Tuesday, February 28, 2017
HP corruption Newspaper blog post
Today in class I was asked to look at newspaper articles from the past and pick out an interesting topic to further look into. I chose to look at corruption, a common word in newspapers back then showing the state our country was in. I chose the date range 1880-1900 to see what I could find, what I found was actually really interesting. I look at a newspaper in NewYork called the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on an article titled Sources of National Corruption. In this article it talked about key examples of corruption in that specific day and time. It discussed the corruption of government that was taking place. Powerful moneyed classes and monopolies were able to use their wealth to corrupt the system of government in place, there was a corrupt use of money in elections as well as a corrupt use to secure positions in high ranked legislation. The government had a failure to punish robbery due to bribery. The theft of presidency in 1876 due to Grant's establishment of the 38th state. Continuing there as the wholesale corruption of voters discussed in this article suppressing popular will that took place in 1880. A constant corruption took place by government officeholders through frauds for their own personal welfare and money. As well as the everlasting corruption of monopolies of powered moneyed men with enough wealth to influence the government into corruption. All in all it was pretty interesting to see what kinds of corruption our nation has gone through since the beginning, all prospering nations experience corruption stated this article, giving Great Britain as an example. Like the US has today it has prospered through this corruption and become a strong nation just like the article predicted.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Temperance Movement Post
Today in the last portion of class I took the time to looks into the temperance movement of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The establishment of this law was to try and create a sober nation and expand education and business.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Progressive Era Post HP
- How would you define “progress”?
- What period in time is referred to as the Progressive Era? Why? What types of issues and actions, and achievements are associated with the Progressive Era?
- Progressives had lots of goals. What do progressive reforms have in common?
- Evaluate the major goals of Progressives and sort them into these 4 categories: (Or make your own categories or ranking system), such as best to worst.
- Essential goals worth striving for/ Necessary changes
- Good Goals – not strictly necessary but could really improve life
- Strange Goals
- Not a good idea
1. Progress - How a group of people innovate and improve life
2. Progressive Era (1890-1920) It was a response to economical and social problems during the time. Began as a social movement and turned into political movement. Rejection to social Darwinism.
3. The saw providing a good education, a safe environment, and an efficient workplace as the way to improve the times.
4.
Essential Goals; Expose corporate greed, fight political corruption
Good Goals; provide good education, improve the workplace
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
History Future Research
- What predictions about the future were people making 100 years ago? 50 years ago? (Find 3-4 articles or discussions to look over.)
- Determine if the list is a “wish list” – as in, these are the things one might hope for in the future, or more a warning.
- Which predictions seem to have come true? Which turned out to be bizarre, off-track, or still out of reach?
- Can you identify any trends or patterns in these predictions? What concerns or achievements do they seem focused on? For example, do people in general seem to be anticipating a better world?
- It is your turn to predict a future world. What do you see?
1.
100 years
BBC(right) - Digital Color, Tanks, Americans growing in height, Mobile Phones, MREs, TV, Bigger Fruits
BBC(wrong) - Everybody will walk 10 miles a day, no more cars in big cities, no mosquitos or flies
WebUrbanist - Wild animals wont exist anymore except in zoos, food deliver via pneumatic tubes, zero traffic sound in cities
50 years
Urbanghostsmedia - Dolphins/Apes will be engineered to be more useful, printing new knowledge into the human brain, deep freezing, exploration to different galaxies, quantum generator, robot fighting and no more human war casualties, robot hospitals, online learning through TV, moon colonies
2. In some cases these lists are considered a wish list and in others they are considered a reality list. People predicting the future back in the day were either way to conservative or were making extreme unbelievable predications. In the BBC post a handful of the predictions made have become true today, whereas in some the ideas are completely farfetched and unrealistic in todays terms.
