...THEMES IN U.S. & WORLD HISTORY GKE1 Task 2: Individuals and Institutions as Mechanisms of Social Change Part A Martin Luther was a monk who lived in Wittenberg, Germany. The two most significant changes that he made were challenging Church policies and he sparked the Protestant Reformation, a religious movement. Both of these changes are political and social changes. Luther wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses”, in the Ninety-Five Theses” he listed the reasons why he believed the church was corrupted due to their abuse of power. Luther posted his “Ninety-Five Theses” all around the city and on the church. His “Ninety-Five Theses” reached people and the pope as well. Through this act Luther gained many followers, but he was eventually excommunicated from the church and declared an outlaw. Being excommunicated meant that you would be cut out from contact with the church. If you were declared and outlaw this meant that it was against the law to do any service for Luther. Despite Luther being declared an outlaw, his teachings and ideas lived on. Luther’s work rapidly spread because he was able to use the movable type printing press to create copies of his “Ninety-Five Theses”. As Luther’s “95 Theses” spread, more people began questioning the power of the Church and questioned its policies. This lead to the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant reformation was a time where people decided to stop following church policies and norms. Nuns left their monasteries and convicts. They...
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...GKE Task 2 Laura Hofmann WGU Benazir Bhutto (6/21/53-12/27/07), became the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman to lead an Islamic Nation in 1988, after launching a campaign as candidate for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), an organization established to resist military dictatorship. Benazir, first born daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was educated at Radcliffe, where she received her BA in 1973, then went on to Oxford where she studied Political Science and Economics, receiving another BA in 1977. She was raised with her 2 brothers and 2 sisters by parents who taught their children they had an “obligation to repay society for all that had been provided”, and were encouraged to have careers that benefitted people. (Bhutto, 2008, p. 39) Benazir dedicated her life to fighting for democracy for Pakistan. Her father was elected as Prime Minister in 1977, but was overthrown and jailed within days of taking power. Benazir was placed under house arrest with her mother and brothers. After her father’s execution in 1979, she took over the PPP and continued her father’s work of fighting for democracy in Pakistan. After being arrested multiple times and detained for over 3 years, enduring brutal treatment in jail, solitary confinement and illness she was exiled in 1984, and moved to London with 2 brothers. (Abhinav, 2013) Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 1986, and immediately began calling for the resignation of the Government responsible for her father’s death...
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...“Industrial Revolution” GKE Task 4 WGU Indiana The Industrial Revolution was the change from hand crafted products and small farming operations to machine manufactured products and large scale farms using more mechanical equipment. While the birthplace of the revolution was in Britain around 1760, one similar took place in America from 1790 to 1870. Britain had tried very hard to keep the monopoly on its industrial technology, however this couldn’t last forever. Some of the British saw the potential of profitable opportunities and took this knowledge abroad (Industrial Revolution, 2013) With any major change in a society has consequences. One social consequence of the Industrial Revolution was the division of social classes. Before, there were the very rich and the very poor. As factories and industry made production of goods more efficient, these goods were cheaper. People could now afford to buy everything they needed and still have money left over. They could now afford to enjoy leisure goods instead of only buying what they needed to survive. Thus, the emergence of the middle class. This class consisted of anyone with a decent job, shop clerks, accountants, managers and so on (Introduction to the Industrial Revolution). While the production of goods at a faster rate and larger quantity made them cheaper and more available had its advantages, the division of society had negative consequences as well. The use of technology on farms meant fewer...
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