Presentation: Oral History/ Research Project

Video Presentation:

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyuAtA6NdSU&feature=youtube_gdata_player 

Japansese Exclusion Act from Govt:

Discrimination Against Japanese:

Map Of Internment Camps:

          Tule Lake Internment Camp Site:
                                     

         Young Children Playing in the Camp:

Chapter 21 & 22

Yes, It is a notion that history repeats itself.

How can each anf every conflict be just so similar that you can compare and learn by all the other situations that may arise.

You can learn and compare but each situation is always a bit different and unique.

Also that each of those that pop up are first timeers that you can remedy all those situations.

Part 5: Intro and Chapter 20

      Wow, must have been nice? 1750-1950, also known as The European moment in world history. Finally a part of Europe that was in the dark a little bit had emerged. I want to say western part. Spain, Italy, French, Belgium, British, English, etc, etc began to emerge.

     It was their turn to dominate. The map on page 492 of the text, shows this best. Who was in who's backyard stealing whatever they wanted, great map. All because of a gun. A machine gun that could shoot multiple bullets over and over.

     Chapter 20 is full of quotes from the dominated and dominators. Even the Superior parties are quoted saying unebelievable things. Some coiuntries had no central leadership to negotiate with, so village by village was demolished and wiped out.

     If you didnt read chapter 20, the following quotes will help understand what was going on during this time. Some quotes include:

"Whatever happens we have got
The Maxim gun [an automatic machine gun] and they have not."-Hilaire Belloc, English writer

" I shall of course go on walloping them until they surrender. it's rather piteous sight watching a village being knocked to pieces and I wish there was some other way, but unfortunately there isn't"- British Official

"Do you really wish to confront such a power with a pack of [our] cowardly soldiers? It would be like mounting an elefant's head or caressing a tiger's tail... With what you presently have, do you really expect to dissolve the enemy's rifles into air or chase his battleships into hell?"

- Tu Duc, 19th Century Vietnamese Emperor

"Fine wine but no good friends, So I buy none though I have the money. A poem comes to mind, but I chose not to write it down. If it were written, to whom wiuld I give it? The spare bed hangs upon the wall in cold indifference. I pluck the lute, but it just doesn't sound right."
-Nguyen Khuyen, Senor Vietnamese Official

"We were always in the forest to find the rubber vines, to go without food, and our women had to give up cultivating the fields and gardens. Then we starved... We begged the white man to leave us alone, saying we could get no more rubber, but the white men and their soldiers said "Go. You are only beasts yourselves..." When we failed and our rubber was short, the soldiers came to our towns and killed us. Many were shot, some had their ears cut off; others were tied up with ropes riund their necks and taken away."
-Refugee from the Congo

     This kind of stuff gives a good idea of what was going on during these times. Personally, its easy to say how could you enjoy something at the expense of others? Reality says it goes on today as we speak, sadly.

Chapter 14, 15, & 16

Chapter 14 indicates that Western Europe was somehow more important and to us Americans I think it was. We as Americans know how Western Europe migration to the Americas and help start our country.

Even though plenty of other "cool:" historical staff was going on and happening in Eastern Europe. From the American point of view we think of Western Europe as our settlers.

Well I think we ''are" remarkably the same and not as unique as we might think we are. the global economy wsa happening or functioning roughly similarly to how it does now. To make it happen of course, there is always a group of less fortunate people than another group. Slaves were abducted so that certain groups could profit while other groups enjoyed the fruits of those laborers. This still goes on today.

Well I dont see any hazards at all in cultural borrowing if scientists and the scientific world thought like this we as people on earth would solve our problems much slower. Experiments done 200 years ago inspire and scientists 100 years later to study those experiments and yet still later another person comes along and ties up both those loose ends to solve a mystery that may help mankind live longer.

I personally have zero tolerance for petty cultural bickering. If a certain ethnic group finds a better way of doing something, than please let the rest of the world in on it.

Can anyone really stop progress like this?

Chapter 11, 12, & 13: The Mongol Moment

Could they have done it differently?

Did they have to be so barbaric?

Could the Mongols have controlled the worldwith their livestock, trade, and conducte peaceful business?

Just brutal and rithless. Did anyone really like these people?


They did understand pastoral practices. They majored in livestock, animal husbandry. Basically they could go anywhere and do anything.

You do notice though the Mongols envied other civilizations. They just could not control themselves. They could have been satisfied doing what they did best. Nope, just not enough. The "Mongol Power" and size of it's army were out conquering other civilizations.

After they plundered and pillaged they kind of didn't know what to do with themselves. The Monglos then tried to weave themsemves into Russian, Persian and Chinese societys.


What were the Mongols really trying to do?

Did the Mongols just not know better?

I wonder, is the Mongol behavior learned? Or inate?

How could the Mongols done better?

Could they have made business trade with their neighbors and been more friendly and prospered greatly along the way?


I would re-write history history for them!

Chapter 8,9 & 10

     WOW, the Silk, Sea and Sand roads of the Afro-Eurasian world. It's easy to see how that part of the world was bustling along. Silk road, sea routes and through sand.

    Suppliers got their goods delivered. I can imagine all the little "other" business's that sprung up along these routes. Just buzzing with taverns, rest stops, eateries and many other trading going on.

     This of course sets off the acceleration of connections. This is where conflicts, upheavals, overthrows, and simple changes happened.

      Religions were shared, along with hundred of other ideas just learned through interactions. Each Civilization had something borrowed or founded or learned from others.

     Seems like Chapter 10 presents more turmoil, wars, religious and otherwise, crusading with the "homies" ("home-ies"). Europe was behind, and just starting to catch up.

     Well, I never knew it happened in that order. I found the order of events very interesting, chronologically speaking.

Chapter 4: Eurasian Empires

   The Persian Empire in the eats and the Greek civilization in the west eventually collided. The Greco-Persian Wars,

"Against all odds and all expectations the Greeks held them off defeating the Persians on both land and sea"

   Anyway, Greece was seen as Asia and despotism. Thus was the first notion of an East-West divide.

    The chapter goes on to compare the Roman and Chinese Empires and also the talks of an Intermittent Empire- The Case of India.




   My Quiz Questions are:

   1) How did the notion of the East-West divide form? 

   2) Explain some differences in the collapse of the Roman and Chinese Empires.

   3) What are some common features in all these Empires throughout Chapter 4?
  
   4) Do you think that the Classical Empires have lesson(s) we can learn from?