domingo, 15 de noviembre de 2009

:: Modern Times::


Industrialization, along with Modernity, brought to people at that moment deep changes to their life style in general. First of all, people started to work in factories which gave them money to live or to survive in a way. At the same time, people left their houses in the the countryside to live in the city. Furthermore, we can see lot of people that were unemployed because of the machines, which replaced people’s work at the factories. By their own, men were totally unable to feet their family (poverty was at that time a huge issue obviously unsolved as it is nowadays), that provoked that women started to play a role in the stage along with men. Both had to work to bring food home. Moreover, people were entirely aware of the unfairness of politics. So, they wanted to show their feelings and thoughts through strikes making the whole society be involved in it. At the end, all these things made society wake up and start to fight for their rights or for the things they thought they should fight for. this, in a time called the ::Modern Times:: .

domingo, 8 de noviembre de 2009

Elizabeth's reign

Elizabeth’s reign is still considered very significant for the beliefs she spread to her country at that time. Beliefs that may not be considered normal for the society that had to deal with them because she showed that she was married with the society, she showed that also people in jail could or had the right to fight for their country, although they were not supposed to live or to do things that normal people or the ones that had not problems with the law could do. Also the issue that involved religion was a very controversial one.

To Elizabeth, catholic was not the best option to follow, instead, she preferred to follow the protestant’s ideals because they seemed to be more real or fair for her than in the way that catholic people were. This topic, about religion, was something that turned into a big crisis between England and Spain. The thing is that the last one was very catholic instead of the first one that was against those beliefs as I already said, and obviously they thought that other religions that were not catholic were just disturbing people’s minds and were also breaking what society in general had already organized. So, now we understand the importance of Elizabeth’s reign in terms of opening people’s minds, and making them act or think in the way they preferred to.