Victorian Era socio-cultural context by ANDREA OSUNA LARA https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij In this Padlet we will focus on a specific era which had a very strong impact years ago in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the Victorian era. en-us 2020-09-27 21:24:28 UTC 2020-09-28 02:32:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Industrial Revolution andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782789313
The industrial revolution began in the eighteenth century. What stood out from the whole process was the evolution of technology and the invention of new machines while increasing the need for science in companies to create more and more machines, this entailed hard work wasn’t enough for the growth of the economic power, there were sweeping social changes which took workers to the misery and poverty. ]]> 2020-09-27 21:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782789313 British Imperialism andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782801967 The British empire was ruled by Queen Victoria, it was a big empire that kept expanding over and over since Britain became the most powerful nation due to the industrial revolution, they needed a control over this power and control, they implemented values as it kept spreading all over the world. ]]> 2020-09-27 22:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782801967 Charles Dickens andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782835375 He was one of the most popular authors during that period of time, because he used  his novels to demonstrate the social injustice against the poor people, even making fun of it through his characters so he could make fun of those who were full of power. He would reflect about the poverty and tried to make people recognize the issue through his stories based on his experiences throughout his life, he tried to help and wanted to be someone influential bringing up a social change.]]> 2020-09-27 22:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782835375 Social Darwinism andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782845000 This was the application of the theories that Charles Darwin made to share with society, supposedly knowing the essential and the concepts about humanity and origin. Based on this "nature", the idea would testify that you could fail or be successful and if you were someone successful then you were someone "superior" or at least you would be a perfect fit in society and if you failed then you weren't worthy, signifying this inequality over the years. Justified through actions if you became powerful (an industrialist)

]]> 2020-09-27 23:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782845000 Adam Smith & The Wealth Of Nations andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782859982 This man published the book "The wealth of nations" to represent his ideas about the capitalist system. It consists in the economy development  and how the humanity is part of this satisfactions when they "deserve" some goods. Representing 4 of his main ideas which were: Specialisation, How to treat the rich, Consumer capitalism and consumer education.
The idea starts by diving the work so it could be more efficient and making the economies grow (so they could have more money and so that workers could have more money too) so the people having this pleasant amount of money starts consuming more products and helping others so they could have a benefit and the recognition everyone would like by helping poor people, also teaching how to save capitalism by demanding quality and a FAIR price so they can continue consuming.]]> 2020-09-27 23:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782859982 John Stuart Mill & Utilitarianism andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782891792 He created this concept about the "greatest happiness" it means that someone should  always act producing this amount of happiness to a determined amount of people (the largest number of people) depending on the reason. 
There are two types of acts:
Act utilitarianism (AU): seeks for the happiness of a group of people in isolation. 
Rules (RU): seeks for the happiness of a group of people in a long time. 
]]> 2020-09-27 23:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782891792 Arguments andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782994711 Taking into account all the essential points of this era, it can be deduced that each topic was related to this problem that arose in Great Britain leaving lots of dead and poor people in this period. The industrial revolution was the perfect “move” to make Great Britain rise economically and supposedly for the people to have more opportunities and to have a better life. But as we can testify, it really wasn't like that. With the perfect idea of creating new machines and as soon as the numbers were increasing, the expansion of Britain accepting this idea thinking it would benefit them, pretending they had the control to give everybody the same amount was a cruel lie. It was a very difficult time since equality wasn’t the first thing they thought about. The relation about how Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin and Stuart Mill had different points of views about the society and about the way of government they had is impressive. Everything that they could observe and study during that time and be able to capture it reflecting and representing through their own ways as authors, expressing the discomfort, taking into consideration the actions of how to treat people, or even trying to give different solutions to the issue. Some of them wanted to open the eyes of society to be able to make a change based on the different classes, rich and poor people because as it kept expanding and they kept exploding this people to work, to be manipulated by the government and give them back the money they just received because of the ego and the need to spend it in something or even just to justify that you're a good person, people kept dying and even ending up in the concept of Mill that people had to sacrifice their happiness to make other people happy.]]> 2020-09-28 01:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/782994711 Relation on how everything is interconnected andreaosuna581 https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/783131204 2020-09-28 02:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/andreaosuna581/lna7xn4xpy3ao9ij/wish/783131204