Artifact 14 student collaboration

Our question was: Romanticism was more accepted in the lower class than realism. We researched, and after a few days realized that THERE is not DEFINATE answer, and it DEPENDS on the OPINION of us. It was after filming the movie did we realize that it may be that romantics were striving to make the ideal into reality.

1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to:

Human expression through art, in this case music.

b) Which other main topics does it also relate to:

Human health, since disease is a prevalent element that greatly affects the plot. T.T

2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it:

I love making movies. In the modern world, media is easily accessible to everyone and can make great impacts on ones life. Therefore it seems like a good idea to be able to harness this ability.

3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact

Enough with the generalizations of Wikipedia and other various sources, we bring to you an individual example, through cinema.

4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas Why, or why not

Hell yes, I put everything we got into movies.

5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:

    a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio

Best artifact ever 5.

    b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment

Can believe how many ng’s we laughed through 5

    c) Impact on your learning

You really have to dig deep to figure out how to implement information to make a movie realistic. 5

    d) Level of creativity and originality

5? After you watch it I’m sure you’ll agree.

6. Any additional comments.

Could have made it more passionate, but time limit= unsure of lines= I need a peek.

Artifact 15 Timeline

1807- Slave trade act 1807

This was an act passed by the British Parliament that made slave trade illegal, though slavery remained legal until 1833. The committee of the abolition of slave trade was the heart of this movement, which was established in 1787. They we’re called the Saints, led by William Wilberforce. After they successfully passed this act, Great Britain also pressured other countries to follow suit.

1812- War of 1812

This war was fought between America and Great Britain over disputes of trade restrictions, impressment (the forcing of sailors to join the military) of American sailors into the Royal Navy, supporting Native Americans against American expansion, and degrading American integrity. The trade restrictions were with France, since Britain were enemies with France.

1821- British West Africa

The British West Africa was a name for African colonies in a specific geographical region under British administration. The office was installed in Sierra Leone in Freetown. Other colonies in the jurisdiction were Gambia and the British Gold Coast (Modern day Ghana).

1845-An Gorta Mor (The Great Famine)

The Irish Famine occurred from 1845 until 1854. A type of disease called potato blight (Phytophthora infestans is a water mold) devastates certain crops like potatoes and tomatoes. Since a third of the Irish population was dependent on potato, the population of Ireland dropped 20 to 25 percent and caused great amounts of migration.

1822- Discovery of a Tea bush growing wild in India ends Chinese monopoly.

Indigenous tea bushes were found growing in northern India's Upper Assam, and were made into plantations. This caused opium trade in China to fade.

1835-The Great Trek

The Boers (It means farmer in Dutch and Afrikaans and are used to describe descendants of Dutch Settlers in the Cape Frontier) made a trek from the Cape Colonies between 1830 and 1840, to escape Britisha administration, since the Netherlands were occupied by Britain.

1837-Patriot War Rebellion in Canada

There are two rebellions one is the Lower Canada (By geographic definition) Rebellion and the Upper Canada Rebellion. The Upper Canada Rebellion was against Oligarchy and Family Compact (Anglican elite of Upper Canada). The Lower Canada Rebellion was resentment by Settlers against other religions along with mass immigration from the United States.

1839- First Opium war in China (1839-42)

Since the predominant philosophy of China was Confucianism, they lacked a serious military. The smuggle of Opium into China was a serious problem because China believed it made the people of China weaker. Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria to stop Britain from smuggling Opium. Instead, Charles Elliot tried to change the trading policy. China resisted and destroyed the Opium, promting the war.

1840- Treaty of Waitangi

This was a treaty signed by Britain and Maori chiefs in declaration of Britain administration in New Zealand while granting rights to the Maori to keep their land and property.

1842- Treaty of Nanking

This was the treaty that officially closed the First Opium War and granted the following rights to Britain. 5 open ports were to be opened in China, meaning they (Britain) could trade with anyone. 6 million in gold (Pounds) were to be compensated for the lost opium as well as Hong Kong was to be put into Britain control. Britain could also tax trade in China as well as other extra terrestrial rights.

