Pre-production

In the reading by Karl Marx “The Grundrisse”, he elaborates on topics like capitalism, machinery, and automation. Also, Karl Marx discusses how machinery is taking over laboring. He states that the production process has ceased to be a laboring process in the sense of a process dominated by labour instead of machine. In addition, Karl Marx makes a comparison between the machine and the worker. He says that the machine consumes coal, oil, etc. while the worker consumes food, to keep up its…

By the 1830s, the American people started to focus on innovations in some areas of transportation and politics. The Erie Canal’s creation allowed for items and viewpoints to be reached quicker to more places and people. New political parties allowed for new ideas and improvements to the American government system in hopes to include more people. All these innovations seemed as though they had the best intentions for all citizens, but that was not the case. Workers were cast off and not given…

clothes as everyone else would be boring and having little food due to rationing would not be fun. Communism is an economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals. In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. The Soviet Union, China, Russia, Ukraine are some of the old communist countries throughout…

power, and developed machine tools that led to the rise of the factory system. The Industrial Revolution affected Great Britain both positively and negatively. The Industrial Revolution led to industrialization that increased mass production and machines that made production faster and easier. However, it caused serious air pollution and polluted rivers, lakes, and coastal waters with chemicals and other industrial wastes. In addition, it led to women and child labor that was long, hard, and…

Since it would be impossible to cover every chapter of the book I will focus on one last chapter within The Road to Serfdom. Chapter Ten is titled Why The Worst Get On Top. This title is a direct reflection of the power imbalance and how this imbalance can lead to excessive corruptness. A direct quote in the beginning of this chapter states: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Socialism is the idea the the government has immediate and ultimate control over all…

1. In chapter 1, Cohen discusses a capitalist society as one in which individuals hold ownership privately and utilize their skillsets/good fortune for personal gain rather than working towards the benefit of the common body. He seems to paint those operating in capitalist societies as somewhat selfish and self-serving, as illustrated by the example of Harry, who claims he deserves the better fish since he is better at fishing. Furthermore, Cohen illustrates the strained relationships which, in…

Industrial Revolution Impact The Industrial Revolution period, from the 1760’s to about the 1840’s, was an impactful transition for Great Britain and from there, the world. People began to innovate; switching from human labor to machinery, iron production, water power, steam engines, and much more. As this transition began in Great Britain the world began to catch on and followed what Britain was doing. There is a saying that says “the empire on which the sun never sets on, the British empire”,…

In this evaluation I will be identifying and analyzing how effectively I used context and research to create my short film, I will also be evaluating my peer feedback and how I improved my short film as well as evaluating how I felt the project went throughout this assignment. Research I am really pleased with how this project went because I feel like I did a lot of thorough research into my auteur, Quentin Tarantino. From analyzing his films in my video essay, experimenting with some shots…

which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often accomplished in the home's of the people, with basic machines and hand tools. Economic development marked a change to powered, specific machinery, and large factories to provide mass production. The iron and textile trades, along with the development of the steam engine, played key roles for this era. While industrialization proved to be beneficial for some, for others it resulted…

The populace was an essential piece of the modern transformation. The mechanical insurgency is the place home made products were made by machines that utilization to be made by people. Before every one of these machines were made people needed to wove materials by hand. That was a long and hard occupation for the general population. The machines began doing this for the general population and it went much quicker then they could envision. The mechanical transformation soon spread to North…