Go to the course Blackboard and watch the video for the most recent powerpoint. What other facts do you know about Victorian Britain, or what’s something new that you learned from the most recent powerpoint? Discuss Victorian British history in the comments.
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From your powerpoint on Victorian British history, I found the slide on “Woman, Gender, and Victorian Ideals” to be the most interesting. This was the time where woman finally had the opportunity to branch out of her expected gender role and place as a housewife; she could work, learn, and have a voice. Although this is not even close to equality, it was a big change in norms. Today we still have a problem with gender equality, yet we can see a major improvement from how things used to be.
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Charles Darwin is most known for his contribution to evolution, which is something that I am familiar with. As mentioned in the power point, he introduced the concept of “survival of the fittest” and used different species of finches to help prove his theory of natural selection. Darwin noticed that finches from various islands looked almost identical, but had dissimilar beaks that were best suited for the food they ate. For example, finches that ate insects had thinner and sharper beaks, and finches that ate seeds had larger beaks. He came to the conclusion that as finches began populating neighboring islands, they were forced to adapt to the conditions in order to survive. This led to the differentiation in their beaks and ultimately, evolution.
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After watching your video over the slides, I realized that I knew about most of the topics such as human and animal evolution, the unfairness of industrialization, and the treatment of women and minorities. Something I found funny was how British citizens identified with their bosses because of the connections in history, religion, and language, even though they were being treated terribly. I also knew that the sewing machine was invented during this era in England.
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Watching the PowerPoint Science, Education, and Industrialization video I learned that Oxford began to give degrees to women in 1920 and Cambridge first started allowing women to get degrees in 1949. During the Victorian times, science was just becoming a larger thing in their society over religion and there was a lot of clashing with Darwin’s ideas on evolution at that time. I was surprised to see that England was a ginger undecapus (11 arms) looking creature. But I think the point was that England had its hands in a lot of places trying to make themselves rich. But that’s not as funny to think about as England having eleven arms!
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while watching science, education and industrialization in the powerpoint, i learned a few things. i learned that when charles darwin was coming up with the theory of evolution, a lot of people were mad because of their religious beliefs and because the bible tells a completely different story. i also learned about social darwinism also known as survival of the fittest which did not actually come from darwin but from people who read his work. i also learned about darwin’s experiment with finches and how he analyzed how they changed over time because of the food they ate.
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As I love science and have been learning more and more about, and each year there’s is a lesson specifically for the Darwin’s theory of natural selection. It was interesting to see that you made a connection to eugenics and the Victorian age. The ideals attached to women in this time period are something that I have studied very well and the Victorian age always reminds of how its a start of change for education and women ideals. Furthermore, “Fin de Siecle” was a word and concept that I was not aware of but now am.
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In the section “Empire: Additions, Changes, Problems”, I learned things that I did not know before. For example, I learned that Great Britain colonizing material-rich countries, such as India, or many countries in Africa, was influenced by religion and spreading Christianity throughout other nations, as well as “scientific” beliefs held about white superiority (which I especially did not know that there was a so-called science behind white supremacy… way to justify racism). Furthermore, while I knew British rule over the colonies was exploitative in more ways than one, I did not know that the people living under the Empire were not given the same rights that were extended to British citizens. Lastly, I learned that Imperialism influenced many works written by authors of the time.
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