1848-Second Sikh War (1848-49)

This was a war between Sikh (A state in the Indian Peninsula) and the British East India Company. After an unstable alliance with Britain, the Sikh army invaded Britain and Britain defeated the Sikh.

1853-First railways and telegraph in India

The railway was constructed between Madras and Bangalore. Increased transportation and communication bade it easier to control India.

1856-Second Chinese Opium War (1856-60)

This resulted more rights for Britain. More ports were opened, diplomatic legations would be established in Beijing, and we’re to pay Britain and France 2 million in silver.

1857- The Great mutiny

It was a widespread revolt in April 1857, due to soldiers being dissatisfied with their pay in India, and expansion of Britain with expenses through Mughal nobility

1858- East India Company dissolved

It dissolved under the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act as the legacy of the great Mutiny.

1868-Abyssinian campaign

This was a campaign of Britain in Ethiopia, when Emperor Tewodros sought the help of major powers to help nullify riots.

1878-Salvation army established

The eleven beliefs of the salvation army is

1. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice.

2. We believe that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.

3. We believe that there are three persons in the Godhead – the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, undivided in essence and co-equal in power and glory.

4. We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united, so that he is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.

5. We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocency, but by their disobedience they lost their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God.

6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has by his suffering and death made an atonement for the whole world so that whosoever will may be saved.

7. We believe that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, are necessary to salvation.

8. We believe that we are justified by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and that he that believeth hath the witness in himself.

9. We believe that continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ.

10. We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

11. We believe in the immortality of the soul; in the resurrection of the body; in the general judgment at the end of the world; in the eternal happiness of the righteous; and in the endless punishment of the wicked.

They are god’s army.

1882-Anglo Egyptian War

The reason for invasion is still unclear but there are a few conjectures. It’s said to maintain a shipping route to the Indian Ocean by solidifying control over the Suez Canal, due to Urabi revoltings.

1884-Third Reform act; Fabians established

Fabian society is a British social movement that thinks that democratic socialism can be applied under gradualism and reformism.

1899-Boer war (1899-1902)

The British won and the Boer colonies merged with the Britain Empire. Since 1871 diamonds and gold were found in the Orange states, causing the British Empire to lust to expand.

 

1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to:

It incorporates a wide variety of topics, but the biggest is probably Empires rise and fall. This timeline shows us how Britain lived.

b) Which other main topics does it also relate to:

Communication for sure, as well as race relations: Segregation and rights sort of thing. Class conscious also had a big impact on the empire.

2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it:

Timelines are a good way of showing relativity between events. Spent 2 hours with the additional research.

3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact

Again relativity between events is still the biggest advantages of making/ reading timelines.

4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas Why, or why not

Tried to make detailed descriptions, but you can always do better.

5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:

    a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio

4, I feel like this gives a bit of backbone to such a long period of time..

    b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment

Making a timeline can be tedious at times, but generally it was okay, kind of like shopping when selecting the events.

    c) Impact on your learning

Solid facts with solid times. EFFECTIVE!!4

    d) Level of creativity and originality

2, not exactly creative, without modeling it with artwork

6. Any additional comments.

Wanted more time to add more events.

 

Artifact Thirteen Gapminder Analysis

Artifact 13

Sulfur emissions per person (kg) and CO2 emissions (tones per person)

This graph started by the mid 1855. At this time Great Britain was already on a steady increase of CO2 and sulfur emissions, though it really took off around 1863. Then by the 1890s, the US exploded in population as well as emissions from both sides. In 1855, Great Britain was at 19 kilograms of sulfur per person and CO2 was at 5.5 tonnes per person (all annual). America was 5.1 kg of sulfur emission per person and 0.84 tonnes of CO2 per person. Sulfur emission in Ireland was 0.022 with 0.81 CO2 emissions. By 1880, America had become around the stats of Great Britain 25 years ago and Britain is still ahead, but not as dynamic. America had more people than Britain now. Ireland increased in the production of sulfure but CO2 emissions remained the same. By the end of the century, America had caught up to England, with 53 kg of sulfur produced by every person, and 8.3 tonnes of CO2 per person. Great Britain had 45kg of sulfur production per person and 11 tonnes of CO2 per year. G

