Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Definition:
Nationalism is the belief that one's greatest loyalty should not be the king to a king or an empire but to a nation but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history.

I'm a nationalistic because I share two cultures and that basically makes me nationalism. My parents are from South America and I was born in North America. There's two different cultures. When it's November I celebrate the turkey day and also when its July four I also celebrate it. But when its my other cultures holidays I also celebrate it. I really think that's what shows that I'm nationalistic.
Italy was not a independent culture and then it became to be a nationalism meaning free culture(freedom).

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions


Simon Bolivar was born in July 24, 1783. His parents were wealthy he was in Caracas, Venezuela. His parents died and he was really despite about it. When he was a teenager he reached to school and his guardian or pupil saw that his "son" was so smart and was so into studying. Simon Bolivar was called the liberator. He liberate many people from many countries for example Colombia, Venezuelan, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. He was like an hero for them. He also ruled South America and the Spanish. He got married to a Spanish girl but once they were leaving together. Bolivar's wife died of a yellow fever. The yellow fever it comes from a mosquito that transmitted.
Simon Bolivar was really sad because of his wife. He decided to go back to Europe and he decided to study philosophies of Rousseau and that's how smart he was. Later then he became the liberator meaning the guy of the freedom.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

The right that Jefferson is talking about is that all man are equal and that the government has equal power. People have the right to do anything and be a good citizen. They have the right to have liberty and happiness, they also have the right to be safety and happy. They also have to protect theirs rights. All the men from the government should get the power from the people. Lock said that people are born with natural rights as well as liberty.What they both wrote came from the same idea that people were born with the rights.