I’ve made up my mind about what I atleast intend to be as a person. I’m still seventeen years old so I don’t really know just yet. I feel like as a typical high school student I’m being treated as a child with limited freedoms but will be pushed into the role as an adult as soon as I get my diploma. You know like knowing how am I going to contribute to society when I’m no longer in an assigned role. I only have one more year as a high school student so I’m really thinking about my future.…
The industrial condition reforms and improvement of urban life during the 1890-1915 period were very successful progressive reforms. Both helped improve the life of many citizens during that period and today. The many laws, such as child labor acts and pure food and drugs acts, made the quality of living much better. The Jungle, a book written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, was a fiction book about poor conditions in the meatpacking industry.…
The 1920s earned their moniker—the "Roaring '20s"—through the decade's real and sustained prosperity, dizzying technological advancements, and lively culture. The decade marked the flourishing of the modern mass-production, mass-consumption economy, which delivered fantastic profits to investors while also raising the living standard of the urban middle and working-class. But for the large minority of Americans who made their livelihoods in agriculture, the decade roared only with the agony of prolonged depression.…
Leila Fransis Mrs. Estrada Period 3 September 16th, 2015 1840 Research Project Living in the 1800s wasn’t like today at all! There was no internet or tv or wifi or iphones or ipods or any of that stuff. Neither was the education the same. Women milked the cows and washed the dishes and sew with their daughters while the men and the boys farmed with their fathers. The water they drank was from wells not distilled water or filtered water.…
Sumit Shetye Mrs. Estrada H English 1 10/16/15 Life in the 1840s The 1840s marked a new age in America. It was a time before the gruesome Civil War, before several states seceded from the United States to form their own country. It was a time in which slavery still existed, and where electricity had not been applied to personal use and the use of steam-powered machines were used in all sorts of manners. However, there was absolutely no time for recreation.…
Big business, economic growth and international involvement turned America into an industrial giant in the late 19th century because the railroads was one of the biggest change that happened to america. One , it made transportation easier for travelers and second, it made getting goods though place to place faster. A second thing that happened to america that changed many things in america was the way that rockefeller made the pipes for the olis all around europe and got the oil all around the world. This two things the railroads and the oil pipes made a big difference in how our economy is and how it grew.…
There are many inventors in golden ages that they made great achievements Such as: 1: Aljazeri 2: Abas Ibn Frnas 3: Mariam Alesterlabi 4: Ibn Alhitham 5: Abu Alkasm Alzahrawi *Aljazeri: He was an Arab Muslim polymath, mathematician, inventor, engineer, and artist. He had born in 1136. He invent engineer tools, also he converted the circular movement to the straight movement device.…
My transition happened when I was sixteen years of age and I am happy that it happened early in my life before most people’s. adulthood comes with a lot of perks, but it also come with a lot of responsibilities that have to be done in order to be successful. Getting my job at Culver's helps me learn how to take care of the things I need to be responsible for like my car payment and making sure I am saving my money for college. I appreciate my family for pushing me into getting a job so I stop wasting my time sitting on the couch watching Netflix. If it weren’t for me getting my job I don’t think I would have transitioned into adulthood at a young…
The Roaring 20’ are known as a time of social, cultural and artistic growth in America. There were also serious issues and tensions during this time. Most of the tensions were caused by the Modernists and Traditionalists opposing ideals. Modernists embraced the new changes during the Roaring 20’s and were welcoming to changes to everyday life. Traditionalists believed the religion and culture their parents had taught them were more important than the new culture.…
Marina Mendes Lemos de Oliveira Ekaterina Gay / Laura Waiss ENG 109 MVA June 12, 2017 New Generation and New Challenges The New York Times columnist David Brooks explores in the article “Is Not About You” some crucial issues for graduating students launched into the job market with many problems and obstacles to overcome. The author arguments that the students are taught to follow a lifestyle after graduation far away from the real situation that they will face in the future. Brooks claims that young people constantly hear from eldest people that they should enjoy their life, work with something that gives them pleasure, and follow their dreams and passions. However, the real life is not uncomplicated like that.…
Going to college wasn't in my plan because i feel like I can't do it but i've had some encouragement from one of my teachers this school year. The teenage pregnancy is like the new trend around my neighborhood to where i can't walk outside with my little brother without people thinking…
Though the 1920s were remembered primarily as a decade of firsts, bold innovation, and experimentation, it was also an age of extreme contradiction. The unique prosperity and promotion of politics, culture, laws, cities, movements, scientific discovery, innovation, and equality were underlined and accompanied by intense social anxiety and reaction, bearing witness to organized crime, nativism, discrimination, and resistance. This prosperous age heralded a dramatic break between America’s past and future and showed how great things can be accomplished from the lower points of life. Before World War I, the nation remained culturally and psychologically entrenched in the nineteenth century. However, the end of the First World War brought in a…
Anastasia Heinze Mr. Summers Honors English 11 15 October 2015 Music. Culture. History. American ragtime, jazz, and blues, is affected by society; much like American pop and rap music today. The 1920’s American culture was a profound, racy, yet brilliant era.…
It was when I passed into the ninth grade I realized that what I did in school counts toward my entire future, and I didn’t want to mess that up in any way, shape or form.…
As a child, everything in the world seems so clearly black and white. It seems like everyone just naturally gets older, goes to college because they have to, and work wherever they and up. Then I myself got older and started to question: But why do I need to go to college? What’s so great about it?…