{"id":24,"date":"2017-10-21T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/?p=24"},"modified":"2017-10-21T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T18:56:31","slug":"week-8-signs-of-crisis-in-a-gilded-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/2017\/10\/21\/week-8-signs-of-crisis-in-a-gilded-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/files\/2017\/10\/Mexico--300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/files\/2017\/10\/Mexico--300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/files\/2017\/10\/Mexico-.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I learn or hear about revolutions, and people actually putting their lives at risk for what they believe is right, I am always impressed by that. I think that in order for people living in a country to revolt against the government, bosses, whoever is oppressing them is extremely brave. It also makes you think about how bad the situation actually was, in order for normal people like you and I to grab guns and fight against the most powerful group of people in a country. This radical yet vital act takes bravery but I think it also takes desperation. Desperation for a peaceful society? For more independence? For freedom from the upper hand? Whatever the reason, it makes you think about the kind of change that ordinary people can make by standing up for what is right.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at history, all the most radical change in societies has come from revolution, and I think that in order to make an enormous change (whether thats politically, economically or socially) sometimes a revolution is the last resort and the only thing that is going to make a big enough statement for change. Unfortunately revolutions almost always come with violence, death and imprisonment, but if we look at this in a different way, these people are paving the way for generations to come. Giving the people of the future a better way of life.<\/p>\n<p>I think that my question this week is, what kind of situation nowadays in North America would render people a reason to revolt in an extreme and violent way? When Trump became president there were marches and protests all over the world, which is a revolt in a way, but I&#8217;m not sure how much change came from it? Are revolutions like the Mexican revolution, only a thing of the past? Because the situation in the US has some awfully similar parallels to situations in the past that have ended in revolution. I&#8217;m not suggesting a violent revolt from the American people, I&#8217;m just wondering what is different nowadays from the time of revolutions?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I learn or hear about revolutions, and people actually putting their lives at risk for what they believe is right, I am always impressed by that. I think that in order for people living in a country to revolt against the government, bosses, whoever is oppressing them is extremely brave. It also makes you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051437],"tags":[709,2540,44913,2420],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-eight","tag-history","tag-mexico","tag-revolution","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/madeleinedeis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}