Friday, October 31, 2008
the modern encyclopedia of modern bodybulding review
The encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding is a source with tremendous amount of information that was of great help during the research project in this class. This piece contains information that relates from (p.o.v.) of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the process of body building in the fitness industry. This encyclopedia also gives inside look on how personal trainers were of great help to make him the best bodybuilder in the world. The beginner programs in this book used with proper weight for your body will show results and should not even come close to overtraining if you are using low weight. A good section in-directly speaking to overtraining (besides the one devoted to the topic) is the one on body types. For example, Arnold's information tells you; if you have a natural athletic body you can probably start a bit harder. Where as an endomorph (gains fat easily) may want to focus on cardio more and getting up their energy level and fatigue resistance. enethough i did not get a chance to read this book, the amount i read was sufficient enough to help me conclude my project.
"Crazyloco" book review
The book ”crazy loco” is is a great book relating stories that I can reflect on. The nine short stories in this collection are presented as personal reflections of Mexican-American kids growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The selections range from comedic remembrances of cousins visiting from California who must use the "booby-trapped" outhouse, to touching scenes of poverty and survival across the Mexican border. The author david rice writes from personal experience growing up in the small town of Edcouch, Texas. His stories represent a wide variety of ages. This book was an experiece that most of the time in regards of book reading, I don’t get the chance to have based on how I can relate to the stories presented here.
TRAINING LOGS
Thurs. oct-2-08 (7pm-10pm): on this day my friend Miguel and I worked on the basics of cardio vascular exercise and just some weight lifting, not much of it thought since it’s the beginning of his training routine. First we started out by evaluating his body, or taking in consideration how his body would adjust to a workout routine. Inthis evaluation, I had to know various things that can be key points to adjust to a well organized straining routine. During this time, I noticed that he is not that flexible, this would be the cause of lack in the exercise for a long period of time. The first thing I started out Miguel doing was stretching out. During the stretching the muscles start to get loose and also they start to get warmed up for the training, this is very important specially when doing weight lifting, if not done properly or not done at all you might end up suffering from lack of smooth movements and very painful muscle spasms or cramps. After the stretching, Miguel and I started our cardio training ion the treadmill. We ran at a trasmill speed of 5.8, s I told him, drinking water is good and can help you not get tired too fast, but if you drink large amounts of water the time you’ll spend running would just make you heavy and there will be a lack of running potential . after the treadmill, we moved over to another great cardiovascular machine that makes sweating easy. During the cardio on this machine is great because aside from moving in place, it has resistance levels that make your legs get toned. We worked out on this machine for about another 35 minutes, at this time Miguel war exhausted. After this we moved over to the stationary bicycle and for the last 30 min we worked really hard to exile the toxins in our body. This session concludewhen we stretched out after the workout this helps reduce the side effect which is the pain or burning sensation and also the soreness that you would feel the very next day.
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mon oct-6-08 (7am-10:30am): today, after Miguel getting the chance to recuperate for about four days, it was time for another hard workout. At this time Miguel is more resistant to a good session, knowing what was coming he was able to last longer training and be able to move better. We worked on cardio and I introduced him to the weight liftin. It was important to get the muscles loose and warmed up to have an efficient training session, so we started with the stretching routine getting all the muscles warmed up from upper to lower. Moving on was again the treadmill, we started with a low pace walking this time to work right away the legs, the treadmill was in an inclined position as if were going up a hill. This ibckine mode gets the blood moving fast right away, and from the beginning the quads are felt working. After about 15 min, we lowered the treadmill from incline back to the normal position, and started running at the speed of 6.0. a couple of minutes running, Miguel noticed right away that he was the ability to quickly warmed up. The training session that I prepared for us was doing high sets with low reps starting from the largest muscle group, this is because large muscles groups take longer to reavt to the training. We started right away on the chest starting with the first exercise for the chest which was the bench press. We did three sets of about nine reps, after these sets continuing with the chest we moved on the dumbbell press this exercise focuses more on the contraction of the pectoral muscles again we did another four set of eight reps..after this exercise having about 45 left we worked on another large muscle group moving from upper body to lower we worked on the quadriceps. We started on the squats which is a great exercise to develop overall leg definition and muscular mass. This exercise consists on aquating down having weight on the back through an Olympic bar. After the squats we moved on to the stretching routine and called it a day.
