Systems and what it has to do with life in the times of the
Industrial Revolution
Shakeer Ahmad
Mr. Sweeney
Humanities 8E
9-2-2010
Today in class we watched a movie about a boy named Oliver Twist. Oliver lived in London,
England in the times of the industrial revolution. Life was tough for him, and his relatives had to
be thieves to make a living. The movie goes on how Oliver wants to leave his family and his
struggles in achieving his dreams. I believe the movie showed us how people’s surroundings
affect their lives. Oliver’s family was probably less than a generation old in the urban
surroundings and struggled to adapt to life and get jobs.
Systems and what it has to do with life in the times of the
Industrial Revolution part 2
Shakeer Ahmad
Mr. Sweeney
Humanities 8E
11-2-2010
Today in class we read about life for people in the Industrial revolution and the changes in
culture and technology that changed in the UK. The population of the country drastically rose
and switched between rural to urban life. The industrial revolution brought forth changes in the
transportation technology, as railways started appearing all over the country and getting from
place to place became easier. The industrial revolution created lots of jobs in urban areas and
many people went there and slowly more and more came for jobs, and the population was
growing more and more in the city, as people were earning more. This eventually stopped
when life became tougher for many people, as jobs started drying up, and many people were
forced to immigrate to farther lands. This is a great example of the systematic relation between
people’s environments and their lives. The surroundings slowly become more Industrial in the
cities and that brought more people, and when the jobs become scarce, people immigrated.
Systems and what it has to do with innovations in the
Industrial Revolution
Shakeer Ahmad
Mr. Sweeney
Humanities 8E
14-2-2010
Today in class we read about a man who reworked the way the clothes making/mill industry
worked. By placing his factory by the river he used the streams rushing water to power all the
machines inside his factory and could make more and more products than everyone else. This
soon caught on and every mill owner started to power their mills electrically this way. This is an
example of systems, as it should how a little change for the bitter effects the entire system and
improves on it.
Systems and what it has to do with working conditions in the
Industrial Revolution
Shakeer Ahmad
Mr. Sweeney
Humanities 8E
16-2-2010
Life was very, very tough for the factory working kids of the industrial revolution. Children from poor
families and orphans were forced into grueling work conditions from very tender ages. The salary was
next to none, and the conditions held high possibilities for illness and injury. Children didn’t often
receive water or food, and we seldom left off to the toilet. They did dangerous jobs, such as coal
excavating and handling dangerous machines that sometimes had deadly malfunctions. This relates to
systems because it should how the systems for making money, in this case profiting for the factory
owners, but at the expense of the maltreatment of the workers. This showcases systems because it
highlights the flaws that set systems suffered from and their human expenses.
Systems and what it has to do with living conditions in the
Industrial Revolution
Shakeer Ahmad
Mr. Sweeney
Humanities 8E
22-2-2010
Can you ever imagine drinking a glass of water, and then finding out that there was bits of your
waste in it, and even worse, that some of the bacteria in it is going to give you disease that eats
away at your digestive systems, and, slowly kills you off? It was like for nearly 33,000 people,
nearly a third of the population at the time, in Leeds, England in the 1850s. The pace of the
population increase because of the newfound jobs created by the industrial revolution, lead to
the slide in quality of many houses made across England in the 1850s, 60s and 70s. Builders
changed methods to build houses faster and planning was often not as thorough as before.
Because of this many toilets were placed near the drinking water wells, and often the waste
contaminated the fresh water. This lead to the safe-in-your stomach organic-material-eating
bacteria in your digestive system find a way back into the people through the water that they
drank. Now the bacteria caused a disease called cholera, and lead to the breaking down of the
digestive system in people, and the cause of a third of the populations slow deaths in a short
time period in relation to the death toll. The system of city planning and difficult situations that
come with needs to built and the system on which levels of quality of planning must never be
put aside for making easier of problems.
Systems and what it has to do with government health laws
Industrial Revolution
Shakeer Ahmad
Mr. Sweeney
Humanities 8E
22-2-2010
In 1875, the Parliament of Great Britain passed the public health act, based on evidence that
diseases, namely cholera, could be spread through dirty water and not air. Scientific research
carried out, proved that leakages in water supplies in specific areas, caused disease specifically
to those areas. So in 1875, the parliament passed a law stating regulations regarding living
conditions and water quality. What we did in class was a great example of how science and
government systems linked together to form important parts of history.