...The world has experienced many changes in past generations; this paper will briefly outline different stages in life between 1500 and 1800 according to Blainey (2002) and will conclude with my reflection on how life has changed since 1800. According to Blainey” life in 1800 was spent by most families scavenging and hunting for food, living off grains in the form of damper, cereal, and soup” ( 2000, p 410).Gathering food including bird eggs and wild berries would be how daily life revolved (Blainey 2000, p 410). Families had very little assets, with a peasant perhaps lucky enough to own a cow and a small portion of land. (Blainey 2000, p 410). Until approximately 1200 years ago all humans were hunters and gatherers the term hunters and gatherers came from hunting animals and gathering vegetation (Macionis 2012, p 107). During this period there was never a problem with power or wealth as all the items that would be accumulated were perishable. Horticulture became the new technology as hand tools were introduced to cultivate plants, the hoe to cultivate soil and the digging stick to poke holes in the ground to plant seeds and grains (Macionis 2012, p 108). Pastoralism (technology based on the domestication of animals) was introduced; some people combined both Horticulture and Pastoralism allowing them to produce a variety of foods creating a more dependable food supply generating more resources than required (Henslin 2011, p138). Less people were required to produce food allowing...
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...How has daily life changed since 1800? Since the dawn of time the world has been evolving. So to have the people and how they live, work and survive. In today’s modern world we take so much for granted it’s hard to imagine having to work from dusk to dawn six days a week so that you may be able to provide a basic meal for your family. The purpose of this essay is to explore just a few of the key differences between the period of 1500-1800 and today’s modern world. It will provide a summary of Blaineys (Blainey, 2000) writings and outline key features of this period as well as highlighting several key differences between then and now. These differences will show how we have come so far that we wouldn’t be able to comprehend the low quality of life from the past. Blainey’s (Blainey, 2000) chapter on ‘Dethroning the Harvest’ goes into detail about how people lived, worked and survived during the period of 1500-1800. Blainey (Blainey, 2000) states that during this period “Daily life, in every part of the world, centred on the production of food.” (Blainey, 2000, p. 410). The world revolved around bringing home the harvest and, as it was mostly a once-a-year event, it was something that everyone was involved in. Grain, being the main food source, was literally the life-bread of the world. It was used to provide bread, porridge, soup and beer. During this period, tea and coffee was still a luxury and therefore beer was the commonplace drink. It was served with most meals...
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...Women back before the 1900s did not have as many rights as they do now today. For example women in the late 1800s could rarely ever get a job. If they ever somehow got one, they would most likely have to quit because they would need to be a home maker. Some jobs that women had were servants, secretaries, nurses, teachers, salesclerks, and factory workers. Although there were many different ones to choose from, they would not usually get to keep it for a very long time. Also, women got much lower paychecks than men as well. They would earn 8 dollars a week after working over 50 hours. Imagine that after working for only 8 dollars. I personally believe even if no one liked women in the 1800s, they should deserve a little more than that. Those women work hard for themselves and their families and should not be rewarded with only 8 dollars or less. But they just have to deal with what they get and keep working hard for the money that they will receive at the end of the week. Another thing women were not allowed to do was vote which was basically the most important thing that they are not able to do....
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...My Mother is My Greatest Influencer in My Life The person who influences me the most is my mother. My mother is the type of person who has thoughtful discussions about the importance of having a lovable family. My mother is the type of person who always has the time to listen when I really needed to express my feelings. I consider my mother a security blanket because she always listens to me at anytime of the day or night no matter if she is sleeping, sick or busy. She is always helping my sister and me when we are in the time of need. She always lends a helping hand to others as well. Growing up with such a strong role model, I developed many of her characteristics and interests. Even before my first tear hit the ground my mother is there to wipe it away. When I am feeling down she is always there when I need her the most. She is the kind of mom who would always stick out for my sister and me. Even when times got rough she would never let her hardships in her life distress her children. My mother has always been a very strong role model to me growing up with someone like her to look up to has changed my life in many different ways. As a child she taught me everything from feeding myself and dressing myself, and also how to be respectful to adults. She has helped me to grow physically and intellectually. She would always call me to wake me up for school and after every phone call she would say I love you and have a good day at school. That would mean a lot to me because...
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...Punishment From 1880 to 1895, the number of offenders in a state prison jumped from 30,659 to a whopping 54,244. In just 15 years, there were 23,585 more offenders. During the 19th century, there were many different crimes committed for different reasons. With those different crimes, jails were overcrowded and punishments were needing to be reconsidered and changed to fit the modernizing time. In order to understand crime and punishment in the 19th century one should analyze the newer crimes, a rough economy, law enforcement, and mental health. One element that affected crime and punishment were the different crimes being committed. In Mark J. Collins analysis, “A Daily Life in the 1800’s United States”, he describes...
