Quiz #4

1) Umut Uras. “Turkey turning Hagia Sophia back into mosque divides social media.” Al Jazeera. July 11, 2020, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/turkey-turning-hagia-sophia-mosque-divides-social-media-200711104417533.html: 

According to this article, Turkey is a place of social media in world history. This pattern is “natural and permanent” (Strayer, 191). This will be referred to as the Muslim world. Hagia Sofia is the most important character who belongs to humanity. In this situation, social media is neutral for everybody to have. This is the way people are used to forming social media while they are taking the trip to visit in Turkey. 

I’d think it’s the way to show people’s hearts that traveling needs more “investments of the community.” This is what I used to say while I add a quote from my blog post title, The Elites Were Living High. Then came the Fall. In addition to this article, I may refer to what kind of eclipse is Turkey going to be. This is what I use to refer to while travelers are belonging to Turkish humanities. 

Overall, it’s the best experience for every traveler to visit while social media is still useful in the world. 

3) Ganesh Chakravarthi. “Is it Time to Embrace the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene requires that humanity take responsibility for preserving the earth and its species.” The Diplomat. February 11, 2020. https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/is-it-time-to-embrace-the-anthropocene/:

According to this article, Anthropocene is the best term for humanity on Earth. This situation was happened also in Australia as burning fires in its desert, which “embers billowing still in the Amazon, propaganda against climate change everywhere, and simultaneous opposition undermining the fears, leaving much of the world dry” (Chakravarthi, 2020). This is “the most compelling expression of spreading the sand,“ which I wrote from “What I found most sad of” in the story. 

There is some criticism to make a problem with the sand disaster, which requires the term Anthropocene. Also, “Anthropocene is a paradigm shift in the human mindset” (Chakravarthi, 2020). This is what humanity is going to be as “the landmass has long been home to the majority of humankind as well as the greatest concentration of pastoral peoples.” This is what exchanges people in the world and found the most interesting theme of world history by me. 

Overall, Anthropocene is humanity related term in humanity, which takes responsibility for preserving the earth and its species.

4) Justin Dallaire. “Why Pride sponsors shouldn’t hit pause during Black Lives Matter protests.” strategy. June 9, 2020. https://strategyonline.ca/2020/06/09/why-pride-sponsors-shouldnt-hit-pause-during-black-lives-matter-protests/:

According to this article, pride sponsors should not hit pause in Black Lives Matter protests. This is “a movement for racial equality happening during Pride presents an opportunity to recognize how diverse communities are” (Dallaire, 2020). I’d think it’s familiar with a post from the COVID0-19 pandemic, which the blog post title, It is time to challenge and make a change of your life. 

I’d think this is a competitive article that pride roots refer to as “some challenges happen for a lot of corporations to understand — are about the protest. They’re about activism” (Dallaire, 2020). This is what refers to the society of something that changes my life, such as helping with my family while the COVID-19 pandemic still occurs in the world. 

Therefore, this article teaches me about challenges in my life.  

Ch. 23 — Capitalism and Culture — The Acceleration of Globalization (Since 1945) – In what way(s) do you see the historical developments described in this chapter continuing to evolve in our world today?

I see the historical developments are described in Ch. 23 continuing to evolve in our world today. For historical developments, the transformation of the world economy is the most important point throughout the globalization. This will be referred to as “the transformation of the world economy” (Strayer, 1024). In this situation, “when most people speak of globalization, they are referring to the immense acceleration in international economic transactions that took place in the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the twenty-first” (Strayer, 1024). This is what many people would have seen this process is “almost natural, certainly inevitable, and practically unstoppable” (Strayer, 1024). This always happens the same even in the presence of the world history. 

This may also be referred to as the re-globalization that “These conditions provided the foundations for a dramatic quickening of global economic transactions after World War II” (Strayer, 1026). This is what “re-globalization” is now followed “the contractions of the 1930s” (Stayer, 1026). This is the best way to think that it is immense to its “significant process was expressed in the accelerating circulation of goods, capital, and people” (Strayer, 1026), such as world trade.

Overall, globalization and re-globalization are always presented in the modern world as the history of globalization is not changed at all. 

Ch. 22 — The End of Empire — The Global South on the Global Stage. (1914 — present)

In what way(s) do you see the historical developments described in this chapter continuing to evolve in our world today?

I see the historical developments are described in Ch. 22 continuing to evolve in our world today. For historical developments, Independence and Development is the most important point that European colonial rule was struggled “for modern development, symbolized here by a photo from 2012 showing South African high school students in a computer-education classroom” (Strayer, 975). This is what Independence and Development still evolved today in world history. 

There is a way to freedom that struggles for independence. This was happened in 1900, “European colonial empires in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean region, and Pacific Oceania appeared as enduring features of the world’s political landscape. Well before the end of the twentieth century, they were gone” (Strayer, 976). This is the best way to reach the freedom “as colony after colony” (Strayer, 976) in the world.

Overall, Independence and Development is the best historical development in Ch.22, especially the empire ends “in the second half of the twentieth century, under pressure from nationalist movements, Europe’s Asian and African empires dissolved into dozens of newly independent states” (Strayer, 980). This setting occurs in Africa and Asia. 