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sun. Oct-12-08: today we started on the smaller muscle groups right away. Since our muscles were already warmed up, the stretching part was skipped and proceeded to the biceps. I had a routine set up that consisted on about 4-5 exercises, which all focused on the biceps. Starting with the normal barbell curls with 25lb dumbbells, this exercise consists of curling the weight from 25-30-35 lbs, as moving from set to set. After this we moved on the ne next exercise, the hammer curls, these are almost the same, but there is a difference this is that the position of the hand or the way the weight in grabbed is with an upright grip or as if you were holding a coffee mug. After about four sets of another 18 reps we took a short rest and moved on to the reverse curls. The reverse curls consist of curling the weight of course in a reverse grip, or the palms facing downward. After this we took a short resting time a concluded with a whole hour of cardio with the punching bag and speed bag.
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thrurs. Oct.-16-08: (8am-9:30am): today having just an hour and one-half, it was all cardio training with no resting periods in between. Of course since our stretching is primordial we started with that. About 20 min of stretching afterwards right away we went to the spontaneous blood flow and hyper activity, the punching bag. This exercise is a tremendous workout that if the person is not well condition, it can completely exhaust you. Miguel and I both have boxing gloves so sparring was a good idea. After all the training we cooled down on the stationary bicycle.
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mon oct-6-08 (7am-10:30am): today, after Miguel getting the chance to recuperate for about four days, it was time for another hard workout. At this time Miguel is more resistant to a good session, knowing what was coming he was able to last longer training and be able to move better. We worked on cardio and I introduced him to the weight liftin. It was important to get the muscles loose and warmed up to have an efficient training session, so we started with the stretching routine getting all the muscles warmed up from upper to lower. Moving on was again the treadmill, we started with a low pace walking this time to work right away the legs, the treadmill was in an inclined position as if were going up a hill. This ibckine mode gets the blood moving fast right away, and from the beginning the quads are felt working. After about 15 min, we lowered the treadmill from incline back to the normal position, and started running at the speed of 6.0. a couple of minutes running, Miguel noticed right away that he was the ability to quickly warmed up. The training session that I prepared for us was doing high sets with low reps starting from the largest muscle group, this is because large muscles groups take longer to reavt to the training. We started right away on the chest starting with the first exercise for the chest which was the bench press. We did three sets of about nine reps, after these sets continuing with the chest we moved on the dumbbell press this exercise focuses more on the contraction of the pectoral muscles again we did another four set of eight reps..after this exercise having about 45 left we worked on another large muscle group moving from upper body to lower we worked on the quadriceps. We started on the squats which is a great exercise to develop overall leg definition and muscular mass. This exercise consists on aquating down having weight on the back through an Olympic bar. After the squats we moved on to the stretching routine and called it a day.
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sun. Oct-12-08: today we started on the smaller muscle groups right away. Since our muscles were already warmed up, the stretching part was skipped and proceeded to the biceps. I had a routine set up that consisted on about 4-5 exercises, which all focused on the biceps. Starting with the normal barbell curls with 25lb dumbbells, this exercise consists of curling the weight from 25-30-35 lbs, as moving from set to set. After this we moved on the ne next exercise, the hammer curls, these are almost the same, but there is a difference this is that the position of the hand or the way the weight in grabbed is with an upright grip or as if you were holding a coffee mug. After about four sets of another 18 reps we took a short rest and moved on to the reverse curls. The reverse curls consist of curling the weight of course in a reverse grip, or the palms facing downward. After this we took a short resting time a concluded with a whole hour of cardio with the punching bag and speed bag.
