Modern European History
1. What did Paul Valery mean in saying that the mind of Europe doubted itself profoundly? Before 1914, people in Europe believed in progress, peace, prosperity, reason, and rights of individuals. During that time, people began to believe in the Enlightenment, industrial developments were just starting and scientific advances began to take place. People then really believed in progression and further developments.
Unfortunately, World War I broke out. Nevertheless, the optimistic people of Europe still did not doubt the outcome and were so convinced that it was not going to have any long term effects. They looked toward happier times and hoped life will go back to where it was before. But little did they know, as a result of the war, total war broke out and crushed all the hopes and accomplishments that the people had established. This shocking reality was unbearable and uncomprehending to the people's hopes and dreams. And as this lasted over the years, the age of anxiety was created. People didn't know or what to expect anymore. They did not know what was going to happen after the war. They're so devastated by the war that many who were still alive lost faith and all hopes. Many intellectuals began to doubt the Enlightenment and even the future of Western civilization. This state of uncertainty and unpredictability brought out many modern philosophers of that time. One of them was a Fren...
...rom the war unlike the countries who participated at the start. Many of the European countries lost a lot of power and started taking a passive attitude towards war, which weakened them to a great extent. A war so destructive costing millions of lives and billions of dollars. It brought forth many new technology of mass destruction and continued to contribute into new types of weapon development. New technology can be helpful and evil at the same time. Strategies and combat techniques were developed to maximize the potential of the weapons. These new ways of fighting only to come deadlier by the day. It deformed the land, tortured soldiers, and brought death along with it. A whole generation of young soldiers were lost and to never able to see the day of light ever again. The worst war ever to be told that left a historical moment and a permanent fear of future wars.
The European monarchs and rulers of the 17th and 18th centuries wanted to increase their power both domestically and globally by adding to their territories and populations. Both in merging their power internally and expanding their power externally, they employed three features of state-building: control, extraction, and integration. In the late 1700s, both the Industrial revolution and French revolution of 1789 strengthened the idea that Europeans were different from the rest of the world. It also strengthened that Europeans were “succeeding” promptly while the rest of the world seemed to be declining, that Europeans were somehow extraordinary and better than the rest.” (Robert Marks page 10).
In the book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s the author, Donald Worster, makes the argument that the Dust Bowl was a mostly a direct result of farmer’s methods and misuse of the fragile plains environment. However, there were many other largely contributing factors to the Dust Bowl. While the farmer’s methods played a role, other factors such as economic decline, unusually high temperatures, an extended drought accompanied by and economic depression, and the resulting wind erosion were all factors that help explain The Dust Bowl.
in which property is owned by the state or group, to be shared in common
them. On that land or in that house they can have what the want and no
It was the 1930, one of the most devastating years in history of the United States. It was a normal day at school. Everyone excited for the first day of school. Days and months passed and things seemed to be getting different. No rain, water, or food. Lucy, an 18 year old attending Education High school. Gathered her belongings and headed to her house. Weeks passed and there was no sign of rain. Many kids went to school sick and tired. October 17,1931 Lucy was sitting next to the teacher, and suddenly she saw a huge amount of dust approaching the school. Her English teacher Mrs.Luke exclaimed at the kids to leave school and go home as fast as they could.. Lucy ran, tripped and cried. She was hurt but she knew that she needed to move on. Many
were swayed by fear of God and the devil and essentially lost all foresight in the process.
Severe dust storm invaded the Great Plains. These storms caused the skies to darken severely and making it hard to see, and also made the air difficult to breathe with the thick dust surrounding the area. In addition to the dust polluting the air, it also contaminated the water. The environmental damages lead to people being emotionally strained. Rees reports, as a result to the stress, suicides, be...
Unlike what most of the people were expecting, the war had horrible devastations. At least 10 million soldiers died in war while 21 million were wounded. Civilians faced dangers and hardships since the world experienced food shortages. Economies were neglected because every effort was directed towards the support for the war. Hunger, influenza pandemic and other diseases caused civilians to die not only in warring countries but even in neutral c...
Private property gives individuals full responsibility for their actions concerning their private properties. To most nations around the world, private property is seen as a privilege to have because it is a freedom, such as privacy is a privilege or freedom. One has complete control over a personal belonging. Private property is having the right to do whatever one wants with what he or she owns. President Calvin Coolidge has been quoted as saying, “Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing.” meaning that having the right to one’s own property is a personal right and privilege one has gained in the quest for universal human rights. Private property owners have the right to do whatever they want with the land and rent out properties or resources. No legislation can tell an individual the actions he...
The Dust Bowl was a huge impact on the U.S. in the 1930’s, it was also called the dirty thirties. It took place right after the stock market crashed and put many families that lived in the Great Plains out of their homes. The giant cloud of dust came from unanchored topsoil on the ground and carried it far away, and after the wind settled down, all of the dust that was carried, dropped and buried some homes and vehicles, even with families inside of them. It ruined crops and farms and damaged many homes. The storm mainly affected the states of Texas and Oklahoma, and touched the sides of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. The drought that came with the dust bowl lasted for several years but came in three different waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939 through 1940. Some regions in the high plains experienced it for as much as eight years. “The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America” (History.com Staff, 2009).
"Man Made Disasters Part 2: The Dust Bowl." Green Planet Ethics. 14 Nov. 2010. Web. 26 Feb. 2011.
Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Döring & Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1
Plagiarism is a very serious issue because it can affect the learning of many students. For example teachers and principals in an academic institute are very strict towards this matter so, it can lead to many consequences such as suspension, failure or even the risk of being expelled from a school and possibly even a school board. To avoid these consequences it is important to avoid plagiarizing, which can be a very hard thing to do for people who consistently rely on someone else’s work. There are many different ways to avoid plagiarism such as, making sure what the source is trying to say in order to fulfill the task assigned.
Sustainability simply defined to me as balancing act between the development of sustainability is necessary for both planet Earth and humans to survive. This is reinforced in the World Commission on Environment and Development report (1987) that sustainable development must meet the needs of the present without compromising the well-being of future generations”. The Earth Charter Organization widened the idea of sustainability to respect for a culture of peace, universal human rights, nature, and economic justice (What is sustainability?, n.d.).