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Tammany Hall Political Machines
1,853 wordsDuring the 19 th century there was a rapid growth of American cities due to immigration and migration from rural areas. This rise in the population created enormous problems for city governments, which were often unable to provide for the people and lacked any type of structure. In these conditions we begin to see the emergence of political machines, such as Tammany Hall in New York City. These groups were able to build a loyal voter following, especially among immigrant groups, by performing su...
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Men And Women Women And Children
1,396 wordsThere are a million people, men and women and children, who share the curse of the wage-slave; who toil every hour they can stand and see, for just enough to keep them alive; who are condemned till the end of their days to monotony and weariness, to hunger and misery, to heat and cold, dirt and disease, to ignorance and drunkenness and vice! And then turn them over to me, and gaze upon the other side of the picture. There are a thousand-ten thousand, maybe-who are master of these slaves, who own...
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Makes The Reader Feel Upton Sinclair
1,364 words... yes of a variety of people using a god-like narrator. This mix of views helps to strengthen his socialist beliefs in the novel. The other narrator expounds upon certain events that occur in the novel. This narrator is like an aside in a play; it is just like Sinclair stepped into the story to deliver a message to the reader. This narrator is used when Sinclair feels that a traditional narrator is not enough. The narrator is used in muckraking passages to show things that Jurgis couldnt possi...
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Oxford Basil Blackwell Discourse Analysis
1,640 wordsRunning head: FOUCAULTIAN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AS THE IDEOLOGICAL UNDERPINNING OF JAMES FERGUSON'S 'THE ANTI POLITICS MACHINE' Foucaultian Discourse Analysis as the Ideological Underpinning of James Ferguson's 'The Anti Politics Machine' August 07, 2009 Foucaultian Discourse Analysis as the Ideological Underpinning of James Ferguson's 'The Anti Politics Machine' Introduction In The Anti Politics Machine James Ferguson provides a brilliant critique of the conventional development theory. The author...
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Jim Crow Laws Ulysses S Grant
2,986 wordsChester Alan Arthur was born on October 5, 1830 in Fairfield, Vermont. The son of Malvinas Arthur and the Reverend William Arthur, a passionate abolitionist, young Chester and his family migrated from one Baptist parish to another in Vermont and New York. The fifth of eight children, Chester had six sisters and one older brother. Before beginning school in Union Village (now Greenwich), New York, he studied the fundamentals of reading and writing at home. In 1845, young Arthur entered Union Coll...
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Racial Tensions Political Machine
1,186 wordsThe Rise an Fall of the Machine Chicago politics had become synonymous with organized crime. Following the years of prohibition, this reputation had become well earned in that control of many municipal functions was influenced in some way by the underground operations. In a city that initially developed by entrepreneurial ambition, it was no surprise that now money was the core influence in policy decisions. By itself, the criminal element had enough of a deterring effect on the city and its ima...
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Violent Crimes Television Movies
986 wordsPeople are quick to blame violence in our society on television, movies or video games because they are simple believable targets. We have to look beyond this disinformation and attack the real causes for the violence in our society. Violence in television programs, movies, or video games will not make a person kill someone else. People watch violent images all the time, and only a very small percent of them actually commit violent crimes. Research on the subject does not necessarily support the...
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Late 19 Th Century Newspapers And Magazines
2,126 wordsMuckraking For much of the 1800 s, newspapers and magazines had been relatively expensive and mainly a medium for poems, short stories, and other literary works. Besides the largely entertainment oriented approach of these magazines, the majority of the people that read them were upper class citizens of the cities. However, with innovations in the late 19 th century that reduced the cost of printing, the price of the printed communication medium dropped drastically. Instead of upper class city-d...
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