Blog #13 Call to Action

On call to action day my whole basketball team gathered up and we went to the East Palo Alto boys and girls club to help and give back to the community. Soon as we got there the kids looked at us like we were superstars for the national basketball association, we started to talk with the kids so that we could get to know them and explain to them the benefits of just going to college and getting an education then we talked about being a student athlete and that is where the kids really tuned in and got excited about going to college. We told them that we travel to Hawaii and many other places and they were so excited to hear that noise as if you were about to pack up and go right then it made me laugh, some kids don’t go to college not because they don’t want to things just happen when you grow up in a rough neighborhood or a rough city. A lot of people can’t make it out of East Palo Alto from what my coach told me because it is a rough city with a lot of violence and I could tell from when I talked to some of these kids and how they talked to me.
But it felt good just talking to them and also playing basketball with them after we got done talking we went to the basketball courts and played some games with them the first game was us just messing around trying to keep the ball away from them and just having a good time, then we tried to show them three man weave which is a basketball drill that we do here at Notre dame de Namur but it was too hard for them so we just had them do layup drills. After the layup drills we split the basketball team up with the kids and played a tournament of three on three and of course my team was the best as we had the best record.  Then we played five on five until it was time for us to leave, just from playing with those kids brought so much joy to them and I could tell by their faces that they were really having fun. That’s what it is all about just giving back to the community and trying to have a positive impact on those kids life, and I really feel that we all helped those kids become better people that day even though there were kids I think they saw what it takes to become a student athlete and a college student. I hope we can do something like this again next year because I really got a kick out of it and it made me feel better as an individual and a person.

Blog #12

At the end of the 18th century colonialism seemed to have become a thing of the past, Britain had lost its Thirteen Colonies in America, Spain and Portugal had lost most of South America and Holland was having difficulties holding onto the East Indies. A hundred years later however, a second wave of colonization took place. Within twenty years from 1880 to 1900, every corner of the Earth from the highest mountains in the Himalayas to the most remote Pacific island and Antarctica, came to be claimed by one or other European power. Africa saw the most dramatic colonization. It was divided up as if it had been a cake split between greedy European leaders it was called the Scramble for Africa.

Blog #11 Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people’s homes using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered special purpose machinery, factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries along with the development of the steam engine, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution. Which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. While industrialization brought about an increased volume and variety of manufactured goods and an improved standard of living for some, it also resulted in often grim employment and living conditions for the poor and working classes.

Blog #10

The Atlantic revolutions reverberated which means to be repeated several times as an echo had an impact far beyond their points of origin and persisted long after those violent changes had been concluded. Britain's loss of North America colonies fueled its growing interest for Asia, contributing to British colonial rule in India and the Opium wars in China. The chapter also talks about the abolition of slavery and how Abolitionism is the antislavery act which was started with the help of English quakers who were the earliest participants in the abolitionist movement.

blog #8

The Atlantic revolutions in North America took place within a larger global framework. Like the many other revolutions that happened in France, Haiti, and Latin America the revolutions happened out of the context of expensive wars. It mad the states weak and destabilized the process of commercializtion. But the Atlantic revolutions were distinctive in various ways compared to other places else where. All of the revolutions in these different countries had to do with the same thing to make the place they live a better place to live for the future.

Blog #6

An Asian comparison the Jesuits in China were appreciated for their mathematical, astronomical, and technological skills. The Jesuits were welcomed to China for many reasons but the one that stood out the most especially in the 17th century was their incredible map making skills in the chapter it shows to Jesuits holding a map inside of a church. The persistence and change in African and Asian cultural traditions talks about how African religious people gave up their own people to the Americans for weapons and food, which is crazy to even believe in but it is true.

Blog #5 Cultural Transformations

In the early sixteenth century the protestant reformation shattered the unity of Roman Catholic Christianity, which over the years have founded western European civilization. It began in 1517 with Martin Luther who was a German priest. Martin Luther was really upset about abuses and the power that the catholic church had, so he nailed on a church door a statement called the 95 thesis that challenged the power of the court. Basically it was all about how priest should be able to forgive people for there sins so that they will be able to go to heaven.