Human case studies

• easyJet

  • founded in 1995
  • started with two planes and flights were £29
  • in 2023, it made £8.2 billion, had 83 million passengers and 300 planes
• China - open door policy

  • happened in 1978
  • prior to 1978, China was switched off and millions were dying from famine
  • over the next 30 years, 300 million people left rural areas for cities, causing a mega region of 120 million people around the Pearl River Delta
  • around 400 million people are said to have left poverty since the reforms
• The British Empire

  • an example of colonialism
  • Britain exerted hard power eg in 1919, the Jallian Bagh massacre where British forces killed 400 Indian protesters