Poem by Me (Do not laugh! This is my first time)

The Factory

Dark smoke came out endlessly,

Labors work and work without a pause,

The machines roar and roar endlessly,

No break, no sleep, not even a single pause,

The same day will drone on endlessly,

The day of working without a pause,

The worker will go on endlessly,

No question, no complain, no cause,

The time will keep going,

The men will work without a cause.

Reflection

1. Which main topic does this artifact relate to? In what way?  This artifact is about student's own creation of arts, poems, or stories that is related to the style in the 19th century Britain.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend on creating the artifact?  I spend about one hour on creating this poem. I choose to do poem because I never done one, so I want to try one.
3. What understanding have you gained from the creation process of this artifact?  I learned how to write poems.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and ideas? Why or why not?  Yes, I have think for a long time on how to create a good poem, so I think it is my best idea.
5. Any additional comment?  None

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Rudyard Kipling and his Poem

"IF"

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
by Rudyard Kipling

Reflection

1. Which main topic does this artifact relate to? In what way?  This artifact is related to the Influential Artists, Poets, and Writers in the 19th Century Britain.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend on creating the artifact?  I choose Rudyard Kipling and his poems is because I have read Kipling's work before and I know some information about him. I spend about 30 minutes on this artifact.
3. What understanding have you gained from the creation process of this artifact?  I learned about Kipling's style of writting poems and some techniques in writting poems.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and ideas? Why or why not?  No, this poem was already created by Rudyard Kipling, so there is no way to applied creativity on it.
5. Any additional comment?  None

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• Quality of your portfolio (5)
• Level of enjoyment (3)
• Learning (4)
• Level of creativity and originality (0)

Queen Victoria and the Great Britain

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

The Life of the Queen



Victoria was born in London on 24 May 1819, the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburg. She succeeded her uncle, William IV, in 1837, at the age of 18, and her reign spanned the rest of the century. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. For the next 20 years they lived in close harmony and had a family of nine children, many of whom eventually married into the European monarchy.



Prince Albert



On her accession, Victoria adopted the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne as her political mentor. In 1840, his influence was replaced by that of Prince Albert. The German prince never really won the favour of the British public, and only after 17 years was he given official recognition, with the title of 'prince consort'. Victoria nonetheless relied heavily on Albert and it was during his lifetime that she was most active as a ruler. Britain was evolving into a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch had few powers and was expected to remain above party politics, although Victoria did sometimes express her views very forcefully in private.



A portrait of Queen Victoria



Victoria never fully recovered from Albert's death in 1861 and she remained in mourning for the rest of her life. Her subsequent withdrawal from public life made her unpopular, but during the late 1870s and 1880s she gradually returned to public view and, with increasingly pro-imperial sentiment, she was restored to favour with the British public. After the Indian Mutiny in 1857, the government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown. In 1877, Victoria became empress of India. Her empire also included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and large parts of Africa. During this period, Britain was largely uninvolved in European affairs, apart from the Crimean War from 1853 - 1856.

Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 and her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 were celebrated with great enthusiasm. Having witnessed a revolution in British government, huge industrial expansion and the growth of a worldwide empire, Victoria died on 22 January 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

From BBC History

The Queen and Her Prime Ministers

Queen Victoria, the queen who ruled over England for 60 years, was the longest monarch ever in the British history. During this time, she had seen some of the major changes in the British Empire that changed the history of Great Britain dearly. She also witnessed the groth of a mighty empire that has the most influnce to the world during the 1800s. Also, in this 60 years of reign, she had came along with many politicians including the prime minisetrs during the time.

Lord Melbourne

Queen Victoria's first prime minister when she became queen at the age of 18. Lord Melbourne treated Victoria with unbounded respect. His skillfull flattery let him became the favorite of the queen. She is pleased with Melbourne's frank and natural manners, and was amused by his knowledge upon varies subjects and his quaint, queer, epigrammatic turn of mind. Lord Melbourne assured the queen a lot. He assured Victoria that her shyness was indicative of a sensitive temperament, and her smallness was a positive advantage to a queen. Melbourne often gave his advices in a kind and flattery way, which pleased the queen a lot. Queen Victoria favored Melbourne deeply. She had once said that she loved him "like a father". 

