Northern Lights by Philip Pullman‚ which is the first book of the trilogy His Dark Materials‚ is always a delicate matter. Based on the freedom of opinion‚ every author has a right to express his feelings and thoughts in a book‚ how controversial they might be. However‚ the Christian Church and a lot of its supporters‚ especially the Catholic ones‚ feel offended and affronted by the trilogy and Pullman’s turning the Christian myth upside down. The inspiration was a work Pullman has loved since his
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were centered on different causes that the workers and unions were fighting towards. The Haymarket Riot started out as a strike for a reduction in work hours to eight hour work days instead of what could sometimes be twelve hour work days. The Pullman strike started because of issues with wages. The people who lived in the company
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Auggie Pullman is a very interesting kid. He eats‚ drinks‚ and talks just like us but he is different in his own special way. Auggie has a craniofacial deformity. Auggie cannot go anywhere where he won’t get weird looks because of his face. Auggie had been homeschooled his whole life because of this‚ but when his 5th grade year came up there was a change. Auggie was afraid of going to real school because he didn’t know how people would react towards him because of his face. Auggie’s parents
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children’s books and adult books‚ and that there are standards and conditions limit the freedom of writing the book‚ but there are books that are popular among both the young and adults equally. One example of such books‚ is the novel of Philip Pullman "Northern lights" Northern lights is one of the most prominent novels‚ which is common among children and adults..In this essay‚ I am going to talk over how the writer of Northern lights has succeeded in making it the center of attention for both
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Labor in the Nineteenth Century 2. A. The Lowell Mills Strike of 1834 took place in Lowell‚ Massachusetts in 1834. The dominant work force in the Lowell Mills were young‚ rural‚ unmarried women. Working in the Lowell Mills was dangerous because the machinery could easily injure a young girl if she made a simple mistake. Also the women worked long hours with little pay. Despite these treacherous conditions there was sense of unity among the women who all came from similar backgrounds. In 1834
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STRUGGLES IN THE GILDED AGE A facade is an outward appearance that is maintained to conceal a less pleasant or creditable reality. The name given to the Gilded Age is a facade to its many financial and political issues at the end of the 1800s. During this time‚ the conditions of the labor were demanding and unfair‚ forcing workers to go on strike and realize the difficulties that came with achieving the American dream. The labor was demanding and unfair. Children had to join the workforce to help
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that killed or injured several dozen people. The people wrongfully connected the Knights with the Anarchists‚ and the power of the Knights of Labor came to a dismal end. The Homestead strike in 1892 was the first major strike to take place after the downfall of the Knights. It started at Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead‚ Pennsylvania when workers refused to accept new wage cuts. Henry Clay Frick shut down the plant and surrounded it with guards to
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so concerned that it would do anything to stop these outbreaks. Some better known instances of these uprisings are the Homestead plant strike of 1892 and the Pullman Strike of 1894. In 1894 a Washington Post editorial describes the lawlessness and violent disorder in Chicago due to the labor strikers protesting the wage cuts by the Pullman Company. (Document D). The Pullman Palace Car Company was deeply effected by the depression.
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of depression‚ the Pullman Palace Car Company had to lay off 5‚800 workers and also cut wages from 25-50%. Even though they were making less money‚ the Pullman town didn’t lower the rent. On May 11th‚ 90% of the workers went on strike and a month later‚ ¼ million across the country joined them by refusing to pull Pullman sleeping cars. Lawyers‚ as tricky as they are‚ managed to get a court injunction to force the workers back to work by attaching a US mail car to a Pullman car and say the laborers
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References: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) History‚ (2006) Retrieved from: http://www.resource4flsalaw.com/historyoffairlaborstandardsact.html Foner‚ Phillip S. (1977) The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. New York‚ New York: Pathfinder Books The Homestead Strike (1999) Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html The Knights of Labor (2011) Retrieved from: http://www.knightsoflabor.com Kutalik‚ Chris (2005) What Does the AFL-CIO Split Mean? Retrieved from: http://labornotes
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