Theodore Cleaver

The Importance of Friendship Friendship is, by definition, a relationship between two friends. Some believe that friendships are a necessity for human life. Joseph Conrad was a man who grew up not having many friends. As a young child he had missed school quite a bit from illnesses (Kathleen Wilson 200). This made it hard to have close relationships with other children. He did however gain a love for literature and the sea from his father at a young age (www.notablebiographies.com). This is…

Upton Sinclair's’ book the Jungle, is based over the Gilded Age in history. In the Gilded Age things did not appear as it seemed. For example the meat packing industry was very disgusting and the bosses hid those types of things from the public. In the story Sinclair writes about a family that are immigrants who are trying to survive in the inner parts of Chicago. The family gets cheated out of everything and nothing rarely ever goes their way. The first struggle the family had had…

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? How and why is the working class of post-war America presented as dominating and powerful through the character of Stanley? Written Task 2: In 1931, James Truslow Adams popularized the phrase “American Dream”. He stated that the “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” This phrase surrounded the idea that there is an equality…

Based on a true story, “Lean on me” tells the story of a principal Mr. Joe Clark, a far from ordinary man, who performs a miracle by saving a high school. The P-G 13 rated film that last for 108 minutes, was directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Michael Schiffer and starred Morgan Freeman in their 1989 drama film. Other supporting characters include Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen and Jermaine Hopkins. “Lean on me” is an extraordinary film that should inspire educators and students strictly…

Hidden Messages “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is a very mysterious and ambiguous poem. The speaker reminisces on a memory of himself as a young boy with his father. Several readers get multiple impressions of the poem, and find themselves feeling puzzled about what the poem is truly about. The poem is very controversial with the vocabulary being used by the speaker, and there are many interpretations that readers can get from it. The poem demonstrates imagery and metaphors to describe…

Like paint to a canvas and sounds to music, words constructed in order create a beautiful piece of art called poetry that attempts to instill a piece of life in the reader using the word choices and order. In Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden the entire poem seems to be discussing a father who gets up early in the morning to start a fire. The first stanza discusses the specifics of the father’s labor. The second and third stanza, however, discuss the son’s reaction and relationship to the…

The progressive movement from 1900-1920 was an extension of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century because they not only had success in reforms that the Populists worked on but also extended the Populist reforms to encompass more social reform rather than mainly economical and political. The Populist movement’s main goal was economic reform through better conditions, hours, and pay for workers, regulation of trusts, namely the railroad and communication ones, and a graduated income…

Recently we were given two articles “The Gilded Age” by T. Jackson Lears and “The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900” by Richard White along with the video from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to read and watch. All of these resources allowed me to get a better understanding of the things going on during the Industrialization or “The Gilded Age”. For instance both articles collectively highlighted westward expansion, cultural and social shifts, the government's failure to…

Lana Batarseh Professor Cerri History 320 10 March 2018 A People's History of Change The Progressive Movement, a movement for the people and by the people, was more important in comparison to the Populist movement, since it started the transformation of American history. The root of change originated in this productive era of reform for America's working middle class and the less fortunate. “Progressives could be found in all classes, regions, and races. “They shared a fundamental belief…

The Progressive Era was a period in history in the United States that was dominated by ideas of change from 1890’s to 1920’s. The historians of this time had many differentiating opinions of how progressivism impacted America. This paper will be covering various viewpoints from historians such as Mowry, Kolko and Connolly. Who were the progressives? This answer to this questions is based on the perspectives on the historians. According to Mowry, in his writes of Progressivism: Middle Class…