3. Predications like Americans growing in height, mobile phones, meals ready to eat, TV, bigger fruits, and color printing are all predications that have come true with the technology we have today. Ideas like food being delivered through pneumatic tubes, human brain imprinting, war robots, deep freezing, and moon colonies are all still out of reach in this century.
4. Theres a pattern of a better future in each list of predications, focused most importantly around the improvement of life and technology. In general people do anticipate a better world lying ahead of them, a world that opens opportunity and a better quality of life.
5. By 2100 I predict a great advancement in the technology that we have available, through scientific innovations we will have much more advanced transportation. Flying cars, a higher ability to travel to space and possible establish a colony on the moon, and human brain chip implants.
Friday, February 3, 2017
Urbanization, Industrialization, and Philanthropy
Harrison Pearson
2/3/17
Urbanization In-Class Essay
The late nineteenth century was a time of growth and tremendous industrial as well technological change for the world on a global scale. Each year there were new innovative inventions that changed the very nature and quality of life. In America it was considered a time of both crisis and opportunity, or "The turn of the century". For entrepreneurs such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other economic leaders it was a time of prosperity. For the working classes it was considered a time of crisis with the constant changing world around them. Wealthy men like Carnegie saw a way to contribute to society as a whole to improve conditions of the communities around him through philanthropy. Philanthropy contributed to urbanization and industrialization through improving living conditions, building libraries and other buildings, offering educational opportunity, and advancing industrialism to accelerate urbanization during the time.
As many large organization leaders flourished and gained extreme wealth it began to create a gap between the social classes due to unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism, resulting in the uneducated low working class with little opportunity for improvement. These leaders were considered "captains of the industry". Andrew Carnegie, like many other philanthropists that came about during the time, saw his wealth differently. He saw it as a chance to give to others and improve society as a whole contributing through philanthropy. In Carnegie's famous book, The Gospel of Wealth, he states, "Great wealth is a sign of goodness, anyone who has such wealth has the responsibility to uplift those less fortunate." This statement showed that he believed that through philanthropic cause people like himself and Rockefeller can improve the quality of life for the less fortunate. Andrew Carnegie also saw other ways to improve society, such as to establishing learning buildings like libraries, allowing a chance for people to gain knowledge.
During Andrew Carnegie's career he contributed forty million dollars to fund more than 1600 public libraries across the flourishing nation. Offering a place of knowledge and order for people to learn from. Carnegie shows how he believes libraries help society saying, "Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminder of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." Philanthropists saw providing societies libraries for communities as a chance to allow room for growth throughout the community. Philanthropy during the time also endowed thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, and charities to help communities flourish offering opportunity to the less fortunate.
Many great philanthropists established colleges and academies to advance the educational system to improve the quality of life for many. A philanthropist named Peter Cooper contributed to industrialization by founding the Cooper Union which offered free courses in science, engineering, and art. Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, was one of the many that attended the Cooper Union. Peter summed up his philosophy by saying, "I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good", seeing his wealth like Carnegie as a way to contribute to the slowly growing society. Other philanthropists like Swift and Rockefeller spent the final years giving away fortunes to establish institutions for the betterment of society.
As society was changing rapidly due to urbanization, so was professionalism in many different areas. A modern medical school emerged with the help of philanthropy. American doctors began to travel to Europe to learn of different methods; the emergence of the modern universities in america with the mass educational changes began providing qualified students; along with the cultivation of philanthropy among some rich industrialists provided America with the infrastructure for a new system of advanced medical education, changing the nation as a whole. The new medical technologies changed the lives of many and increased the living conditions of America on a whole new level showing how philanthropy can change society on a much larger scale during the time of rapid urbanization.
Philanthropy contributed to nineteenth century urbanization on many levels, such as through providing opportunites for sufficient education, improving living conditions, establishing institutions, and aiding in the advancement of professionalisms. Through this time of industrial change and urbanization philanthropy has been able to make a noticeable impact on urbanization that in some ways we can see today. Throughout recent history philanthropists have taken these past leaders as an inspiration and made it their mission to change the world as well, wether it be on a small scale or a large scale. Philanthropists today, such as Bill Gates, are still working to improve society showing that through their wealth a change can be made in society just like how it played a role in urbanization.
