2nd millennium

Women’s Rights Progression From the 18th Century to Current Time For as long as time immemorial, women have sought freedom from being regarded as second-class citizens as their male counterparts – namely, their husbands. In home and family life, women were expected to restrict their interests to the household and family matters, while the rest of the matters were handled by the husband. Women were not even able to own property, earn wages, sign a contract, or vote in politics. In more recent…

In 1523 Giovanni da Verrazzano set sail on a quest to explore the West on behalf of France. The voyage was plagued with various issues as he searched for a passage to the Pacific Ocean and Asia. As Verrazzano sailed up the East coast of the Americas to finally rest at what today is known as Newport, Rhode Island he observed many signs of Native American’s inhabiting the coastline (Staff, 2012). Around the time Verrazzano was traveling up the East coast Native American populations were…

Chad Lavin approaches “Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics” from an ontopolitical perspective in an attempt to analyze the relationship between food, personal identity, global inequality, and cultural authenticity (Lavin ix). He uses a fusion of politics, philosophy, and the politics of being a political self, to discuss these. His main question lies in how food functions culturally, politically, and metaphorically to structure individual understandings of the world and autonomy. He…

Globalization has been one of the major central theme in world History. Though there isn’t a specific definition for globalization, many school of thoughts have different ways of explaining the considerable points of what it means to be globalized. However, in the third edition of his book “the world and a very small place in Africa”, Donald R Wright presents much broader scale leading to globalization of the world by reflecting on the past shaping the present, perhaps through intercultural…

Have you ever seen that commercial where a dog is locked up in a kennel and looks up at the camera with sorrowful eyes, whilst sad music or songs play in the background? This is to raise awareness about animal shelters that try to save animals by taking them off the streets. However, what you may not know is that not all of these animals are only picked up off the road. Animals have also been taken from caretakers that either neglect or abuse them. This means that these animals have suffered…

In Society today they’re many problems that people will go through day in and day out without full grasp of it. Poverty and Disease is an example of something our society will continue to struggle with. These type of issues can be hard to take on in life, yet we are constantly reminded of these problems every day. No one takes full control to solve these issues to have a cure or to reduce the problem more than is expected. In addition, another major problem in today’s society is women’s rights.…

week’s assignment the thing that I found the most interesting was learning about the history of race. I am a history buff and love learning about it, which is why I received my bachelor’s in History. The things I focused on the most from this week’s assignment was the history of race that we study on the PBS website, I did some further research into and found some interesting articles to further my knowledge. I believe there is so much that plays a role in race, from the first thought of race to…

The axiom that trade leads to peace seems logical. Trade is always profitable (for at least one partner), and it would be counter-productive to do anything that would disrupt the relationship through violence. However, people are seldom logical and trade is often anything but peaceful. History offers us ample evidence of trading practices that definitely did not lead to peace. For example, trade was achieved through a coerced partnership. Great powers forced lesser regions in to trade…

CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION Women during sixteen, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were not allowed to express their views. Women tried to speak and this became a major issue which gave attention to women, their modern thoughts at the end of the 18th century they were allowed to speak out against injustices. Though modern feminism was not there at that time but many women show their interest and tried to face the problems by using many interesting ideas and creative methods. In other words, we…

The kingdoms of central Java in the classical and early modern periods are an excellent case study of the general transition to a galactic polity system in Southeast Asia. Although these powerful polities ruled their areas from 1500 to 1800, the roots of these societies can be found in the beginning of the classical period in the 9th century. In Java, an early agrarian Hindu-Buddhist society gave way to the rise of the Kingdom of Majapahit, and later, the Kingdom of Mataram. Through the…