Queen Victoria listened carefully to Melbourne's advice when he discuss the political problems of the day. However, it cannot be said that Melbourne inspired the conscience of the young queen. For example, he assured her, for instance, that attempts by Lord Shaftesbury to improve the conditions of children working in the mines were quite unnecessary. Also, he did not give her propriate advice when a court lady-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, dying of cancer of the liver, was falsely accused of becoming pregnant by Victoria's hated man, Sir John Conroy. The young queen was at first believe the worst of Lady Flora, as she did of Conroy. When the matter became a public scandal, the Queen's early popularity began to fade away. Her carriage was stoned at Lady Flora's funeral, and she was hissed at while she was at the theatre. She was also under attack at Ascot, where two ladies in the crowd shouted 'Mrs Melbourne!' at her.

Sir Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel became the successor of Melbourne when Melbourne's Whig government faced a great defeat on a colonial issue and have to resigned. The queen became frustrated at the news and was extrmely distress at the issue that she will have to face the Tories, which she hated most. The Duke of Wellington was originally to be the succesor of Melbourne, but he protested that he was too old and deaf. The queen had no choice but to appoint the Tories leader, Sir Robert Peel, as prime minister. She was mortified by this: Peel was so difficult to talk to; his extreme shyness in her presence made her feel shy too, while his nervous mannerisms, his irritating habits of pointing his toes and thrusting out his hands to shake down his cuffs, reminded her of a dancing master. However, she was persauded to take a less hostle view at Peel by her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in 1841 after a general election and the Tories came to power.

Peel did all he could to follow Melbourne's advices in pleasing the queen.

The advice:

'Whenever Peel does anything or has anything to propose [Melbourne said] let him explain to her clearly his reasons. The Queen is not conceited; she is aware there are many things she does not understand, and she likes to have them explained to her elementarily, not at length and in detail but shortly and clearly.'                                                                                      From BBC History

Peel took care to follow this advice also, and, when he was forced to resign, she was as sorry to part with him as he was to leave her. It was, he said, 'one of the most painful moments' of his life. And when he died in 1850, she deeply lamented the loss of 'a kind and true friend', her 'worthy Peel, a man of unbounded loyalty, courage, patriotism and highmindedness'.

Lord Russell

Successor of of Sir Robert Peel after Peel resign. He is the son of the Duke of Bedford. Russell was a short, and lean man who is a little bit taller than the queen. The queen found Russell a stubborn, opinionated and graceless man. The worse of all, Lord Russell could not and would not curb the excesses of his Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, who is a high-hand and tiresome man. The queen and her husband keep on suggesting the issue to Russell. However, Russell took no notice at the issue and carried on as before, even he promised to look into the issue. The queen once told Russell that someday she will have to insist on Palmerston's dismissal. It never happen.

Lord Palmerston

Palmerston came to power in 1855. The British were at war with Russia in the Crimea, and Palmerston was the only one considered capable in leading the British toward victory. The Queen was horrified: the rude old man was over 70 by then, deaf and short-sighted with wobbly false teeth and dyed hair. Worse than this, Palmerston shocked Prince Albert dearly when Palmerston sumble into one of Queen Victoria's maid's room and attempting to seduce her but failed. Although an awful character, Palmerston is perfectly amenable in office, polite and accommadating. Prince Albert agreed that Palmerston gave least trouble among all the other prime ministers. 

In 1861, when Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria mourned deeply for her loss and retreated from from the affairs of state into a lonely purdah. She didn't want to meet any one and was afraid she will go mad. She refused to see her minister alone, so she told her Prime minister that htey will have to conduct their buisness through one of her daughter or her private secretary, General Grey. Palmerston disagreed with this way of communicating. and insist on for the queen to came to meeting. The queen, however, cannot faced the ministers along, so she told her minister to wait in one room and herself sat in the other room, than communicate through the Clerk of the Council.

