TWEETS

Tweet unit 7 Nowadays people are getting wealthier at the expense of poorer and underdeveloped countries, that´s what we call imperialism.

Tweet unit 6 People have to fight for their ideas, we could change, absolute monarchy is not the solution, liberalism, nationalism…

Tweet unit 5 This is the beginning of a huge change, with the new machinery new jobs, transports and products will be made, thanks James Watt.

Tweet unit 4 We have defeated the king and the monarchy, now we are free, all these years of fight for our enlightened ideas have been rewarded.

DESCRIBING MY DAY

ITALIAN BATTLE

In the 19^th century an important unification took place, more exactly in 1859, the kingdom of Sardinia defeated the Austrias in several battles but I was in the Montebello one, France was helping Italy. They used battle techniques, some soldiers had horses and as weapons they had revolvers with a sword at the top to have a quick attack. They wore uniforms and all of them followed the general orders. The looser, in this case Austria lost 1423 men including dead ones and prisoners. I just looked because the battle, as all of them was very brutal and they could kill somebody from the distance.

LOS MISERABLES

How were considered people against the king?

The majority of people that didn´t want absolutism and the king´s decisions where members of the bourgeoisie, middle class and poor people, the last ones where the most affected because they started to have hunger problems.

Did people have chances to change their lives?

You had to be very lucky and find someone that would lend you money or at least teach you how to do some kind of job if you hadn’t have any education.  You could obviously change to the bad but as nowadays, the important charges imply sacrifice and a lot of hard work.

How is Jean´s life in relation to his period?

He challenged the authorities when the absolutism returned to France, he was sent to prison for 17 years, once he was put in liberty he escaped and found a church where the priest helped him to rebuild his life. He had enlightened ideas, so he believed in changes and finding new solutions. He became the mayor of the city where he was put into prison. He was against the king as he was a bourgeoisie member. He could decide some society issues but the king had people in charge to do that also.

ROMANTICISM MUSIC

We attended to a concert of Romantic music where the main author was Beethoven, everybody wore high hats and were well dressed, most of them were members of the bourgeoisie but something that surprised me was that there were people from the middle class. The music, from my personal opinion transmitted sadness and a dark period, but at the same time was very relaxing and it relaxed me it was very harmonic and the music answered the public expectations and was easy to follow. It had also wind instruments apart from the piano violins…

MEETING THE AUTHOR

One day I was walking through London with my friend and suddenly we came up with the idea of meeting an author, we transported to 1823 in Almendralejo and there was him, with 17 years old. We introduced ourselves and started to talk to him he was very smart and talkative, he was working in important newspapers and his literary pieces were well known in the country. He said that at the moment he was going to be exiled because of his ideas, which were against the absolute monarchy. We told him that he must keep doing and expressing his feelings in that way and he would have success.

ROMATICISM WRITER

Jose de Espronceda was born in 1808 in Almendralejo the 25^th of march, he received studies in privileged schools and his family allways supported his work. At the age of 15 the absolutism was reestablished and he started to be in danger because his ideas were independent. He was exiled at the age of 17. Since then he started to write poems and literary pieces. He worked as a journalist in important newspapers. A few years later he was proclaimed a parliamentary in the progressive party, two months later he died because of an illness. His works claimed more freedom and the need of a monarchy change, most of the poems where sad and expressed feelings.