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.