Review: The last century what give us
The last century is over. But it will
not be forgotten. Many events have taken place during these years that have
embellished and enriched human life. There have been significant advances in
scientific achievement and technological development including immense progress
in medical science. Lately, a revolution technology has taken the world by
storm.
In ideological term, the twentieth
century has been marked by the independence of many former European colonies in
Asia, Africa and Latin America. The
struggle for democracy in different parts of the world including Bangladesh had
been momentous. It saw the division of Germany after the second world war, and
its subsequent reunification in the eighties. The process of the reunification
evident hare has also been echoed in other regions. The century also witnessed
the rise of socialism. However, the end of the cold war and the collapse of
socialism have eased the major powers into a unipolar position.
On the other Hand, conflict has
depended. The world has experienced some of the worst events in history during
this time. Misuse of atomic energy has wreaked destruction. Two world war
recorded the worst suffering in human history- Hiroshima and Nagasaki bear
testimony to this. Vietnam war, the gulf
war, the war in Lebanon, and in many parts of Africa
causing widespread death and destruction. Terrorism too is sadly on the rise.
Indeed several other things have also
caused endless human misery. Poverty, hunger, malnutrition, uncontrolled
population growth and high mortality rates have been common features in the
poorer countries. Environmental pollution,
global warming, contaminated drinking water an the AIDS epidemic are
many of the major problem that we have inherited from the decades that have
gone by. And yet despite these dark aspects, the last century will remain
memorable in terms of positive human achievement.
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