Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Gandhi


One of the best scene that I liked the best was when Gandhi was sitting with the guy from the Journal News and was telling him about his child hood and then out of no were he got the idea of the Salt March.

Another scene that I like was when Gandhi was a getting ready to start marching to the sea port. Then he got to this one road were he caught up with other people from another town or city and he started to run towards those people. Gandhi seemed very pleased and happy with this.


The Salt March was when Gandhi decide one day to march 50 miles to the Sea Port. He wanted to boycott British Salt.they went there to make it and to sell it. The British did not like this, they send the British Army to arrest everybody who was buying and selling this salt.

The Amritsar's Massacre was about one of the lowest thing that they British could do. I thought that the General took it to a whole nether level when he told his soldiers to start shooting at all the men, women and children just because a Muslim was specking out about freedom for India. Women and children were jumping into the wells to escape the shooting soldiers. Men got killed for no reason. People were trying to climb the walls and General ordered them to turn the other way to shoot at them.


1.Civil Disobedience- When you disobey unjust laws.

2.Passive Resistance- Opposition to a government or to specific governmental laws by the use of noncooperation and other nonviolent methods, as economic boycotts and protest marches.

DBQ Essay

There were both negative and positive aspects to imperialism. Europeans thought that without them controlling the country that the natives would go crazy and just start a civil war. But the natives don't want the Europeans to control them because they are taking advantage. Europeans now thing that because they control a piece of land that they can control more and take advantage to all the "uncivilized" people.
There were a lot of negative aspects that the Europeans did to the natives. Once the Europeans took over a foreign land, they started to make laws that affected the Muslim and Hindu. They thought very low of these people. They thought that the natives could not do anything without the help of civilized people(which were the Europeans). The Europeans took all the higher places in every department of government. No matter how high place the natives were in the cast system,to the Europeans they did not know anything. (Doc #2) In document 7, it says that the Europeans have committed a crime to the people. They have ran the country for so long and did not bother to teach them how to keep a strong central government. so now they thing that they will have no responsibility on their country.
There were also positive things that imperialism bought. It helped other country's get into shape. It helped their economy grow with the massive trade and factories. "They develop the territory by building roads, canals, railways, and telegraphs. The progressive nations can establish schools and newspapers for the people of the colonies. They can also give these people the benefit of other blessings of civilization which they have not the means of creating themselves." says O.P. Austin(Doc #1) They helped modernize India and other imperialized country's. An Indian reporter says that the Englishmen have introduced Western education to India. This has brought an ancient and civilized nation in touch with modern thought, modern sciences, and modern life. (Doc #3)
During these times that Britain was imperializing other countries, this bought positive and negatives to this so called "uncivilized" countries. I think that it was an even thing between the good and the bad, because once they did a good thing a bad thing would come behind it.
For example, they boycotted salt (which was a good thing because they wont have to buy British salt) and then the British locked the factory down because of this.