Benjamin Disraeli

Six years later the Queen's misery was much alleviated by the appointment of the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli. From the beginning Disraeli set out to woo and flatter her with an infallible instinct for the phrase, the gesture, the compliment, the overture that would most delight her. He was later to tell a colleague who had asked for advice how to handle the Queen, 'First of all, remember she is woman'.

Queen Victoria told one of her daughter about Disraeli :

'The present man will do well. He is very peculiar, thoroughly Jewish looking ... but very clever and sensible ... He is full of poetry, romance and chivalry. When he knelt down to kiss my hand, he said "In loving loyalty and faith."'                                                                From BBC History

WE Gladstone

Disraeli's rival and successor. Gladstone came to power in 1885. Gladstone is much contrast comparing to Disraeli. "'mischievous firebrand, arrogant, tyrannical and obstinate', a 'half-crazy and in many ways ridiculous, wild and incomprehensible old fanatic' said the Queen. She cannot bear Gladstone. She had to put up with him intermittently from 1868 until 1894; and when he died in 1898 she could not - truthful and obstinate as ever - bring herself to say that she was sorry.

Reflection

1. Which main topic does this artifact relate to? In what way?  This topic is related to Important female figure of the Great Britain in 19th Century.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend on creating the artifact?  I choose Queen Victoria as the focus of my biographical spotlight because I didn't know much about her, and I wish to learn something about her. I spend about 2-3 hours making this.
3. What understanding have you gained from the creation process of this artifact?  I have learn about Queen Victoria's life and her political influence to the Parliment.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and ideas? Why or why not?  No, the time when I finished this artifact is already very late, so I have to wrapped up my work quickly. Therefore, the last part of my artifact wasn't well done.
5. Any additional comment?  None

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Reflection

Reflection for Artifacts 1-3

   The main topic for these three artifacts were focusing on the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain during the 19th Century. The artifacts also talked about the consequences brought by industrialization and peopel's reaction toward industrializtion.

    I spend about a hour or two on creating each artifacts.  During these one or two hours, I have understand the definition of industrialization and the effects brought by it, both positive and negative. It is clear that advance machinery is the key of industrialization. A country with more advance  machinery can have more efficient production. Industrialization is the key to gain power over other countries. The first to become industrialize, the first to gain power. However, in order to become industrialize the country will have to face the problem of pollution. Industries can produce great pollution taht will poison the people and the enviroment.
   These artifacts weren't the best work because I am still learning about how to create great artifacts at tis time. It is still the very beginning of all this, and I am all new to this.

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Idea Page on Idustrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

Ideas

• Great Britain is the first to become industrialize (late 1700s to early 1800s)
• U.S., Great Britain, Japan, Germany first four countries to become industrialize
• First to industrialize, first to gain power
• Industry affect the balance of power
• Too many factories
• Machine take over men-power
• Building a modern technology
• Punchcart and Steam engine
• Many people lose their jobs
• The gap between poor and rich widen
• Factory owners focus on better machinery
• Cheap labors were greatly needed
• Child labors were greatly used because they are cheap
• Awful working condition
• Too many fumes produce by the factories
• Fumes poison the workers
• The enviroment poisoned by the fumes
• People got sick easily
• Trade Union setup to give rights to workers

Vocabulary

• Industialization
• to Industrialize
• Externality
• Cost-Benefit Analysis

Questions

1. How did the people react to the Industrial Revolution?
2. What cause the Industrial Revolution?
3. What did the Industrial Revolution brought to those people?
4. If you are a factory owner, what will you want to improve? Better machinery or working condition?
5. Do you agree with the Industrial Revolution?

