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Profile Character:David Livingstone

Basic Info. 
David Livingstone was born in Blantyre 1813. He was known was his stubbornness toward missions or tasks. Livingstone started working at the age of 10 at a farm, he work 14 hours per day, 6 days a week for 13 years. Then he mastered Latin at age of 16, by the age of 27 he had complete courses philology and medicine. Later he implied to the London Missionary Society and was accepted at 1838 (25). At first his desire was going to China, however it was rejected by the Society due to the conflict of opium between China and England. David Livingstone didn't give up and continue to apply the journey to China. Later the Society decide not to send anyone to China, because the conflict cause things to be unsettled. Livingstone was disappointed, but a Missionary from south Africa told Livingstone that vast of area in Africa was "untouched" by white man. This sparked the interest of Livingstone toward Africa. Livingstone applied to go to Africa and requested to take farther medical training.The Society approved and Livingstone started to work in 1840 at a hospital. Livingstone gained lots of valuable experience and knowledge of vast amount of diseases. At 1841 he sailed to Africa.Livingstone traveled toward north-east, married a woman named Mary, but after a while Mary returned to England for 4 years due to children education purpose. At 1862 Mary returned to Africa, but not longer after arrival of Africa Mary infected river fever, and died at April 27,1862. David Livingstone was despaired, but stood up again and continued his journey. 1864 government ordered Livingstone to return, the government was not impressed with David Livingstone's result of travel.During the 32 of adventure Livingstone traveled over 40,000 miles. Livingstone made notes, created maps, and introduce Jesus to countless of Africans. During this 32 years of exploring Livingstone had been attacked by lions, infected river fever for 10 years, eternal blade injuries, and by the end of his journey he lost his front teeth.
Thoughts
I think that David Livingstone is a remarkable man. He contributed most of his life in missionary of Africa. He did not give up any chance. However there were a lot of tough decision to make in his life, like the rejection for missionary to China, whether to continue the journey after Mary's death, and study in London.

 Although David Livingstone had gained and had lots of valuable experiences in Africa, he lost his time with his family. He did not meet his daughter when she was at age of six. Incredible person he is, and I do not think that there would be someone like Livingstone anymore in history.
Questions     
- What would happen if he was allowed to go to China?Would Livingstone be in a "history textbook"?
- Is it an advantage of Livingstone to be a missionary?
- Did David Livingstone have any certain location of shelter in Africa?
- What transportation did David Livingstone used at Africa?
- How did Livingstone and his wife met? 
Brief Timeline
-Born in Blantyre in 1813
-Started working in 1823
-Accepted in the London missionary Society 1838 
-Completed courses in 1840
-Left for Africa in 1841
-Found Victoria Fall in 1855
-Wife died in 1862
-Return to England in 1864
-Died in 1873(60 years old)
Reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31zym4FKRoU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/livingstone_david.shtml

19th century Europe Economic

 19^th Century Economic

  19^th century Europe was a major history period that leads us to the modern world. There are 3 major events that affected the economic of Europe in 19^th century. The First one is the rise of industrial revolution, abolishment of slavery, and realization of the laborers. These three themes or events were a major contribution to the modern society and system. Without industrial revolution, we would not have this modern technology and products. Without abolishment of slavery the industrial revolution wouldn’t be as stable as it was. Without realization of laborers, workers and employees would still be in a horrible environment and the life expectancy would become much lower than now.

  The rise of industrial revolution is perhaps the most important role in 19^th century Europe economic. It first started from England, there were rumors that the England government tried to keep it as a secret not willing to let others know, but people started to escape and spreading the technology to other nations in Europe. Later it spread to United States. The technology or the steam system created products higher, faster, and a lot more accurate. Although the product is much better than human made products, it created numerous amounts of issues that people did not realize during the industrial period, for example the environmental pollution, over crowded amount of people, and the unequal treatment of the laborers.

  The Abolishment of Slavery started from England in 1933. After it started other countries in Europe started to follow, and last the United States followed. People “uses” slaves for farming purpose can no longer farm anymore, and so more people started to enroll into the city and worked for the factory. This also mean that the industrial age is becoming more and more stable, this also symbols that the world is going into a complete industrial life and hardly any possible solution to change it.

  As a history teacher mentioned in class if treat a employee or laborer a better treatment, the efficiency would increase more than treating a employee worse. In the late 19^th century, laborers began to fight back. For example The Luddites, the luddites are a group of factory workers that disagree with the treatment they had received from the owner. They would raid the factories; destroy everything they could from the factory. At last the laborers did get a better treatment than before. This opened a chance for the laborers to improve their treatment, and lead to the modern employee treatment.

  Even though Industrial revolution leads us to all the technology today, but also sacrificed many “invisible” things that we do not realize. I personally think that the overall result is not as great as we think.