15/4/2013

15/4/2013

Hi! Today is my turn to write the journal!

Today everybody have been late except Miguel, Werse, Ángel Manuel, Enrique Pérez, Jesús Ignacio and I.

First Paqui has done a review of the Friday´s class with a post of the journal. Paqui has explained all the photos of the post and the origin of the Uncle Sam comes from acronym US and is related to be the military. Instead of saying that they received parcels from the government they said by Uncle Sam.

Uncle Sam

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And also Paqui has explained the origin of John Bull (John Bull is the personification of the United Kingdom).but I couldn´t understand what Paqui has said because all the people were talking, for example Jose Javier Morales who never shuts up.

http://www.slideshare.net/papefons/europe-in-the-second-half-of-the-19th-century-11463409?utm_source=slideshow03&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=share_slideshow_loggedout

After that Paqui has explained some things about  China with the Power Point presentation. 

Paqui has explained that China was the most coveted territory, and the Europeans tried to control it. The British provoked two wars: Opium Wars and obliged the Chinese to open their country to the foreigners. But at the end of the 19^th century there were some revolts against the foreigners (Boxer´s uprising)

The countrys that want to divided China

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Fernando García has said that Spain had colonies in China but Paqui has said that, it wasn´t true. But Fernando is pig-headed and he has continued saying it. But Paqui has said that it is impossible and the next day Fernando will bring the book where he read it.

Enrique Pérez has asked why in this period Spain was sleeping. Paqui has said that because before  Spain was a big Empire, but the country had a lot of internal problems and It lost all the territories little by little.

Then we have continued with China. Paqui has said that there was the  Boxer´s Rebellion was called in this way because many of the participants in the rebellion practiced a martial art similar to taekwondo (including boxing).

Boxer Rebellion 

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Paqui has said that there is a film about the Boxes' Rebellion called 55 days at Beijing.

The film "55 days in Bejing

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/55-Days-Peking.jpg/220px-55-Days-Peking.jpg

After finishing with China I have said that  yesterday it was the Republic Day. Paqui hasn´t wanted to give an opinion about this but she has said that the most important thing is the type of Republic.

Then we have corrected the exercise of the last part of the unit.

Fernando García has corrected the positive consequences of the colonialism, and Paqui has written the answers on the blackboard.

Positive consequences of colonialism were:

• The introduction of some advances and technology in agriculture and industry.
• Hygiene habits, advances in medicine (hospitals, vaccines…) Mortality decreased.
• They built schools and illiteracy decreased.
• Construction of infrastructures and facilities.

Raquel and Laura have corrected the negative consequences of the colonialism and Paqui has written the answers on the blackboard. 

The negative consequences of the colonialism were:

• These advances were introduced looking for the colonists benefits: plantations, exploitation of raw materials, control of the development of local industries.
• All the innovations were introduced to facilitate business and not for the benefits of the population
• With the population growth balance between population and resources broke up and famines started.
• Acculturation process it was an imposition of the culture of the colonists (language, religion, habits…) and relegation of local cultures (considered to be inferior).

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• Traditional economy  was destroyed. Before the colonization there was a different way of organizing the work (collective exploitation of land and inexistence of the private property) was replaced by a monentary and capitalist economic system.

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• And Unequal and segregated society

Then we have come to a conclusion: It had more negative  than positive consequences for the colonized peoples.

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And… we have finished the unit!!!

So, Paqui has proposed us a project instead of exam of the next unit.

After I write my journal in the blog Paqui will be put a new post with the new Power Point presentations from which we have to choose three paintings.

And if we make a good comment of the painting, we won´t have to take an exam of unit 7. But if we copy it from the Wikipedia and we use the translator, we´ll fail and we´ll have to take an exam of whole unit.

Paqui has said that the next day we have to decide on the date of the exam! 

And like every day we have added to the glossary these new words.

Coveted: codiciado

Opium: Opio

Boxer Rebellion: Rebelión de los bóxes

Facility: instalación (False friend)

Famine: hambrunas

Apartheid: Apartheid --> Division of the country into different groups of people with different rights, (Ex: there were schools for white and black people etc…)

 I hope you have enjoyed my journal 

See you tomorrow!! :)