Labour Movement

1. Mention some laws achieved by workers in England improving their work conditions.
The 8-hour work day, insure members against unemployement, old age, ill, etc.

2. What happened the first of May?
The 8-hour work day was proclaimed in the United States. It is called May Day or Labour Day.

3. Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?
Suffragette is a name for members of the movement for the women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union. They wanted to participate in politic and be treated as equals to men.
Emily Davison was a militant women's suffrage activist. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union. Three years later, she left her job as a teacher and went to work full-time for the suffragette movement. She was frequently arrested for causing a public disturbance to burning post boxes and spent a number of short periods in jail. She died after throwing herself in front of the king's horse at the Epsom Derby.

Guerra de Vietnam


A guerra de Vietnam foi un conflicto bélico que enfrentou entre 1955 y 1975 á República de Vietnam, ou Vietnam do Sur, apoiada principalmente polos Estados Unidos, contra a República Democrática de Vietnam, ou Vietnam do Norte, apoiada polo bloque comunista.
A República Democrática de Vietnam contou co apoio de movementos guerrilleiros norvietnamitas como o Viet Cong ou Fronte de Liberación Nacional e de suministros soviéticos e chinos. Polo outro lado, a República de Vietnam tivo apoio militar e loxístico dos Estados Unidos. En axuda dos estadounidenses tamén participaron tropas de combate de Australia, Corea do Sur, Filipinas, Nova Zelanda e Tailandia. Outros países como Alemaña, Irán, Marrocos, Reino Unido e Suiza contribuíron con suministros materiais e equipamento médico. Continxentes testimoniais en apoio dos Estados Unidos foron enviados por Taiwán e España, que mobilizou a un reducido grupo de médicos militares en misión sanitaria.

No bando de Vietnam do Norte morreron 10 veces máis persoas que no do Sur. Aínda así, despois do fin da guerra, co triunfo do norte comunista sobre o sur, a guerra de Vietnam quedou marcada na moral e na opinión pública como a segunda derrota na historia militar dos Estados Unidos, despois da Guerra de Corea.

Imagine - John Lennon



Imaxina que non hai paraíso,
é fácil se o probas.
Sen inferno debaixo de nós
e enriba só o ceo.
Imaxina a toda a xente
vivindo para hoxe.

Imaxina que non hai países
non é duro de facer.
Nada polo que vivir ou morrer
e sen relixión tamén.
Imaxina a toda a xente
vivindo a vida en paz.

Pode que digas que son un soñador,
pero non son o único.
Espero que algún día te unas a nós
e o mundo sexa como un só.

Imaxina que non hai posesións,
pregúntome se podes.
Sen necesidade de gula ou fame,
unha fraternidade de homes.
Imaxina a toda a xente
compartindo o mundo enteiro.

Pode que digas que son un soñador,
peno non son o único.
Espero que algún día te unas a nós
e o mundo viva como un só.

Charles Chaplin

He criticises the industrialism and the hard work the workers had to do in factories.

CHILDREN IN VICTORIAN TIMES




Children in Victorian times started to work very early, but just few people thought that was cruel, because children were poor and worked to help their family. They worked on farms, in homes as servants, in factories and in mines.

In mines, they often got before sunrise to walk to the mine. There, children pushed trucks of coal along mine tunnels. Some children started work at 2 in the morning and stayed there for 18 hours.

The diference between rich and poor children was very big. Children from richer homes were well fed, wore warm clothes and shoes. They were to school but they didn't have to work.
Poor children were thin and hungry, wore dirty and ragged clothes, and some had no shoes. Poor children had to work, becasue if they went to school, their families lost the money they earned.

2. Working with press.




Thomas Alva Edison


Thomas Edison was born on February 11 in 1847 and was an American inventor, bussinesman and sciencist. He has made numerous inventions that contributed to telecomunications.
When he was a child his mother homeschooled him. Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union.
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and the telegraph, but the invention with he ganed his fame was the phonograph in 1877.
The Edison's major innovation was the first industrial lab, which was built in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was built with the funds from the sale of Edison's quadruplex telegraph.
In 1877–1878, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s. The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.
Edison made a lot of improvements to the idea of incandescent light, and he was known "the inventor" of the light bulb.
Thomas Edison died on October 18, 1931.
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