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Worked about. A.M. Asa came down to attend the training*, brought Lephia and is to stay and help Father shear sheep. Mrs. Robberson went away. P.M. Lephia and I went to the funeral of Mr. Allen. In the evening finished knitting George’s stockings. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=36 - Back then there was things to be done all day, they had to provide for themselves by actually dedicating themselves to labor that had to be done, such as shearing sheep for clothing and blankets for the winter. They did not have sewing machines like we do now, and they did not have people to sew what needed to be sewn for them, as you can see the person knits the stockings. Today, if your a child, your day is school and on the weekends, its almost as if there is nothing for you to do. Compared to then, the children of today are spoiled no matter who you are. There is electricity now and stores with products to simply buy for the winter, this does not take any toil. Our district school was taught by a man in the winter and a young lady in the summer, this we attended while it kept, some six or eight months in the year, in the intervals it was not unusual for some young lady to set up a private school, at a charge of a New York or Yankee shilling per week for tuition; these too we attended until we reached an age when our services were needed in housework or on the farm. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987 Having never been on a railroad before I was awake to every new sensation. Our car contained eight short seats, accommodating two persons each, and two long enough for four making twenty-four seats, which were all occupied. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=147 We have so much more of a range of exploration than they did back then. Today, instead of traveling in slow moving railroad cars, we have automobiles, planes, ships, subways, and more transportation vehicles. We could get across the world in a day. Back then, it would probably take about a year. Though, today there are many accidents pertaining to these transportation devices.
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Our only alternative was to call on Mr. Webster, then living at New Haven, state our case, and get the best terms we could. Accordingly we took letters from Messengers.~ About two years before his death, Dan Merriam wrote the following letter to his brother, Ebenezer.~ http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987 E-Mail, Instant Messenger, skype, and so much more. The communication back then is in no comparison of the communication we have today. The telephone was invented in the LATE 1800's, therefore the early people of the 19th century had no use of it. They had messengers in which they gave letters to, and in contrast to an e-mail or instant message being received instantaneous, these letters took a wide range of days to be received by the addressed person.
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Life in the 21st Century is most definitely better than life in the 19th century. Everything has either been completely replaced or improved since then. Discoveries have made this world very small. This is great in many ways, yet there can be conflicts. Producing food and shipping it is very easy, but costly also. Back then, they made their own food, their only cost were the tools and their livestock. Though time is very fragile these days, therefore new communication and transportation has made this world very involved. Calls are made constantly throughout the world, with an excessive distance. You can call someone across the world in the same time it takes you to call your next door neighbor. This has helped greatly in business and communicating with family. School has also been a great improvement. Since their is no need for work to be done by the children at the house during the day, the children nowadays go to school every day in the week, and for 6 hours at that. This provides a great and stable education. Being on and off with education back then wasn't very smart, for these children did not receive the education they needed; they were very much needed to work at the house, while that was their obligation. Electricity is probably the best discovery in the aiding of our world. How did people get paid back then? Well, there were teachers, blacksmiths, and carpenters, and more. Though, this all involves labor. Work at the house is not mandatory in the middle of the day. It is very simple to throw your clothes in the wash and leave. Or vacuum the carpet real quick and leave the house. Now the mother and father can go to work and be paid to provide for the family, most jobs not including hard labor. Though, some jobs don't give enough money to the employer to provide for a big family. This is where the troubles come in. Today the economy struggles. That means that famillies all over struggle. Their are over 37,000,000 people in poverty just in the United States alone. What is the reason behind this? It could be anything relating to spending money, or not having a job. There are many problems with money these days. Too many people are losing their jobs, and not being able to provide for their family. Transitioning to transportation here, it is great for many reasons but to everything there are flaws. A significant flaw in transportation is the accidents. Over 500,000 people die in car accidents every year. You never heard once of someone dying trying to commute to their work then. So many plane crashes have occurred and so have train crashes. Also these transportation vehicles emit fumes into the sky contributing to global warming. You didn't have to worry about global warming back then. With our new improvements of the world comes many conflicts, but we must seek the positive to strive past them. When doing so, you will realize how wonderful it really is to be living now, instead of 100 years ago.
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