Workhouse

When the 13 British colonies, who were settled on the North American continent, declared independence from the tyranny of their king, they penned words that have echoed the feelings of free people of all nations; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”(Declaration of Independence) As long as a people’s basic necessities are…

Food is the most colorful part of the day. With its gastronomic range, the possibilities are endless. Everyone in the world depends on food, whether to experience that burst of flavor in the mouth or to survive. But when there is a shortage of food, what is to blame? The people who eat and cultivate it? Or factors outside their control? The Great Famine and the Irish Exodus is an example of this question. Margaret M. Mulrooney’s Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, BBC’s The…

Victorian London was an appearances-conscious society, especially so for the female citizens. The city was a large and densely populated metropolitan center, where various social classes rubbed shoulders. The proximity among Londoners erased some of the spatial divisions inherent in the traditional country setting and heightened awareness of the differences among them. It provided a stage on which it became common for women to penetrate various social classes. This paper examines the ways in…

After watching the Triangle Fire documentary (PBS, American Experience, 2011), respond to the following questions. Most answers should be around 3-4 sentences long. Remember to submit your completed quiz to the Quiz 1 dropbox on BeachBoard. 1. In general, who worked in the garment factories in the early 1900s? The workers in the garment factories were women in their teenage years. Some girls were as young as ten years old. Many of the workers were immigrants who had escaped their own…

There was novella: to begin with. A novel called A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. This work is innovative, ingenious, and just plain brilliant. A Christmas Carol is set in the Victorian era, with three evident themes; childhood innocence, Scrooge’s transformation, and social justice. The Victorian era lasted from 1837 until 1901. In this time, children were viewed as angels close to Heaven, which was an extremely important belief of people in the Victorian era. During this time,…

try to sing Christmas carols, but he made them leave. Two gentlemen from a local charity visited Scrooge at his office asking him for a donation to help the poor and he responded to their request with these words, “Aren’t there prisons and union workhouses they can just live in?” Then, his dead business partner Marley, who is now a ghost shows up. Putting…

In the novel A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, there are many ways in which Ebenezer Scrooge is redeemed by Jacob Marley’s ghost and the three Christmas Spirits. The novel’s setting starts in London where there are serious world problems lurking. Dickens, throughout the novel, does not stray far from showing the importance of maintaining good humanity in one’s lifetime. Dickens depicts this through the main character, Scrooge, showing his redemption from the beginning and end of the…

France, and, after he brought her home and lived with her for six years, she left him for another black man. Following this, he never said a word, and only had a job because Railroad Tommy was kind enough to hire him in order to keep him out of the workhouses. Macon Dead appears as though love is not something that really affects him, however, this is likely due to the lack of love in his life. He knows that Ruth loves another man more than she loves anyone else, including Macon: her father. The…

Industrialization in Britain from the eighteenth century onwards was the revolutionary growth, which brought significant changes in Britain; it was as W.W. Rostow deems a “decisive transition” . The impact on economics, to some extent, was an essential experience of the revolution due to economic expansion in industrial and agricultural growth brought by technological innovations. However, as Mokyr argues: “by focusing on economics we isolate only a part, though a central part, of the…

their dependent children), as "their poverty was seen as occurring through no fault of their own" (Rose, 1989, p. 66). Those who were unemployed, immigrants, African American, and women who did not conform to standards, were required to enter a workhouse. As the Great Depression hit and local government relief funds ran out, the public demanded increased relief. With unemployment rates at 25 percent, the Committee on Economic Securities (CES), the committee commissioned to draft the national…