Carnegie Mellon University Established by Andrew Carnegie
sorry about spacing it wouldn't let me move it
Bibliography
2/3/17
Urbanization In-Class Essay
The late nineteenth century was a time of growth and tremendous industrial as well technological change for the world on a global scale. Each year there were new innovative inventions that changed the very nature and quality of life. In America it was considered a time of both crisis and opportunity, or "The turn of the century". For entrepreneurs such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other economic leaders it was a time of prosperity. For the working classes it was considered a time of crisis with the constant changing world around them. Wealthy men like Carnegie saw a way to contribute to society as a whole to improve conditions of the communities around him through philanthropy. Philanthropy contributed to urbanization and industrialization through improving living conditions, building libraries and other buildings, offering educational opportunity, and advancing industrialism to accelerate urbanization during the time.
As many large organization leaders flourished and gained extreme wealth it began to create a gap between the social classes due to unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism, resulting in the uneducated low working class with little opportunity for improvement. These leaders were considered "captains of the industry". Andrew Carnegie, like many other philanthropists that came about during the time, saw his wealth differently. He saw it as a chance to give to others and improve society as a whole contributing through philanthropy. In Carnegie's famous book, The Gospel of Wealth, he states, "Great wealth is a sign of goodness, anyone who has such wealth has the responsibility to uplift those less fortunate." This statement showed that he believed that through philanthropic cause people like himself and Rockefeller can improve the quality of life for the less fortunate. Andrew Carnegie also saw other ways to improve society, such as to establishing learning buildings like libraries, allowing a chance for people to gain knowledge.
During Andrew Carnegie's career he contributed forty million dollars to fund more than 1600 public libraries across the flourishing nation. Offering a place of knowledge and order for people to learn from. Carnegie shows how he believes libraries help society saying, "Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminder of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." Philanthropists saw providing societies libraries for communities as a chance to allow room for growth throughout the community. Philanthropy during the time also endowed thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, and charities to help communities flourish offering opportunity to the less fortunate.
Many great philanthropists established colleges and academies to advance the educational system to improve the quality of life for many. A philanthropist named Peter Cooper contributed to industrialization by founding the Cooper Union which offered free courses in science, engineering, and art. Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, was one of the many that attended the Cooper Union. Peter summed up his philosophy by saying, "I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good", seeing his wealth like Carnegie as a way to contribute to the slowly growing society. Other philanthropists like Swift and Rockefeller spent the final years giving away fortunes to establish institutions for the betterment of society.
As society was changing rapidly due to urbanization, so was professionalism in many different areas. A modern medical school emerged with the help of philanthropy. American doctors began to travel to Europe to learn of different methods; the emergence of the modern universities in america with the mass educational changes began providing qualified students; along with the cultivation of philanthropy among some rich industrialists provided America with the infrastructure for a new system of advanced medical education, changing the nation as a whole. The new medical technologies changed the lives of many and increased the living conditions of America on a whole new level showing how philanthropy can change society on a much larger scale during the time of rapid urbanization.
Philanthropy contributed to nineteenth century urbanization on many levels, such as through providing opportunites for sufficient education, improving living conditions, establishing institutions, and aiding in the advancement of professionalisms. Through this time of industrial change and urbanization philanthropy has been able to make a noticeable impact on urbanization that in some ways we can see today. Throughout recent history philanthropists have taken these past leaders as an inspiration and made it their mission to change the world as well, wether it be on a small scale or a large scale. Philanthropists today, such as Bill Gates, are still working to improve society showing that through their wealth a change can be made in society just like how it played a role in urbanization.
Carnegie Mellon University Established by Andrew Carnegie
sorry about spacing it wouldn't let me move it
Bibliography
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