Artifact 8--Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Her best known novel is The Modern Prometheus. She was born in London, in 1797. She was the second child in her family, her mother is Feminism and her father is Liberalism. Her mother died after her birth.
Mary Shelley lived a literary life. Her father encouraged her to learn to write by composing letters, and her favorite occupation as a child was writing stories. Unfortunately, all of Mary's juvenilia were lost when she ran off with Percy in 1814, and none of her surviving manuscripts can be definitively dated before that year. Her first published work is often thought to have been Mounseer Nongtongpaw, comic verses written for Godwin's Juvenile Library when she was ten and a half. However, the poem is attributed to another writer in the most recent authoritative collection of her works. Percy Shelley enthusiastically encouraged Mary Shelley's writing: "My husband was, from the first, very anxious that I should prove myself worthy of my parentage, and enrol myself on the page of fame. He was forever inciting me to obtain literary reputation."

Mary Shelley's last years were blighted by illness. From 1839, she suffered from headaches and bouts of paralysis in parts of her body, which sometimes prevented her from reading and writing. On 1 February 1851, she died at the age of fifty-three from what her physician suspected was a brain tumour.

Artifact 7--William Blake

William Blake

The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich invented mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the cosmos is the heart of his work and his psychology. His myths often described the struggle between enlightenment and free love on the one hand, and restrictive education and morals on the other.

The Fall of Albion

The relationship of the four zoas, as depicted by Blake in Milton: a Poem

The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem—The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man—left in manuscript form at the time of his death. In this work, Blake traces the fall of Albion, who "was originally fourfold but was self divided.

Albion is divided into four Zoas:

• Tharmas: representing instinct and strength
• Urizen: tradition; a cruel god resembling the Gnostic Demiurge.
• Luvah: love, passion and emotive faculties; a Christ-like figure, also known as Orc in his most amorous and rebellious form.
• Urthona, also known as Los: inspiration and the imagination

The Blake Pantheon also includes feminine emanations that have separated from an integrated male being, as Eve separated from Adam:

• The maternal Enion is an emanation from Tharmas.
• The celestial Ahania is an emanation from Urizen.
• The seductive Vala is an emanation from Luvah.
• The musical Enitharmon is an emanation from Los.

The fall of Albion and his division into the Zoas and their emanations are also the central themes of Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion.

Rintrah first appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, personifying revolutionary wrath. He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in The Vision of the Daughters of Albion:

• The loud and lustful Bromion
• The "mild and piteous" Palamabron, son of Enitharmon and Los (also appears in Milton)
• The tortured mercenary Theotormon

Artifact 6--Drawing

Artifact 5--Google Earth Tour

The brands that first started in the Europe.

Artifact 4--Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (5.12.1820 – 8.13.1910) was a successful English nurse, writer and statistician. Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia. At first, Nightingale’s family was very upset about her being a nurse, because at that time, nurse is a base and low work, and they think that being a wife and a mother is what a woman need to do. Nightingale worked hard to educate herself in the art and science of nursing, in spite of opposition from her family and the restrictive societal code for affluent young English women, and finally earn the respect from the others.

Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times:

She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.

The first official nurses’ training program, the Nightingale School for Nurses, opened in 1860. The mission of the school was to train nurses to work in hospitals, work with the poor, and to teach. This intended that students cared for people in their homes, an appreciation that is still advancing in reputation and professional opportunity for nurses today. Florence Nightingale's lasting contribution has been her role in founding the modern nursing profession. She set an example of compassion, commitment to patient care, and diligent and thoughtful hospital administration.

Artifact 3--The Luddites

Time past and people started to seek for a better life. Industrial Revolution occurred, and brings better or worse life to the society. Machines have been created by the scientists and inventors, which did bring huge benefits to the nineteen century industry. However, not all the people are fascinate by the invention of machines, for example the luddites. The luddites are members of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, esp. in cotton and woolen mills that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16). The Luddites were trying to save their livelihoods by smashing industrial machines developed for use in the textile industries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The movement began in Nottingham in 1811 and spread rapidly throughout England in 1811 and 1812.

In 1816 there was a revival of violence and machine breaking following a bad harvest and a downturn in trade.  On 28 June the Luddites attacked Heathcote and Boden's mill in Loughborough. Army was used to end the riots and for their crimes, six men were executed and another three were transported. That was a terrible day, People were yelling in anger, and destroying things, making a huge damage to the factories and the industry there. They smashed 53 frames at a cost of £6,000.

Is the invention of machines correct or not? This is a very sensitive question. Machines did make our lives easier, but the following things are pollutions and unemployment, which disturbed our lives a lot. The luddites were just workers in the factories, can we judge if they were guilty or innocent?

Artifact 2--Idea page

Artifact 1--Children Labor

Origin

Who created it?

A: Marjorie Bloy            

Who is the author?

A: Robert Southey

When was it created?

A: In 1807.

When was it published?

A: In 1807.

Where was it published?

A: England

Who is publishing it?

A:  Robert Southey

Is there anything we know about the author that is pertinent to our evaluation?

A: Yes, he said that nothing could be so selfish to country as manufacture.

Purpose

Why does this document exist?

A: The document is telling about the children labor and the reality in the society.

Why did the author create this piece of work? What is the intent?

A: He wanted to avoid children labor, he thought that instead of working in factories, children should go to school.

Why did the author choose this particular format?

A: He want to use the letter form to show that he want to sent his idea to people, and let’s the readers understand that he disagree about the children labor.

Who is the intended audience? Who was the author thinking would receive this?

A: Basically the governments, and the bosses in the factories.

What does the document “say”?

It said that it want to resist for the children that work in the factories.

Can it tell you more than is on the surface?                      

A: I think that is trying to express his feeling about the effects of the industrial revolution, and how he felt sorry for these children.

Value

What can we tell about the author from the piece?

A: He was trying to help the children by publishing this book. He’s a kind man.

What can we tell about the time period from the piece?

A: It’s in 19^th century’s industrial revolution when the workers need to work in the facories for a very long time.

Under what circumstances was the piece created and how does the piece reflect those circumstances?

A: Children labor is one of the big problems in the 19^th century’s industrial revolution in England. The author wants to fight for the children at that time.

What can we tell about any controversies from the piece?

A: Children labor did bring benefit to the industry, but is it the right thing to do?

Does the author represent a particular ‘side’ of a controversy or event?

A: He was just talking about the thing that he disagreed with.

What can we tell about the author’s perspectives from the piece?

A: He thought that children labor is unfair to the children.

Limitation

What part of the story can we NOT tell from this document?

We can’t know the exactly date that the author wrote the letter.

How could we verify the content of the piece?

A: We can search the Internet.

Does this piece inaccurately reflect anything about the time period?

A: Yes, this document clearly talked about the circumstances in the 19^th century industrial revolution.

What does the author leave out and why does he/she leave it out (if you know)?

A: Uh…..I think he left out the other circumstances in the 19^th century industrial revolution because in this document he needs to focus on the children labor.

What is purposely not addressed?

A: He wants to support the children from the children labor, but he didn’t want to public his information.