Chapter 11 ROBBER BARONS AND REBELS 1 Explain what Zinn means by a “skillful terracing to stabilize the pyramid of wealth.” What Zinn meant by a “skillfull terracing to stabilize the pyramid of wealth” is‚ they believed the economic growth would be much better with the aid of blacks‚ whites‚ Chinese‚ and European immigrants. They had to do it together in a way to stabilize the economic wealth. 2 Explain what Zinn means by saying that the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 “gives away the secret
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The Haymarket riot was a situation between police forces and union members and strikers that occurred in the haymarket square in Chicago on May 4th‚1886. A few people died and a few were arrested during the strike. It turned to the riot because someone threw a bomb at the police which of course caused the police to take action against the strikers because it had turned violent. During this time strikes were incredibly common against factories and so on having to do with money or better conditions
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• Carol Rivers • Dr. Chrzanowski • ENG 101 • 12 July 2009 • It was the Era during the industrial revolution (late 1800’s and early 1900’s) that people started to obtain jobs in cities. During this Era‚ people had much need for financial help that they would go to any means just to have food on the table each day. Workers would be taken advantage of‚ most of them worked in factories where pay was low‚ benefits where non-existent‚ and the work day was often 10 to 12
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The Outcome of the Choices Made “You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.”-Ray LaMontagne The main characters in The Crucible‚ Easy A and The Scarlet Letter all had to deal with particular situations that got them into quite a bit of trouble along with other relating topics‚ such as public shaming‚ sin‚ secrecy and gender roles. The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in a Puritan New England town of Salem‚ Massachusetts
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Easy A In the movie‚ Easy A‚ Olive ‘s entire life takes a turn for the worst based off a little white lie. When rumors get around that she’s sleeping with everyone‚ she keeps them going and starts accepting profit for the lies. After portraying the image of a whore‚ Olive gets fed up with all the gossip and tells everyone the truth. In the midst of it all‚ Olive compares herself to Hester Prynne. Easy A is an update of the Scarlet Letter with a John Hughes twist. Easy A is an update of the
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Identity can be defined as the fact of being whom or what a person is. Internal and external factors shape a child’s concept of their own identity. These factors include the environmental setting‚ family‚ community‚ and the media. In the novel Room by Emma Donoghue‚ the 5-year-old narrator/protagonist Jack learns his identity through exploring the familiar space he occupies‚ the close relationship between he and his mother‚ and watching television. It is clear that Jack faces many challenges‚ which lead
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Emma Maddox was born in Strawberry Plains Tennessee in 1870. Her parents were named William J. and Sarah Mauldin. When she was a baby‚ her and her parents moved to Greenville. Emma then graduated from Benedict college. She soon met her first husband‚ James Walker‚ then had eight children. She moved to Ware Shoals in 1917 to persue her career as a teacher‚ while her husband became principal. Her first husband died in 1919. After his death‚ she became the principal. She remarried to Reverend J.S. Maddox
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It was an uncomfortable fifteen minute drive that felt like a decade. I hadn’t been to my destination in over a year and I was only visiting out of curiosity. I was now at my old house in La Costa in which I had cried many nights prior to leaving. When I arrived I concealed my hands inside of my sweatshirt and put my hood on to shield the sight. My trembling legs tried restraining me from getting out of the car. I missed the house so much. It was a beautiful house in a friendly neighborhood‚ in
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Two books‚ written in the same time period‚ had never appeared more different than these. In Wuthering Heights‚ we see several families battling over love‚ hatred and pride. In Sense and Sensibility‚ we see many families searching for the happiness of marriage in a world full of joys‚ yet none seeming to come in their direction. These two amazing works‚ though so completely different‚ are an interesting pair to see together. Although they are different in the way that they act on revenge and the
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be fascinated by the lives of these social-media-celebrities‚ which are admired often by the thousands. But admiring can easily turn to obsession. And looking can sometimes turn to surveillance and stalking. In the short story lightboxes‚ the author Emma Cleary writes about the consequences of living such an open life. The short story is written in 1. Person narrator‚ and we follow an unnamed man. The point of view makes him a very unreliable narrator. At the beginning the reader easily feels sympathy
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