the environment in the 20th century.I learnt that for […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
My parents migrated to the United Kingdom to attend college in the 1980s. Due to this migration, my sisters and I were born in the UK but have lived in Ghana most of our whole lives. The 1980s in Ghana was a […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
Religion in both documents are used as a utility of identity. In the Israeli Declaration of Independence the Tanakh is mentionedthree times: “…the Jews gave to the world the eternal Book of Books…” “…Israe […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
From Monday’s lecture, South Asia makes about 1/4 of the world’s population. It consists of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India was the valuable colony for the British […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
Essential concept- Colonialism is the relationship of domination of indigenous by foreign invaders where the latter rule in pursuit of their interests. The motives were not purely economic and can actually be […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
This week’s lectures by Professor Holt were on Latin America. The main focus was the colonial legacies of Latin America; economic, political and social factors that set the stage for the entrenched structural […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
The Scramble for Africa in the late 1880s was as a result of an economic triggering. Europeans were looking into expanding their markets and becoming wealthy which largely came from the effect of the Industrial […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
With the growing importance of trade around the 1850s, Japan ended its era of isolationism and moved unto trade and imperialism. Mutshito gaining rule after the military dictatorship of the shoguns who were […]
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Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
Globalization to my understanding is the process of transformation of local phenomena to global ones and to take note of the fact that neither the local or the global are eliminating one another but have […]