Week 15 and our seminar presentation.

This week's lecture on newspapers in London gave me some ideas about what I could do in London while I research for our seminar presentation. I would like to find out more about newspapers in London, and when they became popular with London's residents - as reading a newspaper in the evening or morning is something Londoners will have done for leisure and pleasure.

I have decided that I am going to go to London on my own on the 8th of February, I attempted to organize a group trip but this has proven difficult. I would like to visit fleet street, and some department stores, perhaps Carnaby Street. I have decided that since there are no exhibitions on at the Victoria and Albert museum that are relevant to our project, I no longer will go. I have also notified the other members of the group that I think we should use a different program than power point to make our presentation stand out.

The program I would like to use is called prezi : prezi.com
It will give our presentation more of an interactive feel, and hopefully will be more interesting for the audience - it's important that they learn from our presentation.
So far the other members on my group have not informed me of the areas they would like to research for our presentation, but I would still like to further research tea drinking, newspapers and coffee houses, also perhaps the theatre. These are all areas I must look into.

This week I found an notice in a 1731 newspaper about a coffee house opening as part of Kevin's task which has helped me understand the nature of places like this at this time:

I will bring this into class on Wednesday. Hopefully the members of my group will come to this seminar so I will have the chance to discuss our presentation with them.  In the meantime I will continue to research the topics that I have chosen. 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1670coffee.asp

http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm

Week 13
This week we had a making the most of your feedback workshop. I feel that now I should make greater use of my feedback when doing assignments, ensuring not to make the same mistakes twice. My feedback was that I need to write less in narrative, this is something I must work on in future assignments. I also read the education documents on Minerva,  and received my grade back for my essay in a tutorial. I received 64% on my essay, I am a little dissapointed with this as I feel I can do better - I will try to improve my grades by utilizing my feedback in the next assignment, which is due in Week 17.

7th September 1764
Today I visited the Foundling hospital once more to seek information about admitting my daughter. Since the Father of my daughter has no presence in her life and I am unable to financially support her, there is no conflict between my situation and the rules for admission to the hospital. I was advised that there was no shortage of mothers wanting their children to be admitted to the hospital, and that I must return tomorrow to take a ballot which will decide my daughter's fate.

8th September 1764
When I arrived at the hospital today, I was instructed on how the ballot works. There is a bag with a number of balls in it, some are white, and if picked, the child of the mother goes to live at the Foundling hospital. A red ball indicates that the mother must wait to see if a place becomes available, and a black ball indicates that the mother has been unsuccessful and must take their infants elsewhere.  I picked from the bag and received a black ball - this means my daughter's application was unsuccessful. A lady working at the hospital told me that most mothers pick black balls, and that the hospital is over subscribed as it is. Now I must attempt to find assistance in the upbringing of my daughter somewhere else. I hope I will be lucky enough to find some help.