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       Why Our World Is: China By: Abhijay Bhosale China is a country whose history is rarely referenced that far past modern day, usually reported on in the 2000s and after. The only mentions of China in American schools are when talking about Japan's conquest in Asia during World War 2. And although it's important to talk about Japan's rise to power with the effects like the atrocities at Nanjing, it's rarely shown how China grew to such power on the global scale as the 1900s grew to an end. Let's see what happened. WW2 - Turn To Communism Many people people know that China is communist, but not that many know how it occurred. The idea that's usually first gone to is that the Communists took over the government and forced the country to become communist through propaganda and suppression. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. To understand, we have to go back to WW2. Throughout WW2 China had a lot of fighting and actually helped a lot of the allies.

      Why Our World Is: Russia By: Abhijay Bhosale The second country in this series is Russia. Oftentimes paired up with everything anti-western (American, British, French, capitalist), at the height of WW2, the west and USSR, which the Russian government commanded. But after WW2, the countries started rapidly growing farther apart. Economically and politically, the divide spread throughout the world. Let's see what happened. Capitalism VS Communism and the Cold War Summary Although still it's still ind debate whether capitalism or communism is a better economic system, one thing is for sure: Capitalism was better executed than capitalism. It became especially apparent in Berlin, which at the time was split between the western countries and the USSR. The difference was major. While the capitalist side had booming business, tall buildings, and good infrastructure, the Soviet side looked drab and utilitarian. Perhaps the reason for such a difference was the principles of each e

    Why Our World Is: USA By: Abhijay Bhosale This is the start of a new series, a series that will go through 10 different parts of the world and provide their rise, fall, and change starting at the end of World War 2. All the headlines, all the superpowers, and all the finer details. The series starts with the USA. What was once an isolationist breakaway colony from the UK in the middle of the Great Depression turned into one of the world's greatest powers after its involvement in World War 1 and 2. After making a lot of allies and a few enemies, the USA had a lot of potential to do great things on the global stage. Let's see what happened. WWII to The Berlin Wall The US did things in western Europe that really proved the country's worth. Its massive army came as a result of the unemployment of the Great Depression, and they utilized all of their people. Even though not being near any of the hostility in the European front, almost all the US was fully using every resource

     Why We Get Allergies By: Abhijay Bhosale Allergies are the bane of my existence. Every spring, when I can finally go outside after being cooped up for winter, I need to be around the flourishing of life that somehow manages to disrupt my eyes, nose, and overall life without fail. I got so mad in fact, I took the rabbit hole down obscure medical words and hypothetical knowledge to figure out why I get like this. Overview of the Immune System Allergies happen because of your own body. Not only the effects, but also the categorization. And the one to blame is the immune system. It's everywhere in your body, just keeping guard and making sure nothing goes wrong. When different things enter your body, the immune system looks over it and deems it safe or not safe. If it's safe, no problem. But if it's not, then a whole chain begins. Although it's a lot more complicated, the process to fight back can be seen in 3 steps. The first is the Messenger. Once it spots something,

    The Story of BlackRock By: Abhijay Bhosale Very few people know about BlackRock. In simple terms, it's an investment management company. It exists to make money. And guess what? They're the biggest one out there. Well, how big? 10. Trillion. Dollars. They have over 10 trillion dollars (that's $10,000,000,000,000) in assets in a a wide variety of fields. The whole ordeal can be narrowed down to three things. The Mastermind, The Masterplan, and The Master's Servant. The Mastermind: Larry Fink Larry Fink is the man behind all of this. Though he owns BlackRock with 6 other people, he definitely is the face of BlackRock and defaulted to as the CEO. Born in 1952, he grew up in a rather insignificant town called Van Nuys in California. Although his family wasn't explicitly said to be poor, his family's income came from a shoe shop Fink's dad owned. After pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he de

    THE SEA DRAGON ROCKET By: Abhijay Bhosale This. Is. The finale. The last edition of the Unknown Off-Ground Series. It's been a great few reads, so let's end off with a blast. A blast that can lift 550 tonnes... to space. This could have been the biggest rocket ever made, capable of launching a little over 3 Antonov An-225s, or the largest plane ever built. It could have even lifted the entire International Space Station into orbit in one launch. At 150 meters tall, it would have been big enough to be as tall as a skyscraper. And through all of this, it would be one of the most efficient rockets ever planned. This is, the Sea Dragon. Origins Our story begins with a man named Robert Traux. Robert Traux worked for Aerojet, an American aerospace company. During the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, each country had to make their mark in space. One of these things involved making space stations. Although the first space station wasn't put into until