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.

APPS FOR THE ENVIROMENT

Pollution-free”, with this app you can know how clean the air you are breathing is. Also you can see water and earth pollution.

“My right to now”, displays nearby facilities regulated under federal environmental laws.

”Individual waste reduction model”, helps understand the energy saved by recycling small quantities of common household products.

ENVIRONMENT COMPARISON

 19^th century´s environment vas the beginning of real pollution in our planet, there was a large amount of factories so this increased the amount of smoke in the cities. In 19^th century London, coal was the main source of smog. It was burned in large quantities to heat homes and other buildings. We can compare the way vegetables and fruits were grown, people didn’t know all the varieties that we all know and people also had their own fields or gardens with cultivations. Also some people that worked in farms or just has animals for their own consumption feed them with natural resources not as nowadays that they eat substitutes of food.

ENVIRONMENT

During the days that we stayed there I felt the environment very polluted, adversely at what I thought in 2015 about how was going to be. In some zones, near the factories I experienced difficulties to breath correctly but it was bearable. The water was a big problem too, a lot of people got sick because it was contaminated and had virus. Even in high class neighborhoods this problem was alive. The thing I liked most is that they didn´t used chemical fertilizers to grow the plants and vegetables, that was quite ecologic. The animals were feed with the human remains of food.

DIALOGUE

- Hello we are two students.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- We wanted to know things about your life, can you tell us?

- Well, I´m a factory owner but this hasn´t been like this all my life, I had to work really hard for nearly 20 years.

- I´m a child, I´m 12 years old and I started to work with my father in a factory chain last year.

- What have you studied?

- I studied mechanics at the university and my father taught me too.

- Mmm, I started in a public school when I was 10 but last year I had to leave it because I couldn´t do both things, work and study.

- And you little boy what do you want to became in the future?

- I want to be an inventor and create a thing that flies trough the air with wings and a motor. I know it´s impossible but I´ll try it.

SADDEST EPISODE

One day we decided to have a walk through the city, the middle-class one, it was very beautiful although all the smoke and the factories on the background. Suddenly we barged into a small girl, she was about 12 years old, she had blond hair and she was wearing a large dark dress, it looked cheap. Immediately she apologized and she looked frightened. We told her that it didn’t matter. Then we asked her what she was doing there and she told us a very emotional story, her family lived in a village, 80km away from London. Her family was in poverty so her parents decided to send their two daughters to work on the service in London rich houses. She wasn’t going to see them until next year. We gave to her some money too. 

AMAZING INVENTIONS

The next two days we decided to explore trough the factories and see which where the most amazing inventions, not all was about factories we discovered one in one house. After this and a lot of factories visits, we came up with a top three of in our opinion the most amazing ones. In the third place there was the telegraph, for them was very important because now they were able to communicate with people far away from them. The second one is the Daguerre (photography), only the rich people could afford this but it was a great invention that has developed until our days. The first place invention wasn´t invented yet but everyone talked about it, it was the first car and as we come from the future we know that it was invented, from then on people didn´t have to depend on an animal to travel.

WORKER AND OWNER COMPARISON

We wanted to compare people´s lives, the factory owners and the workers one. We went to a middle class neighborhood; this one was well planned and lighted. Later we looked for a rich owner it was quite easy because they were everywhere. He wore a suit and a tall hat, his house as other ones from the neighborhood was comfortable and had service, to clean up or to take care of the animals. Although he worked really hard, his working hours weren´t very high, 5-7 per day. Once we finished talking to him we moved to a working-class neighborhood. We noticed the pollution upon we arrived and the streets were very narrow and dark. Suddenly someone touched us, asking for some money, he was wearing dirty clothes I supposed it was because of the factories oil. He told us that he was working for 12-14 hours per day and his family was in the poverty, some of his sons worked but it wasn´t enough. We gave him some money and left. 

DRAWINGS DESCRIPTION

In these drawings we can see London in the industrial revolution, they are all made in black and white, and I think it´s because at that time there was a lot of smoke in the ambient. So painters decided to do it in this way to show it in a more realistic way. In the first drawing we can see an industrial zone, obviously it had to be near the river or the sea to ensure that all the products that were made will be exported. The second drawing is very similar to the second one, in this one there is a small boat, the factories expelled a lot of smoke and as I have said before a river was needed to transport products. The third one is quite different; this one shows people in the streets, in the back we can see a cathedral. We can deduce that this is a wealthy neighborhood because there are floats and they are well dressed also there are big shops.