Vernon Hill‚ a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Worcester‚ MA‚ with its abandoned‚ worn-down tenements‚ boarded windows‚ and graphite signs initially intimidated me. I rode with ease in my parents’ Suburban to Worcester Academy‚ atop Vernon Hill‚ for lacrosse practices‚ but once I stepped off campus‚ I was nervous walking around and daunted by the decrepit surroundings. I had grown up in a bubble of privilege and was unfamiliar with the drastic inequities between my lacrosse team and the children
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------------------------------------------------- The London Times March 5‚ 1830 The age of industry has happened my dear countrymen! Since 1730 people have moved from the country to the city. It has had a positive effect as we know it. It also has some major downsides to it also. The education was and still is in the making. In the beginnings the government did not make children go to school‚ but after the ninetieth century brought mandated school hours for children. By 1850 half of the population
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Despite the evidence that Washington Irving uses to show his love for America in his stories‚ he portrays some characters in the Devil and Tom Walker and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as greedy. Irving shows concern for America by placing stories in uniquely American moments. In this essay I will prove through passages and quotes from Irving’s stories that he shows his love for America in his stories and portrays some characters as greedy in the two stories. The historical settings of these
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little children. Kelley used ethos to its fullest extent to further convey her message. She captivates the audiences’ hearts by pouring in sad entities that are prevalent in this harsh world. “They carry bundles of garments form the factories to the tenements‚ little beasts of burden robbed at school life that they may work for us.” Kelley states this in order show the harsh reality of what the children have to lose because the adults won’t stand up the child labor laws. She gives guilt to the audience
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What did people in Victorian England do in their free time? “The evolving of man does not drive change -- it enables change.” (Unknown) Today‚ people surf the web‚ play video games‚ listen to their iPods‚ and watch TV (among other things). But back in the late 1700s/early 1800s‚ they did not have TVs‚ iPods‚ video games‚ or computers. With the resources available then‚ they would play sports‚ pick up a book to read‚ or have play time. One thing that has carried through the centuries is athletics
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Kaitlin Bergold APUSH- A Day DBQ- Immigration The mid-19th century wave of immigration brought significant changes to the American economy‚ society‚ and political life. Between 1841 and 1860‚ more than 4 million immigrants traveled to America‚ significantly increasing the population of America. Ireland‚ Germany‚ and England were the three countries that migrated the greatest amount of people to the United States‚ making up about three-fourths of immigrants. As they arrived‚ they were too poor to
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MacFarlane renamed the estate Possilpark and the population rose from 10 to 10 000 in less than 20 years. All the woodland and the House were demolished as the foundry works expanded and the rest of the park land became a grid plan of streets and tenements with the main street being name “Saracen Street”. Saracen Foundry Founded in 1849 by Walter MacFarlane the firm was originally based in Saracen Lane‚ Gallowgate. The relocated briefly to Washington Street‚ 1862‚ before
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In the early part of the twentieth century Boston Massachusetts was a growing city full of history and possibilities. A younger Boston had survived the turmoil of British rule and the American Revolution. As a tribute to its past‚ the former home of Revolutionary hero Paul Revere stood at the north end of the growing city not far from the Old North Church where Revere warned the Patriots of an impending British arrival. But Boston was also growing and changing with the new times‚ especially in the
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being able to provide for a child. Poverty is something that not only effects adults‚ but children as well. When we think of poverty in America what is the image that comes to mind? An old dilapidated shack in southern Alabama? or a rat infested tenement house in New York City? According to the book Faces of Poverty‚ the author‚ Jill Berrick says that "Both images are correct‚ for poverty exists in the backwoods of Appalachia as well as in the heart of the inner city" (1). In homes across America
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astonishing profits. But while the rich and wealthy like Carnegie‚ Morgan‚ and Vanderbilt enjoyed this unprecedented rise in profits and spent lavishly on things such as diamonds‚ homes‚ and clothes‚ many of the poor wore rags and lived in crowded tenements. Many of the poor were immigrants with limited education‚ limited work skills‚ and limited knowledge of the English language. They often labored in hazardous factories on a rigid‚ regimented‚ and exhaustive work schedule. Until The Gilded Age
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