domingo, 27 de marzo de 2011

1.Mention some laws achieved by workers in England improving their work conditions.

Workers for their numerous strikes and demonstrations, the people who work 8 hours, salary increases will be more exploitation rights without working and improving their suscondiciones.

2.What happened the first of May?

It was the day of the demand for workers working 8 hours. That day there were many demonstrations and riots.

3.Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote or stand as candidates. The term is also used for the movement of economic and political reform aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or requirements, such as property taxes, or marital status. Women want the same rights as men.


Emily Wilding Davison (1872 -1913) was a militant activist of the vote. She was arrested and jailed for various offenses including a violent attack on a man he mistook for the Finance Minister, David Lloyd George.
She´s declared in a hunger strike in Strangeways prison and was fed to the force.In Holloway Prison, she threw an iron staircase signal protest.She lost his teaching job and was trampled by the king's horse George V, in el Derby Epsom. She died four days later.

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maribel dijo...

many mistakes in question #1, but in general quite good!

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