From c77f55c53d1ae62e65e0dd230980c2f41b097584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:52:42 -0400 Subject: have notes --- GRADES | 1 + PROGRESS | 15 ++++-- houdre/03_foundations | 26 +++++++++ markley/05_jekyll_hide | 22 ++++++++ markley/06_quiz | 1 + rich/06_cultures_lecture | 19 +++++++ smith/03_gilded_age | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 houdre/03_foundations create mode 100644 rich/06_cultures_lecture create mode 100644 smith/03_gilded_age diff --git a/GRADES b/GRADES index fbcbf84..65add80 100644 --- a/GRADES +++ b/GRADES @@ -1 +1,2 @@ First Week Video: 4.7/5 = 94% +Quiz: 9/10 = 90% diff --git a/PROGRESS b/PROGRESS index 1d54aef..78ae50a 100644 --- a/PROGRESS +++ b/PROGRESS @@ -1,10 +1,17 @@ +- Read math book chapter one +- Read history book chapter one (sort through online) +- Finish reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +- Watch INTA lecture +- Watch "Gilded Age" lectures +- Federalist papers' essay +- Watch Markley lectures + - Write reading journal entry + Write a script -- Read/annotate Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Read math book -- Read INTA homework ++ Read/annotate Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde ++ Read INTA homework + Watch Markley Introduction + Watch Hygeia mini lecture - - Review information for Monday quiz + + Review information for Monday quiz + Attend American Government recording + HIST 2112 Course Introduction + HIST 2112 Content Overview diff --git a/houdre/03_foundations b/houdre/03_foundations new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03d76da --- /dev/null +++ b/houdre/03_foundations @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +A probability space is Omega, an event space, and P: E -> [0,+\infty) + +Why do we use infinite sums (A_1...A_\infty) instead of just finite sum? + +Ex. relevant question: I have a fair coin and I flip it until I get a +tails. Are you sure you'll eventually get tails? + +Yes. + +Lemma: What are the odds that n coin flips result in no tails? +Complement: What are the odds that n coin flips result in only heads? + +Each flip is independent and fair, so: + +P(A_1 \cap A_2 \cap \ldots \cap A_n) = 1/2^n +P("""^C) = 1 - 1/2^n + +Using an infinite union A_1...A_\omega = lim_n->\infty P(A_1\cap...A_n) + +This axiom defines this relation. + +Properties of probabilities (can be derived from original axioms): + For all A \in E, P(A^C) = 1-P(A) + For all A,B \in E, if A \subset B, P(A) \leq P(B) + For all A,B \in E, P(A \cup B) = P(A)+P(B)-P(A\cap B) + Can construct Poincare lemma or inclusion/exclusion. diff --git a/markley/05_jekyll_hide b/markley/05_jekyll_hide index f3b249f..abc5426 100644 --- a/markley/05_jekyll_hide +++ b/markley/05_jekyll_hide @@ -136,8 +136,30 @@ declaring the end is near and speaking of Lanyon's recounting of the tale as well as his own uncounting. Calls himself "unworthy and unhappy." +CHAPTER NINE (Dr. Lanyon's Narrative) + +Dr Jekyll gives Lanyon a note which is written very gravely, asking him +to fetch one of Jekyll's own drawers of material. +When Hyde shows up at Lanyon's door as expected (because Hyde = Jekyll, +but this isn't precisely revealed yet), Lanyon is disgusted but gives +him the drawer. +Hyde makes a medical potion which goes through several phase changes, +which he then drinks and becomes Jekyll again. +Lanyon is deeply disturbed and his understanding of science is shaken +(because this is "transcendental", i.e. magical). + +CHAPTER TEN (Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case) + +Jekyll is disturbed by the "duality of man" and uses medicine to split +his two personalities into distinct entities. +Hyde is what Jekyll transforms into after taking a potion that he +concocted, becoming a being of "pure evil"---which is why he is so +abhorrent. + WORDS Coquetry - playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest Emuluous - rivalrous Catholicity - universality Sawbones - MD/surgeon +Farrago - Odds and ends +Hansom - Two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage diff --git a/markley/06_quiz b/markley/06_quiz index d727dbd..4071a8b 100644 --- a/markley/06_quiz +++ b/markley/06_quiz @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ attempts to save himself medically. consider the Health learning outcome on the syllabus as well as the mini-lecture on Thomas Beddoes). +(INCOMPLETE ANSWER) It depicts health as social wellbeing. The ability of one of the characters to interact with their peers, like in throwing parties or in interacting with others. This typically corresponds to physiological diff --git a/rich/06_cultures_lecture b/rich/06_cultures_lecture new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c95e24e --- /dev/null +++ b/rich/06_cultures_lecture @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Why is it important? + +Political systems are designed by the cultures they serve, and the +better they represent their populations, the better they're maintained. + This means that organic governments usually fare better than + instituted governments. + +NB political tendencies do not correspond to lib/con. +The political tendencies across the map + The border has pockets of individualism because of migrants + SoCal has traditionalism from local wealth + +Overall American Political Culture + Liberty - Civil and Political + Political = absolute rights to vote, run for office + Civil = more variable rights, like free speech + Political equality = one person one vote (and nothing else) + Democracy + ?Maybe Pluralism = desire to involve as many people in polit. diff --git a/smith/03_gilded_age b/smith/03_gilded_age