The mental change in the Industrial Revolution was the primary revolution. I show this by connecting to The World Is Flat (T. Friedman). I also show the change in child labor; then I bring in the Luddites and their contribution.
The industrial revolution, although has to do with both changes in the way people think, and what new machines had been created. The most influential in that revelatory process, was the mental change. As the machines started to replace the workforce, the companies still used children to run the heavy machinery. People decided that they didn’t like machines taking jobs. Due to the invention of machinery, a mental change had to occur, whether for or against.
Having a tool being provided that can change so many lives is amazing. The problem is though, the tool needs to be used correctly; and that is where this revolution’s primary change is. For example, in the World Is Flat by T. Friedman, he talks about the acceptance of the computer. All the sales people told of how the computer could completely renew the working environment. The problem that occurred was the effect was not immediate, and people started to turn against them. Yet, look at the world now? All computers. Why? Because people were able to get the computers to do what they needed to do, and get themselves used to the thought of something that can be faster than themselves.
In the Industrial Revolution, the machines were provided, setup, and turned on. Who was there the run the machines? Typically children. Why were these massive machines run by children? Well, that comes from the public’s previous tradition of men using their children to do things that either he can’t do himself, perhaps for crawling through small spaces, or because it was too dangerous that adults would protest.
Then you have the Luddites. People who were either laid off or didn’t approve of the technological advancement came together to form a type of cult called the Luddites. These people were ones who obviously weren’t ready to pickup and change careers like many of us do today (a mental change from accepting a crazy economy). All the technology was there but they didn’t want to embrace it because it booted many people out of a job that was needed for them to support their family.
Of course you could argue that the machines caused the revolution. They came first, then survived the onslaught of infuriated Luddites. As they started to spread moving away from England and into other countries; those countries immediately jumped into an industrial community. Although, machines can’t migrate themselves. Someone made the decision to build them, which would mean that someone had made a mental change into adopting them.
As you can see, machines can be very influential to change. They have pushed us into an economy that works so fast. Whether adopting new technology or provoking us into destroying them. Yet also think of this, we made mental changes all along, accepted them as good bonuses or, as evil job takers. A revolution always concerns both physical and mental changes and adaptions, but in this case the mental change is the primary revolution.
Industrial Revolution Essay
Humanism Vs. Flat World
Essay #1 -- Sorry, Forgot About Uploading My Essay
Doran Smestad
Mr. Viles
Honors History 10
September 28th, 2007
Essay #1
Humanism is the idea or concept of a group of people that usually have expendable income and want to change things to make them better for humans. Humanism was the revolution that changed the way that the people thought. But, people wouldn’t say that they were Humanists, they would say (probably wouldn't’ say for fear of going to hell, but for this purpose if they did,) that they are doing something other than what the church wanted. Humanism is a name that we assigned a occurrence, there are many different types of Humanism, religious humanism for example. The flat world has done the same, it is a concept that Friedman has assigned a name to what is happening as the whole world becomes more interconnected, a way of viewing it is calling in the Flat world.
As Humanism continues, the people of the time wanted continued to do more and more of what they wanted to do, not necessarily what the church wanted them to do. Now, they still were afraid of going to hell, but because of the way that they were paralleling what the church wanted them to do, and what they did, the people were only threatened is they drifted far enough away. One of the forces to help Humanism along was the fact of hidden funds. If you had millions of dollars in a bank, but lived in a small run-down house, you would be thought of as poor. So people now were able to hid their income and savings, and if they were daring, would cut back on their tithe.
Now look at the world is flat. The are helping factors, nicknamed “Flatteners” that pancake the world. One of them is the launch of the internet. The Internet is launched, add a dozen years, and now you have this web of interconnected servers basically running the world. Although the results from this flattener was extremely fast, we as humans have started to evolve the ability to quickly adapt to new tools and toys. For example the iPod or even an iPhone! I got the iPhone on a sunday and it took me five minutes to figure out how to navigate through features, a twenty minutes to configure it as my own, and then forty minutes to figure the whole device out. Yet, this evolution had to start sometime.
