The Meiji Constitution of 1889

Ben Howson
World History2 per. 2
02/05/15

A. The Preamble

1. The Japanese have many very important historical characteristics, but one of the most important one characteristics is respecting their ancestors, and being pure so that their descendants will also look up to them.

2. The Emperor is the highest sours of authority in Japan.

3. The importance of their ancestors, is that they are another representation of the family, and it is just a tradition to respect them, and have them in you mind.

B. The Emperor

1. The Emperor has the supreme command of the army and navy.
The Emperor declares war, makes peace, and concludes treaties
The Emperor determines the organization and peace standing of the army and navy.
The Emperor orders amnesty, pardon, commutation of punishment, and rehabilitation.
The Emperor confers titles of nobility, rank, orders, and other marks of honor.

2. Article 3states the Emperor as a godlike figure.

3. The Emperor had more power than the president of the USA, because Japan wasn't a democracy, they believed that one person should be in power, and have say in everything.

C. The Rights and Duties of Subjects

1. Article XVIII - Article XXXII deal with the duties of the people, and these basically state, that people have a right, pay taxes, can go into the army or navy, must follow the laws, nothing will happen to them unless they break the laws, right in court, and more rights, in which they have and don't, and the exceptions to those rights.

2. Japanese subjects are amenable to the duty of paying taxes, according to the provisions of law.
Japanese subjects are amenable to service in the army or navy, according to the provisions of law.
The conditions necessary for being a Japanese subject shall be determined by law.
No Japanese subject shall be arrested, detained, tried or punished, except according to law.
No Japanese subject shall be deprived of his rights of being tried by judges determined by law.

3. 7 of the 9 rights.

4. Many of the limitations on rights, are normally, just some sort of law, and they state it is allowed, as long as there is no law against it.

5. A subjects freedom was curtailed by wanting to maintain a heredity ruler.

D. Conclusions

1. To me, I believe that Japan is being very fare about its rules, and gives it's people some freedom and opportunities, but all of that could be taken away if they were to disobey the laws. But at the same time, Japan didn't give to much freedom to there people, because there is still a ruler, and that ruler needs to have power.

2. The thing that makes Japan unique and special, is that it is both modern and old. It still has it's ancient rituals, but at the same time, it contained many modern things.

3. The parts in which talked about people as subjects, is very western, as well as talking about the Emperor, and ancestors.

Inndustrial Revolution Inventors Project

1885 Triumph lane

Coventry,

England

January 1, 1900

Berlin Exposition of 1900

 1900 Berlin Exposition Road

 London, England

Dear Berlin Exposition of 1900,

My name is Siegfried Bettmann, but you probably know me as the CEO and founder of Triumph Engineering Co LTD. I am writing to you on this fine day, because I saw your ad while reading my morning paper, and I have become very interested in what you have to offer. There for I would love to be the presenter of the Berlin Exposition of 1900. I have many good friends who would be more than willing to talk to you about me and even write a letter of recommendation, such as my good friend Henry Ford.

I have many great things in which I can offer in terms as presenting. Being the CEO and founder of a company, I am very comfortable speaking in front of large crowds, I know how to pull people in, making them interested in what I have to say, and being able to sell them a product. These are all huge qualities in which a person needs to be the best presenter, and I have all of them. I have all ready invented, and revolutionized the motorcycle, and as of now I can’t make it any better, there for I am not here to sell you a physical motorcycle. Instead I am here to sell you an idea for the future: the idea of the electric motorcycle. Due to the huge amount of pollution in which we are creating, and will continue to create, I believe that we need to have something that will not add to this, and there for I came up with the idea of a 100% electric motorcycle. Being economical, relatively inexpensive, and small, not taking up a huge amount of space, in an overly populated world; the electric motorcycle is the perfect invention for the future.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, and I hope you really enjoyed my idea, and consider having me being a presenter. Please let me know if you have any additional questions, I will be more than happy to answer them. Let me know what you decide, I can come in anytime. Again I really appreciate you taking some time out of your day to read my letter, and I really thank you for that.

Sincerely, Siegfried Bettmann

Siegfried Bettmann

Siegfried Bettmann

1900 Berlin Exposition Road

 London, England

            My name is Siegfried Bettmann, and I am the CEO and founder of the Triumph Engineering Co, LTD. I founded Triumph at age 20, and have been working in my field for a little over 26 years, and for a long time I had to do a lot of the work by my self, so I have plenty of experience and understanding of the industry and manufacturing. I am ready to change the world, are you?

            To be a good presenter you have to be able to hook people on an idea, make them intrigued on that idea. Being able to talk strong with a good voice, in front of thousands of people isn’t a talent that comes easy.