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...Beginning a Life in Australia Welcome to Australia English DIAC12/01138.11 The Beginning a Life in Australia booklet is produced by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and is published online at www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/settle-in-australia/beginning-life It is recommended that you view the booklet on a computer as it contains links to many websites that provide additional information. The booklet is reviewed and released annually and is available in PDF format. If you would like to provide comments or suggestions about the Beginning a Life in Australia booklet you can complete the online feedback form on the department’s website at www.immi.gov.au/contacts/forms/services/services-form.htm Note: If you wish to speak to a government department or non-government organisation and you need the assistance of an interpreter, ring the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National) on 13 1450 during business hours, which are generally 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Ask TIS National to set up a three-way conversation between you, one of their interpreters and the organisation you wish to speak with. See Chapter 2, Help with English for more information about TIS National. Telephone numbers: Telephone numbers beginning with 1800 are free calls if you ring from a private telephone and cost the same as a local call if you ring from a payphone. Numbers beginning with 13 or 1300 are charged at local call rates. Some 1300 and 1800 numbers can be used only from...
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...therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. —Samuel Johnson, Rambler No. 175 (November 19, 1751) The basic outline of world economic history is surprisingly simple. Indeed it can be summarized in one diagram: figure 1.1. Before 1800 income per person—the food, clothing, heat, light, and housing available per head—varied across societies and epochs. But there was no upward trend. A simple but powerful mechanism explained in this book, the Malthusian Trap, ensured that short term gains in income through technological advances were inevitably lost through population growth. Thus the average person in the world of 1800 was no better off than the average person of 100,000 BC. Indeed in 1800 the bulk of the world population was poorer than their remote ancestors. The lucky denizens of wealthy societies such as eighteenth-century England or the Netherlands managed a material lifestyle equivalent to that of the Stone Age. But the vast swath of humanity in East and South Asia, particularly in China and Japan, eked out a living under conditions probably significantly poorer than those of cavemen. The quality of life also failed to improve on any other observable dimension. Life expectancy was no higher in 1800 than for hunter-gatherers: thirty to thirty-five years. Stature, a measure both of the quality...
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...The story The Treatment of the Help in Those Days Was Cruel: Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Life Is about a young Massachusetts boy and his life/career as a working-class factory work. The story illustrates the typical working family in the 1800s. The story starts off in Monson, Massachusetts where the narrator Hiram Munger was born and raised. A typical working-class family usually was born and raised by poor low-income families and usually have a bunch of kids who usually work for the family. Hiram Munger was born into a poor family where he had five brothers and about six sisters. The father ends up finding a better job at Grist Mill where he has his son Hiram tend the toll gates. For a kid to hold a gate toll position was very stressful, because of one incident where a colored man almost...
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...Transcendentalism Essay The transcendentalism era is a religious movement that started in the 1800s. Transcendentalist such as Margaret Fuller edited “The dial” and Henry david thoreau wrote “Civil disobedience”. Ralph Waldo Emerson; one belief of a transcendentalist; is believing that everyone is naturally good. He also believed that a person’s power is limitless. He wrote both of “Nature”, and “Self-Reliance”. Ralph Waldo Emerson a transcendentalist who believed that people should be independent is why he led the transcendentalist club and relates his theme to the hunger games movie. (“Guided Notes”) Ralph Emerson is a transcendentalist who wrote the essay “self-reliance”. The theme of “Self-Reliance” is being able to rely on yourself or...
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...prisons in 1800 Harold Flower CHS/230 December 8, 2011 Vashell Anderson The history of prisons in 1800 Prisons before the 1800’s did not have women prisons. In those days the prison were mixed with men, children and women all in the same prison. The prisons in the 1800’s that held women prisoners were treated just like the men in those prison the women also had to do hard labor which consisted of sewing, laundry, cleaning and cooking. All the women were to act like lady’s but also had to be treated like men in those prisons the women talked about how they were over worked and that they wasn’t fed enough in the prisons of the 1800’s. After the 1800’s the prisons started to change this was depending where and what prison you was in at that time there was no toilets in most cases the toilet was a bucket and it might not have been emptied too often. There were prisoners that didn’t do much at all but sat around and waited to die also at that time the cafeterias were not established so the food was forced through the cell bars and you had to eat what they fed you and it wasn’t much and it tasted really bad. You was lucky to be fed every day in today’s prison you do get three meals a day, schooling, and do jobs that are inside the prison also there are some prisoners allowed to work outside the prison walls, there is clean running water with bathrooms and showers, and the best part is that the prisoners have bunks instead of laying on the ground. In the 1800’s there was...