Humanism was the first step to interdependence and although it was slow to start out, the people of the day still took the church seriously but now they were adapting to add religion to their live instead of their life to religion. I am not going to address wether that was a good thing or not, but there is a beginning to change in the way that people thought, instead of taking the church teachings as fact, people went back to the way that the Greeks and Romans thought. This is shown in the evolution of the paintings, the reappearance of philosophers, and the renewed interest in the way that the universe worked.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/c-humanism/Humanism.html
http://atheism.about.com/od/abouthumanism/a/renaissance.htm?p=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism
http://www.jcn.com/humanism.php4
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By the way Mr. Viles..... Google Docs is now becoming the ultimate Beta machine, Beta this Beta that, when will something come out of Beta that is useful? Google! Take some responsibility of what you have made and provide support!
The only things that are holding me back from all online based work are;
1.) BETA everything!!!!! Once things are out of Beta I will use them more!
2.) They are horrible compared to the desktop based programs.
3.) Once offline, you can't get access to anything.
4.) IT WON'T WORK ON THE IPHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doctor Faustus
The Faustian Bargain is a bargain with the devil usually in return for extended life, and supernatural. in this case more knowledge. In this play Faustus became tired of the normal teaching of the world and decides to learn magic. He tries to get a devil under his command, but the only way to do so was to give away his soul in 24 years to be locked in hell. He gave away his soul to learn more magic, and to have a devil under his command.
The Once And Future King Book 4
In the fourth and last book of the Once and Future King, King Arthur is getting old, his round table old has a few members left, most of them lost to the grail. Lancelot and Guenevere are still lovers though subtle warnings from the king. Then finally after many years Mordred, Arthur son from his sister comes forth and accuses the Queen of her affair. Lancelot had to run to escape from Mordred but the queen was tried and convicted, she was to be burned. Lancelot came to rescue her from the stake but killed many people in the battle. A few of them being Mordred's uncles, this really got him mad and got the king to preform war against Lancelot. The Pope declared that Lancelot and Guenevere were both true to the king and pardoned the accused. The result was a very long siege at Lancelot's castle while Mordred was temporary King back home, and he finished the plan he started since he accused the queen. Mordred went to the people and said that the King had been killed in battle, and therefore took the crown. As soon as Arthur heard this he went back home to regain the crown, the morning of the battle the book ends with Arthur telling his Paige to pass on his story.
T. H. White's writing style is very good it keeps to going through the plot, but keeping you informed and understanding what is going on. Although this is not my preferred genre, the book is very good and details the story of Arthur very well. The theme that came from this book was how power corrupts people. This always relates back to life as an archetype, from Caesar, to Hitler. The story of King Arthur is in various forms but this one was very through and telling making it very convincing that this story was the true version.
The Once And Future King Book 3
In the third book of the Once and Future King, Arthur begins his round table and starts to incorporate the new young generation into it to establish a group of knights that are trained in this new idea of might for right instead of the old knight who were used to the might is right system. Lancelot ran away from his home to be able to join the table as king Arthur asked and together they did many battles to enforce the round table's ideas. Also during this book the quest for the holy grail started, and many good knights became perfect and were never heard from again. Lancelot and Guenevere started to have an affair and Arthur realized it but didn't want to face it, so he turned a deaf ear when he saw signs of it. The book finally closes with Lancelot being allowed to preform a miracle even through all of his sins.
I think that this was my most favorite book so far, King Arthur's ideas were fulfilling themselves and Lancelot was at the top of his game for a while, yet wasn't allowed to get the holy grail. I can equate this to life by; the king saw that his goal of might for right had succeeded, but now he had a problem. His knights were getting restless, they were bored, no invasions to preform, and the public was safe. His knight were going back to their old ways, they started to kill people who did only small crimes; Arthur saw this and needed something for them to do, so he started the quest for the holy grail. In life, when people get bored they want to do something so they we usually revert to crime, maybe vandalism, maybe theft. In the next book I expect Arthur's last battle and his death, Lancelot most likely will be exposed on the affair and will be punished for it.