Ch. 21’s Big Question — What was the global significance of the cold war?

The global significance of the Cold War was “witnessed a sharp division between the communist world and the Western democratic world” (Strayer, 950). This is what the Cold War is caused to separate “the continent of Europe; the countries of China, Korea, Vietnam, and Germany; and the city of Berlin” (Strayer, 950). There had several crises that “brought the nuclear-armed superpowers of the United States and the USSR to the brink of war, although in every case they managed to avoid direct military conflict between themselves” (Strayer, 950). This is the major conflict that “many countries in Africa and Asia claimed membership in a Non-Aligned Movement” (Strayer, 950). This is what the Cold War is so important throughout a social role in world history. 

The Cold War had happened began in “Eastern Europe, where Soviet insistence on security and control clashed with American and British desires for open and democratic societies with ties to the capitalist world economy” (Strayer, 948). This is referred to military services, such as “rival military alliances (NATO and the Warsaw Pact), a largely voluntary American sphere of influence in Western Europe, and an imposed Soviet sphere in Eastern Europe” (Strayer, 948 & 949). This is what “Europe was bitterly divided. But although tensions flared across this dividing line, particularly in Berlin, no shooting war occurred between the two sides (see Map 21.3)” (Strayer, 949). 

Overall, the Cold War had been divided between Eastern and Western Europe. This is sometimes referred to as the term “the Iron Curtain” (Strayer, 949). Similarly, this process is just “the extension of communism into Asia — China, Korea, and Vietnam — globalized the cold war and occasioned its most destructive and prolonged ‘hot wars’” (Strayer, 949) only. 

Ch. 20’s Big Question — In what ways did Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications?

Europe’s internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 had global implications were the First World War of European Civilization in Crisis, Capitalism Unraveling of the Great Depression, a Second World War, etc.. These are major conflicts for the time period of 1914 and 1945. 

 

The First World War of European Civilization in Crisis happened between 1914 and 1918. In 1500, “Europe had assumed an increasingly prominent position on the global stage, driven by its growing military capacity and the marvels of its Scientific and Industrial Revolutions” (Strayer, 882). This is what most Europeans were affected as the First World War was started to be unraveled.

There has another point about the First World War, which is called Capitalism Unravelling of the Great Depression. This is mainly about “the political collapse of Europe, this catastrophic downturn suggested that Western capitalism was likewise failing” (Strayer, 891). This is also affected by the economic system in world history that “had raised the living standards of millions, but to many people, it was a troubling system” (Strayer, 891). Furthermore, this was happened in 1929 for “the outbreak of the Great Depression” (Strayer, 891) through the capitalism unraveling. 

The last point of European internal conflict between 1914 and 1945 is the Second World War. This happened between 1937 and 1945. This is usually “more than the Great War, was a genuinely global conflict with independent origins in both Asia and Europe” (Strayer, 906). This is the best way for people to think that this is the Road of War in world history. 

Overall, the First World War of European Civilization in Crisis, Capitalism Unraveling of the Great Depression, a Second World War are internal conflicts that had global effects in Europe. 

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease is a virus that still occurs all over the world today. This then raises the question, “Does a virus cause Alzheimer’s?” The answer is that Alzheimer’s disease will be caused by some viruses that everybody doesn’t see as it is a non-shaped structure of his/her eyes. This kind of study has published in July 2018, which is referred to as Alzheimer’s Disease. In some cases of Alzheimer’s disease, there has at least 40,000 people are followed throughout the study of “Does a virus cause Alzheimer’s?” This report is stating that “the human body is a health machine, but sometimes it is not perfect!” This quote tells me that people who have diseases like shingles, cold sores, and genital ulcers, etc. These diseases are contained with a higher risk of developing dementia in later life of humans involved. 

Alzheimer’s Disease not only contained with dementia. However, there have many studies that one must be aware of as they need to be done quickly before herpesviruses occurred in human life. This is otherwise a protective role of any drugs, like antiviral drugs, which can be proved. This is what the human message usually told people to do: While the human body contains a healthy way to protect a microbes, but sometimes t has harm inside his/her body.

Overall, Alzheimer’s Disease will still be a virus before the vaccine is invented, just like the COVID-19 pandemic in the present world. 

4th of July

The 4th of July is the most important celebration in the U.S., which is similar to the Double-Ten Day celebration in Taiwan. This kind of situation had occurred since July 4th, 1776. This is the day of the Declaration of Independence that 13 colonies had ruled by the U.K. that North Americans had proclaimed. This is what I sometimes called the Continental Congress. However, I don't think it's happened in the state of California, voting is always important to everyone in states, not only in California. In addition, the Declaration of Independence is also the most important history in the United States. 

The Declaration of Independence is written by Thomas Jefferson. There is the reason that Jefferson was the third U.S. president in the early 17th century. Thomas Jefferson was also “the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.” In addition to Jefferson’s social role in his life, Jefferson’s draft was fellowed through his committee members and the Second Continental Congress as well. 

I think the celebration of the 4th of July is really amazing for me, even I am not in the U.S. due to the COVID-19. But, I can still read about the Declaration of Independence throughout the Internet for celebrating myself in Taiwan for the celebration of the 4th of July.