How do you think working conditions at this time in history will contribute to a massive change in labor?
Well, I think, with all that was stated, is that the working conditions will get better. The labor itself, I feel will take a huge downhill until the working conditions are fixed. I believe at one point the laborers will be short handed, no pun in-tended, and the pace will be slow with those who are working and are incapable of working to the expected needs. Once things are changed and it's easier and safer to work, the labor itself will be more efficient and better, getting the job done.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Cartoon Blog Post
How did analyzing these cartoons help you understand the relationship between big business and government better?
It took me awhile to actually understand the relationship at all. By the last one I did, I think I got it. Big business does it's best to have a lot power to control what they own. The government doesn't like that and do their best to stop it. Business bosses found ways to get around every law the government had set up. Their relationship was a 'rocky' one and they both did not get along with one another at all. For example. Each cartoon showed anger and both groups in it looking mad at one another.
Why would the position of the government be emphasized in these cartoons?
The government is so strict and does it's best to keep everything under their control. They are being outsmarted by common business people and workers over and over again.
How do these cartoons help you answer the essential question, "How does a society distribute wealth?"
These cartoons helped me by showing how it is done. With all the trust formed, oil companies, the Big Business leaders, and everything else in the mesh; they work together in a way to help one another. Underneath the skin that's how it works. Government wants control, business people make trust to secretly work together against the government, but get disrupted when the government jumps in. Workers need the money and the bosses need the workers to make money for them.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Railroad Game
1. What was your strategy? Did it work? What would you change about it?
E.R.A's main strategy was to go in a little circle and hit the three eastern regions and then head west. I'm not exactly sure what we would have changed. Maybe just go straight across the country instead loop in a small circle.
2. Why do you think connecting the different economic regions made your railroad more money?
You had a bigger profit because you would be transporting more goods. The more land you covered, in reality, the more people needed you for transportation. There was no other way to get something from Texas to New York in days time.
3.What do you think could improve this game?
Maybe a better system when someone gets bought out. Once you did and had to join another group, it just got really boring sitting there writing down what you were told instead of actually participating in anything.
4. What were your overall thoughts of the game?
I thought it was really fun! In my group we had a lot of "Oh this is a great idea!" moments that really helped us stick it through the game for so long. We were one of the last groups to be bought out, and I was rather surprised we made it that long.
5. After studying railroads and playing the game, how did this "innovation" change the United States?
It changed the way things were transported from region to region. It was a lot faster and easier to do. It also opened up a lot of job opportunities for people, but it was indeed dangerous for those working on the railroads. It helped connect the United States in a good kind of way.
E.R.A's main strategy was to go in a little circle and hit the three eastern regions and then head west. I'm not exactly sure what we would have changed. Maybe just go straight across the country instead loop in a small circle.
2. Why do you think connecting the different economic regions made your railroad more money?
You had a bigger profit because you would be transporting more goods. The more land you covered, in reality, the more people needed you for transportation. There was no other way to get something from Texas to New York in days time.
3.What do you think could improve this game?
Maybe a better system when someone gets bought out. Once you did and had to join another group, it just got really boring sitting there writing down what you were told instead of actually participating in anything.
4. What were your overall thoughts of the game?
I thought it was really fun! In my group we had a lot of "Oh this is a great idea!" moments that really helped us stick it through the game for so long. We were one of the last groups to be bought out, and I was rather surprised we made it that long.
5. After studying railroads and playing the game, how did this "innovation" change the United States?
It changed the way things were transported from region to region. It was a lot faster and easier to do. It also opened up a lot of job opportunities for people, but it was indeed dangerous for those working on the railroads. It helped connect the United States in a good kind of way.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Patillo Higgins
What is something that I could learn from Patillo Higgins life? Something that really caught my attention about his life was the fact that he may have given up on school, but he didn't give up on education. He continued to study; geology to be exact. He also discovered something he had never seen before, and went in to the study of oil. He knew back home there was somewhere oil could be found. He studied the land in back home and did end up finding a place where oil could be brought up. Not many people believed him, even after they went down 300ft. Still he knew how far and where exactly it was. He kept saying 1000ft. No one listened. That brings up the next thing I learned, to not give up on something you believe in. If you no it's the truth, and have some much proof of it, don't give up on what you believe in. After Higgins was told over and over again there was no oil, 10 years later, BAM! A gusher was shooting oil right out. He never gave up, and that's encouragement right there.
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