The Once And Future King Book 2
In the second book of the once and future king, it starts out after the new king, King Arthur, just won a rebellion battle and was talking to Merlin and Kay. They discussed the ways of the people of the rebellion and why they were rebelling. As the book continues more battles went on and as a side story the book talks about the family feud brewing between the descendants of the Earl of Cornwall and the descendants of his murderer Igraine. Arthur with the help of Merlin sought how to control the knight's wanting to fight, and fulfill his goal of riding Might is Right from people's mind. They eventually came up with the round table, which was a wedding gift from Guenevere. The book ends by King Arthur's unwilling seduction by, unknown to him at the time, his sister Morgause.
I found that this book wasn't a every enjoyable one, it was more of a political, historic one that showed the necessary underpinnings of the story. Arthur was left off thinking about the round table idea and how it would work, the classic might for right idea which is still being used today. Might for right is how the democratic system is geared to work. The system enforcing the laws, might, to protect the other people of the nation, and prove justice, right. The the next book I think King Arthur with continue with the round table and will establish his idea of might for right, and start a long lasting time of peace. Lancelot will come to the round table soon, and probably become one of the upper members of Arthur's court. Hopefully he also will find some way to end this family feud before it goes to far.
The Once And Future King Book 1
In the first book of the Once and Future king, Arthur know as Wart, is in his childhood. He practiced with Kay in all sorts of combat training, sword fighting, bow and arrow shooting, and jousting. Kay and Wart were friends and did many things together. Until Kay started drifting away from Wart to show that he was above Arthur, because Kay was going to be Knighted, and Wart was only going to be his Paige. Then one day Kay flew their hunting bird before it was ready to be flown and they lost it. Kay turned around and went home but Wart stayed and tried to recapture the bird until it got dark. The next day he lost the bird and ran into Merlin who after helping Wart recapture the bird, went back to the castle with him to be both Kay and his tutor. Merlin teaches Wart the regular school information but then also teaches him life lessons by changes him into different animals so he can understand how things work. The book ends by Arthur (Wart) pulling the sword from the stone and becoming King.
This book is very interesting, I liked how he created the animal's world and how they each had their own way of living. The hawks with their hierarchy of different species and how they are built like our war ranks. The way T. H. White created the ant's world, with everyone connected via a telepathic link to control the hill, was a great explanation. I think that Arthur will use these lessons wisely during his rein, and put them to use in his building of the round table. I think that the next book will be about Arthur coming up with the round table and establishing his golden age of the kingdom.
The World Is Flat Post 6
I liked the book, though found some technologically incorrect areas, Friedman has his thoughts well sorted out and did do his homework. The flat world has effected me a lot already as most people who know me would say. I was introduced into this huge network of technology, with websites on multiple counties when I was about 6. I started to look into this world and discover how great of a thing this could be if I could work it to my advantage. I continued my work with learning the operating system of both Mac and Windows (Mac has and is always better) and I started to tinker with programming languages. But I realized that it is nice to know those things, but someone in India, China, Japan, or down the street could replace me. So I went back to knowing the current technology the background systems so that I could use my knowledge to help people who couldn't figure things out of their computer. Then I stumbled across a program that could help anyone from anywhere in the world with their software problems. So, I started up another path the one of hardware. No one is Bangalore can plug a computer into a ethernet switch only the person who is on the physical spot can. That is an untouchable position, so I sat down so to speak and worked on that; still keeping my other areas ready for use if needed. I then found Mr. Kern Kelley and started helping the IT department converging my knowledge of software, hardware, and overall technology to become someone who could help in almost any technical way. If one job was taken out could work on another to keep me going. I am currently not old enough to work without the superintendent's permission but, I do know a few untouchables jobs I could take up. To succeed in these jobs I still need the wide spectrum of knowledge that I can get from school. I need to know by watching the progressing world, to see which jobs remain untouchable and what opens up to other people of the world. I would be a fool to try and predict what will happen to the world in the future and do not want to find a job, settle in it only to move again. Nor would I want to try to ascertain help to get a job in years from now if I don't know the job I would want or need is. I gladly embrace the flattened world because that is what I have be living in and have taught myself to succeed in. I do not know how the world will move whether we as American will come out as the world leader in technology advancements, the world will become truly flat and everyone will be at the same level, or if America will be left behind. But I do know that I am ready to adapt.
