Strayer (pg 747-755)

With the development of the world it caused some pros and also cons. The prod with advance technology to help with medical, traveling and many other things. The cons are the globalization problems it had on the world. "By the end of the twentieth century, a worldwide scientific consensus had emerged that the vastly increased burning of fossil fuels, which emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases, as well as the loss of trees that would otherwise remove carbon dioxide from the air, had begun to warm the atmosphere significantly." (Strayer, pg 749) With so much health concerns, companies needed to make a change. A change to go green. To help animals and plants not go extinct. Helping others to help ourselves. In order to make a green efficient society that will not destroy the environment, people need to be able to look a the big pictures of things. For instance having more recycling bins in public is a great way to start letting the public in making a change. Now they are having stores make you buy bags so it will persuade you to purchase recyclable bags to reuse.

Religion and Global Modernity, Strayer (pg 740-747)

No only did feminism and liberation change in the becoming  a new world but the sense of religious changed drastically. In many places religion was not a main focus like it was in previous years. Some places religious was based off of scientific approaches known as fundamentalism. Such as Darwin's evolutionary ideas. " At first fundamentalist sought to separate themselves from the secular world in their own churches and schools, but from the 1970s on, they entered the political arena as the "religious rights"" (Strayer, pg741) Previously science was not well established in the world to have such a big impact on the teaching of the worlds, until many scientist and philosophers began to do more research science was the new outlook on everyday life. For instance now we look at the sun as the rising of the day and the setting of the day, since of how the world wakes and seeks. Without this type of scientific background there would be no impact on the way the earth is evolving. This fundamentalist approach influenced the the Islamic religion. People became more religious by participating in mosque, praying on a regular basis and fasting. Everyday life was based on some form of religious preferences. Women began to dress differently in the sign of purity and not showing parts of their bodies.

Strayer (pp 734-739)

Feminism. Women have always been looked as some foreign creature in the world. Men believed they didn't deserve the same treatment as they did such as basic human rights. They were not able to vote, couldn't get jobs and if they were to get any type of job the pay would not be equivalent to men. In order to try and put a stop to this women began to start a revolution or any other words "woman feminist group". They began to form in the 19th century, they weren't violent accusations but they wanted support. For people that wanted that wanted to get married, funerals, child births anything, the feminist group was there to help them. This happened in the global south, Kenya. The most intrigued issue with the feminist group was" women's rights are human rights" (Strayer, pg736)

Strayer (pp 723-735)

"GLOBALIZATION" When looking at the word the first thing you think about is the upcoming of a world. For instance technology has expanded drastically since 100 years ago. Everything you can think of can be fulfilled through technology, the easiest thing of not even going to the bank to deposit a check because you are able to take a picture and deposit it right on your phone. Not only have technology change but the economy. The worthy amount of bills and coins have changed because of the manufacturing of things and distribution cost. Globalization of the world has in a way helped us humans and destroyed us. We have developed into more complex thinking but it has corrupted us in the way that we are so dependent on things.

Putin's Challenge

Reading this article really had me thinking about racism in the world. For instance when they spoke upon the violence towards Muslims because of the incident that took place in 9/11. Whenever someone sees a human wearing a turban on their head the first thing they think of is a terrorist, not realizes that what is on their head is because of religious beliefs. This relates to what I go through in my daily life. Its not religious based but it still with stereotypes. If you are african american and walk around with mostly the color blue or red one you are immediately looked at like a gang member. This begins violence with people of the same race killing one another dealing with jail time constantly.

Dolores Huerta

When first going to the Dolores Huerta talk I didn't really know what to expect. I believed it was going to be a boring talk about her and how she felt about certain situations about the injustice in the world. Being welcomed in by a culture dance really brought the spirit up in the theatre and really helped kick off her speech with positive energy. Her speech was very powerful and outspoken. Something that I really gained from it was the ability to make a change. Everyone in life wants some aspect of change to make it better, to have equality upon all races, religious backgrounds, ethnicity, gender and many other things. In order for that to happen you have to do something about it, you cant expect everyone to do the work for you , or nothing will change. That is one thing Dolores Huerta was very passionate about, she did whatever she needed to do to make something work. She went to jail about 10 times and even took her kids with her sometimes. One question she asked all of us were who voted for the elections in 2012. Majority of the crowd raced their hand. The second question was who helped someone be able to vote fort he elections in 2012, about 15 people raised their hand. She began to explain how this was one prime example of making a change. Everyone should have a voice if they live here. So having to help someone vote, by going door to door and signing people up will help make a change in the world because people are able to voice their opinions about situations. Dolores Huerta is a activist, in the need justice for everyone. One specific aspect she is focused are illegal immigrants. Helping them become citizens and have the ability to have benefits like everyone else who lives in the country. At the end of the speech I was glad that I attended such an aspiring event. To hear someones struggle in life just to help others that she doesn't even know, shows the love and care that she has for people and to try and teach us that its okay to help others because in order to fix something you have to do something about it.

Strayer Chapter 23 (pp 691-720)

What really touched me the most was the beginning excerpt Nelson Mandela. Showing the struggle it was just for him to become a free man. He was in prison for voicing his opinion and it took until 1994 for South Arica to allow blacks and whites to vote. This really touched me because no matter where demographically there is always this notion of discrimination upon skin color. The fact that it took till the year I was born to allow a colony to be able to vote is very sad.  aboutThe two European colonial empires that struggled for independence were Asia and Africa. "The first major breakthroughs occurred in Asia and the Middle East in the late 1940s; when India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel achieved independence. " (pg 692) They began to experience economy, political and cultural changes. Africa's independence was between mid- 1950s and 1970s. Another thing that happened prior to the cold was the fall of empires. Some that fell were; Austria, Russia, German and Japan.