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thrurs. Oct.-16-08: (8am-9:30am): today having just an hour and one-half, it was all cardio training with no resting periods in between. Of course since our stretching is primordial we started with that. About 20 min of stretching afterwards right away we went to the spontaneous blood flow and hyper activity, the punching bag. This exercise is a tremendous workout that if the person is not well condition, it can completely exhaust you. Miguel and I both have boxing gloves so sparring was a good idea. After all the training we cooled down on the stationary bicycle.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
anglo saxons
The story is interesting in the way that a true, brave, loyal and strong man was committed into being a soldier and from the belief of God. Fighting for his people protecting them at all costs risking the life of himself and his friends to fight Grendel an escaped evil demon that was killing everyone he and his companions fought until they finished to kill Grendel.He accomplished his goal and kept his promise to the Danes of killing Grendel, ripping of its hand to show proof of the killing. then Grendels mother comes for revenge of her son but then again Beowulf did not back down and went fighting with no doubts in mind killing the mother with a sword only a true strong man could use again defeated the mother another demon winning the battle for the second time. many years passed and also many adventures went by and Beowulf became very old, but then along came a fire breathing dragon burning up the land into where he lived and started mayhem and so then Beowulf as a soldier he used to be, thought he could be the one to kill the dragon using pure strength he trusted he was very confident and cocky because of his past accomplishments with Grendel and his mother but Beowulf was just too old and he really thought he was as a strong as he use to be, and for that he got bitten by the dragon and bled while poison slowly killed him.Beowulf did illustrate well of the Anglo Saxons culture, in a way that they were very religious in believing God's might given to a warrior himself as said in the story; "Now a warrior, through God's might, has performed a deed we, in our wisdom, could not contrive".
The history of Anglo-Saxon England broadly covers early medieval England from the end of Roman rule and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066. Christianization of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms began around 600 and was essentially complete by the mid 8th century. Throughout the 7th and 8th centuries, power fluctuated between the larger kingdoms. Bede records as being dominant at the close of the 6th century, but power seems to have shifted northwards to the kingdom of North Umbria.
The history of Anglo-Saxon England broadly covers early medieval England from the end of Roman rule and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066. Christianization of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms began around 600 and was essentially complete by the mid 8th century. Throughout the 7th and 8th centuries, power fluctuated between the larger kingdoms. Bede records as being dominant at the close of the 6th century, but power seems to have shifted northwards to the kingdom of North Umbria.
The Restoration/ The Glorious Revolution
The glorious revolution also called “bloodless revolution” , or revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of king James the second of England by a union of parliamentarians led by William the third, a Dutch stadholder. The bloodless revolution has a background the three major battles in Ireland and the fighting in Scotland. This event is closely tied with the events of, “war of grand alliance” on mainland Europe, which may be seen as the last successful invasion of England. During his three year reign, king James became directly involved in the political battles in England between Catholicism and protesters, this in one side and in the other, the fight between the divine right of the crown and the political rights in 1686 James ordered the removal of Henry Compton, the anti-Catholic bishop off London, and also dismissed the protestants of Magdalene college and replaced them with Catholics. After many years and occurred events James died of a brain hemorrhage on September 16 1701 at the chapel of saint Edmund in the church of English Benedictines in the rue st. Jacques.
The glorious revolution is considered by some as being one of the most important event since it concluded with the passage of the bill of rights, it stamped out one, and for all any possibility of a catholic monarchy, and ended moves toward absolute monarchy in the British kingdoms controlling monarchs powers. Its also important because since 1689, government under a system of constitutional monarchy in England, and later the united kingdom has been unit empted. The parliament’s power has steadily increased while the crowns had declined. This revolution also led to the act of toleration of 1689, which granted toleration to nonconformity Protestants, but not the Catholics.
Satire, this word is often strictly defined as a form to abuse In the ridicule way a body of importance. In most cases satire is meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself, I believe is a attack used as a weapon. A very common feature of satire is its strong irony or sarcasm, amongst these parodies, exaggeration, comparison, analogy and double meaning is also used and considered the form of satire. Today satire can be seen almost everywhere whether in TV shows or books, satire or the act of ridicule’s always there. There are various TV shows that contain satire in exaggeration, some examples would be; “the Simpsons”, “family guy”, “home movies”, and the sitcom “cheers”, all from which satire is reflected that point out the actions, faults, and thoughts of the average middle aged and even older people in our society today.
A “modest proposal”, by Jonathan swift (1729 describes and discusses the thought in real or in exaggerated form of the children around this time. Swifts ideas and thoughts in 1729 reflect the struggle that was taking place at the moment, which was preventing children specially children of the poor from being a burden to parents and the country in reference to the economic situation. Swifts reference to this is portrayed in the writing of “modest proposal” in an exaggerated or satired format, it seems as if the people whom this is directed to, would not value or take in consideration jonathans’ s thoughts. This context of information can be seen in the following from “modest proposal”; “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at year old and most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled….”. – Jonathan swift. I believe this is a form of satire since it makes fun of what the people think or how the people would think, making at the time explicit exaggeration of what to do with the children that are suffering from the countries and familiar burden, basically saying, to prevent children n from going through hard times why not find another usage and eat them that way we are all happy.
