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Lorraine Hansberry Walter Lee
495 wordsA domestic drama set in a tenement on the south side of Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry's tells the story of the Younger family. Following the death of the family's father and provider Big Walter, who has died from overwork and grief over the death of a child, the Younger's await the payment of Walter's life insurance. For Walter's son Walter Lee, the money would enable him to open a liquor store and give up his degrading work as a chauffeur for a wealthy white; he also dreams of buying pearls for h...
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Italian Immigrants Southern Italy
869 wordsItalians immigrated in large numbers in the early 1900 's. It is estimated that nearly three million immigrants came to the United States between 1900 and 1914. They immigrated to America to better themselves. Most of them lived in poverty and desperately needed an alternative. America was their alternative for a new way of life, a new horizon. I will discuss the arrival and acculturation experiences of Italian immigrants in New York City and Chicago. To understand these immigrants, one must fir...
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Theodore Roosevelt Migrant Workers
1,331 wordsUnlike the majority of immigrants of his time, Jacob Riis assimilated easily into Americas melting pot. A Dutch born police reporter and amateur photographer, Riis dove into the impoverished streets of Americas most populated city and proved to the upper classes that horror does exist next door. In his early days of church exhibitions and in the writing of his novel, How the Other Half Lives, originally published on 15 November 1890, Riis depicted the color lines, tenements, stereotypes, careers...
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Young Women Three Men
1,214 wordsRape in Chengdu Xiao Kim was very late coming back from the Young Women's Club. In Chengdu, in 1957, deep in the heart of a China that was becoming more industrial than rural, it was still safe to walk the streets at any hour, and so the fourteen-year-old felt little fear as she wandered along the sidewalk. Of course, Xiao Kim should have felt at least a little fear. After all, curfew had been thirty minutes before, and even in safe Chengdu there were strict regulations about not being out after...
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Effect On Society Half Lives
572 wordsThroughout the course of history, materials such as literature have been written about certain time periods. In time, these literary works can be assessed and interpreted to help discover facts about that period of history. One novel that can accomplish this task is How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis, in which Riis describes how reform is needed. Before this novel was published, the United States was going through a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. In the northeastern reg...
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30 A M Political Machines
2,003 words... bring in immigrants to urbanize the cities and towns. So I told my wife that we should go to a settlement house to see what we should do in this alien city. So we asked an Italian were to find a settlement house and he guided us to this pretty nice looking white building labeled settlement of peace. So we walked in and we met this girl in a chair at a desk and she told us to sit down. Since we didnt know much English she had to get her assistant to translate what we were saying and vise vers...
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Maggie A Girl Girl Of The Streets
1,130 wordsMaggie, a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane The novel, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane, takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890 s. It is about a girl, Maggie Johnson, who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother, Jimmie, an abusive mother, Mary, and a father who died when Maggie was young. When Maggie grew up, she met her boyfriend, Pete. In Maggie's eyes, Pete was a sophisticated young man who impressed Maggie because he treated her better...
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Three Men Cold Air
2,448 wordsRape Bull Rape in Chengdu Rape in Chengdu Xiao Kim was very late coming back from the Young Womens Club. In Chengdu, in 1957, deep in the heart of a China that was becoming more industrial than rural, it was still safe to walk the streets at any hour, and so the fourteen-year-old felt little fear as she wandered along the sidewalk. Of course, Xiao Kim should have felt at least a little fear. After all, curfew had been thirty minutes before, and even in safe Chengdu there were strict regulations ...
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Ellis Island York City
986 wordsSince the Dutch first colonized what is now New York, this seaport city has welcomed millions of people to Americas shores. They have come from all four corners of the world: from England to Ethiopia, Italy to Indonesia and Turkey to Thailand. Between 1855 (the year New Yorks official immigration center at Castle Garden opened) to 1880, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States were from Ireland and Germany. Between 1880 and 1919 more than 23 million people emigrated to the United S...
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Mock Heroic Female Characters
2,410 wordsIn O? Casey? s Dublin Trilogy, the playwright attacks the weight of dead heroes which manacled contemporary Ireland to a violent past and self-destructive dream. The space between pretension and failing, rhetoric and reality, abstraction and suffering is carefully exposed as O? Casey departs from the stereotypes of the Irish stage to evolve a fresh realist idiom of tenement drama. His characters indulge in their own detached fantasies? create sanctuaries of inaction around themselves? and O? Cas...
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Half Lives Middle Class
1,686 wordsThe novel How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis shocked middle and upper class Americans when it was published in 1890. Riis created a sensation when he revealed to the world, combining detailed written descriptions with graphic photographs, the horrific conditions of New York City? s tenement housing. How the Other Half Lives raised many questions, such as how and why the poor are subjected to such terrible living conditions and how that environment affects them. Riis also reveals his fears an...
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Number Of Immigrants Political And Religious
1,363 wordsIn 1886 the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest migration in global history. The inscription on the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus in 1883, invites the rest of the world to give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, te...
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