Week 2

      This was a very material dense week in American History. The classes we attended were more than 70% of lecturing and very less amount of hands on and interaction. To some, this may appeal, but to others and me personally, this is a very tedious and inefficient way of teaching. What we did learn this past week was related to Liberties, and can be linked to John Winthrop's Speech on Liberty. Although not entirely the same context, we studied how certain liberties influenced lives of women, more specifically, factory workers who were women. With the industrial revolution and the development of machinery and tools to ease the work force necessary to run farms and agricultural planes, women were presented with a great increase in free time, and instead of spending it for leisure, they made the best out of it. Many immediately rushed to factory towns because they felt liberated there. We also covered a bit of what behind the generation of the continental army, and what influenced the constitution to be written. Overall, despite this week being hectic and rather disengaging, the content was understood and divulged, with a little difficulty of course, but we got it done. In American Literature, we have veered off course to work on our Puritan Essays.