“From a journal of the plague year”; which Defoe published in 1722 is the writing of the bubonic plague that had taken place in London. At the time, the outbreak was blamed upon the French. In early April 1665, two infected French sailors were said to have collapsed and died at the junction of Long Acre in London. These cases were said to have brought about all subsequent infections. This has been largely dismissed as anti rench. The British outbreak is actually thought to have originated from the Netherlands bubonic plague had occurred intermittently since 1599, with the initial contagion arriving with Dutch trading ships carrying bales Of cotton from Amsterdam. The dock areas outside of London, including st. guiles in the fields where workers crowed into dangerous and collapsing structures supposedly where the plague first struck. Some evidence from the book about the plague can be seen: “many persons in this time of this visitation never perceived that they were infected till they found to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out upon them; after which them seldom lived six hours, for those spots they called “tokens” were really gangrene spots.”
The glorious revolution is considered by some as being one of the most important event since it concluded with the passage of the bill of rights, it stamped out one, and for all any possibility of a catholic monarchy, and ended moves toward absolute monarchy in the British kingdoms controlling monarchs powers. Its also important because since 1689, government under a system of constitutional monarchy in England, and later the united kingdom has been unit empted. The parliament’s power has steadily increased while the crowns had declined. This revolution also led to the act of toleration of 1689, which granted toleration to nonconformity Protestants, but not the Catholics.
Satire, this word is often strictly defined as a form to abuse In the ridicule way a body of importance. In most cases satire is meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself, I believe is a attack used as a weapon. A very common feature of satire is its strong irony or sarcasm, amongst these parodies, exaggeration, comparison, analogy and double meaning is also used and considered the form of satire. Today satire can be seen almost everywhere whether in TV shows or books, satire or the act of ridicule’s always there. There are various TV shows that contain satire in exaggeration, some examples would be; “the Simpsons”, “family guy”, “home movies”, and the sitcom “cheers”, all from which satire is reflected that point out the actions, faults, and thoughts of the average middle aged and even older people in our society today.
A “modest proposal”, by Jonathan swift (1729 describes and discusses the thought in real or in exaggerated form of the children around this time. Swifts ideas and thoughts in 1729 reflect the struggle that was taking place at the moment, which was preventing children specially children of the poor from being a burden to parents and the country in reference to the economic situation. Swifts reference to this is portrayed in the writing of “modest proposal” in an exaggerated or satired format, it seems as if the people whom this is directed to, would not value or take in consideration jonathans’ s thoughts. This context of information can be seen in the following from “modest proposal”; “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at year old and most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled….”. – Jonathan swift. I believe this is a form of satire since it makes fun of what the people think or how the people would think, making at the time explicit exaggeration of what to do with the children that are suffering from the countries and familiar burden, basically saying, to prevent children n from going through hard times why not find another usage and eat them that way we are all happy.
“From a journal of the plague year”; which Defoe published in 1722 is the writing of the bubonic plague that had taken place in London. At the time, the outbreak was blamed upon the French. In early April 1665, two infected French sailors were said to have collapsed and died at the junction of Long Acre in London. These cases were said to have brought about all subsequent infections. This has been largely dismissed as anti rench. The British outbreak is actually thought to have originated from the Netherlands bubonic plague had occurred intermittently since 1599, with the initial contagion arriving with Dutch trading ships carrying bales Of cotton from Amsterdam. The dock areas outside of London, including st. guiles in the fields where workers crowed into dangerous and collapsing structures supposedly where the plague first struck. Some evidence from the book about the plague can be seen: “many persons in this time of this visitation never perceived that they were infected till they found to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out upon them; after which them seldom lived six hours, for those spots they called “tokens” were really gangrene spots.”
Thursday, October 2, 2008
ROMANTIC/ VICTORIAN POETRY
ROMANTIC/ VICTORIAN POETRY
One of the poets of great poetic attribute was William Blake. he devoted his life to worshiping god through his poems and art. he believed that every object and event on earth had its powerful meaning, trough spiritualism. This can be seen in one of his poems:
"THE TYGER"
"tyger! tyger! burning brightin
the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain ?
what the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightin
the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
This poem seems to be a good example of romanticism since; I believe it expresses the ideas of William Blake itself, which is being religious. In the poem i noticed this reference in stanza# 17, "when the stars threw down their spears....". Stars.......spears; refer to the angels who fell with Satan and threw down their spears after losing the war in heaven.
