Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy


Nationalism is the belief that one's greatest loyalty should not be a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history. Nationalism mostly means the love for a country. Nationalism is every where. Some things that we contribute to America is that WE LIVE IN AMERICA. That is one common and important thing. One thing for sure is that we speak the same language which is English. We use the same currency, we have a huge history about America and we have the same government. A example of me being Nationalism is that I pledge to the flag of America every morning when the accouments are on in school. I thing that I do that shows that Nationalistic is I talk in English, I use dollars and go to school that is America, I celebrate American Holidays like, Fourth of July, Martin Luther and more.
There where a lot of country that created by Nationalism. One Example of a how Nationalism that created a nation was Italy. Italy was actually ruled by Austria at first. During 1815 to 1848 a increasing number of Italians were no longer in content to live under foreign rulers. People started to notice that they were closely the same to one to each other. A Italian idealist man created a Nationalism group that was called Youth Italian. After that a great nationalism leader stood up and look for leader ship so Italy can be split to their own country. He was able to get Austrian out of the country and to take their land. That was when history was making for Italy.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions


Simon Bolivar was one of the greatest general in South American. A lot of country's got their Independence thanks to Simon Bolivar. The country's we won independence for is Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He was mostly called the The Liberator. The Country Bolivia was thankful of Simon Bolivar that they named there country Bolivia. Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas on July 24, 1783. His parents were creole. Simon Bolivar just wanted to fight Independence from Spain. Simon Bolivar mostly got inspired, by the works of the Enlightenment Thinker and The American and French Revolution. He had tutors you would teach him and that is how he got inspired.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

Well here is the think, John Locke had ideas for the government but Thomas Jefferson took his ideas and wrote the constitution. See in the old days we used to follow absolute monarchy. That was when the King was the ruler and he would make up any law he wanted to. Sometimes the king was good or bad. And if he would die his son would take over in place. And that was a problem because the kings son might been stupid or had no idea to what to do. So we left that old government. And made a new one called democracy. So like I said John Locke made ideas off this new government called democracy. But Thomas Jefferson took them and made them in a constitution. Some rights that Jefferson said was that all man were equal and that people had rights. Some rights were Life, Liberty, and the purist of Happiness. That the people have the right to pick a law or abolish it. The government got it power from people. But that changed over time because some people thought it was wrong. So in democracy we have a Judicial Branch or you can say The Supreme Court. And They decide if the law can pass or not. So from that people we happy, because they had rights to vote.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Copernicus and the trail of Galileo

The First theory that was created was called geocentric. People believed that earth was the center of the earth. And everything was moving around it. People thought that the stars, sun, and planets would revolve around them. They would see this in the night, every day. This theory was common with Ancient Greece, but the theory was made from the Roman Catholic Church. People did not have any technology to know what was happening. They would just step out side in the night and see that everything was moving around them. This wasn't true facts, it was just people ideas, they had no clue.
The Second Theory was created was called Heliocentrism. This was the true theory and the theory created in the Scientific Revolution. The theroy is that the sun is in the the center and we relove arouund the sun. This theroy we even use now. Now we would move not the stars. So the stars would moslty stay in one place. Only unsvires moved. Scientits started this idea.
The trail of Galileo was imoprtant, it happend at the year 1633. Can you imagne how old this theory is and we still use it. Any who this trail was important because Galileo wanted to prove the theory of Heliocentrsim. Galileo got to trail for publshing a book of saying how the sun is in the center and the planets move. The Catholic Chruch belived in Geocentric and Galileo believe in Heliocentrism. So the Chruch wanted to see the truth. Galileo worked hard to make sure this theory is true. So Galileo theroy was true, as you can see.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

Well the Scientific Method, was used by scientists all around the world. Before the Scientific Method people would mostly get their ideas from ancient Greeks and Romans. And the bible. Scientists would mostly experiment theories or ideas. They would see if theories and ideas in the old days were true or false. They would experimented over and over to prove or disprove and idea or theories. After, they were finished testing they would draw up a conclusion. One example of a experiment would be testing the speed of an object. They would see if different weights would falls down on different speeds or the same speed. Scientists would go to a high floor and open the window and throw objects. Like for example, dropping a baseball and bowling ball and the result would be that they would fall at the same speed.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Evolution vs Creation, Matthew Pastula PD 7

First I Will Start With Creation, Creation is a Religious Belief. Creation is mostly made of life, the earth, universes, animals, everything. And it was all made by God. If you every hear about Creation, you would mostly think about Adam and Eve. And it is complex to thing about it. Because there is so much detail and you have to think. Creation has the Bible-Old Testament and New Testament. And Also Genesis. 50% of people believe in Creation (Religion). But, now of the scientific theories there was a decreased in the belief of Creation. Like I Said the term Creation is mostly religion.
Now I will start with Evolution. When you think of Evolution you mostly think of man evolved from animals, FOR EXAMPLE, Apes, Fish.... You can say Primates or Common Ancestors. Scientists say that it was Mutations. There was a man called Charles Darwin, he worked on a boat, and draw pictures of what he saw. He noticed that some animals were the same but had different genes, for example a Finch Bird, there were Three Island, One Island had a Normal Beak, and on the second island it would have a shorter beak, and at the third island the finch bird would have a longer beak. Charles Darwin said that it was natural selection. Natural Selection means a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. This all happened at 1849 with Charles Darwin.
In my opinion, I believe in Creation because I am Catholic. But, sometimes in science class I think about Evolution, and it also can be true. It is very complex now I know why 50% belive in Creation and the other 50% beleives in Evlovtion.

Monday, September 14, 2009

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