Modern Times

First of all I would like to say that I don't fully understand this period but what I can say about this film and period of time is that the main thing that I can appreciate is the industrialization.

During that period people was pretty unhappy because there was no job for them. Industrializations is about factories and hard work and what I could appreciate there in the film was that sort of "power abuse" with the factory workers. There was this fear of losing their job that they accepted every miserable working conditions; their salary was completely unfair and of course not enough to have a good life but unfortunately they didn't have other option.

That was the reason of those strikes that happened: the unfairness.

Here began the "boom" of machines which was the reason why so many people was afraid of losing their jobs , because machines came o replace men's work.

About the movie I can tell that it was pretty funnny in spite of the real message it has.

I could see that Chaplin was exhausted, stessed even crazy about his job and his work conditions.

I liked it a lot.

Elizabeth's reign...

First of all, I have to say that I really enjoy the movie (Elizabeth, The golden age) but the thing that I really found amazing was the way you started teaching and showing us this different episode in history. I think it was pretty unusual and enjoyable. Personally I like history a lot but when you have a little help to understand it better (like a movie) it is way more interesting.
Talking about Elizabeth I's reign I would say it was essential in England’s development, in every aspect: political, social, and economical.
I really think that her "performance" as a queen was awesome.
She was a really strong woman and the main thing that is still in my mind is the way she thought. She was raised with this protestant thinking about religion and I completely agree with it. She wasn't going to punish the catholic people as queen Mary (the queen before her) did with the protestant people.
That was a very open minded thought, I think. Because she could have done the easy way to rule her people just like the Spanish did with the inquisition; they started to spread Catholicism by punishing people who had other beliefs just because it was easy to control the people.
She really thought that if you were protestant or catholic you were “Son” of the same country: England.
When the complications with Spain began she set free every English prisoner because she thought that every English men had the right to defend their country. As she thought and did that, the people believed her and defend their country against the Spanish desire of conquest over England.
She never got married, that was the reason why everyone called her “the virgin queen”, even though she wasn’t a real virgin. ( I saw that in the previous movie: Elizabeth).That was just the image she wanted to show because she claimed she was married with her country and was the mother of her people.

natives&immigrants

After reading the book, I realized that the mixture of cultures could bring possitive and negatives aspects.

Speaking of native people I think it was extremely difficult to face all the new culture that the immigrants brought with them , and to assume those differences would be even more difficult. They had had learned how to deal with "strange"people with the best agreement they could think in that time.There was room to some fights and disagreements as well, and that's the worst part of immigration. You get to a land which is already populated and you are bringing a new kind of life style that would obviously annoy and bother native people.

Bringing this part of history to now, I would say that the U.K forming process way pretty much alike to ours.
Our current culture is a mixture of cultures as well, traditions , food, ways of perceiving life, religion , etc.
for instance: Enlgish language had many important influences: French, Latin and Escandinavian,and from there they built their current massive language .
If Chile hadn't had the Spanish influence we would still be speaking Mapudungun.
Everything is a mixture, and I kind of agree with it , why should people be narrow minded and not allow other culture mixture like it is happening here right now with the U.S.A culture?. We need to open our eyes and look beyond our nose to know the world better .