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In the Victorian period which became very different from the romantic, authors and poets had a different way of expressing thoughts and ideas. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a very good poet, considered once the greatest living English poet. Tennyson always had and never lost the melancholy and sense of chaos that friends and reviewers in his early poems. He was very popular because his poems spoke a beautiful measured language of sense and regarding the sadness of life. This can be seen in one of his poems;
“Tears, Idle Tears”
“Tears idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields, and thinking of the
Days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a snail, that brings our
Friends up from the under world, sad as the last which reddens
Over one-
That sinks with all we love below the verge:
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death, and sweet as those by
Hopeless fancy feigned-
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O death in life, the days that are no more.”
This poem takes effect in a emotional perspective probably to the concern of Tennyson at the time. The poem I believe has words that would conclude to the reader as aspects of the way of life, Tennyson includes “days that are no more” which I believe regards to the end of life or death. In stanza# 2; “Tears from the depth of some divine despair”, I believe Alfred regards to the involvement of something in the religious aspect, perhaps it relates to Adam and Eve’s fall in genesis.
One of the poets of great poetic attribute was William Blake. he devoted his life to worshiping god through his poems and art. he believed that every object and event on earth had its powerful meaning, trough spiritualism. This can be seen in one of his poems:
"THE TYGER"
"tyger! tyger! burning brightin
the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain ?
what the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightin
the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
This poem seems to be a good example of romanticism since; I believe it expresses the ideas of William Blake itself, which is being religious. In the poem i noticed this reference in stanza# 17, "when the stars threw down their spears....". Stars.......spears; refer to the angels who fell with Satan and threw down their spears after losing the war in heaven.
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In the Victorian period which became very different from the romantic, authors and poets had a different way of expressing thoughts and ideas. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a very good poet, considered once the greatest living English poet. Tennyson always had and never lost the melancholy and sense of chaos that friends and reviewers in his early poems. He was very popular because his poems spoke a beautiful measured language of sense and regarding the sadness of life. This can be seen in one of his poems;
“Tears, Idle Tears”
“Tears idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields, and thinking of the
Days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a snail, that brings our
Friends up from the under world, sad as the last which reddens
Over one-
That sinks with all we love below the verge:
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death, and sweet as those by
Hopeless fancy feigned-
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O death in life, the days that are no more.”
This poem takes effect in a emotional perspective probably to the concern of Tennyson at the time. The poem I believe has words that would conclude to the reader as aspects of the way of life, Tennyson includes “days that are no more” which I believe regards to the end of life or death. In stanza# 2; “Tears from the depth of some divine despair”, I believe Alfred regards to the involvement of something in the religious aspect, perhaps it relates to Adam and Eve’s fall in genesis.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
1&2. The Victorian period was a time where industrialism made England the workshop of the world, with a mechanized factory system and extensive railways. Much of British population moved from rural areas to rapidly growing cities. This era also expanded educational opportunities, increased literacy, flourishing lending libraries and cheap periodicals. The human cost of industrialization was heavy; abuses of child labor, unsafe conditions in factories causing the wide spread of diseases also caused by contaminated water. This period had a time of crucial problems from which it also came to be known as “the hungry forties”. Victoria came to the throne in the first year of a depression that by 1842 gad put about a million unemployed workers. Government commissions investigating working conditions learned of children mangled when they fell asleep at machines at the end of a twelve hour working day.
In Ireland the potato blight caused the death of about one million people and also forced another two million others nearly twenty percent of Ireland’s population to emigrate. The rapid growth of cities often made people filthy and disorderly. About two million people lived in London during the 1840’s, commercial and industrial cities expanded rapidly. The Thames River in London was polluted by sewage, industrial waste and drainage from graveyards where bodies were buried.
The movement to reform food, factories, and optimism also took place during this period. The violence broke out at massive political rallies in the 1840’s to protest government policies that kept the price of bread and other food high at the time. In 1848 a year of revolution in Europe, British politicians got the army ready and armed the staffs of museums and government offices when working class political reformers organized what they called a “monster rally”, in London to petition parliament and the queen. At the time most middle class Victorians believed that things were better than in the past and that they were going to be better yet in the future.