Triumph Engineering Co, LTD-February, 26

England    

Like I said before, I started Triumph at age 20, so I haven’t really worked in many other fields, but have worked in mine for a very long time. But we have become the most popular and reliable motorbike company in the world. Many people e around the world have benefitted from my work, because we create transportation, at a much cheaper coast than cars. 

Being the CEO and Founder, I have many responsibilities, such as paying everyone who works for me, having meetings, talks about sales, and I really just try taking my part in every part of the company. Due to founding Triumph, I really love bikes, and love to hand in hand with my machines, whenever I have the time to.

I have had many great accomplishments threw out my career, and I hope I will continue to do so. But probably my biggest achievement was founding my own company, bringing it out of the ground to what it is today. But also another huge achievement of mine is the first production motorcycle that we ever made. Of course like every other company, starting off was quite hard for us, and we had a good deal of problems, such as just what we really wanted to be. At first we started off selling bikes, and this wasn’t really working for us, so my colleague and I came up with the idea of producing our own motorcycles, and later found ourselves selling motorbikes, and this just felt right for us.

We have received many awards in our industry, such as largest production of motorbikes, most reliable motorbikes, and many other awards. But me personally, I have not received any awards, do to creating a company at such a young age.

Before being the CEO and founder of Triumph, I worked with Kelly & Co, and then later worked with the White Sewing Machine Co, and the like I said before, went on to start my own company.

Threw out my life I have acquired many skills in which are very helpful, being a CEO, and founder. Over the years, by lots of practice, and natural gain, I have become a fantastic speaker, that doesn’t become scared in front of large crowds. I have also become very good at expressing my ideas, and running a company. Even though I haven’t won any metals or trophies, I have leaded my company, to be the best motorcycle producer in the world.  

Application For Position as an Inventor/Industrialist at the Berlin

Exposition of 1900

Date of Application: January 1, 1900

Personal Information

Last Name: Bettmann          Middle:………………….

Initial: SB                               First Name: Siegfried

Address: 1885 Triumph lane Coventry, England 

City: Coventry

Country: England

Postal Code:  

Cell Phone #: +44 190-190-1900

Alternate Telephone #: +55 190-190-1900

E-mail: siegfriedbettmann@triumphmotors.com

Have you worked in industry before: Yes

If yes, where: Triumph If yes, note dates: 1884-1933

Position:

Position applying

for: Presenter

Temporary

How did you learn about this Opportunity? Through an ad in the paper.

Availability:

Date available to start:

I can start 01/01/1900.

Indicate when you are available to be scheduled (specify a.m. or p.m.). Due to the nature of our business, the more available you are, the more opportunities we can consider you for.

Every day from 7:00a.m to 6:00p.m for Monday-Saturday. Sundays is a break day, so no work that day.

Math Questions:

The government wants to purchase a quantity of your product costing $1,393.00 from your factory. They pay with 20 one hundred dollar bills. How much change do they get?

They will get back 607 dollars.

If one unit of manufacture costs $199, how much do three cost?

Three will cost 597 dollars.

How much will they cost with 5% tax added on?

626.85 dollars

Each cargo container holds 3,500 units of manufacture. A ship usually holds 1,780 shipping containers. How many units can you put on one ship?

6,230,000 units

Each unit of manufacture costs 3 cents per mile to ship. How much would it cost to

ship the cargo described in the above prompt from Seoul, South Korea to New York City.

128,281,921.3 dollars

General Job Questions:

Why are you applying for this position? I am applying for this, because I have an invention that will change the world, and the money in which you are offering to the winner, I will use to further make my inventions better, and also create new inventions.  

What have been your greatest accomplishments and or inventions? My greatest accomplishment was starting up my own company, slowly building it up to what it is today, and my greatest invention is the first motorcycle that my company ever produced, because that was really the beginning of it all.

Why do you believe in the "cause" of manufacturing and industry? I believe in this because I believe that it is apart of transition into modernization, and in order for that to happen, we are just further improving everything.

 If an employee from another company tried to bribe you to steal company secrets, what would you do? I would refuse the offer, because in being the owner of a company I know what it feels like to really care about the secrets of the company, and I really do look down on that.

A manager treats a worker unfairly, what would you do? I would call that manager out, question him for what, and why he did this. I would leave him with a warning, and if I were to find him doing it one more time I would fire him no matter what.

How do you feel about a 75-hour workweek? Well in my opinion it is a lot, but I will do it if it means getting the job.

Dear Berlin Exposition of 1900,

            My name is Henry Ford, and I am writing to you about my good friend Siegfried Bettmann. I have known my friend Bettmann for quite some time now, and he is one of the most dedicated and best inventors I know. Being an inventor my self, I even have to admit that he is amazing, always coming up with fantastic ideas. My good friend is a very hard worker, and one of the smartest men I know. He is very dedicated to his work, and is always pushing to be nothing but the best in his industry. He makes the best, and most reliable bikes on the planate, and he want to keep it that way. He is always striving to be better and better, and if you ask me, you would be the ones who are very lucky if you were to have Bettmann be a presenter, because I know that he will be the best one there, and would never let you down. You just can’t go wrong with him. Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I hope you have a good day.

