Pullman

During the late 19th to early 20th century, the United States made a transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. The new inventions and methods increased the efficiency of production also created many job opportunities. However, the labor workers were exploited, women were mistreated and industrialization led to overcrowding cities. The growth of the industrial economy had many impacts on society. Although the economy was distinctly benefitted by industrialization, this did…

Imagine a woman named Marissa walking to her job in a factory. She’s carrying a meager lunch to eat during her short break in the middle of her twelve hour shift. The work is tedious and the equipment is dangerous, but her boss is not required to provide her with any protective gear. Additionally, because she is a woman, she gets less pay than the men despite having the same performance. If she needs to use the restroom or drink water, she must use either the “Whites Only” or the “Colored Only”…

________________________________________________________________________ Could you imagine being a ten year old boy with a facial deformity starting school for the first time? Well, that’s what August Pullman is going through in R.J. Palacio’s book “Wonder.”August, also known as Auggie, was born with a disease called Treacher Collins Syndrome. This disease caused him to have many surgeries, thus the reason Auggie was homeschooled. Now that Auggie has improved his parents made him start…

World War II can be recalled as a hostile time period for all parties involved, a massive world war, equipped with new fighting techniques and grim leaders, that would stop at nothing to acquire as much land as possible, causing many innocent lives to be lost. Although World War II did cause great despair, as well as monumental debt for a plethora of countries, it did however, aid in the process of many of future achievements, one of them, the push for Civil Rights in America. Before World War…

The border states between the North and South faced a migration of African Americans attempting to begin a life anywhere except under the oppression of Jim Crow and the bleak conditions of the postbellum South. As extremist movements and relational events occurred throughout the nation, urban areas experienced a renaissance of black culture. Was this period truly the “birth of a nation?” As black culture graced America with music, art, and literature, white Protestant women attempted to gain…

realistic fiction novel I read for this book talk assignment was Wonder by R.J Palacio. The realistic setting of this novel is Beecher Prep Middle School of North River Heights, located at the tip of Manhattan. In the story, ten year old August Pullman must face going to school for the very first time after being homeschooled and having twenty seven surgeries on his face. August has tiny ears, his eyes are too low, and his smile is a straight line across his face. When he enters Beecher Prep,…

wages for the AFL. Strikes led by unions usually ended badly and without much gains for the workers. In many cases, these strikes resulted in many casualties and much violence as it was seen in the Railroad Strike, Homestead Steel strike and the Pullman Factory strikes. However, labor unions were sometimes effective in helping the American industrial worker. Many states passed laws that met the demands of industrial workers, including better hours, better working conditions and other…

demanded an eight hour work day, higher wages, and in some cases the abolition of child labor. They also had their hands in numerous strikes in an effort for reform: the railroad strike of 1877, the Haymarket bombing, the Homestead strike, and the Pullman strike. Despite the military like…

After the civil war, Americans ran on money and new devices of business. With the expansion of businesses and the nations rail system this lead to bigger markets and industries. Railroads were the biggest industry in the late 19th century because this allowed trade with other markets and cities. The railroad was privately owned but publicly financed by land grants from the government. Along with the expansion of the rail road, there was an invention of the telegraph. The telegraph was invented…

The proposed research study seeks to determine whether external motivation impacts the treatment compliance of young adult outpatient substance abuse clients. Traditionally, qualitative research was viewed as the standard methodology for counseling related research; however, Good (p. 3) quantitative methods have been shown most effective in exploring the relationships among variables in humanistic research (Balkin, 2014). For the purposes of the proposed research, the relationship among…