new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d61e2d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/smith/03_gilded_age @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +The Gilded Age: 1870-1900 + +The war grew Northern industry +- Wars require more resources + - Food, railroads, clothes + - Favoured large-scale businesses + - Built a national economy + - Huge growth, 6x indus. growth, twice as many indus. companies, + join NYSE, increased agr. growth + +Women started working as clerks, typists, secretaries. +Most workers worked in unskilled, low-wage jobs. +Big business used a lag in legislation to exploit workers, environment, +and contracts to build fortunes. + Wealth gap --> social instability + +Why is it called The Gilded Age? + America is not yet a wealthy world power + Not a cultural center, ethnically homogenous + Both change near end of 19th century. + Coined by Mark Twain in book of same name (1873) + Gild: A thin layer of gold (in this case, over a rotten core) + Surface full of prosperity and promise, but much corruption and + scandal + American idealism fading, lassez-faire (unregulated) business polit. + Agrarian --> urban-industrial + Urbanization + Immigration + Industrialization + +The rise of cities + Packed streets, new resources and shipping + Tenements + Foul, unsanitary + Noisy, nauseating, cholic, and sickly + Much populated of immigration + +What caused migration patterns, incl. natural Americans' response? + +Immigration waves: +17th-18th century: white anglo-saxon protestants from N, W europe. + mostly homogenous, coming from constitutional gov'ts +18th-19th century: similar makeup, but now Scots-Irish, slave trade +1840s+: >1/2 Irish-Catholics flee potato famine. +Gilded age: "New Immigrants" from S,E Europe (unskilled, poor, autocrat) + Europeans look different, diff relig (+jew). And Asian immigrants + Came in search of economic opportunity, sometimes fleeing economic + disruptions at home or religious persecution (jews). Ethnic enclaves + Seasonal immigrants + +Nativism: + - First wave immigrants (WASPs) + - Xenophobic movement + - Viewed new immigrants as an economic, political, power threat + - Claimed new immigrants couldn't self-govern and undermined + "moral fiber" of US. + - Republican party feared that they would undermine democracy by + voting with Democrats. +Social Darwinism: + - Anglo-Saxons believed they were intrinsically superior + - And that society had a natural racial/ethnic order that progressed + society by rewarding a small "deserving" group and eliminating + weak + - Anti-immigrant legislation + - Chinese banned from entry + - President can arbitrarily block entry to migrant "threats" + (radicals like members of unions blocked) + - Women marrying foreigners could be stripped of citizenship +Dillingham Commision +- 41 vol report on immigration +- Denounced "new immigrants" as less "fit" phys., intellect., and cult. +- Literacy Law (1917) requires migrant literacy + +What stimulated industrial growth? + +Industrialization +- Immigration +- Abundance of natural resources (coal, iron, lumber) +- Gov't supported businesses directly (land, grants, loans) +- Bessamer steel process = cheap steel = better buildings, ships, + bridges + Pitsburgh, Birmingham become centers of steel production and US + produces more steel than Germany and UK combined. +- Railroads helped nationalize the US + Steel, coal, iron, glass dev + +Era of Carnegie, Rockefeller + Huge lobbies (even bribery) + Corporations separate owners from management + Shareholders in jointly-held companies + Limited liability: if company goes under, debt disappears + Religious leaders! encouraged: + Russel Conwell, baptist minister: "Money is power. Any good man + or woman should seek power to do good with it when obtained" + Carnegie, Rockefeller used all means (incl unethical) to + obtain money but used it for "moral" means + 4k millionaires, >$20mm families controlled politics + Families typically English anglo-sax, in NE (esp NY) + Glorified individual freedom and will + Philosophy of wealth: + Believed that those who could acquire wealth should + Richest men became philanthropists + Why could they become so rich? (laissez-faire) + Deregulated businesses and practices + Government unprotective of laborers and consumers + +Working conditions for blue-collar laborers + Young people migrated agri --> urban/factory + Skilled workers >> Unskilled + Difficult, long hours (59 = 6x10 hours) + No safety regulations (like respirator, ventilation, machine stops) + US top in on-the-job injuries, which were uninsured + Women+children worked because they were cheap + Unions were weak, because Americans perceived them as Unamerican and + full of aliens + In early 1900s, labor unions grew. + Companies' management discouraged unions (firing) + Frequent worker striking + "Neuresthania": disease of the mind caused by poor work conditions + John Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola (in long line of other + attempts to cure neuresthenia). + He was addicted to morphine from days as soldier. + Coca-Cola = opium-free reliever + Dies of stomach cancer, continuing to be addicted to + morphine + The "nerve tonic" formula gets passed to new business owner Asa + Candler + It did not actually cure neuresthania +Amusement parks as urban/commercial entertainment provides a "release" +for modern life (like Coney Island) + Self-fulfillment prioritised over Victorian self-restraint + Assimilation for immigrants + Men and women together + Escape from tenements and factory life + Contrasts with slow, bucolic Central Park + Phase transition in urban life + + -- cgit