Colonization and imperialism revolve around the currency of the realm, money. Both were results of a mercantile society that needs new sources of revenue so survive. The theory was that if you go out and conquer than colonize and area, the mother land, or country that invaded, could trade with that area directly and collect taxes of the new market. It was also driven by the need to make sure that other countries do not gain a new source of revenue. When a nation gets wealthy it usually looks for ways to get wealthier and gain more power over their neighbors. As transportation became easier and weapons more complex, it became easier and more cost affective to invade "uncivilized" territories and sap them of resources. As it became more and more cost affective, it became more and more appealing to the business men and wealth people who ran the imperialistic empire. As the coffers and resources of the motherland ran dry, and other places became easier and easier to conquer, these business men did what they had to do to remain rich, expand their territories and collect new taxes.
Taken from my AP World/US History text book
Monday, February 11, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Senior Project
Mostly things went well, but I messed up by adding an extra tab in my bibliography. Overall I think I argued my point well and generally did well staying with in the rules and following MLA format. I think I could have gotten more hard facts and worked them into my research paper but I believe that I got my point across regardless. I also think that I could have gotten into the persuasive arguments a little quicker but I decided to give a few hard examples of why fast food is unhealthy instead. I did not get my paper back because I had a friend read it and than catch the errors n my paper before I turned it in. Here is a link to a copy of my senior project I put on Google docs so my friend could read it, the spacing all got messed up on it though, just a warning.
Research thing
1. I am discussing the welfare state in general and proposing ideas as to where it should go.
2. The strait up statistics and history of welfare are my two most important sets of data because I can utilize both to support my ideas in the most effective ways.
3. Personally from what I have seen, although the welfare system has improved since the 60's it still has a long way to go if we as a people want to make it its most effective. In my mind money is being wasted when it does not need to be.
4. The TANF is the current system the government uses to give money to the states to support their individual welfare systems. The government does this through a series of block grants to give the states as much freedom with it as possible. The amount of money that the government grants is decided by the overall population and the amount of people on welfare (or the percent of the population on welfare).
5. One such wow! moment was when I learned that in Hawaii you can make up to $17.56 an hour solely from welfare. I think that it is kind of ridiculous that someone can make double minimum wage on nothing but welfare. Another such moment that surprised me was when I learned that 38% of welfare recipients are Caucasian. This surprised me because I live in an area where the majority of white people live above the poverty line so I kind of expected that this would apply to the general population. I was obviously wrong.
2. The strait up statistics and history of welfare are my two most important sets of data because I can utilize both to support my ideas in the most effective ways.
3. Personally from what I have seen, although the welfare system has improved since the 60's it still has a long way to go if we as a people want to make it its most effective. In my mind money is being wasted when it does not need to be.
4. The TANF is the current system the government uses to give money to the states to support their individual welfare systems. The government does this through a series of block grants to give the states as much freedom with it as possible. The amount of money that the government grants is decided by the overall population and the amount of people on welfare (or the percent of the population on welfare).
5. One such wow! moment was when I learned that in Hawaii you can make up to $17.56 an hour solely from welfare. I think that it is kind of ridiculous that someone can make double minimum wage on nothing but welfare. Another such moment that surprised me was when I learned that 38% of welfare recipients are Caucasian. This surprised me because I live in an area where the majority of white people live above the poverty line so I kind of expected that this would apply to the general population. I was obviously wrong.
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