Industrial Revolution

I think the industrial revolution really made an impact towards our earth and it has been kept this way since the industrial revolution has started. Looking at how the world has been platformed now you are able to realize that this industrial revolution. People keep building things that keep damaging the environment to make it easier for us to have faster this, faster that but to be honest we don't take in consideration how some things have a huge impact in the environment. The other day I was at work and a lady came up to me as I was changing the paper towel roll that it takes a whole tree to make one little roll holder. 

Another thing I found interesting was house the British Aristocracy completely decreased because of the industrial revolution.

Blog #12

I think what shocked me more about this chapter and mostly at the beginning when the topic of races shows up. I think Europeans took it to the extreme when they started to degrade certain races because the European race was superior. They started to compare the other races to animals and things/people who were below them. Not only that but they believed that race was everything as one of the man that was quoted in the book said. Whites became first and then anything else came below whites, this was the beginning of when racial issues became explicit, slavery was the foundation of it.
Even now people still act favorably towards people of lighter skin color just because of their appearance. I learned in my psychology course that if you put a Caucasian women, Caucasian man, and a colored female along with a colored male in a car dealer the Caucasian male would get the best deal. The woman of color would get the highest price that they could sell the car for and it's just prejudice and racial profiling.

SND Post 9

I think learning about the two women that founded the school is just astounding because they're stories I have never considered to even read. One of the things I learned about Julie Billiart was that there were a lot of events happening to her in a short amount of time. One of them being that her father was almost murdered and the stress it caused among her family. I find it quite interesting how two women who were so different founded a school through their friendship and beliefs from the experiences they lived before.

Post #7

What I thought was important about comparing both the American and French revolution were the purposes of both of the revolutions. With the American revolution it was mostly based off getting their independence from the British. The fact that they organized themselves into colonies and were revolting about.
The French Revolution in the other hand was just the conflict between their own society. There were people that weren't being treated equally.

Post #6- The scientific revolution

One of the most surprising things that I learned from this chapter was that what really sparked the scientific revolution was the universities and the students. The Catholic church's version of how God created the Earth in 7 days. The change of Europeans thought about where Earth stood and that it was also not the center of the universe created a lot of controversy.

I think this also relates to school now because there was a time and I believe there still are schools where they teach that God created the world in 7 days without getting into other theologies. Even now being in a private catholic university there are certain things that can't really be in the curriculum because of the catholic church. My psychology professor repeatedly says that there are some things that she can't talk about sexuality because of the reason that the school is catholic.

Post # 5- Women in Religion

I was reading through the book and found some new interesting things that I did't know before from history class. One of the first things that I realized from women's experiences in religion was that Protestants stopped worshiping female saints like Virgin Mary and it was solely the male Christ figures that would be worshiped. Like Catholics, majority of protestants with the exception of the Quakers did not offer women a position to be involved in churches. This also plays a role in today's religion even though women can read the scriptures and now play a role in the altar. Women still can't play a role of being priest or the pope and people have different opinions in this.

I remember being in my Religions of the World class and having a discussion whether women should play a role in being priests in a Catholic church and a classmate of mine disagreed because he said that Jesus was a man and our whole lives it has been a tradition for the men to take role in Catholic institutions.

Other than the fact that women could not be involved in the important roles of their religion they also had limited access to education outside of their home. The Bible was a very important role in the Protestant church  and as quoted in the book "reading the Bible for oneself stimulated education and literacy for women" (Strayer,722). In our culture today women can read and write and have access to education, but it is different in other cultures because women are still under male supervision.