Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism: is when you protect your country when you have pride for your country and you don't let no one put it down. it also means how u represent your country and to be proud of where your from . An example of how i am nationalistic is that i represent my country where ever i go , make sure people can tell i am Dominican, i let people know where i am from because i am proud of being Dominican.
what i do that show i am nationalistic is the way i speak, i have an accent but i don't let my accent come out on purpose it's just natural. Also by telling people i am Dominican, my attitude, the way i speak Spanish, i have a flag in a window of my room so everyone can see it. And since i was born there my culture just comes out , the way i was raised, how loud i can be and how fast i can speak.


Nationalism was also used to create the nation of Italy. Before a long time ago Italy used to be a part of the Austria-Hungary empire. But when other countries started to declare independence Italy was very influenced by them. So, then Italy wanted their independence they had a war of independence. They're were disorder all over Italy which also triggered many other disorder in Europe. They named their nation and slowly broke apart from the Austria-Hungary empire. Then they made a flag for their nation . So this is how Italy used nationalism to gain independence.




Thursday, October 22, 2009

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions


what Simon Bolivar accomplished.
  • He was one of the south America greatest general.
  • He fought the Spaniards and won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
  • In Haiti he gathered a force that landed in Venezuela in 1816, and took Bolivar. He also became dictator there.
  • he became a dictator in Peru.
  • all the countries he helped honored him .
Simon bolivar was so famous because he helped a lot of countries in south America to win their revolution and free themselves from the Europeans.he was also famous for its collections on the physical sciences, history, philosophy and politics.
there is a country named after Simon bolivar in South America. because he helped them get their freedom from the Europeans.
Bolivar help defeat the Spanish control on most of the South America.Bolivar was fighting for the independence of the countries we know now as Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia.What influenced Bolivar was the French and the Scottish Enlightenment and also the Greek.