Jacob Riis played a central role in the debate over the causes and consequences of urban problems in the late 19th century. Riis was a photographer who started as a poor immigrant from Denmark. Initially Riis worked low paying jobs until he eventually found his calling in police reports and later photography. As a police reporter‚ Riis had unique access to the city’s slums. In the evenings‚ he would accompany law enforcement and members of the health department on raids of the tenements‚ witnessing
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It was the winter of 1851‚ when mass number of Irish immigrants arrived in New York hoping for a brighter future‚ aboard the British ship Montezuma. It had been months since leaving their homeland‚ the immigrants were sick and hungry. The conditions on ships like Montezuma were referred to as "coffin ships" because conditions of these ships were filthy and densely populated. There was barely any sort of circulation. It is said on average‚ 15 percent of the immigrants died at sea before arriving
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During the 19th century‚ the United States had began to expand it’s territory towards the western frontier. This era of U.S. history was dominated by the belief in manifest destiny – the idea that the United States was destined to expand to the west coast‚ and was justified in doing so (History.com Staff‚ 2010). However‚ settlers heading west faced many hindrances to their grand plans along their way‚ including the Native Americans‚ who had been living on the land for centuries before western expansion
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Discuss the artistic movements of the eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. How does one lead to another and what values conflict and produce the change. The eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were characterized by four major artistic movements. They were Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Modernism. More often than not‚ these movements represented clear break with old and transition to new social‚ political‚ and cultural ideologies. Through music‚ literature
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all. In the late 1800s‚ blue-collar workers carried their lunches to work in metal pails‚ which protected their food from the rigors of the workplace. In fact‚ your lunch pail illustrated your place on the economic scale -- a lunch pail meant you couldn’t afford a hot noontime meal. This didn’t stop children from wanting to emulate their working parents‚ however. Soon enough‚ kids fashioned their own lunch pails from tin boxes that were originally used to hold cookies or tobacco. Early mass-produced
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20th century From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see 20th century (disambiguation). | |This article needs additional citations for verification. | | |Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008) | [pic] The Earth seen from Apollo 17. The second half of the 20th century saw an increase
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Imperialism is the policy of extending a country’s influential presence and power‚ in other places by means of military action‚ or diplomacy. In the late 19th Century‚ American began harnessing imperialism as to have spots in a variety of places across the globe to ‘re-fuel.’ Naval power became the power of the time‚ so having more places where you could safely land made you even powerful. Also‚ having a country under your control allowed for economic gain‚ through harnessing the resources on said
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19th and 20th Century composers: Claude Debussy‚ Igor Stravinsky‚ and Bela Bartok Many composers existed during the 19th and 20th centuries who defied the principles of common practice tonality. In my opinion‚ Claude Debussy‚ Igor Stravinsky‚ and Bela Bartok are great examples of composers who often refused to follow the norms. Each of them created new compositional methods and structures and each had their own reasons for doing so. In the end‚ their innovation and originality is what has kept
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How Does Texting Affect Our Lives? Texting can affect our lives in many different ways. Many argue that‚ texting in the New World is a detriment. I personally feel neutral as this topic goes on. The technology today is so overwhelming at times being that there’s always something new coming out. In retrospect‚ there was the telephone‚ the beeper and the Cell phone. Later‚ there was the cell phone combined with the texting‚ Texting combined with the camera‚ camera combined
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Computers Ease Our Lives Nowadays‚ many people say that computers make life more complex. However I do not agree with that. I think computers ease our lives in many ways. They help us to store our documents as well as not occupying a place. Also‚ we can make a great profit on them by using the internet which is helping us on our researches by lessen the time that we spend for researches. Moreover‚ we can pacify ourselves by doing some activities on computers. To begin with‚ several decades ago
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