Summary

The Industrial Revoultion first start in England at the start to the 19th Century. The Great Britain is the first country to be industrialized. U.S., Japan, and Germany later became industrialized. The first country to be industrialize, the first to gain power. Because of this, the Great Britain gained the most power in the 19th century. During the Industrial Revolution, farmland were taken by the land owners to build fatories. Many factories were built during that time. Because there weren't any farmland to farm, many famers lost their job and became factory workers. The factory owners need many cheap workers, so many child labor were used because they are cheap. These child labors were forced to work for long hours without resting. Also, the working condition is awful. Fumes produce by the machines poisoned the workers and make them sick. The fumes also poisoned the enviroment and cause lots of people to sick.

Luddite Attack on Rawflods Mill (British newspaper on 1800s simulation)

Luddites Attack

" Apiril 11th, 1812"

  " The Luddites up in Yorkshire had struck again. It is said that a group of  150 attackers have launched an attack on William Cartwright's mill at Rawfolds near Huddersfield last week. Led by George Mellor, a young cropper from Huddersfield, a mob of 150 men attack the Rawfolds Mill. The owner of the mill, William Cartwright and a small number of soldiers held against the attackers. Heavy fighting has been carried out through out the conflict. Two croppers have been killed during the battle between the Luddites and the mill owner. Fortuanately, William Cartwright is able to keep his factory. For the Luddites, they suffer a great defeat on their spirit. 
  " This terrible attack on Rawfolds Mill is said to be one of the most serious attack led by the Luddites ever. In the past few months, there have been a number of incidents about Luddites attack and destroy factory machines and frames. The authoriy has given the words to fully investigate the incident at Rawfold Mill. The local police force will be searching through the towns in the vicinity, leaving no stone unturn.

  

Primary Source Evaluation ( Letters From England by Robert Southey)

Child Labour in Cotton Factories

Origin
1. Who created it?
A: It is written by Robert Southey in a fictitious name of  Manuel Alvarez Espriella.
2. Who is the author?
A: Robert Southey in the name of Manuel Alvarez Espriella.
3. When was this created?
A; It is created in 1807.
4. When was it published?
A: It is published in 1836.
5. Where was it published?
A: It is published in England.
6. Who is publishing it?
A: G. Dearbon
7. Is there anythng that is related to this topic?
A: Robet Southey written this letter in the fake name of Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Manuel Alvarez Espriella is a fictitious Spanish traveler who is traveling around England. Robert use Manuel's point of view to show the society of England in the 1800s.
Purpose
• Why does this document exist?
A: This document is created for people to study Robert Southey's literature piece and the society of England at that time.
• Why did the author create this piece of work? What is the intent?
A: This piece of work is showing the public about the child labour issue in England.
• Why did the author choose this particular format?
A: The author expressed this piece of work in the perspective of a foriegner in order to let public understand the major issues in the society of England.
• Who is the intended audience? Who was the author thinking would receive this?
A: The author is showing this to the public of England.
• What does the document “say”?
A: It says about the child labour and the working condition of workers working in the factories.
Value
• What can we tell about the author from the piece?
A: From this letter, we can tell that Southey opposed child labour.
• What can we tell about the time period from the piece?
A: From the author's description, the time period is the industrial revolution era in England during the 1800s.
• Under what circumstances was the piece created and how does the piece reflect those
circumstances?
A: The circumstance in the letter is the author critizising the use of child labor. He reflect this by saying it is inhuman.
• What can we tell about any controversies from the piece?
A: The controversy in this context is the use of child labor and bad working condition for workers in the factories.
• Does the author represent a particular ‘side’ of a controversy or event?
A: The author oppose the use of child labor because it is inhuman, while his opposition, the mill owner, think it is good to use child labor because they are cheap.
• What can we tell about the author’s perspectives from the piece?
A: The author disguised himself as a Spanish traveler who is talking to the mill owner form Manchester about children working in the factories. The author oppose the use of child labor fr it is inhuman.
• What was going on in history at the time the piece was created and how does this piece
accurately reflect it?
A: England during the 1800s is in a period known as "the Industrial Revolution". During this period, many factories were build and machinery were greatly use in the factories. Many workers were replace by machines and many people lost their job. Child labor were greatly use during this time because they are cheap, and these children weren't treated humanly.