Chapter 23

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When I was reading this chapter I felt overwhelmed and well-informed from learning about all the global factors. The first thing the chapter pulls up with is how the global economy has changed, clearly, the economy was messed up and scrambled after World War 1 and World War II and lets did not forget how the Great Depression really messed up the system. Therefore to fix this a lot of globalization that needed to happen and as we can see on the map on page 1027, the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and many other countries were part of the global distribution of investments, these investments were from 4,000 up to 200,000. There was also the section that spoke about how feminism, it was especially interesting to hear about feminism in the south seeing as though the women in the Latin culture are very much under-appreciated and used, therefore I can see why starting movements would be hard to start down in south sense men like to belittle women. It was also interesting to read about how the Islamic world took over 90% of the west during the early 21st-century. Finally, there was the section where it talked about how the environment transformed globally, I always enjoyed reading the zoom in sections and this was not an expectation. Therefore in this zoom in I got to learn about Rachel Carson the pioneer of environmentalism, her story of how she grew to love the earth and it was especially interesting to hear about how she questioned the Enlightenment.          

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