Sincerely, Henry Ford

Henry Ford 

Thoughts and Reflections on: Dynasty and Destiny from Crash Course question

Ben Howson
World History 2 per.3
01/23/15

Many ideas that are fundamental to modern industry were employed by the American Automobile industry. Both the assembly line, and inter changeable parts were employed by the American Automobile industry. Evan though Ford did get the idea from meat packing plants, it is some what different, because they are assembling not deconstructing, and also they are using it for cars not meat, but other than that they are pretty similar. The inter changeable parts was also an idea of Ford, but he got inspired by the idea of the inter changeable gun parts. Also health benefits came from the American Automotive industry, as well as increased wages.    

Labor and labor unions ensured the safety, fare pay, and health benefits of the workers during the rise of the Automobile industry. They would really just make sure that they are ok, not hurt, sick, and getting fare pay. This became really important, and really came out of the rise of the Automobile industry, because this is when the automotive industry really started to grow and people basically needed insurance if they became injured when working and more stuff like that. 

The American automotive industry went under many changes between 1910 and today.
Today there are many more companies in which are making cars, and the car has become a huge part of our every day life. The actual car has not had many changes, but it has just been modernized over the course of 1910 to now. The automotive industry itself has grown substantially, and is producing cars faster than ever. But again not much has changed, we still use the assembly line, stations, and now robots in many cases, but over all it is the size and the amount of production in which has done. The biggest difference is the technology in which we use to make these cars.

Ford Model T assembly line 

Modern day car assembly line

Thoughts and Reflections on: Hard Time-Charles Dickens

Ben Howson
World History 2 per. 3
01/22/15

How do Engel's observations in his piece Conditions of the Working Class support what Dickens writes about in Hard Times?

First off, both Engel's writes about the atmosphere of London, and how it is just hideous. He talks about how the air is polluted with carbonic acid gas due to horrible ventilation. Charles Dickens talks about this very subject in his book. He writes about the never ending smoke trailing out of the thousands of chimneys, and the ashes from the fires floating around the city. Engel's observations of the atmosphere of true London in Conditions of the Working Class supported what Dickens said about Coketown in Hard Times. Engels then goes on to talk about the health of the people in London and the conditions in which they lived. He talks about how the people that lived in the city, that their lungs would fail to bring in enough oxygen, so people would often have mental or physical problems. He talks about how just living in a city in itself is injurious to health let alone living in one with an abnormal atmosphere. He then starts talking about how these people would have to live in tiny quarters among closely built lanes. Due to everything being so close together, this would pollute the city more, because the gases had no where to escape to, instead it would just hang around further poisoning the atmosphere. Dickens also talks about the small living areas in which all these people would have to live in. He then talks about how people would often become sick often, or even die at a young age due to the pollution in the air, and working around the machinery. Engel's observations of the health of London in Conditions of the Working Class supported what Dickens had to say about about Coketown in Hard Times. Engel's later talks about the treatment of the working class as being "revolting". He talks about how the working class was severely underpaid, and that they were treated as dirt. There lives didn't matter to the businessmen, and they didn't get really any pay. He says that they would have been better of dead. Dickens says very similar things in his book. He talks about how the gap between the two were huge, and that the working class would often have lots of kids to bring in more income. He also goes on to talk about that the value of their lives was really nothing in the eyes of the businessmen, and that they were basically just slowly killing them selfs each day by going to work. Engel's observations of the treatment of the working class in London in Conditions of the Working Class supports what Dickens has to say in about the treatment of people in Coketown in Hard Times. 

Friedrich Engels 

Charles Dickens

                    

History Tea Project: Ben, Kyle, and Ryan

link to video

Script:

Ryan- Hi and welcome to “Leaf Juice”, I am your host Ryan Otto, and Today we have a very special guest Sir. Rupert Wallis Fittleworth the 3rd, who is going to talk about the history of tea. So please give him a warm welcome.

Ben- Thank you so much for having me.

Ryan- Could you just give us an overview of Britain’s relationship with China?

Ben- Of course. So China and Britain were really never the best of friends, Britain was really just using China to make money. China was always a very isolated country, so they were reluctant to allow trade with other nations such as Britain. But after the first Opium War Britain made China sign a treaty allowing for more extensive trade.

Ryan- You mentioned the Opium War and how it affected trade and China. Would you mind expounding upon this idea?

Ben- Certainly. In 1839 the Chinese government issued a ban on Opium which the British objected to. In order to preserve its lucrative trade arrangements with China, Britain resorted to military action. Their superior technology such as the musket resulted in a decisive victory, and Britain forced China to sign a treaty allowing for more extensive trade. This ensured that England had a steady supply of tea before it moved production to India.

Ryan- Why did Britain want to shift production of their tea?     

   

Ben- Part of it was just that Britain wanted an independent source of tea. The other part was that the East India Company had lost its monopoly on China in 1834. The company knew that whoever managed to grow tea outside of China would have a huge market. With this in mind, the East India Company began to search for places in which they could cultivate tea of their own. They eventually found land in which they could cultivate on in Assam, India. As it turned out the Himalayas actually contained better conditions, such as climate and soil, in which created better tasting tea.

Ryan- What impact did this shift have on China?

Ben- Given the high number of tea farmers in China, it dealt a huge blow to China's already unstable economy. Just to provide some perspective on the issue, China sold Britain 31 tons of tea in 1859. In forty years, that figure fell to 7 thousand.

Ryan- how was Britain able to grow tea in India in the first place? Wasn't China very secretive about the process?

Ben- Yes, they were. The East India Company sent Robert Fortune to collect samples of tea and learn the processes behind it.

Ryan- Alright, looks like that's all the time we have for today. Let's all give a big hand to Sir Rupert Wallis Fittleworth III.

Thoughts and Reflections on: The Conditions of the Working Class in England

Ben Howson
World History 2 per.3
1/6/15


How does Engels feel about the urban life of the poor?
Engels described the urban life of the poor as, "revolting". He thought that it was just completely disgusting, and that no person should have to live in those situations. They would cram as many families as they could into one tiny house, to save space and money. Because due to this every thing was very dirty, which created huge diseases, and massive amounts of pollution. Engels just really over all hated the situations in which these people had to live in, and thought that it was completely wrong.

How does Engels feel a family life should be run and how does the industrial working class model conflict with his feelings?
Engels was very traditional and thought that the women should not leave the house to go and work for the companies. He believed that they should stay home, cook, take care of the children, and over all, just to be the house keeper in a way. Engels thought that it should only be the man in which left the house to go and work, making the money for the family. He thought that the man should be the boss of the house, the superior person in the family. But the women at the time did go and work for companies, brining in an income, as well as the man of the house. They also would just leave the children at the house while they both went out to work, and Engels really didn't like this.  

What conflict has industrialization caused in English society?
The role of the family members changed in the English society due to industrialization. For instance Women would no longer stay at home to take care of the house, the men would work, which meant that the children would have to be independent, and the eldest of the family would normally take the role of the mother. Also tons of people lost their jobs in the English society due to industrialization, because the new technology would replace them. The machines were faster more accrete, and they didn't have to play them. So industrialization has caused many conflicts in the English society.

Thoughts and Reflections on: We Make More and Live Better questions and answers

Ben Howson
World History 2 per.3
1/5/15

What does the title of this chapter mean?
The title of the chapter means that in making new product and coming up with new ideas, you can change the state of the wold, and bring your self and others out of poverty. It can also mean that in inventing things, such as the type of stuff people invented in the revolution, you can make life better, easier, and really change the world.

What were the social consequences of the new industrialism for the working classes?
Farming was no longer a huge thing that most people did. Many famers left their farms to move to cities and work in factories, making their job a profession. Working in factories had a higher pay, and was really a serious thing. People would work 5 or more days a week, and specialized in something. But the work that they did was very hard, and complex. People had to make sacrifices for their new life, they had to leave everything behind to go and work, because they needed the money. So this became a huge social change.

What factors led to the industrial revolution in Britten?
Basically Britten was growing, and they needed more efficient resources, to help stabilize the growth of the country. Before coal they were using wood, and that was just not cutting it, it was heavy, expensive, and really insufficient. So people went looking for a replacement for it, and they found it right underneath them, coal. It was cheaper, lighter, and way more sufficient, and they had tons of it. But then they needed to make it faster, and solve some of the problems that it created, and they needed to do it fast, because it was such a high demand. So this was really the start of the Industrial Revolution, and it was all because of coal. From then on, people were constantly thinking of ways to revolutionize this, making it better and better, and so they did, and continued to do so.  

What importance demographic, political, and social changes accompanied the first industrial revolution?
So during the first Industrial Revolution, the demographics changed, to to people moving in to the cities, factories being built, houses going up, and really just becoming industrial and urban. There was no longer lots of country sides, and instead concrete and stone buildings. During this time, their were political changes, the wealthy people now relied on them for energy, and human rights rose, laws changed, and people were now able to talk to one another about their ideas, and this really changed everything. Also social changes came up, women no longer had the stereo type of staying at home doing house chores with the kids. Many women went out and worked for these factories, getting pay along with their husbands. This also made the gap between the rich and the poor smaller, because they were making more money. Kids would also work, but this later changed when it became a profession to work in these factories, and you had to have education and specialize in the assembly of things. so those are some of the major things that changed during the first Industrial Revolution.