Income per person in GDP (GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports) and Life expectancy at birth (in years)

This graph is trying to measure whether or not there is a correlation between income and life expectancy. Would life expectancy increase because of income? Obviously this is very texas sharpshooter because it might increase because of scientific discoveries and better medical care, but health consumers are still consumers, and therefore money’s still a factor. In general income per person of Ireland was extremely stable and increased at a stable rate. Great Britain was more erratic as well in terms of life expectancy but didn’t deviate a lot. In 1800 Ireland was at 38 years old as average life expectancy and 1213 as annual income. England was at 40 years old as average and 2717 average income. Until the 1830s the life expectancy of England bounced back and forth while in Ireland the life expectancy was the same and there was a steady increase of income per person. Suddenly in 1945 the average life expectancy of each country dropped exponentially, though Ireland at a much larger scale, namely because of the potato famine and their extreme dependence on it. By 1950, Ireland had an average life expectancy of 20 and the UK by 37. It should be noted that during this drop that income also decreased. It then rebounded by 1852. During 1859, the average life expectancy of Ireland grew nearer to the UK’s until in 1880 they were both 44. Income is gradually increases, which leads people to conjecture there is a relationship between them. By the end of the century, the average life expectancy of the UK is 47 and Ireland at 49, with a GDP per person per capita of 6232 for the Uk and 3365 for Ireland.

Life expectancy at Birth (years) vs Children per Women (total Fertility)

Since both of these things reflect on human help as well as current medicine technology. In the beginning it was expected for a women to ohave around 5.11 kids and 40 years as life expectancy. 4.2  kids were expected for Ireland and 38 as average years by year 1800. The stats for Ireland remained the same Ireland while the UK’s children per women rose to 5.69 by 1825 and finally went down, and it went down a lot. By 1830 it was back near the stats in 180 and by 1840 the UK’s average children per women hovered around 4.8. The life expectancy of Ireland suddenly dropped during the Irish famine, as well as in England, and children per women for both countries continued to drop at a steady rate. Between 1840 and 1875 the children per women for UK clustered around 4.8 and the life expectancy clustered between 40 and 45 while Ireland’s children per women dropped steadily until 1864, at 3.24, where it returned upwards and became 3.72 by 1871. Life expectancy simply continued to increase. By the end of the century the UK expected 3.53 children per women and Ireland at 3.05, while the average life expectancy was 49 for Ireland and 47 for the UK.

1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to:

This relates to human health.

b) Which other main topics does it also relate to:

Technology is an important factor in these statistics as well as the world under the microscope, as this is the major contributor of the field of medicine.

2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it:

These are essential in understanding how single historical events can impact the current situation of the times. Correlations between graphs are also important to note for future reference.

3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact

Many of the statistics follow a pattern, and leads me to think whether or not single events might affect the general populace psychologically.

4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas Why, or why not

It wasn’t bad though to my deepest regret, a lot of the interesting looking indicators were not up for use.

5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:

    a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio

2, not as successful as other artifacts.

    b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment

At first it was really boring, I procrastinated with this artifact, but eventually I did it and realized it was pretty fun watching indicators run with time and have information pop out right in front of your eyes.2

    c) Impact on your learning

It took some serious thought to draw some conclusions, because the data is there for you to process. 4

    d) Level of creativity and originality

Gapminder is not a bad invention of human kind. Kind of like the microwaves, easy to use and easily distributed.

