BLog 5

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   When I came back from being sick my partners informed me what topic and year we were assigned: March 25, 1911. I knew some tragic event occurred but I was not sure what it was. The triangle shirtwaist fire was a terrible tragedy, but the most surprising facts were not about the deaths. The owners were immigrants, which was surprising because at this time period it was mainly the white population that owned big companies. I thought it was great that these two men came from nothing and started a big business; it tells a lot about the "American Dream".
   
   

   

    
   

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Over the course of researching and collaborating, I have new ideas about the social class system. I thought that most of the social classes had diminished compared to some parts of Europe at that time period. But things were still very divided at this time.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

Semester Dos, Blog Quatro

In a time filled with religious extremists; there was actually little freedom. If I were to live in a colony during the 1700's, I would want to live in Rhode Island. For one, they have actual religious freedom. Unlike other colonies there was no established religion. Other persecuted groups chose to live in Rhode Island such as Quakers and Jews (the primary reason I would live here). Rhode Island also had better relationships with Native Americans than, say, other colonies in New England.

I would definitely not want to live in some of the southern (and some northern) states because of the vicious and infamous KKK.

Semester Dos, Blog Tres

I would have still been an architect in the 1700's. I still would have done the dirty work as well as more responsibility. I would hopefully be working in the north, where architecture was prosperous. If I were working in Massachusetts I would have had to wait until 1836 when the first child labor laws were enforced so any wrong doing would be equally punishable as if I was an adult. Architects also needed some form of education and special training. If this were REALLY the 1700's I probably would not be working as an architect. If I wanted work, (or if someone required my work) I would be in a low paying factory line of some sort (or the military).

Blog two

These readings stand out to me in two ways. The first one being that the themes being shown have some connection wig us containing stories of popculture. Two, because these examples shown have explicitly more than two opinions attached to each topic.