Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

During class we watched parts of a movie called, "Mountians of the moon".
In the movie two explorers traveled to find the main sorced of the nile river.
They went through some pretty rough things along the trip though.
Like insects and dangerous animals. For example lwhen the 2 explorers had to sleep outside, mthe had to sleep under a some kind of net to keep the bugs off. But one of the men forgot to put it over their bed and a beetle went in his ear. Then he stabed himself in the ear. Thats is an example of what some of things were that they went through. Some of the advantages that the europeans had over the aficans were that they had guns and weapons.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

http://del.icio.us/mmoloneyiths/history/meijijapan
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Karl Marx and Communism

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Marx.html\
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUmarx.htm

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Karl marx wanted communism to take over the world.Why he wanted it to take over the world was because Communism was the inevitable end to the process of evolution begun with feudalism and passing through capitalism and socialism.
The good guys that he was talking about were the workers around the world. He was telling them to unite.Marx held that history was a series of class struggles between owners of capital (capitalists) and workers. He had thought this because As wealth became more concentrated in the hands of a few capitalists, he thought, the ranks of an increasingly dissatisfied proletariat would swell, leading to bloody revolution and eventually a classless society.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

http://www.mrdowling.com/707-marx.html
http://crf-usa.org/bria/bria19_2a.htm
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Karl Marx was a german who did not like the way that european workers were getting treated in the european factories. He thought that the factories were very unsafe and very harsh to their workers.Marx expected that once the proletariat had taken control of all capitalist property, wealth would flow more abundantly for the benefit of all. Then in the "higher phase of communist society," individuals would finally be free to develop their abilities and talents to the fullest. Marx put it this way: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Film Lesson/ Modern Times

During Class we watched a movie from a collections dvd from the director/writer/and actor Charlie Chaplin. In the movie Charlie Chaplin played a factory worker who worked along with other factory workers in a huge factory, who all worked for this man who sat around and did nothing but boss people around. In the factory Charlie Chaplin gets out of control when he gets stressed about himself not being able to keep up with the machine when he had to tighten the bults. I do not think he liked the way thgat the factory workers were being treated because of the way he acted when he had gotten stressed. He had started to squirt oil on the workers as they worked causing them to mess up the flow of things. He also would turn off the machines while they were working to annoy them. In the movie an inventor came to the boos of the factory with an invention to help the workers eat and work at the same time.

This machine would feed them soup, meat, and would wipe there mouthes with this a sponge. They tryed to innvent this so that factory workers would not have to stop what they were doing and could make more products a day. But the machines malfunctioned and the boss refused to take the offer.

The lindustrial Revolution was very unfair to workers, children , and towns . There were many inventions that helped factories and dangered factories. But that all changed after 1833.