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    the metaphor "where angles might have sat enthroned, devils lurked,and glared out menacing.", emphasizes the fact that where children should enjoy life and be full of innocence despite this the poor children actually are more likely to be in the workhouses and not be educated.the use of the noun "angel" has religious connotation to purity and kindness. on the contrary the noun "devils" refer to the most powerful evil spirit and has a negative religious connotation to unholiness and…

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    ‘Two nations […] who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different good, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws’ illustrates the rich and the poor in Disraeli’s Sybil. Hugh McLeod states that class hierarchy is important in the Victorian Era, generally recognized status-groups being the ‘working class, middle class and gentry – each with some degree of common identity and limited mobility from one to another’. Although some may claim that Charles…

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    Dickens. (Chesterton, G, K. 2011) Probably the best-known of all Dickens' works, Oliver Twist was originally published in April of 1839 as a serial, and demanded to bring the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labor and the recruitment of children as criminals. The novel is full of drama, sarcasm, and dark humor even as it reveals the hypocrisies of the time. “In some sense, Oliver Twist turned the world upside down and offered a new view of…

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    Introduction The life of Joseph Merrick has been an inspiration to many and the subject of numerous publications and dramatic works since his death in 1890. I aim to explore aspects of his physical, psychological, social and economic story to create a picture of "The Elephant Man". Life Joseph was born to Mary and Joseph Merrick on August 5th 1862 in Leicester. Although an 1890 article in the BMJ stated that it was almost certain Merrick was born with enlargements of bones of the skull, right…

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    He is frightened of the dark and his master was cruel. This poem informs us about all the tough tasks the children had to but up with every day. Poor Houses Poorhouse\Workhouse were a tax-supported residential institution for people who were unstable, who needed an efficient and cheaper way to relieve them from being poor. Poorhouses were also a type of housing facility for the people or families who needed support . It…

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    tool to help candidates clearly hear the views of the people they are elected to serve. To begin, there was a time in our history when women did not have the right to vote. Suffrage leader, Lucy Burns (1879-1966), was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, in 1917 after she and others were arrested for picketing the White House in support of a federal amendment granting women to vote. The right to vote wasn’t handed to women it, it had to be fought for. On election day 1920,…

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    children led to passage of the Factory Act passed, which prohibited children less than nine years old from working. It also reduced the working hours of women and older children. In 1834, Parliament created Workhouses to house the poor in exchange for work. Later, the residents of these Workhouses included unmarried pregnant women, orphans, debtors, the sick, and the deranged. They became another form of prison, which locked away social outcasts instead of prisoners. On June 20, 1837, King…

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    donate any money he replied with, “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”(Dickens, pg. 67). During his encounter with the Ghost of Christmas present he was shown two ragged children, ignorance and want. The spirit warned him about doom being written on ignorance’s brow and how the writing must be erased. When Scrooge asked about them getting help, the spirit replied with “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”. After this event, Scrooge felt guilty for what he has done and…

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    Although the Industrial Revolution had many negative effects such as child labor and poor living and working conditions, the overall long term benefits of urbanization, and the advancement of new technology outweighed the negative. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, which took place between the years 1750-1914, there was a lot of change and growth in America and Europe. Inventions in the area of machinery, and manufacturing and producing goods were created which help us today. Due to…

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    Thomas R. Malthus was an economist who lived from 1766 to 1834. He was the first economist to suggest a systematic theory of population. Malthus was raised in the thick of the world’s Industrial Revolution which began in Britain, Malthus’s home country, within the textile industry. This was a major turning point in history manufacturing will move from skilled craftsmen creating homemade goods to machine production in factories. This increase in efficiency lead to increases in the standard of…

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