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response to conference

As a ruling elite I wouldn't say that I was completely satisfied with the outcome of the conference but I still believe it went pretty well. As a ruler you are always going to be the one with the most power, we used this power to lay out a set of rules as to those people who were allowed to vote. The main purpose of these votes was to ensure that the person who is voting understands what they are actually voting about. We didn't believe it was right for someone who has no idea what is happening in a larger sense to their country casting a vote as to who should lead their country. These proposals and guidelines for people who can vote were there in in the end benefit the entire country as a whole. They were also supposed to inspire people to become more involved in their country so that they would be able to vote. However the all other social classes failed to see this and instead took our proposal as trying to ensure that the least amount of people can vote causing us to not receive many votes. For that reason I was not completely satisfied with the conference but I feel that if the elite class and the rest of the social classes were able to compromise our proposal would benefit the country largely. I really enjoyed this type of simulation. I think it gave us all a more in depth understanding of all the different angles and types of social classes that experienced the industrial revolution. One of the key things that I learned about industrialism was that although as whole it is seen as a great change that benefited all countries, in actuality it also came with its own set of new problems. For example, without the industrial revolution we wouldn't of had such advanced factories with as many people working in them. So we would not of had the problem of bad, disgusting, dirty, crammed working conditions which became a huge problem during and after the industrial revolution. As a member of the social class the ruling elite I would also see the Industrial Revolution as both a positive and negative change. Positive in the sense that more of my population is getting jobs, negative in a sense that the standards they now have are higher and have new things to complain about and for me to deal with. However as a ruler in India my country did not develop as fast due to the Industrial Revolution as the countries China and Great Britain did however we were directly affected by it through the fact that Great Britain had control over India. This simulation helped me realize the complications of this time in history, it wasn't just a happy time for all people because more jobs were offered, it was also a time of hardships and complications due to change.
Comment by amanda on Feb 25th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

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