Post-presentation...

Well the presentation is all done and i think it went extremely well!!

Everybody did their bit and from initial reactions i think we've managed a good grade

Just wanted to say well done and thanks to everyone for pulling together and doing their fair share of the work..

Happy holidays

Raj x

Update : I have just finished the handout for tomorrow and two of the quotes...not sure if they came Kat or Kiri have no references its just the quote on there! I really need you to send me the reference for them...or if not change the quote you're using, as it's going to look rubbish if we hand in quotes with no references. I have emailed everyone and left a message up on here yet not everyone's sorted it which has knarked me a bit as i have been left with the handout to finish and the majority of the conclusion to write on my own...and now I am out to work at 8pm. So what's done is done if you don't send it me before tonight, what else can i do but to keep it how it is. Sorry to rant but come on.

The night before and victorian britain.

Okay, its the night before the presentation, im a little nervous, but i'm sure it will go well. Since not everyone has bothered to email Emma back, shes got the final copy of the power point and i will have one too.

Instead of everyone switching and messing on the pc, Emma is going to be in control of it. Hope thats Ok. If its not tough, you should email back! lol.

Its not about our presentation, but i thought i would share some details on my history module Victorian Britain lecture, last week. Lecture topic was on Victorian Underworld, and of course heavily concentrated on Jack the Ripper. It was mostly discussed that the murders became a symbol of social, cultural and political anxiety. Strangely enough the respond to the murders during the time actually made more women vulnerable. Social purity groups and police response to prostitution in the area was to actually close 200 brothels in the East End in 1887. This had the opposite affect, instead of creating safe area for women, it made hundreds of them homeless and result in working on the street hence making them more venerable to attack! This was done by the police who should of had the attitude of safety and protecting, but all this really shows is the attitude of 'not in our area' and pushing them elsewhere. Mainly due to the fact the victims were seen responsible for their own fate!

What also interested me in the lecture, was the fact prostitutions of the time were considered a social evil and asylums were actually set up to deal with the problem. In 1880 there were 20,000 prostitutions in the city of London, and instead of them being seen as a somewhat Victim, to be so desperate to sell their bodies. It was their clients who were seen as the victim, as prostitutions were perceived as sexual contaminators. Sometimes Women were humiliated by being arrested and forced into an examination to see what 'diseases' they had. Whilst men was left scot free.

The Ripper murders articulated the fears pf the Victorians, concerning gender, class and ethnic relations. The Murders were often used to denied women access to public space and to reinforce the image of the 'angel of the house'

I thought the lecture was quite interesting, because it concentrated on the Ripper and the consequences at the time, not just in terms of the Ripper in popular culture we know and what a presentation is based on.


See you all bright and early tomorrow. I'm looking forward to our work being finally shown, and in a way to be over.

x

Thursday

Hey all.
Hope everything is on track for you all. Just one question tho, are we meeting for a run through before Thursday or we just going through it before we go on???

See you thurs if not
Kate x

Hi,

If everyone e-mails me their concluding line (emma.robins@wlv.ac.uk)I don't mind sorting it out on the powerpoint. I had a bit of crisis today when I lost my memory stick :s Luckily I have it all saved to my desktop. I can save it all up on my memory stick if everyone wants?

Also need a source each for the bibliography so if you can email me that. Then I will sort it out and e-mail the completed powerpoint to everyone so you know when/ where you are in the presentation

+ anyone decided who is going to control the powerpoint?

Emma

Random things...

Hey all

First things first... there's only one Ricky Hatton!! was gutted last night (or rather early this morning 4.20am start = not good for my sleeping pattern). On the plus side Amir Khan KOed his opponent in 72secs.. crazy stuff!!

Anyways.. just thought id check in to see if everyone has their conclusion liners sorted?! Group meeting was kinda random this week lol but main thing is we more-or-less sorted with the presentation.. just wondering who has the final setup of the slides cuz there was something said about, i think charlene, changing something on hers...?

Hope everyone is well..
See y'all on thursday

p.s. charlene if you still got a cold have a shot of whiskey with honey and hot water.. its magic!

presentation and christmas looming... what about the Ripper?

Hey all,

I have not received email with everyone’s slides. I have just changed basic stuff such as background and font etc. I haven’t messed with anyone’s section. However Raj’s and Kiri’s slides look a bit full, however I assume by your previous post you have changed this. Emma your pictures finally work yay!

I have typed up what I’m going say in my part, it’s a page and half (opps). Don’t worry it is mostly bulletin points. I think I might go for good old-fashioned flash cards in the presentation. Kate your idea of a voice recorder in terms of being able to play it back is good. Unfortunately I don’t have one, and I don’t like hearing back my own voice!

After a lot of researching for my section on musicals, I have decided to concentrate on four very different musicals. The strangest one being a VERY JACK THE RIPPER CHRISTMAS is set Christmas in a Music Hall in Whitechapel during the Ripper Murders of 1888. It is a burlesque show, and setting the murders around Christmas, which is meant to represent a time of birth and joy, shows how varied the use of the ripper has become. How extreme his representations are, and how far people are willing to exploit the use of the Ripper.

Another interesting musical I have included is JACK’S HOLIDAY set in 1920’s, where Jack has escaped; he’s across the Atlantic killing people in America. This musical represents two main important points. One being that the Ripper is feared years later. The second being the Rippers worldwide exploitation, and importance. The Ripper’s murders in London, our known throughout the world as people are exploiting the ripper as a somewhat ‘brand’.

To some extend the Ripper is seen as an iconic figure, can it be jealously that this attention and media focus even 120 years later is on London. Are other countries somewhat jealous that Britain had the first modern famous serial killer?