Industrialism


 * __What is Theocracy__** 11/5/10
 * Theocracy** - a government where God makes the laws and the person in power is the one talking to God and taking what he thinks he is saying to make the laws
 * Example** - The Holy Roman Empire
 * Strength** - Everyone who is religious believes in the Gospel of God
 * Weakness** - Every ruler has a different interpretation of God's word


 * __CCQs on In Plain English 11/3/10__**
 * Andy, Mao, Kim** - During the Industrial Revolution, workers were forced to work long hours. There was hardly any safety regulations leading to many work-related injuries and the workers were included children at a young of of 6.


 * William, Roxy, Immaculate, Annie** - Mass production included interchangable parts and the assembly line. Mass production meant that everything was cheaper and more and more people could buy it. However, mass production made work boring for the workers because it became so repetitive. In the present, mass production has advanced so far that it could do the work of a million workers and more.


 * Alyssa, Maya, Ly, Carly** - I don't understand the point of this In Plain English. I understand it talks about the women and the Industrial Revolution and how it affected them, but I don't understand the clarity between pre-revolution and post-revolution. Terribly sorry. It may just be me, but I have problems with comprehending it. It was apparently about womens' rights before and after the Industrial Revolution.


 * Stephaine, Jeremy, Juan, Alex** - Factories were built along rivers for water power; towns were built around such factories. Factory related injuries were up to the thousands among children crawling underneath working machines. Any excuse to punish workers or children was taken immdiately; for example there was no clock invented yet, but people were still punished for being late. The first industrial union began in Britain and seemed to be successful.


 * Harout, Taryn, Sarah, Chris** - Water, coal, and steam used to fuel factories until its shift to electricity. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, but no one was able to harness it until Verdin created the first electrical generator by combining a magnet with cooper wire. Moore then used Verdin's breakthrough to create the first lightbulb but it was Edison who created the first electrical effective lightbulb. As factories shifted to electrical power, they were able to open much later and began switching everything that was independantly powered like candles to electrical power.

Pros = more leisure time, advances in technologies have made living easier, humanity has taken steps foward into the future Cons = __**October 28, 2010**__ __**How Industrialism Affects Society**__
 * __Positives and Negatives of Industrialism__ __11/3/10__**

Industrialism will always be industrialism; there are many keystone aspects of it that will never change. Whether it is the 1800s or the present, industrialism will always be that key driving force of society that affects it economically. However, the effect of industrialism on society back in the 1800s to that of the present like me are different on many levels as it is the same. As the law of history dictates, industrialism affected people back in the 1800s as much as it did me; the only difference is in what ways it affected us and how did it differ or relate. Industrialism is its own ideology in which differences will coexist on the same levels as the similarities despite the time in history. Whether it or not it was the present or back two centuries, industrialism has affected society in many similar and different ways. Industrialism back in the 1800s was a major driving force of society as it is now. Like in Coketown, there are still “towns of machinery and tall chimneys, in which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled,” a key aspect of industrialism, that exist today in modern day society. Pittsburg, PA, for example, is the nation’s “city of steel” in which the steel industries almost rule the city and all of its commerce and the amount of pollution that comes out from them is devastating to the environment. Another key aspect of industrialism that has lived through the ages is the mercantilist “religion” behind it. Industries thrive on the Gospel that is “what you can’t state in figures, or show to be purchasable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end;” this gave companies the incentive to make a profit out of anything possible, whether it could be done in a probable way or in the most ludicrous path possible. The tobacco and liquor industries are better examples of so for the sales of such dangerous products to the health of humanity just for the profit follows the Gospel that is the “religion” of industrialism. However, modern industrialism has changed in significant ways over the course of history from the 1800s to now. Thanks to new laws and greater knowledge, industrialism is so much cleaner today than back then in that there are not “black canals [or] a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye” found so easily anymore for pollution was finally made an environmental issue. Also with the development of industrialism over time, the modern day society had differences between public buildings. In Coketown, “public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town hall might have been either, or both, or anything else.” Unlike the past, many regulations has been brought upon industrialism on that such uniformity to the extreme where workers did “the same work and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year was the counterpart of last and the next” have been forbidden and rooted by new ideas like vacations, limits on hours, and minimum wage. Even though industrialism hasn’t changed in recognition of what it is, the effects it has on society, whether it was past or present, was similar and different at the same time.