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What a century it was

Looking back I can’t say much about my own meandering experience of these great 100 years of disgrace and glory. The world has been an ever-changing cosmos since the very day the calendar turned to 1900 from the dreary black and white days of last century. I may not be turning 100 years old this year but considering my family I have a great grand mother in England who is one of those lucky people to have experienced the whole of this century and be turning the ripe old age of 100.At the beginning of this century we had the people who were out to discover the new and fascinating things that have always amazed man. One of these being the will to fly like a bird, the Wright brothers accomplished this in 1903. Motorcars had just been invented at the end of the last century and now the model T Ford; the new inexpensive motorcars were being manufactured in mass. All through the first 10 years of this century man has been out to discover new and exciting things that were never available before. Apart from man discovering he could extend the limits of invention, people began to think for themselves and this was where revolution came into it from as wide as Russia’s Soviet Union to Latin American’s.Also the once European imperialism that reined over great continents like Africa and Asia in the 19 century was coming to an end and more and more countries took their newfound independence and have gone onto building great nations. In this century we have also had the people who have said to what they thought was wrong and dedicate their lives to bringing freedom for everyone some examples of this have been Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King, just to name a few have changed and made this century one unlike others. Our Century has not just been one of heroes though we have also produced men and women with some of the cruelest and destructive ideologies ever known to man.In August 1914 people around Europe rejoiced for war had br...

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