Blog Number 8# Chapters 22 and 23 Chapter 22 once again to me this chapter deals with uncertainty and conflict. The one good thing to me is that the major powers in the world have somewhat settled down and gone to their respective corners. What this chapter tells me is that throughout the world there will always be conflict; however there has been the avoidance of World Wars which is pretty much a positive to take away from the negative. Its like the law of where there is an action there is an equal reaction when governments try to control to much of the people rights the people will push back. Also if the governments do not assist its people the people will respond. There will always be a battle for independence and prosperity. To me it seems as though were we are having our most problems Africa, India, and South America are still considered living in the third world where governments are still in their infant stages and revolutions of sorts still need to occur. Chapter 23 is an time where I hope that we are becoming more of a humanistic and accepting society that has learned from our mistakes. We are not only beginning to look to helping our humankind but as well we are looking to help with the natural resources such as the animals, land and water. With that said I hope that we are no longer a society that looks at just the here and now but also take into consideration the future generations. We now seem to be living in a society that we want to leave the world in a better place than we found it in.

Blog Number 7# Chapters 20 and 21 Chapter 20 was an interesting one, as we progress closer to modern time it seems we’ve become more and more violent. It was interesting to see how much the Treaty of Versatile had an effect on things throughout the world. We had the great depression throughout the world, the US was just one of the last to get out of it thanks in part to FDR’s New Deal. It was also interesting to see how societies were moving towards a socialized government assisted focus. It was also interesting to see how the Second World War really more or less started because of the treaty of versatile with Germany and the beginning of Hitler. With Japan it was interesting to see just how British and Westernized they wanted to be. Its funny because it seems that Japan is still trying to Westernize and Americanize themselves today. Chapter 21 was all about revolution with the Russian and Cuban revolution as well with the strong existence of communism throughout Europe and China. To me this was an expected timeline of events. With the continuance of war throughout the world, borders were beginning to be firmly established and defended. There were no more land grabs, no more territory skirmishes, these were leading to all-out war and possible cultural extermination. Thus cultures were looking to establish and have well-grounded cultural defending governments in place to help keep them and their beliefs safe. The problem now is that with technology today people living within these communist and socialist countries are either being deprived of their rights or realizing they are being deprived of their rights.