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One Hundred Dollars Dollars A Month
1,357 words... els, pans, and buckets. After arriving at the claim the miners began the routine of digging, shoveling, carrying, and washing until sunset. This routine was carried out at least six days a week and often seven. Often men would be removing the sand knee deep in ice-cold water for hours on end. One miner summarized the labors of mining in these terms: "Mining is the hardest work imaginable and an occupation which very much endangers health. A weakly man might about as well go to digging his gr...
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Rose Of Sharon Grapes Of Wrath
1,127 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath Theres an old saying, Blood is thicker than water. Well, nothing proves truer than the families in The Grapes of Wrath. When faced with hardships, people leaned on their kin for support and love, and in the worst of times would even turn their backs on those they had known for years to protect and provide for their families: Cant think of that. Got to think of my own kids. Three dollars a day, and it comes every day. Times are changing, mister, dont you know? Cant make a livi...
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Twenty Five Years San Antonio
732 wordsWhere the Sun Spends the Winter San Antonio, Texas Dear Editor: I want the women of New York, Chicago and Boston who buy at Macys, Wannamakers, Gimbels and Marshall Field to know that when they buy embroidered childrens dresses labeled " hand made" they are getting dresses made in San Antonio, Texas, by women and girls with trembling fingers and broken backs. These are bloody facts and I know, because Ive spoken to the women who make them. Catalina Rodriguez is a 24 -year-old Mexican g...
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Juvenile Justice System High School Diploma
2,383 wordsJuvenile Boot Camps: The Modern Alternative Juvenile delinquency is not anything new; it is a problem that has plagued our society for the past two hundred years. Juvenile delinquency is believed to have started with the emergence of industrialization and urbanization. This same phenomenon later appeared in other countries as they began to modernize as well (Bernard 6). In the past juvenile care facilities and juvenile detention centers attempted to contain the problem of juvenile delinquency. T...
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California Gold Rush San Francisco Bay
2,773 wordsCalifornia Gold Rush By: Don Gibson The California Gold Rush Shortly after the acquisition of California from Mexico a man by the name of John Sutter arrived in East San Francisco Bay in 1839. Born in Germany he had to leave because he was unable to pay his creditors. With plenty of charm and letters from friends he convinced the Mexican governor of California to award him a land grant of more than 50, 000 acres. John Sutter built a stockade and a fort and soon after became referred to as Captai...
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Home From School Fifty Cents
2,711 wordsUnder-privileged, African-American boys are more prevalent in todays society than the typical person would like to recognize or admit. These boys seem to be faced with an ideal in which they need to follow or conform to as any and all cultures have. However, the problem is that for these boys, this ideal or way of living is believed to be met. Black boys growing up in Harlem are expected to act tough, not take any crap from anybody, and always seem to be strong no matter what they may be faced w...
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