For those of you that were not in class today (there were a lot of you missing, for some reason), there has been a change to the reading schedule. For Tuesday, please read what is on the schedule for Thursday of next week, which is in the next section of your anthology (the red book). Then respond to this prompt:
The reading you are doing for Tuesday sets the stage for what was a very tumultuous time in British history. Industrial and scientific "progress" (I put this word in quotation marks because not everyone saw the changes as a good thing) meant that the whole face of Britain was changing at incredible speed, and British imperialism and colonization meant that the empire was spreading not just across Europe but across the entire globe. Many of the conflicts, tensions, debates, and questions that arose during Victoria's reign are similar to questions that have arisen in our own time. For Tuesday, then, I would like you to pick one topic or theme that is introduced in the reading and then find a contemporary parallel. Please be specific both in your selection from the reading (use a page number) and in your example. In other words, avoid being abstract; don't just speak in generalities about "change" and "lots of things."
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