COLONIALISM

sábado, 19 de marzo de 2011
1. Look for information about (a few words and lot of images please):

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1815-1898), known as Otto vonBismarck, was a statesman, bureaucratic, military, political and German prose writer,considered the founder of modern German state.
After being appointed prime minister of Prussia, launched a major military reform thatallowed him to have a powerful army to carry out their plans of unification. In this way,managed to wrest from many countries.








David Livingstone (1813-1873), was a physician, Scottish explorer and missionary, and a major figure in the history of exploration: established, with astronomical observations,the right situations and reporting of zoology, botany and geology. Therefore, in Victorian England was considered a national hero.










The Suez Canal is an artificial satellite navigation that connects the Mediterranean withthe Red Sea between Africa and Asia, across the Isthmus of Suez, the Sinai Peninsula.The channel is in Egyptian territory.
Its length is 163 km from Port Said (on the Mediterranean coast) and Suez (the Red Sea coast). Allowed to reduce the maritime trade route between Europe and SouthAsia, it avoided having to go around the African continent.
 







  2- Listen this song, what are they talking about?

Talk about colonialism, about Columbus and Livingstone, what they wanted and whatthey found.

3- Visit the page of British Lybrary that permit you to read old newspapers, select one, for example, The News of the world, and look for news about colonialism, for example in 1886. Choose one and write a brief comment (summarysing and explaining it).





This article talks about a market for Indian products, which were in Hyde Park in Londonin May 1886. 
 
   
 


LABOUR MOVEMENT

1.Mention some laws achieved by workers in England improving their work conditions.
The workers wanted to strike to improve their working conditions and ultimately succeeded, 8 hours working day, increase their wages and improved conditions.

2.What happened the first of May?
There were many demonstrations demanding because workers work fewer hours. At the days is the Labour Day.






3.Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?
Women's suffrage, women have the right to vote and stand as candidates. Also used toexpand the rights of women.

Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913), was a militant women's suffrage activist. She was arrested and imprisoned for various offences. She went on hunger strike in Strangeways Prison and was force-fed. In Holloway prison, she threw herself down an iron staircase as a protest.



The Crisis

jueves, 9 de diciembre de 2010

Halloween

lunes, 1 de noviembre de 2010

Imaxina

domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010


Jonh Lennon- Imaxina

Imaxina que non exista o ceo, 
é fácil se o intentas. 
Sen o inferno de baixo nosa, 
arriba de nós, só o ceo. 
Imaxina a toda a xente,
vivindo para hoxe…
Imaxina que non hay países,
non é difícil de facer. 
Ninguén por quen matar ou morrer, 
nin tampouco relixión. 
Imaxina a toda a xente vivindo a vida en paz…

Podes dicir que son un soñador,
pero non son o único, 
espero que algún día te unas a nós, 
e o mundo vivirá como un.

Imaxina que non hai posesións, 
quixera saber si podes, 
sen necesidade de gula ou fama, 
unha irmandade de homes. 
Imaxínate a toda a xente compartindo o mundo.

Podes dicir que son un soñador,
pero non son o único, 
espero que algún día te unas a nós, 
e o mundo vivirá como un.

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War  was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955  to 15 May 1975 when the Mayaguez Incident concluded and two weeks after the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The Mayaguez incident involving the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia on 12–15 May 1975, marked the last official battle of the United States (U.S.) involvement in the Vietnam War. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations.
-Total dead: 3799632
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Total wounded: 1942469

BELLIGERENTS
Anti-Communist forces:                                                          


Communist forces: