This video is about children's working conditions. The childhood at that time was very hard and sad. Some children sometimes worked up to 19 hours per day, with just one hour for break. Many accidents occured, for example, many kids died because of the harsh working conditions.
Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film written and directed by Charles Chaplin. The film is a parodia about the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression. In one part of the movie you can see that, Charles goes to the bathroom to smoke and in the wall the boss appears as if there is a television there. He tells him that he has to go to work again. That part shows that many times having break was not allowed or accepted.
This video shows some inventions that were created during the Second Industrial Revolution. For eample the electricity that replaced coal and steam power. Bassemer process that was used in building railways, ships, machines, engines and weapons. Telephones and radios were also invented. Electric-powered and internal-combustion engine were very useful for transportation. The mass production was a very common concept in the Second Industrial Revolution.
Oliver Twist
part 1
To watch the rest of the movie go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny0W7itjM1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyxI3vWsLCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v2FbtmUF0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbX_fiiKisQ
Oliver Twist is one of the most outstanding works of the world. The story of little Oliver, raised in an orphanage, used and abused in a funeral home, which for London to escape is recruited by a band of thieves is a magnificent tale of beleaguered innocence. It is a beautiful and sensitive story, whose characters reflect the social problems present at all times. Dickens, who is the author of this splendid book, tried to demonstrate that it could "serve the moral" through history "chosen among the most criminal of London's population figures," and yet survive where and fragility.
A difficult and bitter childhood marked by poverty and imprisonment of his father, and relieved only by reading, marked forever the life of Charles Dickens, who found her literary inspiration, that means he got inspirited by his own experiences. Reading this story, or watching the movie, we can realize the cruelty of the society in the times of the Second Industrial Revolution.