Being the character of Tom Fletcher, a farmer from Great Britian, I was reasonably pleased by the way our resolutions were accepted by the entire global conference. At this point we are still unaware if our resolution was passed, but judging by the responses after our presentation I believe that our ideas were expressed well enough, and our resolution was constructed fairly enough that it will indeed pass. As for the other resolutions presented during the conference, only several could directly affect the farmers as a social class. Many of the most controversial resolutions pertained to the factory workers and the factory owners. The potential changes that the new resolutions could cause to this industry are small enough that they will most likely not have a huge effect on my life. However, the one resolution that I strongly disagreed with was presented by the ruling elite class. In their resolution, it is required to have two years of military experience before being eligible to vote. I disagree with this idea because there are many individuals who deserve to state their opinions on political matters that simply cannot be a part of the military for two years.
The most important concept that I discovered about industrialism is the similarity between social class members in different countries. I thought it was interesting that two individuals living in countries on opposite sides of the globe could be faced with nearly the exact same problems. For example, my character of Tom Fletcher attempted to support a family by selling crops in a local market. However, cheap imported crops began to take over the business in the markets, and Tom was forced almost out of work. The Indian farmer Ram Prakesh was faced with an identical problem to this one. Consumers in his local market were buying the cheap and mass produced goods rather than homemade goods.
One of the major changes of the industrial revolution was the shift from the focus on quality to a focus more on quantity. Ram Prakesh and Tom Fletcher worked hard to produce quality crops. However poorly paid workers in the local markets wanted products at the lowest price possible. This caused the demand for quality food and goods to go down, which in the end hurt the farming business terribly.
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Being the character of Tom Fletcher, a farmer from Great Britian, I was reasonably pleased by the way our resolutions were accepted by the entire global conference. At this point we are still unaware if our resolution was passed, but judging by the responses after our presentation I believe that our ideas were expressed well enough, and our resolution was constructed fairly enough that it will indeed pass. As for the other resolutions presented during the conference, only several could directly affect the farmers as a social class. Many of the most controversial resolutions pertained to the factory workers and the factory owners. The potential changes that the new resolutions could cause to this industry are small enough that they will most likely not have a huge effect on my life. However, the one resolution that I strongly disagreed with was presented by the ruling elite class. In their resolution, it is required to have two years of military experience before being eligible to vote. I disagree with this idea because there are many individuals who deserve to state their opinions on political matters that simply cannot be a part of the military for two years.
The most important concept that I discovered about industrialism is the similarity between social class members in different countries. I thought it was interesting that two individuals living in countries on opposite sides of the globe could be faced with nearly the exact same problems. For example, my character of Tom Fletcher attempted to support a family by selling crops in a local market. However, cheap imported crops began to take over the business in the markets, and Tom was forced almost out of work. The Indian farmer Ram Prakesh was faced with an identical problem to this one. Consumers in his local market were buying the cheap and mass produced goods rather than homemade goods.
One of the major changes of the industrial revolution was the shift from the focus on quality to a focus more on quantity. Ram Prakesh and Tom Fletcher worked hard to produce quality crops. However poorly paid workers in the local markets wanted products at the lowest price possible. This caused the demand for quality food and goods to go down, which in the end hurt the farming business terribly.