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4) Justin Dallaire. “Why Pride sponsors shouldn’t hit pause during Black Lives Matter protests.” strategy. June 9, 2020. https://strategyonline.ca/2020/06/09/why-pride-sponsors-shouldnt-hit-pause-during-black-lives-matter-protests/ The article was questioning brands supporting pride and the black lives matter movement.The main question and controversy was: do brands really support the movements that they say they  support? or are they just doing it to sell products?, are they genuine?, or is it just a trend to them?  For example one if the brands mentioned was Bud Light. It stated Bud Light in the U.S. has been involved with the LGBTQ+ community for many years. In Canada, Bud Light has been a partner of Toronto Pride for the past six years. But it also pointed out Bud Light’s relationship with Rainbow Railroad is less established in Canadians and because of that LBGTQ+ people question why the brand’s donations were being based on product purchases and not just donated. Another brand th
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QUIZ # 4

3) Ganesh Chakravarthi. “Is it Time to Embrace the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene requires that humanity take responsibility for preserving the earth and its species.” The Diplomat. February 11,  2020. PAGE 1052 https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/is-it-time-to-embrace-the-anthropocene/   I agree with Ganesh Chakravathi, it is time to Embrace the Anthropocene. Embracing the Anthropocene is not a new concept.  Based on this article is “a geological epoch, similar to the ice ages of the yore, but in this case human beings and their actions impact the earth in far greater magnitudes than all of nature combined. The term Anthropocene was coined by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel prize-winning scientist, who said “This name change stresses the enormity of humanity’s responsibility as stewards of the Earth.” In addition, this concept is also a living proof that history of human beings does not entail just dates and events but there is a big correlation between the physicality of our planet with the event
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QUIZ # 4

2) Anne Mawathe. “Coronavirus: Why Africans should take part in vaccine trials.” BBC. May 18, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52678741    After reading this article, I realized the issue is not European scientists wanting to take advantage of the low socio-economic availability of impoverished populations such as Africa to test vaccinations, but the issue is impoverished countries not having access to  adequate health care and modern medicine. Based on an article in the magazine the African Renewal, December 2016 - March 2017,  approximately 1.6 million Africans died of Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV Related illnesses in 2015. These diseases could be cured with the appropriate medication, however, because most of those medication are produced in other countries, they are very costly, and not too many people in Africa can’t afford them. Only less than 2% of the much needed drugs are produced in the African continent. In addition, because African people do not have access to
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Ch 23 - Experiencing the Anthropocene: Green and Global

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In what way(s) do you see the historical developments described in this chapter continuing to evolve in our world today? Make a separate blog post for each chapter.  I see the historical development in the consequences that industrialized society has left behind, and continues to create; My hope is that we became more aware of the importance of taking care of our planet.  The environmentalist movement began in late 18th and early 19th century as a response to the industrial revolution which left great ecological damage; several renowned personalities denounced these actions such as William Blake and William Wordsworth; they described the industrial era’s “ dark, satanic mills,” which threaten “the green and pleasant land of an earlier England” (p.1055.) In addition, the British writer John Ruskin in 1876 declared. “The frenzy of avarice is daily drowning our sailors, suffocating our miner, poisoning our children and blasting the cultivable surface of England into treeless waste of Ashe
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Chapter 22 - End of Empire

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In what way(s) do you see the historical developments described in this chapter continuing to evolve in our world today? Make a separate blog post for each chapter.  I see a reflection of past events as the new nations struggle for economic independence and globalization, would they be able to succeed? World War II marked the end of European empires, and dismantles in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean and Pacific Oceania before the end of the 20th century. Trade became more global as technology expanded, markets grew, and corporation became “the new empires” as dominant business organizations (p.976). Asia and the Middle East gained their independence in the late 1940’s. For instance, India broke away from Britain, and South Africa ended apartheid. The Philippines, India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel gained their independence as well. Africa’s 50 colonies from the mid 1950s- through the mid 1970s gained their independence. Pacific Oceania: Samoa, Fiji, Tonga
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Final Research Presentation

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                                                    It has been a great class! Please copy and past the link below to see my presentation. Thanks for being such a kind audience!                                                                                   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B_UtPZEWVt6z6NntvCpTfLMSj82mn7mD/view?usp=sharing   July 12, 2020   Dear cousin Carmen,   I hope this letter finds you and your family well.      While watching the news today, I see that the  pandemic has affected many people: here in the United States alone, 134,000 have died , and 3,184,000 have been infected by the Covid 19. It has affected our life here in California as well, some more than others. I find myself working on my computer from home more than ever, and competing for internet access with my children and neighbors all the time. We are able to go out more now, so we do not have to be in our small apartment as we did at the beginning of the pandemic.  Luckily, we have acc
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Module 9 Chapter 21

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Why did the communist experiment which was committed to equality, abundance, and human socialism generate failed economies and oppressive brutal and totalitarian regimens? The communist experiment failed because  communist states could not prosper, economically speaking, neither the Soviet Union economy could sustain their support, along with decline in their military capacity and moral reputation. This collapse began in China in the 1970’s, following the death of their revolutionary leader Mao Zedong in 1976. In Eastern Europe most of the popular movements overthrew their communist governments one after another. Lastly, the end of communism occurred in 1991 in the Soviet Union . Mikhail Gorbachev, a reformist leader who had come to power in 1985,  was not able to revive and save the Soviet socialism which at that time it was falling apart. Instead of reviving the country's economy, it made it worse as it created a political disintegration on December 25, 1991 (p.958). Communist ec
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