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  1. Apr 2019
  2. qz.com qz.com
    Throughout history, the best ways to reduce inequality have been disease and destruction
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    1. cvitton 16 Apr 2019
      It showed improvements are possible but only up to a point. The more radical measures become, the costlier they are and the less likely they will be implemented because of the politics.

      I want to know more about this because I find it interesting and slightly confusing of how improvements are being made but being cut off at a certain point. I think this relates to the fact that we are living in the most modern version of ourselves and that in the future, there will be more but we just need to wait. However, I find the part about implementing the improvements because of the politics fascinating and confusing.

    2. cvitton 16 Apr 2019
      All these things really surged around these wars because governments have to offer the people something in return.

      I think this is interesting of how there was a lot of progress during war periods and I find it fascinating of how the government have to send something back to the people in return for what they are doing for their country.

    3. cvitton 16 Apr 2019
      What’s more, new technologies and widespread automation will further widen the gulf between high-skilled and low-skilled workers.

      I think this relates to the Industrial Revolution that we studied because of the involvement of new technologies and further advancement.

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  3. Mar 2019
  4. www.exurbe.com www.exurbe.com
    On Progress and Historical Change – Ex Urbe
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    1. cvitton 28 Mar 2019
      Medieval thought is no more monolithic than modern, but many excellent examples discuss the material world as a sort of pageant play being performed for us by God to communicate his moral lessons, and if one stage of history flows into another — an empire rises, prospers, falls — that is because God had a moral message to relate through its progression.

      What is the people do not believe in God? Then how will they learn from their sins if they do not follow God's morals?

    2. cvitton 28 Mar 2019
      But cities would be cities, plows would be maybe slightly better plows, and empires would be empires.

      If they say that the Renaissance did not have progress then what do they mean by change? They inquire that, for example, plows would be maybe slightly better plows, is that not progress within it self if something is to be made better? I am confused with this.

    3. cvitton 28 Mar 2019
      progress can also cause negative effects, atrocious ones

      This grows my thinking of how progress can be good but it has the ability to make a negative impact. This reminds me of the cycle of revolution when a revolution is started and a conflict occurs by the people fighting to make a difference towards positive progress but it can have negative effects.

    4. cvitton 28 Mar 2019
      Let us found a new method — the Scientific Method — and with it dedicate ourselves to the advancement of knowledge of the secret causes of things, and the expansion of the bounds of human empire to the achievement of all things possible.

      This reminds me of the Enlightenment because people are said to be working together and find new inventions/advancements/knowledge.

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  5. Dec 2018
  6. www.wm.edu www.wm.edu
    Ideas wanted for memorial to the enslaved
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    1. cvitton 07 Dec 2018
      Throughout the past nine years, the Lemon Project has uncovered much about the university’s enslaved men, women and children, and it has shared those findings through annual symposia, courses, special events and other programming.

      Are they going to write about just the university's involvement with slavery or go into more detail writing about the effects of slavery in the United States?

    2. cvitton 07 Dec 2018
      “This memorial is such an important project for our community,” said Rowe.

      This project will connect the university and make the community bigger by implementing a huge piece of history and thinking of its effects as a whole.

    3. cvitton 07 Dec 2018
      Participants are required to submit a plan as well as a 500-word description of the concept.

      I think that writing 500 words about one of the most historic events in history will show how many ways people think of this event as well as making it difficult having to write a short amount of a very important time in history.

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  7. www.smithsonianmag.com www.smithsonianmag.com
    There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
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    1. cvitton 02 Dec 2018
      But the trade didn’t affect all levels of society, and it didn’t cause the collapse of industry in Amsterdam and elsewhere.

      I found this statement interesting because it mentioned that the tulips affected some of levels of society but, not all.

    2. cvitton 02 Dec 2018
      “I couldn’t find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would’ve been a much harder thing to face.”

      What does Goldgar mean when he says, "I couldn't find anybody that went bankrupt."How would he know?

    3. cvitton 02 Dec 2018
      everyone from the wealthiest merchants to the poorest chimney sweeps jumped into the tulip fray, buying bulbs at high prices and selling them for even more.

      This shows that tulips were highly valuable and anyone who got their hands on them eventually sold them at higher prices.

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