how places such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became stages for outsiders to see the scale on which wealth differed in the city. I believe that the best part of the documentary was the portion explaining and going into depth about the tenements and poverty in some parts of the city. It showed images that helped viewers translate the situation that they’re being told about into real images and events. I believe that Ric Burns did a great job representing the Gilded Age of New York City‚
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what the immigrant life was like?” In addition‚ the middle class does not really care for the immigrants up until the point where it affects the middle class and that includes money and certain rights. “Jacob Riis had taken hundreds of photos of tenements‚ his work had been first published in eighteen eighty-nine and later became a book named‚ How the other half lives.” Riis wanted to expose his pictures of the immigrants living conditions to upper
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especially when society ensures that whores receive the worst maudite vie plaite of them all. To stay or go boils down to trusting her catholic values or expending her viewpoint on catholic morality. Rheauna and the mothers of the tenement may be key in keeping her in line with the church’s morals‚ but both are trumped by priests. Father Castelneau “wisdom” just like any holy leader will have the final say concerning her life choices. ANGELINE: I went to see Father Castelneau… DES-NEIGES:
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therefore be assumed that Crichton Smith uses the structure to reflect the fact that to him the past seems more substantial or dominant than the present. Crichton Smith initially uses the first stanza to convey then threatening nature of his mothers tenement home‚ referring to: ’the second turning of the stony stair. ’ At this point‚ Crichton Smith effectively employs alliteration on the words ’stony ’ and ’stair. ’ Using harsh sounds to emphasise the harsh nature of the place. In addition to this
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pretty. She married Curley without really knowing him. She could have been a loving wife if she had met the right man. She does not love Curley’s and want to go in pictures. "All the guys got a horseshoe tenement goin’ on. It’s on’y about four o’clock. None of them guys is goin’n to leave that tenement. Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful
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Immigrant children did not live an easy life in the nineteenth century. Most children were never educated. Italian children immigrants were rarely put through schooling. However‚ Eastern European Jewish immigrants looked at public schooling as their best way to help their children enhance their potential in life. Chicago‚ Detroit‚ and New York City had large populations of Jewish and Italian immigrants. The conditions of the children in all three cities were similar yet different with cities in which
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1930’s. This is illustrated in their poor living conditions. The Morrison’s live in an overcrowded tenement in the east end of Glasgow. There is only one bedroom and Maggie and John must resort to making up a bed on the living room floor and sleeping on it. “A space has been cleared‚ C‚ for a mattress on the floor with pillows‚ blankets and old coats.” In addition to the already overcrowded tenement‚ Alec and Isa’s house has collapsed. At this point in play there are 11 people living in this one
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dramatic rise of tenements in New York. The number of those living in tenements rose to well over one million people in New York. He gave statistic after statistic showing the growing population of the lower class. As the average incomes for the upper and middle class climbed‚ the number of people thrown into the lower class with no hope of getting out also rose. It was Riis’ photos that finally got the attention of the nation. The pictures that Riis took were startling. Tenements were exposed to
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of society lived. This‚ along with the fact that the medieval city is walled‚ meant that there where many people in one area as the prospect of work drew people from poorer areas of Spain. Due to the high population density there were six storey tenement blocks often lacking the basic amenities and disease was a big problem. The decline of industry and the high population density lead to the decline of El Raval creating a reputation associated with crime‚ prostitution and drug trade. The southern
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the site of the Edinburgh Fishmonger Company’s Oyster Bar which advertised opening hours from eight in the morning till ten at night‚ selling Lobster and fresh and pickled Oysters and‚ on the western side‚ of a substantial eight+ (garrets) storey tenement‚ which the City could not buy outright and remained in place‚ dominating the City Chambers quadrangle‚ until its final demolition in 1897. Neither
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