Q: Compare and contrast the characteristics of Nicholas and Ollie. Saki’ s classic‚ "The Lumber Room" is a short story about a boy who willing to do anything to get what he wants‚ while "Happy Birthday" written by Toni Cade Bambara is a short story about a little girl’s disappointment with a boring day that should have been a special occasion. Although the themes in this two short stories are differing but we can see that the main characters in the short story that are Nicholas and Ollie have
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Austin Storhaug AP American History 2/7/2005 19th Century Cities In 1880‚ a national census determined that the United States had grown to a population of 50‚100‚000. 6‚600‚000 of those who helped account for the population growth of cities were immigrants arriving from around the world. Also‚ many rural Americans became attracted to the lure of the big city. This incredible condensation into the big cities led to many problems including crime. Overall‚ the lure of the city‚ the abundance of
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which was both a blessing and a curse in a way. The new metropolises provided many sources of entertainment and an enriched cultural life‚ as well as recreation‚ but they were very crowded. Many‚ including immigrants‚ could only afford to live in tenements‚ which were unsafe
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Immigration and Nativism Rough Draft by Diana Martinez Claim The best thing that has happened to America since the start of the United States is immigrants coming to America boosting the economy. Support Immigration Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently or temporarily in a foreign country‚ for instance‚ U.S.A. Immigrants come from all over the world the Canadians‚ Chinese‚ Russians‚ Germans‚ Italians‚ Mexicans..‚ etc. Immigrants came to America for many reasons to escape poverty
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New Immigrants During the mid to late nineteenth century over 10 million European immigrants came to the United States. Most of these immigrants settled in the northeast and the Midwest looking for jobs and a better life. Many came to realize that there expectations were misguided and were forced to work long days for low wages and live in slums. There were many hardships and challenges involved when coming to America that many people were not aware of. Immigrants looked at America as a new start
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We are ashamed of Industrialization because of lots of unfair treatment and working and housing conditions. Thousands of people became sick and injured during this time period. This happened because of the rich upper-class treating the lower class like dirt and not giving them proper treatment. One of the problems in the Industrialization Era was unfair treatment. This type of treatment happened when the Chinese immigrants came in from Angel Island. These immigrants had to spend many months or years
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to the emancipation‚ major cities such as St.Peterburg and Moscow were flowed beyond their holding capacity. The growth in housing could not match the growth in population so industrial employers had to house workers in ramshackle dormitories and tenements. Most lived in unhygienic and often freezing conditions; they ate meals of stale bread and buckwheat gruel (porridge) in crowded meal-houses. Things were even worse in the factories‚ where hours were long and the work was monotonous and dangerous
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Urbanization Before the middle of the 19th century it was quite fashionable to live in the big city. People of the Upper class‚ for instance; lawyers‚ merchants‚ and manufacturers built lavish townhouses in the center of the city within walking distance of their various jobs. Middle class workers tended to live further away from the center of the city in places such as suburbs. Whereas the lower class workers lived in the back alleys and courtyards of the central city. Because of the need to be
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Thesis Statement: The continuous mining in Palawan will cause degradation of the soil‚ denuding of the forests and extinction of animal and plant species thus lowering its’ biodiversity. Biological diversity‚ or biodiversity‚ encompasses the variety and abundance of plants‚ animals‚ and microorganisms as well as the ecosystems and ecological processes to which they belong. (Braatz‚ 1992) The word came from the Latin “bios” which means life and “diversitas” which means variety or differences which
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influence in the poem’s message. “Mother to Son” was written by Langston Hughes in the middle the nineteen twenties. In the United States‚ we have a large contrast of wealth between the super wealthy like the Carnegies and the Rockefellers. Then you had tenement buildings and very crowded and poorer cities with millions of people not having basic facilities like toilets. In the poem “Mother to Son” the mother says “life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”. She has not enjoyed the nation’s wealth doubling
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