America is known for independence and leadership throughout the two-century-long reign as a country, they had a hard time pleasing this wave of immigrants. Immigrants found their way to America for independence and hope, and we let them down. Immigrants had to face challenges such as food and shelter which should be guaranteed if you are coming to the country that you believe is one of the greatest. What was easy was to look at what was going to be done but what was hard is how to do it. Immigrants believed in America it could be an easy ride which America displayed it to be but when you got to face the challenge it goes extremely terrifying. People all over Europe including Italians, Russians, Polish, and Spanish came to the country in hopes
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Homelessness was inhuman, women and children were forced to sleep on the streets, starving because they couldn't find jobs. Homeless people would be forced to beg for things like food, water, and jobs, if they were not given to them they would have a hard time surviving. The number of the Homeless count was too many it started off with “There are 10,000 children living on the streets of New York.... The newsboys constitute an important division of this army of homeless children. You see them everywhere.... They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries. They surround you on the sidewalk and almost force you to buy their papers. They are ragged and dirty. Some have no coats, no shoes and no hat.”(McCabe). As the summers were hard, the winters were even worse with no shoes and no jackets in sub-freezing temperatures heat was an important source that was unfortunately not given to them easily. The homeless population was on the rise, people were scrambling for any job they could get. People didn't want to stay on the streets much longer. The finding of jobs was tough even for kids so they would have to rely on each other as sources of heat. They would find the oddest spots to sleep that people would never step foot on never the less sleep on. The homeless would give anything to get inside as it says in the passage “I remember one cold night seeing some 10 or a dozen of the little homeless creatures piled together to keep each other warm beneath the stairway of The [New York] Sun office. There used to be a mass of them also at The Atlas office, sleeping in the lobbies, until the printers drove them away by pouring water on them. One winter, an old burnt-out safe lay all the season on Wall Street, which was used as a bedroom by two boys who managed to crawl into the hole that had been burned.”(McCabe). These places that the children were sleeping were dreadful. They did
Homelessness was inhuman, women and children were forced to sleep on the streets, starving because they couldn't find jobs. Homeless people would be forced to beg for things like food, water, and jobs, if they were not given to them they would have a hard time surviving. The number of the Homeless count was too many it started off with “There are 10,000 children living on the streets of New York.... The newsboys constitute an important division of this army of homeless children. You see them everywhere.... They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries. They surround you on the sidewalk and almost force you to buy their papers. They are ragged and dirty. Some have no coats, no shoes and no hat.”(McCabe). As the summers were hard, the winters were even worse with no shoes and no jackets in sub-freezing temperatures heat was an important source that was unfortunately not given to them easily. The homeless population was on the rise, people were scrambling for any job they could get. People didn't want to stay on the streets much longer. The finding of jobs was tough even for kids so they would have to rely on each other as sources of heat. They would find the oddest spots to sleep that people would never step foot on never the less sleep on. The homeless would give anything to get inside as it says in the passage “I remember one cold night seeing some 10 or a dozen of the little homeless creatures piled together to keep each other warm beneath the stairway of The [New York] Sun office. There used to be a mass of them also at The Atlas office, sleeping in the lobbies, until the printers drove them away by pouring water on them. One winter, an old burnt-out safe lay all the season on Wall Street, which was used as a bedroom by two boys who managed to crawl into the hole that had been burned.”(McCabe). These places that the children were sleeping were dreadful. They did