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    dialect of Italian and so does the tenement owners‚ so they can communicate in some ways. I am living in the Luciano tenement. The Luciano family includes; Signor and Signora Luciano‚ Rocco‚ Serefina‚ the baby‚ Nico‚ and the other borders. “Can she live here?” I said “If she pays the rent‚ then yes. You better warn her‚ if I don’t get my money when it’s due‚ then she will have to help make the flowers.” Signora Luciano informed. “Okay” I said as I left the tenement. I needed to find her a job that

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    multiple - family‚ brick tenements for the immigrants and extreme poor to live in‚ which were well below modern standards of living. The buildings were normally four to five stories and were intended to hold around eight to ten families‚ but most of them ended up holding around twenty families. The inhabitants gave the tenements names such as “Gates of Hell.” However‚ compared to the previous conditions they were living in in Ireland‚ some Five Pointers may have perceived the tenements as

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    from Stone Nullah Lane‚ Tai Yuen Street to Lee Tung Street‚ I felt astonished seeing that there exist two distinct kinds of buildings. One is antiquated eastern traditional architecture such as the Blue House cluster‚ which is all low dim narrow old tenement buildings. The other‚ however‚ is brand-new western modern architecture like Hopewell Centers. They conflict with each other‚ but coexist at the same time. Do you see major socio-economic changes in the place you visited? If yes‚ what are they?

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    United States. Improving living conditions for those who lived in tenement buildings and the production of pure food were two goals reformers had. Campaigning and settlement houses were some of the methods used to achieve their goals. One goal a reformer had in the U.S. during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s was to fix the slum areas in New York City. According to document 2‚ there were dirty living conditions and the tenement buildings were overcrowded. Document two uses photography as a method

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    Labor and their working conditions Still able to legally work at the age of 14/15‚ but only an limited hours a day/week Tenement Housing Tenement houses continued to be built‚ even proved to be unsafe. Sanitation (Plumbing‚ Electricity‚ etc.) in some of the homes where non existent Yes‚ Because laws where passed to add on better living conditions for people that lived in Tenement houses. Still a slight issue for people in poverty‚ but overall lawfully there are limits to how many people can live in

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    corporations were located. However‚ these jobs would lead two very little pay at all‚ not even enough to sustain a house that was relatively nice. The houses the workers could afford were in the cities and called tenements‚ they were masses of poor people all live together 2-4 families in each tenement in the apartment type building. This led to really bad conditions due to the lack of plumbing and bathrooms in each tournament. So they had to find other means of getting rid of this waste and bathing‚ like

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    struggled to survive‚ the streets were jammed with people‚ horses‚ push carts and garbage. There houses were known as TenementsTenements where usually six to seven stories high and divided into small apartments. The tenements were in very poor living conditions‚ they had no windows‚ heat‚ or indoor bathrooms‚ and they had to fit 10 people per room. Since the slums and tenements where in such poor conditions disease and sickness occurred rapidly. But despite the poor conditions the population in

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    “Drew up outside the brown tenement… Somebody has written in chalk the words YA BASS” The author describes the tenements as brown which the reader interprets as a connotation of poverty and dirt‚ which casts an interesting contrast to Mr Jackson himself who arrived driving a “black polished car” and wearing a “square red ring”. The words “polished” and “red ring” indicate wealth and pride‚ even though he seems proud to come from such a poor area. “He looked up at the tenement with the cheerful animation

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    New York harbor. When the immigrants arrived they were poor so they lived in what was called tenements because they were cheap. Tenements were single-family homes carved up into multi-family dwellings or apartment buildings. Each apartment had only three rooms: a living or front room‚ a kitchen‚ and a tiny bedroom. Every so often seven or more people lived in each apartment. Not only was the tenement crowded‚ but there were no bathrooms inside until 1905.

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    The American Industrial Revolution was a time of growth. Starting from the early 1800s the way of life started to slowly progress.There were many types of growth including economic‚population‚and agriculture. It had many positives and negatives ‚but the positives overshadowed the negatives. There were also things that were both positive and negative throughout the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution there were many positive changes happening. Factories were being

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