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1. Describe the Industrial Revolution ... including your view of it.  The Industrial Revolution was basically a period of time characterized by new technology and factory labor.  The revolution produced a large array of ideologies from the classical economics which supported the revolution, to those such as Charles Dickens, who wrote about the unfairness of the times, to philosophers who believed the system could be remedied by making all property publicly owned.  Basically all these new philosophies having been created was a result of the social change that was entailed by the industrial revolution.  The period of revolution was when new technologies were being created, but society did not understand how to ethically use and produce them.  Examples include the Civil War's reliance on the newly-invented rifle to fight at close range and incur massive casualties rather than use their rifles at their full range and strike at strategic points.  Another example in the laborers' inability to united and negotiate with their employers and so they were forced to settle for lower wages.  As modern warfare developed and unions formed the large wars became decided by a few strategic battles and employers were forced to give their employees fair wages and reasonable hours.

1. Describe the Industrial Revolution ... including your view of it.  The Industrial Revolution was basically a period of time characterized by new technology and factory labor.  The revolution produced a large array of ideologies from the classical economics which supported the revolution, to those such as Charles Dickens, who wrote about the unfairness of the times, to philosophers who believed the system could be remedied by making all property publicly owned.  Basically all these new philosophies having been created was a result of the social change that was entailed by the industrial revolution.  The period of revolution was when new technologies were being created, but society did not understand how to ethically use and produce them.  Examples include the Civil War's reliance on the newly-invented rifle to fight at close range and incur massive casualties rather than use their rifles at their full range and strike at strategic points.  Another example in the laborers' inability to unite and negotiate with their employers and so they were forced to settle for lower wages.  As modern warfare developed and unions formed the large wars became decided by a few strategic battles and employers were forced to give their employees fair wages and reasonable hours.

   

   

4. Write an essay about any issue related to the lecture.  I chose to write about a scientist, perhaps the greatest of this era, namely Gregor Mendel.  Mendel is famous for his experimenting with peas to create universal genetic principles.  Living in an Augustinian monastery, Mendel chose to devote his time to the study of Genetics.  He made a fortunate choice of species when he experimented with peas as they reproduce quickly, he can control which plants mate with others easily, and finally they have many separate traits which he could experiment with such as flower color, size, seed color, or many others.  The result of his experiments require a certain amount of biological "lingo" to explain but basically he created two revolutionary concepts: first his "law of segregation" which said phenotypes (expressed traits) are not the result of mixing of genes, but rather specific alleles dictate the traits for an organism.  With this the concepts developed of dominant and recessive alleles which, as their names imply, are dominant and recessive to each other.  An example is flower color; if we represent the dominant allele, purple with a P, and the recessive white allele with a "p", then the flower color will be purple, except when an organism's genotype contains two "p" alleles.  Mendel's other law was that of independent assortment, namely that the allele for every phenotype is inherited independently of the alleles for other phenotypes.  Mathematical results of pea traits confirmed his hypotheses of inheritance, but he was neglected until the early 1900s.  Mendel remains through today one of the greatest biologists of all time.

4. Write an essay about any issue related to the lecture.  I chose to write about a scientist, perhaps the greatest of this era, namely Gregor Mendel.  Mendel is famous for his experimenting with peas to create universal genetic principles.  Living in an Augustinian monastery, Mendel chose to devote his time to the study of Genetics.  He made a fortunate choice of species when he experimented with peas as they reproduce quickly, he can control which plants mate with others easily, and finally they have many separate traits which he could experiment with such as flower color, size, seed color, or many others.  The result of his experiments require a certain amount of biological "lingo" to explain but basically he created two revolutionary concepts: first his "law of segregation" which said phenotypes (expressed traits) are not the result of mixing of genes, but rather specific alleles dictate the traits for an organism.  With this the concepts developed of dominant and recessive alleles which, as their names imply, are dominant and recessive to each other.  An example is flower color; if we represent the dominant allele, purple with a P, and the recessive white allele with a "p", then the flower color will be purple, except when an organism's genotype contains two "p" alleles.  Mendel's other law was that of independent assortment, namely that the allele for every phenotype is inherited independently of the alleles for other phenotypes.  Mathematical results of pea traits confirmed his hypotheses of inheritance, but he was neglected until the early 1900s.  Mendel remains through today one of the greatest biologists of all time.