Friday, October 28, 2011

#6 industrial revolution

The working conditions of the industrial revolution consisted of working from a very young age, long hours, dangerous jobs, low pay and few breaks.This caused workers in western countries to organize into unions to press reforms for better working conditions. To improve their situation, unions went on strikes in which they refused to work until demands were made. Governments and business owners silence these protesters so that other workers would not get the same ideas so that others wouldn't strike also.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

#5 revolutions in the arts.

Romanticism- emphasized emotion through nature and heroism. paintings tend to show how things should be rather then how they actually are in reality.
Painting:Combat of  Giaour and hassen, 1826, made by Eugene Delacroix.
*This painting embodies this style of art because it shows heroism and nature through the horsemen fighting in a natural setting.









Realistic art- Artists strived to make their artwork reflect realiy of that time as realistically as possible.
Painting-The stone breakers,1849 made by Gustave Courbet.
*This painting embodies this form of art because it describes reality of that time through hardwork and labor.











Impressionism- The artist shows its own impression of a certain moment in time. 
Painting- Soleil levant, 1823 made by Claude Manet.
* This Painting embodies  this art style because it shows the artists impression of that certain moment in time, the artists impression was obviously happy because of the bright colors used in the painting.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Enlightenment#4

What all the Latin American revolutions had in common is that they all wanted independence from the country that was ruling them wether it was the French or Spanish empire. These enlightenment ideas came to Latin America because of people hearing ideas of others people's revolutions such as in France or in revolutions in surrounding countries throughout latin America. Also the Creoles played a major role in spreading ideas because they herd of these ideas while studying in Europe and spread them once they arrived in Latin America.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Enlightenment#4

Social, economical and political conditions were very harsh and unfair before the French revolution affected ordinary citizens. There were three social classes that were known as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd estates. The first estate consist of catholic clergy that only had to pay 2%of their income to taxes. The second estate consist rich nobles that served the king. They had no taxes to pay and were only two percent of the entire population. The third estate consisted of middle class and peasants. This present held 97%of the total population. This estate had to pay fifty percent of their total income to taxes. The old social classes were incredibly unfair. Economical conditions were harsh also because of famine and the incredible cost of bread many people  of the third estate were in poverty because of debt from the famine. Political condition were harsh because bad leadership from king louise. There was a monarchy in use and he had all direct power. He was unfair in taxing and did not treat the three estates as equal.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Enlightenment#2

Enlightenment ideas were very slow to spread throughout Europe for many reasons. A major factor of this was the church. The church was not fond of new enlightenment ideas because they opposed of previous ideas of religion. The church had a huge influence on citizens and urged people not to listen to these ideas. They also burned books of enlightenment which kept people from learning about these new ideas. Another major factor that kept these ideas at bay was the lack in modern technology. Today emails, txt messages and phone calls can be made in an instant to communicate with others across the world. But in those times communicating had to be done in person or through letters that took weeks to receive.

Enlightenment#1

Thomas Hobbes believed that England needed an abosolute monarchy. He created the social contract that would entitle citizens to hand over their Rights in order for law and order. On the other hand John Locke wanted a self government to be englands government. He believed that the purpose of government was to protect rights and tht citizens hand the power to overthrow the government.Thomas Hobbes view influenced England to have a absolute monarchy once again while John Locke proposed and influenced the idea of a self government.