Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony

Last Tuesday (February 1st) we had a remembrance ceremony where we commemorate the massive Jewish murder during the World War II. I'm talking about the holocaust; where the Nazi forces exterminated about six million Eurpoean jews.

The holocaust started with the german invasion to the sovietic union. It was the assassination of millions of people; not only jews, also homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents. The total number of holocaust victims is between 11 and 17 million people. It took the Germans four years to end with the life of all these people.
To be a Jew was a crime, they didn't care of women, children or anybody else, all were meant to suffer and finally die. Most of the Jews were dead by 1945.
All of these people were taken by the Nazis to concentration camps; one of the most famous camps was in Auschwitz, it was created when the Poland invasion, where people died of starving, illness or other diseases. It was divided in three main sections, the extermintation, the medical experiments section and the reclution section.
 Jews had a lot of restrictions and they had to followed a lot of rules that were ridiculous and unnessesary; for example, they had to wear a David star, so germans can identify them. These rules were very humiliating and sad.
It's important to emphasize that the holocaust did happened and that it was a very horrible massive murder; there are survivors all around the world that can tell their stories and that can describe their experiences.

Our remembrance ceremony was very emotive because we read some testimonie experiences about real people that suffered in that time, some of them lost their families. It was very sad to know that most of the people that was killed, was between 1-17 years. It was a very nice ceremony where we realized that we are blessed by God and that we are lucky to be alive.

The Ireland Globalization

First of all.....

What is Globalization?

It’s often related with liberalization, internationalization, universalization, westernization or modernization.

It’s defined as “The emergence and operation of a single worldwide economy” (Grieco Ikenberry 200:27). Globalization is also an engine or empire of development because it has transformed the conditions of development and the prospects for a more equitable world order.

It is measured in respect of the growing intensity, extensity and the velocity of worldwide economic interactions from trade through production and finance to migration.

Bibliography:

McGrew, Anthony and K. Poku, Nana. “Globalization, Development and Human Security”. USA. Polity Press. Pages 2,3,4.

What is Globalization for people?

When I looked at the globalization images in Google, I found that there are a lot of maps; most of them have the logos of the most important companies in the 

world. One of these companies, of course, is McDonald’s; there are a lot of images related to this company because it is one of the biggest and also one of those that best explain the meaning of globalization. 

 Also I found a lot of images with people dressed in suites which mean that they are entrepreneurs; of course they play an important role in globalization

 because they are the ones that spread the companies all over the world and also the ones that have the power in some countries. They don’t care if their actions affect someone; they just care about money, power and popularity. There are also images with a businessman holding the world which means that nowadays they have the control over us.

Globalization in Ireland.

Before Ireland was an independent country, 
it was not very important because it wasn’t involved in the trademark and the economy of the world; it was a little but very important piece of land for the other countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany; they were interested in Ireland because of its resources, it has a very fertile soil, it has a lot of rivers and in general it can all be exploited. Ireland declared his independence and with this, it started to grow. It was still a very little country but other countries started to invest in education and in infrastructure so the Irish economy started to grow. Since Ireland became part of the European Union, it has access to the European large markets, this caused that Ireland became part of the world’s economy and nowadays it’s one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. With the industrial growth, roads and transport services were developed. They have adopted capitalists ideas from America and the United Kingdom so they continue growing.