As my character Lucy Luck, of the working class, I was very satisfied with the results of the conference. My social class won the vote easily. People claimed the workers vote was won out of sympathy, which might be true. The members of the other social class all understood the terrible conditions of the workers, like sanitation, and crowdedness, but some claim to have voted on pure sympathy. Personally, winning the vote, is winning the vote, so even if the others voted on sympathy, I will take it. However many of the other member of society realized they needed to help the workers, like me. I know other people have bad conditions too, but I’m glad they realized that we, the workers needed a great deal of help. I went through my life, a shy worker, nervous to see the results of expressing my issues. Now that I have, I won’t regret it. Overall the global conference showed the diverse problems occurring during the industrial revolution. There were various resolutions, some of which I agreed upon, and some which I did not. All of these ideas displayed the complexity of issues of not only Great Britain, my country, but China and India during industrialism.
As myself, Zoe, I learned a lot from this industrial simulation. I learned about all the advances that were happening in India, China, and Great Britain, that I hadn’t previously known about. For example, the population growth, amount of new factories, the poor conditions of the proletariat class (lower), and the great wealth and greediness of the nobility. Being assigned a member of the working class, I learned about the difficulties a worker had, like poor sanitation, long working hours, no freedom, low income, bad health, crowdedness, and greedy factory owners. Great Britain seemed too have many issues besides the workers. The farmers income was cut almost to nothing because of cheap trade import and export, the artists/intellectuals were not making quick progress with schooling because the government was very thoughtless, and the ruling elites were more gluttonous and inconsiderate than anyone. All of these issues seemed to not only reflect Great Britain, but India and China as well, which I realized during the global conference.
This project was an enjoyable way to gain knowledge on your own, forgetting about the lecturing and the note taking in class, you could focus on the discussions you had with your group members, really given time to think. Through discussion with fellow classmates, you learned through autobiographies and historical events. This way you could gain knowledge on a personal level and on a historical, time line way of knowledge as well. By becoming this “character” of society, you really had to think about what you needed and what was hurting you. I enjoyed this aspect because you had to pretend you were actually living in that time period, not the 21st century. It was a nice change, compared to a note taking, test taking approach to the Industrial Revolution.
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As my character Lucy Luck, of the working class, I was very satisfied with the results of the conference. My social class won the vote easily. People claimed the workers vote was won out of sympathy, which might be true. The members of the other social class all understood the terrible conditions of the workers, like sanitation, and crowdedness, but some claim to have voted on pure sympathy. Personally, winning the vote, is winning the vote, so even if the others voted on sympathy, I will take it. However many of the other member of society realized they needed to help the workers, like me. I know other people have bad conditions too, but I’m glad they realized that we, the workers needed a great deal of help. I went through my life, a shy worker, nervous to see the results of expressing my issues. Now that I have, I won’t regret it. Overall the global conference showed the diverse problems occurring during the industrial revolution. There were various resolutions, some of which I agreed upon, and some which I did not. All of these ideas displayed the complexity of issues of not only Great Britain, my country, but China and India during industrialism. As myself, Zoe, I learned a lot from this industrial simulation. I learned about all the advances that were happening in India, China, and Great Britain, that I hadn’t previously known about. For example, the population growth, amount of new factories, the poor conditions of the proletariat class (lower), and the great wealth and greediness of the nobility. Being assigned a member of the working class, I learned about the difficulties a worker had, like poor sanitation, long working hours, no freedom, low income, bad health, crowdedness, and greedy factory owners. Great Britain seemed too have many issues besides the workers. The farmers income was cut almost to nothing because of cheap trade import and export, the artists/intellectuals were not making quick progress with schooling because the government was very thoughtless, and the ruling elites were more gluttonous and inconsiderate than anyone. All of these issues seemed to not only reflect Great Britain, but India and China as well, which I realized during the global conference. This project was an enjoyable way to gain knowledge on your own, forgetting about the lecturing and the note taking in class, you could focus on the discussions you had with your group members, really given time to think. Through discussion with fellow classmates, you learned through autobiographies and historical events. This way you could gain knowledge on a personal level and on a historical, time line way of knowledge as well. By becoming this “character” of society, you really had to think about what you needed and what was hurting you. I enjoyed this aspect because you had to pretend you were actually living in that time period, not the 21st century. It was a nice change, compared to a note taking, test taking approach to the Industrial Revolution.