Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The Meiji restoration speaks for its self basically it was modernized and restored some sort of economic growth.When the Meiji emperor was restored as head of Japan in 1868, the nation was weak military so they were kind of defenseless against other countries or any enemies they had. They were primarily agricultural and had very little technology growing in there country and when they had swords riding on horses other countries had guns and cannons. It was controlled by hundreds of semi-independent feudal lords. The Western empires like USA and Europe had Japan to sign treaties that limited its control over its own trade outside of the country and any crimes outside of the country were not to be trialed in japan but in western powers.

When the Meiji period ended, with the death of the emperor in 1912 japan then started to restore itself. Japan builded a strong navy and army. They also stared to build up technology wise so they stated catching up to everyon else, they had a established Parliament. The education was getting better. P[eople were living better you can say. japan moved from samurais to weapons that were more accurate deadly and better economic trade.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Karl Marx and Communisim

Karl Marx was in the way the father of Communism he invented the ideas and the reason he did so it could benefit mankind. Communism is just sharing everything right down the middle equally with everyone even if you were a highly respected like a doctor or a a huge factory owner you got paid as much as the workers so there is no mistreat to the workers. the way he envisioned it was that if the major corporations couldn't take away the right from the workers so they make all the profits and workers make like pennies a day. that why people made unions but it stated to lose power but when it was created people had major power which was what Karl wanted. The countries stared to use the Communism way to run a country the government had all the power and took advantage of the people , then soon it became corrupt.

The way he wanted Communism to work was to help the workers during the industrial revolution in England. Karl was a philosopher that was a professor in Berlin till he died in 1831. His philosophy idea about the sharing and government controlled all the land really was misused by the countries that used it which really defeated the purpose of his ideas like Russia but they changed, but like Cuba, north Korea and china are still communist countries which aren't the best places to live.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Karl Marx and Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was a German Jew which changed the whole Russian history.  His father converted to a christian so that he could get a job and support his family so it was hard for him. He studied the Industrial Revolution. He believed that it was the mistreat of adults and kids, which was child labor. The conditions of the factories were harsh and unsafe. He told the people to join together into a revolution. 

He thought of an idea to share everything like money , stuff etc. The property belonged to the government. Which was a good idea to him the way he envisioned it in his mind which was called communism. But when country's took on the Communism it was corrupt and people were all making the same annual pay so even if you were a doctor you made as much as the janitor. Which meant all those years you studied for medical school was for nothing. Many countries were taken over by communists and after a so many years of communism Russia was not no more. 

He died in 1883 and his ideas started many revolutions. He thought that the people could control the revolution so everyone would share some sort of equality but it turned out that people mostly dictators took control of the countries