1. Dix’s values of the mentally ill impacted their treatment. In the United States she helped create more than 30 hospitals. She told people that individuals with mental disturbances could not be cured. Before this People didn’t care what happened to the mentally ill. They put them in prisons and some were kept in cages.…
As the family’s living expenses increased, Ona and Stanislovas, one of Teta Elzbieta’s youngest children, are forced to look for jobs. The jobs in Packingtown, the town in which most immigrants reside and where they live, involve back breaking labor conducted in unsafe conditions with little regard for individual workers. Furthermore, the immigrant community is fraught with crime and corruption. During the winter season, it is the most dangerous season in Packingtown, especially in the work field. Jurgis is forced to work in an unheated slaughterhouse in which it is difficult to see and he risks his life every day by simply going to work.…
The Worst Hard Time is a chronological book that follows the history of the homesteaders particularly in the dust bowl region of the United States. Centered mainly in the 1920’s and 1930’s, Timothy Egan shares various accounts of people who lived in the area during theses times. He shares with us their stories of hardship in dust storms, crop failures, deaths and political strife. Egan begins by giving historical information which lead up to this period such as the Homestead Act back in 1862. He then goes on to to tell the peoples’ stories who lived in the plains before, during and after the plains.…
Dorothea Lynde Dix once said, “In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do”. Dix was a school teacher, a writer, a superintendent of nurses during the Civil War, and among all those accomplishments; her biggest one was being a reformer for improved treatment of the mentally ill. She started her work in 1843 in which there were only thirteen mental institutions and by 1880 there were a total of one hundred and twenty-three of which she personally oversaw thirty-two of the establishments. Dorothea Lynde Dix was a very remarkable woman who dedicated over forty years of her life in helping to change the ways that people think about patients who are mentally ill. Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine on April 4, 1802.…
Showing the entitlement of that which was placed upon them, the depression, digression from their homeland, and the exile. In Gaza of 1979 a farm was using the labor of refugees, another young boy picture was captured there in a refugee camp. These refugee camps display them being in exile. They are placed here because they have nowhere else to go and the dominant discourse get manual labor out of them. In addition to not being able to be in their homeland, they are placed in camps that get destroyed, reconstructed, and then re-destroyed again.…
In the picture that I picked from of Bud Fields and his family from Hale County, Alabama. Everyone in the family picture seems helpless and dirty since they don’t have so much clothes to wear. In the picture everyone seem to share everything like the bed. It took place in Alabama during the summer in 1936. So I can’t imagine how hot the house was since they didn’t have no fans or anything the family seems miserable by it.…
Homelessness has been an issue for Americans since the foundation of our country. Although the issues faced by those without a home have changed, many characteristics have remained constant over the years. For example, shantytowns have played a large role in American homelessness from the Dust Bowl to modern day. John Steinbeck’s groundbreaking novel The Grapes of Wrath shows the life of migrant workers in the 1930’s.…
The houses were very dirty, with mold and other things on the walls. People had to buy a space to sleep there for the night, and if one person got sick everyone would get sick. He saw kids sitting in the wastewater that is on the streets, near dead or rotten things. In one of the pictures he took, there was a bunch of kids playing in the street, where a rotten horse lays dead about 3 feet away from them. Because of his work, ¨It inspires Roosevelt to close the worst of the lodging houses and spurred city officials to reform and enforce the city’s housing…
The Struggles of All: Of Mice and Men Up until now, 2015, the years of 1930 to 1940 has been the worst years in American history for people all around the country. The struggles that some already faced from day to day, went from manageable to unbearable. The difficulties that everyone faced, from a day to day basis. The effects that the Great Depression had on everything and everyone. And everyone’s broken plans.…
The Unfree and Unsafe Labour Conditions: Portrayed in the Lives of Mexicans Farm Workers Do we want to live in a nation with social closure towards migrant workers or do we want to provide autonomy towards such workers? Well, many of the times it is problematic for individuals to have a say because of the class and social inequality that exists in their workplace. Many of those with advantages and privileges may be able to adapt to changing conditions, but marginalized groups are often at a disadvantage to do so. Correspondingly, this idea is evident in the documentary El Contrato, by Min Sook Lee. The story delineates the struggles that Mexican workers migrating to Southern Ontario go through while being tomato labourers.…
Jeannette Walls Lifestyle Choices Jeannette Walls chose to live a very different lifestyle then she did when she was growing up. Her childhood reflects her personality, relationships, and her motivation as she became an adult. Jeannette is a well known author for The Glass Castle, she now lives on a ranch with her second husband John. Growing up Jeannette had an interesting life compared to you and I. Her parents Rose Mary and Rex Walls did not believe in traditional parenting or way of living.…
Author methane sates, ““things did not get better. If they did, I did not notice it. Gradually, I came to accept hunger as a constant companion.” # Hunger however would inlay be one aspect of the harsh living. Living conditions were also another aspect that made life in this region quite difficult.…
Some people may say that “America is the land of opportunity”. Especially the Mexicans in the 1940s. America seemed to guarantee economic opportunity for them when their country could not. As described in the Weekly Reader’s article, “The Bracero Program”, during World War II the United States needed farmworkers to harvest crops and feed the nation since men were fighting in Europe and many women working in the industry. At the same time, the unemployment rate and crop failures were increasing in Mexico.…
Originally named Dorothea Lynde Dix, she was born in Hampden, Maine during the year 1802. While growing up, however, Dix did not experience a normal childhood, instead she grew up in an unhappy home with neglectful parents. As a result, she suffered from depression at several times and by age thirty three, Dix had a complete physical and psychological breakdown. In order to restore her health, Dix embarked on a trip to Europe in 1836 where she resided in the home of William Rathbone and his family of wealthy, socially conscious liberals. During her stay in England, Dix was frequently in contact with English modern ideas of prison and mental health reform and she had the opportunity to meet several individuals who supported the cause such as,…
Stranger Danger “The Displaced Person” by Flannery O’Connor, was published as a story in the Sewanee review in October 1954. The setting takes places after World War 2, where some refugees from the concentration camp are resettling to a farm. The literary techniques that O’Connor uses are symbolism, imagery, and irony. She uses these techniques to state her purpose about how people should not be judged for the way they are.…