3. The biggest difference I believe between the romantic period and the Victorian period was the industrialization and technology developed in the with the Victorians since the romantic period was more in a emotional and intellectual period and not yet civilized. I believe that the Victorian period changed the way people viewed things and made people realize the true and at the time raw reality of life. This can be seen in what might be the diary of Charles Kingsley:
“From the butchers and greengrocers shops the gaslights flared and flickered. Wild and ghastly, over the haggard groups of slipshod dirty women, bargain for scraps of stale meat and frostbitten vegetables, wrangling about short weight and bad quality. Fish stalls and fruit stalls lined the edge of the greasy pavements, sending up odors as foul as the language of sellers and buyers. Blood and sewer water crawled from under doors and out of spouts, and reeked down the gutters among offal, animal and vegetable, in every stage of putrefaction.” Pg.787
Many Victorians though of themselves as progressive morally, intellectual, as well as materially. In this period people were arrested for distributing information about sexually transmitted diseases. Determining that Victorian society regarded seduced or adulterous women as “fallen” and pushed them to the margins of respectability. The advances of the Victorian period were very evident to those living in it. People began to understand the earth, its creatures and its natural laws.
4. the Victorian period and its literature was filled with voices asking questions and raising doubts. Victorian writers asked whether material fully satisfied human satisfied human needs and whishes. They questioned the cost of exploiting the earth and human begins to achieve such comfort. The son of Charles dickens, the most important and popular figure in Victorian literature, lived out one of the favorite plots of Victorian progress by rising through his own talents to become a wealthy and famous man. This was made possible by the increasing affluence that gave him a large reading public.
The highest purpose of a poet, or any other writer, was to make readers aware of the connection between earth and heaven, body and soul, material and idea. Victorian writers had purposes as various as ideas or reality they believed in. some writers wanted to scare or shame readers into effective more political actions that thy believed were possible.
In Ireland the potato blight caused the death of about one million people and also forced another two million others nearly twenty percent of Ireland’s population to emigrate. The rapid growth of cities often made people filthy and disorderly. About two million people lived in London during the 1840’s, commercial and industrial cities expanded rapidly. The Thames River in London was polluted by sewage, industrial waste and drainage from graveyards where bodies were buried.
The movement to reform food, factories, and optimism also took place during this period. The violence broke out at massive political rallies in the 1840’s to protest government policies that kept the price of bread and other food high at the time. In 1848 a year of revolution in Europe, British politicians got the army ready and armed the staffs of museums and government offices when working class political reformers organized what they called a “monster rally”, in London to petition parliament and the queen. At the time most middle class Victorians believed that things were better than in the past and that they were going to be better yet in the future.
3. The biggest difference I believe between the romantic period and the Victorian period was the industrialization and technology developed in the with the Victorians since the romantic period was more in a emotional and intellectual period and not yet civilized. I believe that the Victorian period changed the way people viewed things and made people realize the true and at the time raw reality of life. This can be seen in what might be the diary of Charles Kingsley:
“From the butchers and greengrocers shops the gaslights flared and flickered. Wild and ghastly, over the haggard groups of slipshod dirty women, bargain for scraps of stale meat and frostbitten vegetables, wrangling about short weight and bad quality. Fish stalls and fruit stalls lined the edge of the greasy pavements, sending up odors as foul as the language of sellers and buyers. Blood and sewer water crawled from under doors and out of spouts, and reeked down the gutters among offal, animal and vegetable, in every stage of putrefaction.” Pg.787
Many Victorians though of themselves as progressive morally, intellectual, as well as materially. In this period people were arrested for distributing information about sexually transmitted diseases. Determining that Victorian society regarded seduced or adulterous women as “fallen” and pushed them to the margins of respectability. The advances of the Victorian period were very evident to those living in it. People began to understand the earth, its creatures and its natural laws.
4. the Victorian period and its literature was filled with voices asking questions and raising doubts. Victorian writers asked whether material fully satisfied human satisfied human needs and whishes. They questioned the cost of exploiting the earth and human begins to achieve such comfort. The son of Charles dickens, the most important and popular figure in Victorian literature, lived out one of the favorite plots of Victorian progress by rising through his own talents to become a wealthy and famous man. This was made possible by the increasing affluence that gave him a large reading public.
The highest purpose of a poet, or any other writer, was to make readers aware of the connection between earth and heaven, body and soul, material and idea. Victorian writers had purposes as various as ideas or reality they believed in. some writers wanted to scare or shame readers into effective more political actions that thy believed were possible.
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