Ideologies 101

In class we discussed three main ideas. The question we were mainly focusing on was, What were the major political ideologies of the 19th century and how did they influence social and political action? This question is asking what the major political affiliations. TO answer this question we had six groups of four to five kids make videos skits or anything really to help explain their assigned ideologie. There were two groups for each Ideologie.

My group was explaining conservatism. We made a video explaining how a conservative is a person who are interested in protecting the people they care about, and standing up for the ability to have free choice and free speech and being able to control their future stands up for proposes rights, and they also like to keep things the same or traditional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyWBlOjdF0&list=UUv2iJbEB8so8y7_ooEB64MA

During the 19th century there were three major ideologies. Liberal, Conservative and Nationalist. A liberal believes in what is fair or what is right. They are open mixed and willing to work and make sacrifices for the greater good. They are okay with whatever, and will try anything whether it has been done in the past or if it is a whole new concept. A conservative is a person who are interested in protecting the people they care about, and standing up for the ability to have free choice and free speech and being able to control their future stands up for proposes rights, and they also like to keep things the same or traditional. A nationalist is always on the look out for a successful and effective way to control a nation. Nationalists have great pride in their nation.

Napoleon

During class we did many things to broaden our knowledge of Napoleon Bonaparte's over all impact during and after his rule. We annotated a documents that had to do with two peoples feelings towards Napoleon and his rule. We talked about him and took notes. We also looked at a map of the Americas. All these activities helped us to understand and begin to answer the essential question. What was Napoleon's impact on the social, economic, and political systems of Europe? This question is simply asking what did Napoleon do to the social, economic, and political systems during his rule that lasted even after his time of rule was over. What were the impacts he left? Were they negative or positive? Did they last well after his rule or did they die off when his power did?


The document we read and annotated was titled Two Views of Napoleon solely because it was two separate points of view on Napoleon. The views were from Madame Germaine Necker de Staël, a bitter writer exiled from France, and Marshal Michel Ney, one of Napoleon's officers returning from Paris in 1815. The first view of Napoleon was written by Madame de Staël. She had a negative outlook on Napoleon and his way of ruling. Madame de Staël did not like how Napoleon thought of people's virtue, dignity, religion, and enthusiasm as "the eternal enemies of the continent." Staël wrote that Napoleon was very cunning and persuaded men by force. She tells us that Napoleon thought of this as the only effective way of ruling and that all other ways were “stupid and folly.” Staël believed that Napoleon did not come into rule looking for universal monarchy. But over time Napoleon did seem to achieve this. That was how he left his political impact. The other view of Napoleon in this document was from Marshal Michel Ney. Ney wrote that Napoleon was their sovereign, meaning he had complete and absolute power of the country of France. Ney says that Napoleon has every right to rule over their country and that he is their best option. This is the social and economic impact that most of everybody was well off and that people loved him. In the article "The Lost Voices of Napoleonic Histories" it was common knowledge that most people like napoleon in the early times of his rule. Over time is when he started to go down hill and down in the eyes of the people. this shows that his impact could have been good but ended up being bad in most aspects.

The Helping Hand

During class we played a game of rock paper scissors with Hershey Kisses as the winning prize and the losing cost. Mostly everyone started with three kisses but two students stared with ten. Talk about an unfair advantage! The game was supposed to simulate us working for our money and at the end some people ended up with none and some people ended up with a whole lot more than what they started with. what we didn't know was that none of that mattered because Ms. Gallagher a.k.a. the government came over and took everyone's kisses and gave each person three again. This was her way of showing us what communism is. The next round we were able to choose if we wanted to take a chance and play so this was showing the invisible hand theory. I thought this lesson was aggravating because you could be really doing well and all that hard work was for nothing because all you can have is three. But, I also liked it because it was fun to get up and play a game and chocolate at seven a.m. is always nice.




Marx theory was that there should be no social classless society and they shall have no government. They should all have equal pay and shelter and everything should be even. Marx was trying to help the poor stay afloat but he was also taking away the hard earned money of the rich. Smiths theory was called the invisible hand. The invisible hand is the idea that the government will not control everything and they will let people choose what they want to buy and sell and the market will naturally flourish as if guided by an invisible hand. This way of living gives the industrialists a chance to control their own prices and to make their own business decisions. When Smith developed his theory he was thinking about the poor because this can give the poor more options on how to spend the little money they have how they want and on what they need.




In my opinion Smith's theory the Invisible Hand is the better option. I think this because it gives the poor, the rich and the in between a chance to spend their own money how they want it. It is more a independent way of living than being forced to be equal. This way you have a choice in how to live your life.


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