Global Communication ^_^

Throughout the years there have been different ways that humans communicate with each other whether it be from talking, body language, or sign language. But how does this communication affect us as human beings? Finding out how people communicate with each other is a key factor in our lives and we need to be able to understand how we can communicate better with ourselves and each other especially when it comes to communicating with people with cultures unlike ours. 
Humans have been communicating for years with themselves and others but only in the last century has anyone started to actually look at the ways we communicate. “In its most simple form human communication is how two or more individuals send and receive messages”.

Well when I firstly read the topic of the essay I said to myself:’’I had a lot of things to write about this topic cause nowadays communication has become part of us.’’I began to find some information about communication in years bur I’ll try to be brief.

Since the beginning of time, people have always been looking for means of communication, but a way to communicate in a fast and easy way. In earlier times, Egyptians carved on rocks, leaving records for the next civilization. The Incans of South America knotted several colored pieces of string in a specific pattern and had a messenger run to the next village to deliver it. Many wrote messages on paper to be delivered by a messenger and some simply sent a messenger to deliver the message orally. Of course, there were many problems with these means of communication. If one just sent a messenger, it was easy for the messenger to lose communication in the traveling process, or one could misplace a written message. And of course these messages relied heavily on the swiftness of the messenger, especially in long distances. Clearly, the need for fast and easy communication was getting higher what with different civilizations being more and more spread out. The answer to this demand first came with the invention of the telegraph, then the telephone, and eventually the cellular phone,  but now with the power of the internet, and super fast data transfer rates people can communicate across the globe and only pay local rates. · In essence the local phone companies almost promote this. - When you log on to the internet chances are that you are logging on through a local internet provider. You will use your computer modem to dial up and create and data link with your net provider. 

To sum up: In this day and age we as a global community are growing at a super fast rate. Communication is a vital tool which aids us in breaking the distance barrier.It can't be seperated from us.Well we owe people's wish for knowledge cause that big wish was the reason that exists this special connection between humans and global communication.

Victorian schools! ^_^

What was a Victorian classroom like?

There were maps and perhaps pictures on the wall. There would be a globe for geography lessons, and an abacus to help with sums. Children sat in rows and the teacher sat at a desk facing the class. At the start of the Victorian age, most teachers were men, but later many women trained as teachers.

Children wrote on slates with chalk. They wiped the slate clean, by spitting on it and rubbing with their coat sleeve or their finger! Slates could be used over and over. For writing on paper, children used a pen with a metal nib, dipped into an ink well.

What subjects did children learn?

Girls and boys learned together in primary schools, but were separated in secondary schools. Both boys and girls learned reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling and drill (PE).

Boys learned technology: woodwork, maths and technical drawing, to help with work in factories, workshops or the army when they grew up.

Girls had lessons in cooking and sewing, to prepare them for housework and motherhood.

Children were often taught by copying and repeating what the teacher told them. Lessons included teaching in right and wrong, and the Christian religion.

How were children punished?

Discipline in schools was often strict. Children were beaten for even minor wrongdoings, with a cane, on the hand or bottom. A teacher could also punish a child by making them stand in the corner wearing a 'dunce's cap'. Another, very boring, punishment was writing 'lines'. This meant writing out the same sentence (such as 'Schooldays are the happiest days of my life' 100 times or more.

Victorian times :))

Who were the Victorians? 
The Victorians lived over one hundred and fifty years ago during the reign ofQueen Victoria (1837 to 1901) and was a time of enormous change in this country. In 1837 most people lived in villages and worked on the land; by 1901, most lived in towns and worked in offices, shops and factories.
Who was Queen Victoria? Queen Alexandrine Victoria was born on the 24th of May in 1819. Her father died eight months after she was born.
When did Victoria become Queen?
Queen Victoria came to the throne when she was only 18 years of age in 1837. She was Queen of England for 64 years, making her our longest ever serving monarch.
Who did she marry?
At the age of 21, Victoria married Prince Albert, a German Prince, on the 10th February 1840 and they had nine children.
Why are they so famous? 
The Victorian period was a time of tremendous change in the lives of British people. During Queen Victoria's reign:

• Britain became the most powerful country in the world, with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population.
• The number of people living in Britain more than doubled, causing a huge demand for food, clothes and housing.
• Factories and machines were built to meet this demand and new towns grew up, changing the landscape and the ways people lived and worked.
• Railways, originally built to transport goods, meant people could travel easily around the country for the first time.

How can we find out what life was like during the Victorian times?
We can learn about the Victorians in various ways:

• We can still see some of their buildings.
• Enormous railway stations remind us that rail was new and important form of transport.
• We can study Victorian maps and documents, such as the forms that were filled in during the census.
• Photography was invented during Victoria's reign, so people could now record on film what daily life was like.

What was life like living during the Victorian times?The quality of life depended on whether you were rich or poor. If you were rich you could have a good and easy life. But if you were poor you could have a rough and hard life, often ending up in the workhouse or early death.
What was Family life like during the Victorian times?
Families and family structure were very important to Victorians. They were usually large, in 1870 the many families had five or six children.Each member of the family had their own role and children were taught to "know their place" and "be seen and not heard". All households except the very poorest had servants to do their everyday work.