TD Exercises

In an essay, discuss how social reforms reshaped public health, education, and women’s

rights.

Summarize Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.29

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Explain in a well-developed essay Darwinism and how it created tensions between science

and religion during the Victorian Age.

Write a well-developed essay to examine key reform acts which were introduced during the

19th century to deal with some problems in the old British parliamentary system.

Activity 5: (For Discussion)

 Who is Carl Marx?

 Why was he considered as a historian, economist, political theorist, and sociologist

too?

 Summarize his two influential books: The Communist Manifesto, and Das Kapital.

 Explain the motives of Karl Marx behind writing his first book, the Communist

Manifesto.

 Marx explained that history is about the struggle between social classes, the

classes may change each era, but it is still the same story. Accordingly, what is the

link between the old feudal system and the emergence of Bourgeoisie?

 Why did Carl Marx focus mainly on the “means of production” and who should

own them.

Write a well-structures essay to comment on the following statement by Carl

Marx: “Capitalism is inherently unstable”, focusing on how mass production and

the growing gap between the rich and the poor can lead to the destruction of

capitalism.