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...Within the 1800’s social expectations were dictated by men. This resulted in the restriction of women’s choices and opportunities within their lives as they were socially obliged to be subservient to men. Jean Bedford’s ‘Sister Kate’ displays the feminist views of women in Australia in the time period of the 1800’s. Through a variety of different literary techniques, we can see the struggles and hardships that women faced in that particular context, whilst we can also compare and differentiate our understanding of feminism to our modern context. Through a feminist lens we can see the lack of choice women had in the context of ‘Sister Kate’. The lack of choice for women is displayed in the character of Kate and her disinterest towards her unwanted pregnancies and children- reflecting the lack of contraception in the 1800’s. ‘But I knew it was deeper than that; it was not only the weakness from the loss of blood and the struggle regain. My flesh crawls at the thought of an infant once more suckling blind eyed at my sore breast.’ Feminist undertones are implied through the rich imagery of the burden of motherhood and this is further emphasized through the negative physical undertones of childbirth. A modern audience can understand the absence of knowledge society at the time of ‘Sister Kate’, regarding maternal health and wellbeing. This often meant that women were oppressed by the social burden of bearing a child. The convention of lack of control is furthermore explored...
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...In the following paper, equality between men and women, in the late 1800 hundreds Denmark, is examined through a literary analysis of the modern play;” Et dukkehjem” by Henrik Ibsen, and through a thorough analysis of historical sources. The paper has its starting point in a walkthrough of the historical sources and their purposed in relation to the analysis of the historical period in Danish history. In the analysis of a schedule for a “normal” late 1800s family in Copenhagen the “old” way of thinking, were a man is in control, it becomes obvious that the fight for women’s liberation has its root at the base of the societal hierarchy. Later, with the analysis of a paragraph from the Women’s Liberation Society it is shown that the “old” way of thinking is slowly being outsourced by the new lifestyle of women who liberate themselves. The analysis of historical sources in the paper are later used as a foundation for the modernistic findings in the play “Et dukkehjem”. The Analysis of “Et dukkehjem” has it’s starting point in various theories of social science in relation to cultural changes and the evolution of equality between men and women. These theories are later used in the literary analysis and in the discussion. The analysis is written as an analytical essay in which the main character, Nora, is portrayed as a women living in a very traditional household with a desire to leave and find happiness on her own. The analysis comes in three parts. The main character’s view of...
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...by the early, developing corporate world of the United States. When reading this book, you follow a family on their journey, immigrating to the United States from Lithuania in the 1800’s. Upton Sinclair, the author, chose to write this story because it was pertinent to what was happening in the United States in his time, and was meant to inform more people. The intended audience, at the time, was probably adults who were interested in current events or current history, or for people who experienced the same struggles that the main characters did. For people who wanted to inform themselves on what was going on around them. However, he may have possibly considered it for children or teens, to tell them what to expect, and was going on in the food industries, with labor laws, and unions. Most of this book is based on historical events, which useful in informing people who didn’t experience the life of immigrants in the 1800’s. Plot-wise, I wonder if the glamour of being in Chicago, one of the largest cities in America, was lost in the early stages of the family’s life...
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...relatives that immigrated here to the U.S. Each had their own reason, whether that be in search of wealth, freedom, a fresh start and more. Life for the immigrants in the late 1800’s was extremely difficult. Immigrants either arrived through Ellis Island or Angel Island. Ellis Island was located in the East coast while Angel Island was located in the west coast. The U.S. received a huge amount of immigrants in the 1860s and the 1890s (Cayton, et. al., 299). Steam powered ships played a huge role in the 1800s. These ships could cross the Atlantic Ocean in two to three weeks....
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...Mashell Chapeyama Zimbabwe There is clear trend in population growth over the past two centuries. This has been a period of fast growth in the population. The one billion population point was reached only in 1800. It means before that period the population was very low. That could be explained by high death rates. However, from 1800 to about 1900 the population grew to 3 billion people. That is a big jump. This can be explained by better life expectancy, enhanced by good health care and the effects of industrialization. The population however kept increasing. This year 2012, the population has reached 8 billion. This newer growth rate was made possible by the decline in death rate, and increased life expectancy. This is still despite the low birth rates that has been necessitated by family planning measures. It is expected that within the next 12 years the population would reach the 9 billion mark. From there, the population is expected to stabilize. Firstly, family planning has managed to reduce the birth rates; however it triggered a longer life expectancy. This means there has been a huge decrease in death rate. When people have few children, they can meet their health needs better than if the families were big. With medical care afforded to people, it means people live long periods of time. Many generations of people live at one time. With fewer children, the parents can invest their money in medical aids; they can afford good education for their children. The parents...
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