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    What is a Farmer?

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    What Is A Farmer? A farmer isn’t just a person that grows food. A farmer is a provider. They provide all the fruits‚ vegetables‚ and meats that we like and need to eat. Farming isn’t just a hobby‚ it’s a job. It is the farmer’s job to grow flowers and foods‚ and to raise and care for animals and then sell them. I think that it would be hard to be a farmer. Farmers have to work very hard sometimes to make a living. Some farmers have to work from sunrise to sunset. And farmers rarely get

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    Farmers Dbq

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    had a huge growth spurt and agricultural began to decline. This made it harder for farmers to make a living. Document G shows how much manufacturing increased between the years 1849 – 1899. America could no longer aspire to be a nation of small freehold farms. Manufacturers and people living in big cities depended on farmers to pretty much keep them alive. Many people didn’t realize how much of an affect farmers had on their everyday lives. If you took farms away from the United States during this

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    and cultural aspects of the American industrial workers lives. Three of these being government actions‚ immigration‚ and technological changes. Government actions helped American industrial workers’ through acts such as the Interstate Commerce Act that banned pools‚ and the Chinese exclusion act‚ which lowered competition for workers. Immigration affected industrial workers in a negative way since immigrants were willing to work for less than American workers and were thus taking their jobs. Technological

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    "The Gilded Six-Bits" is a story about a life of married couple‚ Missy May and Joe. They lived a meager life by some standards because they did not have extravagant material things‚ but by other standards they were rich. They were rich in love. In the story the Joe and Missy May marvel at the fact that Otis Slemmons was wealthy enough to have a five-dollar gold piece for a stick-pin‚ a ten-dollar gold piece on his watch‚ and a mouth full of gold teeth. Close to the end of the story the reader

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    farmer essay

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    Mrs. Sommers English 3 honors 12 February 2014 Letters From an American Farmer Essay Is it really worth living in America if you’re an immigrant? In Jean de Crevecoeur’s Letter from an American Farmer he talks about how living in America is better than living in Europe in 1763. During this time‚ countless Europeans wanted to leave Europe because of increased poverty‚ religious freedom‚ and poor harvest seasons. Immigrating to America was a good idea during the 1700’s‚ but now its not. Many

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    The Gilded bits

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    fake and he isn’t who he claimed to be. Never judge a book by its cover and all that glitters is not gold. · Deceit Otis Slemmons deceives others into believing that he is wealthy man whom the ladies adore. To pull off his deception‚ he wears gilded baubles that women like Missie May take for solid-gold accessories. When he promises to reward her with riches if she will yield herself to him‚ she accepts his proposal. She plans to use her reward to elevate Joe to the status of Otis. She then deceives

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    Before the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain in the 1800s‚ the British could not create cotton material easier or quick enough for people to meet their daily schedules and to produce agriculture such as fruits‚ vegetables‚ bread‚ water‚ and raised farm animals. It was very hard for farmers and cotton workers to facilitate their schedule or save time while there were no machines or factories that yet existed before they were invented or built. Since they were no existing machines or factories

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    labor unions had great impact on the average American industrial worker either it be positive or negatively in the sense that workers were abused and underpaid to the point where their needed to be change. Technology was advancing steadily and new inventions were being introduced to industry at a rapid pace. With that‚ a new breed of machines used for manufacturing would be operated by the American worker thus creating tension with workers and employers due to them not seeing eye to eye. Technological

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    The Gilded Six-Bits

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    In the short story “The Gilded Six-Bits” Zora Neale Hurston describes the survival of love in a black family living in a rural area.Folklore is a collection of fictional stories about animals and people‚ cultural myths‚ jokes‚ songs‚ tales and even quotes.Although Zora Neale Hurston is a A Folklorist “The Gilded Six-Bits”was not written as a typical folkloric tale. Although The short story isn’t your everyday folkloric tale it can still be considered Folklore. “The Gilded Six-Bits”is an example of

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    Young Farmers

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    Hick‚ backwards‚ redneck‚ stupid‚ bumpkin. These are all fine names given to persons that work to feed and clothe the world by certain persons who have no idea what they are talking about. However‚ there are some people that know very well what it really means to live the life of an agriculturalist. Those that know the best are the ones that have grown up on farms. Being a farm kid means that I know everyone within five miles of where I live. It also means knowing all of their quirks‚ and the quirks

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