The World Is Flat Post 5
The flat world is a good thing and a bad thing for America, in short it is a double sided sword. On one side, we as working Americans could lose our jobs to outsourcing, but it would repay by allowing our US companies to make more of a profit. Yet, we benefit from more minds thinking and acting upon goals, research, education, economics, transportation, and safety. More people can collaborate together to preform actions simply and easily. The flat world will make things safer by way of asking a better doctor on the other side of the world to look at a patients MRI for obstructions. Easier to find the information you are looking for as it is now not a question of is it out there? To, where can I find it? But.... We still need to think about the other side, more technology means more power, more power currently relates to more fossil fuel that is needed. We can see this in China, their country is exploding with population and technology everywhere! They need more fuel and they are producing so much pollution they turn their sky grey. So yes, I think the flat world is a good thing for America; but you can't just include America, the rest of the world is now tied in with us on a flattened landscape, if one of the countries suffer we now all get hit with the effects.
The World Is Flat Post 4
The potential negative consequences to a flat world are; world superpowers not so super, pirating, and work force balance. As the world continues to flatten out, I find some negative consequences to us as Earth's citizens, one of them being that the world superpowers, one of them being Microsoft, won't be so super anymore. Once we start outsourcing our processing jobs to huge processor labs in Japan what stops them from storing the beginning and finished parts? They have to store them anyway to process them, for example if Microsoft wanted to outsource the compiling job of their new Operating System (in 5 years again?) to Japan; the technician in Japan would have access to the beginning code and the resulting OS. This might be very tempting to the technician because it is the code of the new system, he could install a backdoor (security hole for intruder) into it before sending the result back to Microsoft. Or he could take the finished copy and sell it to all of Japan before Microsoft has all of the copyrights preventing distribution in Japan. This leads to another one of my concerns, pirating. Currently it is a huge problem, software, movies, and music, the main thing that is inhibiting the explosion of this underground community is transfer rates. If you were trying to peer to peer a new movie, chances are it is going to be about 5GB and at a constant download rate of ~150kb, which is highly unlikely, the download would take 12 hours. But if you had fiber channel links, the connection speed would be mind blowing (if under personal use only) you could download that whole movie in 21 seconds flat. Someone tell me that isn't going to catch on with more people than already, we would have people downloading hundreds of movies in one day. That is what results in Microsoft strict DRM (Digital Rights Management) polices if you tried watching a movie in an inactivated version of Windows XP, the color would be inverted and completely distorted, a very unfortunate situation for someone who just hasn't activated windows yet. Lastly another one of my concerns would be the work force balance. In the past years the US has had the jobs of different companies stay in the US, resulting in plenty of jobs for our country. Yet as we move into Globalization 3.0 we see that a lot of those jobs are being shipped off to other countries, and is starting to give good paying jobs for the rest of the world. What happens to the US's work force? The touchables are losing their jobs and becoming unemployed. The outsourcing of jobs is great but it is happening too fast, jobs are being tossed overseas by the Untouchable CEO of a business. He won't lose his job, but will profit more later from Indian workers. There are many more smaller consequences that arise, like distribution of viruses both digital and biological.
The World Is Flat Post 3
The World Is Flat Post 2
Technology is reshaping human interaction personally, internationally, and economically. Once the Berlin Wall fell, many people were physically let go, but over the world it had repercussions. Friedman states that once the Berlin wall came down capitalism grew and more markets became open resulting in the decline of communism. But, now that the markets are ready for stock brokers to take a hold of them, there has to be collaboration, coordination, and digitalization. Within the next ten years the Web starting growing, and people could use the web browser Netscape to 'serf the web' and with this new technology; computers doing the connecting, we as either stock brokers or average people could go online and find out the current stock price of any company in the market. This goes to show that the human interaction with the economy has become an easy thing, you can lookup the current inflation rate, study the national debt, or study how the US dollar is worth against other nations' currency.
