Europe's Industrial Revolution negatively impacted all of its citizens in a negative way.
Hello, my name is John Williams. I am a 14 year old coal miner in the European Industrial Revolution. I believe the revolution negatively impacts many people, especially coal miners. Due to new technology, our product is in higher demand then it ever has been. Which means deeper, larger mines. This also means very dangerous mines. The deeper we dug we'd run in to explosive gasses and if one candle was lit or one spark was made from a miners pick ax, the whole mine would explode. I'd sit above the mine on multiple occasions and I'd hear an explosion. Everyone would run to the entrance and crowd around the management's office in search of an explanation. The rest of the kids and I would reach for our parents who had come outside to see if their children had been injured. People all over the town came, because the explosions could be heard a mile away. Mines also could flood easily and there was nothing to stop this. It all impacted me and everyone around me in a negative way. That's why I think that Europe's Industrial Revolution impacted all of its citizens in a negative way.
I see your point, however, if we had not taken these leaps of faith and taken risks in finding new discoveries, then many of the advancements in our society today would not have been discovered. If we had played it safe, then we might still be reading by candle light, or spending three months of our lives cross the ocean. The positive overrules the negative in almost all of the cases present today, which is why the Industrial Revolution had many more positive impacts than negative ones.
ReplyDeleteYou talk of the danger of your job, but do not forget the horrors of joblessness. Is the risk not worth the fact that you can go home knowing that your family did not starve tonight, and will not tomorrow? Your family worries about you, but at least they're there. Without the industrial revolution, your family would have probably of had to send you away as a farm hand. Or worse, you would stay home and experience your family waste away before your eyes. Families remain together while thousands are given jobs and pay. Families no longer starve and even thrive. Think of this when you think of the industrial revolution.
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