The most obvious answer is the European colonials, who bought and transported around 12 million Africans over four centuries. It is estimated that one million to two million probably died during this crossing of the Atlantic. However, Africans had practised slavery for hundreds of years before the Europeans got there. During that period, most slaves … [Read more…]
Leningrad was one of Germany’s initial targets and in order to gain control of it, it set up a siege that lasted 872 days – from September 8th, 1941 to January 27, 1944. Over the course of the siege, approximately 632,000 people died from various causes including bombings from the German army, extreme weather conditions, … [Read more…]
“The only way to recapture the experience of war on film is to put a machine gun behind the screen and gun down the audience.” [Norman] This quote by Michael Norman describes how difficult it is for a film, or any source of media, to help an audience truly grasp what it is like to … [Read more…]
After listening to all of the presentations and finding out what specifically each SDG entails, as well as why each of my classmates thinks the goal they presented is the most important, I have decided that if the UN were to abandon all of the goals except three, those three should be no poverty, quality education, … [Read more…]
We could tell from the beginning that we were an LEDC – we only had paper. However, we had a lot of it, and what we didn’t realize at the start was that we also had a graphed sheet, which we found out made anything cut out of it two times as valuable. Unfortunately, we … [Read more…]
This is a graph showing the average life expectancy and GDP. I have chosen to analyse Afganistan, Russia, and Canada. We can see that Canada is leading with a life expectancy of 82 and around 50k GDP. This shows us that Canada is very developed as its citizens are earning enough to afford good medical … [Read more…]
This is an image of the graph I drew showing the development of countries based on their average life expectancy and GDP. The data used for this graph was collected in 2015, and it clearly shows that the greatest gap between the countries is in GDP. We can see that the southern countries, with exception … [Read more…]
Do you agree with him that culture is and should be the ultimate goal of any society? I do agree that culture should be one of the ultimate goals of a society. This is because culture it is not necessary for the creation and development of a society, making it a mean. In a sense, it … [Read more…]
Hierarchy of needs chart: The chart I have drawn has three main categories – basic needs, psychological needs, and self-fulfilment needs. Under basic needs I put things such as food, water, and safety because this is the bare minimum you need to survive. Anything under psychological and self-fulfilment needs falls more under the category of … [Read more…]