rest of chapter 22

The cold war was like the first war that the US was actually a part of. The two groups NATO and warsaw pact separated the rival countries. These were also divided by the iron curtain. The major conflict during this war was nuclear threat. This is besides the point but I like the picture on page 677. I like the pretty orange. But this is a picture of hydrogen bomb, Something that isnt very good. No bombs were used except for later on hiroshima and nagasaki but the threat of the boms were even stronger. Countries began to set forth their efforts to making these destructive bombs in order to have a lead in any encounter at war. During this chapter, communism began to expand but the US didnt allow it to expand to them. The USSR became a threat in the nuclear war but The US still lead the super power. Its weird to think who leads the nuclear threat now? so many countries have nuclear weapons and the US alone has enough to blow up the entire world. why do we need so many? is it just to say we have more and to be ahead of everyone? And would we really use a nuclear bomb on any other country? Theres a lot of questions that I start thinking about when we talk about the wars and nuclear threat. The cuban missle crisis was familiar to me only because Ive learned about it before. Alot of this stuf in this was a repeat of learning but I enjoy learning about this stuff because it is familiar and and it is a sort of recent time period.

seciton 5 and 6

Section five and six were about provate property and the work force including labor unions. The first section that i read about private property and the social catholic teaching was pretty confusing. There were lots of connections between the common good and the ability to own private property. Individual ownership allows the incentive for people "to be productive and to care for the goods God has created". But those who hold a great deal of private property has the ability to hurt the poor. These two main ponts were pretty confusing to me. In they reading they made it clear that socialization and socialism are two completley different things and I thought of them as pretty similar. so Im glad I got that cleared up. Socialization is the greater accountability and social responsibility so someone would have to exercise a responsible use of property. The second section was a lot more interesting because it was about the labor work force and how social catholic teaching is always putting forth their efforts to helping the conditions of the work force. Conditions included wages, benefits, hours, etc. I was a little confused when they started talking about labor unions because I wasnt to sure of what it really was. The social catholic believe that "labor unions are crucial elements in the overall balacne of power in the economy..playing a constructive role in the pursuit of economic justice."I agree with the ending part that work is a good thing like how it gives opportunity for the community, and displays skills of people, and allows them to interact with people with the same interests. The work force is a good thing.

chapter 21 to page 674

The 20th century marked a big turn for the world because of all the wars, deaths, and spiraling economy. This chapter is about the rise and the fall of communism. I thought it was interesting that socialism and communism were related. The idea of communism was a idea by Karl Marx. The USSR and china were the biggest countires based on communism. The russian revolution broke out pretty quick and te Bolshevicks came into power. I know a little bit about the Bolshevicks from previous classes but not nearly enough. It was a 3 year civil war with the Bolshevicks against many groups of enemies I thought it was really weird how for 25 years ussr was the only communist country. It ended up spreading but why did it take so long? China then became communism. Chinas communist party was fighting agianst the nationalist party. I kinda thought this section was a little boring. I didnt quite understand some of it. Both in russia and china built socialist societies. The women section however did catch my interest because the ideas of divorce, abortion, womens work, and leave were starting to become encouraged. women were being considered more and actively engaging more in society.

ch 21

Before even reading, I think this chapter will be interesting because it is about the first world war. The times are becoming more recent which make it more interesting to me. The triple alliance and the triple entente were created which shifted the balance of power in Europe and war broke out in 1914. Factors that contributed to the outbreak of war was nationalism, militarism, and the colonial empires. The maps was pretty cool to see the distribution of power at the time and the two alliances that formed to start this war. There were many casualties and trench warfare left it messy. The women were actually allowed to go out into the work force and got more rights, such as the right to vote, because all of the men going to war, so i guess that was a positive thing. After the world war, the economy hit hard with the great depression and it makes me think of our community right now. The depression hit in 1929 when the stock market crashed. Iv always been curious about the stock market, i dont really understand how it works. The American economy began to boom a few years later. What can we do now to get our economy back up? On the other hand, italy, germany, and japan created an alliance and made the axis pact. In europe facsism evolved firt in italy and appealed to many people who were dissatisfied. When i got to the section of the nazis, my heart sank. It is unbelievable what hitler did to all those innocent jewish people. I learned a lot about it in a few other classes and in just blows my mind how that could happen. Same like whats going on in sudan. it all makes me sick to my stomach.

Catholic social teaching

I was absent the day this was due so Im doing it now. I commented on a few blogs to get the gist of it but reading it definietly gave me abetter hold of the concepts displayed. We only had to read thin introduction and social teachings 1 and 7. These covered the topics of human rights and colonialism relating to the economy. The human rights and dignity section reminds me of the notre dame hallmarks because one of the hallmarks, number 2 i think, is very similar. They value the dignity of each person and relate their existence to god because he was the one that created the first human. people in the world-"deserve to be reated with inalienable respect as children of god". The part about the pro life choice is pretty controversy especially over topics like abortions, capital punishment, human rights, etc. These have to do with the catholic moral teaching. I really like talking about the human rights and the dignity of each person because I agree with a lot of it, every person should be treated with worth and value. There have been many events throughout history that have gone against human dignity. The second section was all about the economy and the division between classes and what the catholic social teaching does in order to stop it and their stances on the topics. The section goes against the human rights and dignitiy because the main goal of that section is to teach equality. Overtime, society has become far from equal. There is a major differences in classes and it is only getting worse. The catholic social teaching develoes two ways to help the issue which i agree with but a single individual cant fix the problem on their own. It is going to take cooperation and the entire society to fix the distiction between rich and poor. I always wonder, is that ever going to go away? How would the society be with out the class distinctions?

607-614

I was really happy to start reading this section because the last section made me really mad about the slave labor and the conditions. I was happy to read this part about the education because Western education finally was an option for the people. It gave them a chance to escape the slave labor system and to create a new identity. I was glad because it saved a lot of people and children from the slave labor industry. The rest of  this section was about religion and how christianity spread and the defining of tribes and race. Tribes and ethnicity had a new sense of belonging.  This in a way still is almost segregation in some way or at least thats what makes me think about when I read this section. I was sort of unsure about what it meant.

589-606

This section is about the colonies and the colonial experience. In the very beginning two pages of the section I enjoyed looking at the different territories that were taken over by variety of countries. Europeans used military force in order to conquer. Becoming a colony was based on conquering territories. There was much conflict after Europe expanded because some people werent cooperating with their new ruler, Europe. There were many rebellions that broke out but that didnt shock me because it is expected for there to be some people to disagree. Much of the labor was forced unpaid labor which upset many people. It's weird to think these colonies were like dictatorships. A lot of land and money was taken from the citezens. What got me made was the issue in the Neatherlands East Indies. Peasants had to devote more that 20% of their land to pay taxes. Thats not fair, but then again what is? The picture on page 600 was really disturbing to be because it showed the results of the forced labor. These two boys were forced to do labor in the congo. The suffered severe body damages because of what they were forced to do. It breaks my heart to see these boys because the society just wasnt fair. They didnt care about the people or the children. Imagine all the people that were injured worse and even died. Working under European rule seemed brutal.