Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy




Nationalism is what people feel when they see stars and stripes blowing in the wind,is when their in a unique distant place from their nation and they hear their nations name and feel proud or when you meet someone from the same nation in a distant place from home. it is also when you support troops. i show nationalism when i say the national anthem of my country also when i speak English in another nation most people can recognize the language and when i use my currency in other nations, for example in the middle east of Asia,Europe and parts of Africa. you would consider people to be Muslim, Hindu and in Jerusalem most people are Jews, its kind off a stereotype but most people recognize them as a nation, and they are okay with it and they like their nationalism.

The the nation of Italy, nationalism grew out of the French Revolution. Long ago, Italy used to be part of the Austria-Hungary empire. Italy started to become very influenced by other countries who started to declare their independence. When Italy declared their independence, they had a war of independence. They named their nation and they slowly fell apart form the Austria-Hungary Empire. Then, they made their own Italian flag.



Thursday, October 22, 2009

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolution




Simon Bolivar was the man who freed the countries of Colombia,Venezuela,Peru,Bolivia and Ecuador from the Spain king Joseph, which was not Spanish but was the king of Spain, Simon freed them by going to different countries and studying their governments at detail. He went to the nations of United States and England, in that time it was a big deal because there was no plains or really fast.When he came back from his trip to learn about governments he saw how a few countries population had revolve against their government and succeeded from unfair and cold government acts such as people working for so little money and little gain of their acts.as her arrived back to his birthplace in Venezuela he decided to use his army and people to join his purpose to make a revolution on the territories that Spain controlled and considered theirs. Simon Bolivar was recognized and idolise by people today for had Fred the 5 countries.

Simon Bolivar was named "El Libertador" because he Fred these contries, the countries that were his alleys were Haiti and Granada and they helped Simon Bolivar to fight against the Spanish army.The country named after Simon Bolivar was Bolivia after the congress of upper Peru decided to name that part of territory called after El Libertador, Bolivia.What help him to see that the Americas needed to be free was that when he was in England he lost his respect for Napoleon Bonaparte as he tough that he over willed his power, also he got influenced by the enlightment thinkers to take over the revolution in south America.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

Many people from the enlightenment thinkers. A man John Locke that meant a lot in the enlightenment. Thomas Jefferson was inspired by John Locke and made rights. Jefferson's rights were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Those rights are on still this very day. The rights are making everything better for everyone. The Democracy is working good and nobody is going against the rights that Jefferson has made. In the democracy there are the president, vice president, governments, and senators.

The government would get its power by the people. The people were the ones who mostly picked the decisions. The government aren't the only ones who makes the decisions they have people who also make the decisions. Its not like how it was when Kings were the only ones in charge. Now its more then no one would have too much power and over rule the land or country. There are people behind and in front, they have decisions now to make a new law or choices to be made. No one have too much power. The Enlightenment Thinkers gave people like Thomas Jefferson the idea to make these changes and make a democracy. So that the people can also have a right because before there wasent enough consideration of the 3rd class, Now most of the decisions are made by the upper levels because of the 3rd state.