The telephone reshaped human interaction personally and was the beginning of international interaction. You could talk to anyone else with a telephone instantly! No more waiting around for mail to travel the country and back. The only problem that came about was that the phone companies charge more the people wanted to pay (of course), so the techno-geeks set up a different cheap way to call; the protocol VoIP to allow communication and collaboration between two people like a standard phone, but it could also be used as a conference call system. One of the systems were called Skype, most people used it for just person to person calling families anywhere in the world for a price cheaper then that of phone companies. As out-sourcing jobs became more common business executive realized the potential in Skype, executives started to use Skype to talk to their employees down in Bangalore or in Japan or in China. They also could setup a video conference with all three at once. Technology is reshaping the way we do many, many things and it is continuing to change and reshape as time progresses.
The World Is Flat Post 1
When Friedman says "The world is flat" he is trying to convey his thinking and research of how the world is reshaping itself. Although the world is not physically reshaping, we can talk to people in Japan like they were siting next to us, we can work for corporations that are on the other side of the world. He is trying to show us with one catchy phrase what is happening to our way of life; for centuries your ability of getting a high paying job depended on where you lived, now you can get a high paying job anywhere in the world. As the world is flatting out, people who couldn't get jobs before are easily getting them now. For example, in Bangalore, Friedman shows that employees are performing jobs for US companies cheaper than the equivalent American would settle for.
We as Americans no longer have the advantage of being on top of a mountain with our high paying jobs and extremely well educated workers, looking down upon the uneducated people of the world who have to get a minimum wage job before they finish school. Now the mountains have been leveled and the valleys filled and now as we look at Japan at the same level as us competing for the same jobs. As Friedman puts it "The Playing Field Is Set" and now Americans will have to be untouchables, or fight for jobs with the additional millions of eager workers.
Oliver Twist Post
Oliver Twist is a orphan who lives in a workhouse. He is maltreated and get just enough food to survive and if anyone asked for more food they were punished. Oliver was put up for adoption and was eventually taken my a coffin maker. After a while Oliver was liked my his "father" but was bullied fsdf around by his "brother"; Oliver eventually got into a fight and was forced to run away or otherwise be put away as an insane child. Oliver made his way into a group of child thieves and was falsely accused of stealing an elder man's handkerchief. The elder man Mr. Brownlow, realizing his mistake saved Oliver from the judge who would have killed him with months of hard work. But after Oliver recovered, he was kidnapped back in to the gang of thieves, and was forced to help with a burglary of a wealthy family. Shot in the resulting battle, Oliver was taken in by the family and nursed back to health. He lived with them for a while afterward and found out the truth of his family.
The characters of this book, the way that the plot is formed, and the connections to real events, makes this story a sad truth of what could of happened to many orphans back then. Oliver the orphan whose life was hard just kept on pressing down on him creating an almost hopeless life to lead. Oliver was a very strong person, living through many hardships and diseases, yet still pleasing many of the people he lived with. Mr. Brownlow a very nice man who saw how hard of a life Oliver had and wanted to help him very much. Fagen, the leader of the thieves whose only use for Oliver was a small good thief. The Maylie family, who made Oliver as good as their own child, beside the attempted robbery.
The way that they plot accelerated and twisted was amazing, you couldn't guess what was going to happen next, starting out as Oliver a workhouse child asking for more food. Then becoming a coffin maker's apprentice, suddenly running away to London, becoming part of a group of thieves. Oliver then became a favorite of wealthy Mr. Brownlow, then kidnapped back into the group of thieves. Being shot during a burglary, and becoming part of the victim's family.
Le Morte d'Arthur
In this short summary of King Arthur's life, the Le Morte d'Arthur first explains how the mythological stories may had melded with the real version of King Arthur's tale; showing some of the differences between his stories. Then the story starts with King Arthur being born and his father, the king, dies a couple of years later, leaving the throne for his son. Arthur was hidden away to not bring harm upon him, he was trained both in fighting, jousting, but also in lessons from Merlin. The story continues until the great king triumphs over many battles, but many years later he is fatally wounded in a battle again Sir Mordred. He orders that his sword, Excalibur be thrown into the sea, and Arthur was put onto a boat to try and get healed but it was to late. Arthur died and was buried on the beach.