I don’ know if
you guys relate to my feelings, but after reading the last three chapters, I
felt like it was more familiar than when I was reading about the very
beginnings of humans and their societies development. A couple of weeks ago,
nine to be exact, I had only lingering knowledge about some of the world
history, to be honest If you asked me a question about a silk road or the
Atlantic echoes of revolution, I would have frowned and just stare at the person
asking me, but my mind completely blank.
I
was also very surprised at how little I knew about the World Wars and how
little attention I have put to the topic most of my life. It was until I read the years they
happened that I realized it has not been too long ago, relatively
speaking.
After focusing
on finding tools, spreading over the world, revolutionizing agriculture, learning
how to trade and discovering a new continent, humans have finally found
themselves in a very unfriendly situation – A world war. What’s interesting to
me about the war is that after humans were very united and they all worked for
a common purpose, throughout the years, the more knowledge men acquired the
more they started dividing and forming allies in the search for power and
control.
The best example
of such division, at least for me, has been the Holocaust. It is absolutely
degrading to think about the value that men can give to a human being. The Holocaust is a product of some of
the atrocities committed to innocent people. For example, this type of behavior
was seen during the cash crop, when if slaves were not able to produce as
expected, they were mutilated.
On another note,
one of the good outcomes from the WW’s is that the U.S. was able to develop as
a great power economically, socially and military, and although the U.S. suffer
a really bad economic fall which we know as the Great Depression, it is still a
very stable country that provides a home for thousands of people from diverse cultures
and many different countries.
However, I still think that it was pretty bad that the two atomic bombs
were dropped and killed thousands of innocent residents in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
Another point
that I would like to talk about is Africa and their leader, Nelson Mandela. After reading the chapter, I decided to
do a little research and found a movie called “Invictus”, in which the life of
Mandela as a president was well described. I feel nothing but sadness now that I know he is sick and
the world might loose a great leader like he is.
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