6. Any additional comments.

It really is a pity that not all the indicators work…

Artifact 17 Gladtone's Speech

Good day to all 19^th century listeners, whom are by this time dead, but never the less, have surviving ideologies that have extended into the 21 century. As a modern student and follower of democracy, the views of William Ewart Gladstone seem much more appealing than Disraeli’s conservative points of view. Gladstonian liberalism is built upon classic liberalism, and emphasizes on the points of free trade, and provide as little government influence upon the economy, such as capitalist trade and financial flow by lowering taxes.

Classified by a known historian E.K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were "egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic". Egoistic means that people act in accordance to pain and pleasure, governing our motivation. So every person strives to have minimum pain yet maximum pleasure in life, according to the cold and calculating part. So without these factors, people would turn inert. During this time the motivations of the wealthy was ambition the pursue of money. For the poor, it was simply the fear of hunger. Although most of these are true, it is wrong to view society and people as atomistic, as that is to group individuals under the same category as above. In the modern world, studies have shown that empathy and altruism does exist. Although altruism and evolutionary psychology does make the heuristic fallacy, empathy has been proven through mirror neurons, so to classify people as egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic and basing government over this is one thing I disagree upon the views of Gladstone.

The thing I agree with Gladstonian Liberalism is that individuals should be free to pursue their self-interest without control or restraint by society. This not only provides the best production and reward to the laborer, it also offers the best reward to the capital.

Apart from the general foundation of the government, there is an event that involved Gladstone that I would like to address. This would be the Irish Home rule. Although it was turned down by the House of the Lords, it is an appealing idea to give rights to Ireland, since they appeared to be unhappy with the Union, and selfishly would also earn Gladstone more votes and support during elections. Even though the home rule bill was doomed to fail from the start, the idea of giving Ireland Political independence from London seems just in a more modern perspective. After all, living in conditions with similar elements of Gladstonian Liberalism, and where my own countries political freedom and sovereignty is questioned, I almost feel obliged to agree with many facets of his perspective, and certainly don’t regret in doing so.

1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to:

Definitely nationalism and liberalism, creation of the nation state, why? Because we are talking about two politicians.

b) Which other main topics does it also relate to:

Notion of the frontierà how to rule your subjects over sea, which times into race relations and bring the idea of the modern economy over

2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it:

I choose not to follow the directions, as in speaking to parliament, because I really wanted to make a comparison towards the current situation in Taiwan. Finding a relationship that you can draw with a guy 200 years ago is not only cool, but creepy.

3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact

That history does repeat itself, but every time more deadly and of greater magnitude and caliber.

4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas Why, or why not

I could have done a better job speaking, but I ran out of dvd space.

5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:

    a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio

3, not that big of a help.

    b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment

4, one of my talentsà stalking people.

    c) Impact on your learning

I think this is one of the artifacts I learned the most of, because in order to attack the opinion of another, you really have to understand them.

    d) Level of creativity and originality

3, its history, but at least with some modern connections.

6. Any additional comments.

This makes me wonder what other examples that can be tied to the current situation with Taiwan.

Artifact 12 Idea Page

1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to:

This relates to the notion of the frontier.

b) Which other main topics does it also relate to:

This also includes nationalism and liberalism, since there were disputes over the ruling of India. Technology also increased communication.

2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it:

India was an important colony of Britain, and the main reason is because I know that there are border problems in that region because of Britain due to treaties signed, and disputes over semantics, but I am not that aware of the details of the origin of Britain in India, so I decided to research a bit more.

3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact

This is solid text and historical fact regarding the subject of India and Britain. This also touches on some of the political structure of governing India

4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas Why, or why not

Though and idea page, I tried to make it as good quality as possible, but pardon the handwriting.

5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:

    a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio. 4

Though this is only facts, it is very helpful in understanding Britain.

    b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment. 4

oddly, it felt quite exhilarating.

    c) Impact on your learning. 5                     

Five OMG this was very enlightening and now it can be incorporated into future works that regard the subject.

    d) Level of creativity and originality. 1

It scores lower in the criteria due to it’s non-originalityà it happened already.

6. Any additional comments.

Sometimes, reading textbooks really is an effective way of learning.