Christina Rodriguez David Tait History 2493 February 8, 2013 Andrew Carnegie, an “Industrial Statesman” Industrial leaders of the nineteenth century were considered “baron robbers” because of the harsh treatments of their employees, the low wages that were paid to the employees, the harsh work conditions that no one was allowed to complain about, and the long work hours that were being forced upon them because they knew that the workers were desperate and needed the money to provide for their families. The business owners abused the power they had over the employees often by hiring others to do a job and those men would turn around and hire local men for lower wages and at times pocketing a huge profit. Most of the business owners would know of the side dealings but would turn a blind eye. These leaders displayed ruthless ethics, which destroyed their competitors, in order to satisfy their own greed. However, Andrew Carnegie was no angel in the business world; however, he can be considered more of an “industrial statesman” because he worked his way to his position of wealth through hard work.
“rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless. Furthermore they both include the reality of family life as the poems are realistic and the poems, especially Nettles, have both the love and misery of family relationships. In Nettles the love in the poem is the protective instincts of a parent towards his son but the misery is the Nettles that had hurt his child and the fact that being protective isn’t enough to stop him from getting hurt. The realistic relationship in Harmonium is the family resentment and frustration from a son to his father. We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship.
“Farmer James” expresses, “While all is joy, festivity, and happiness in Charles-town, would you imagine that scenes of misery overspread in the country? Their ears by habit are become deaf, their hearts are hardened; they neither see, hear, nor feel for the woes of their poor slaves, from those painful labors all their wealth proceeds” (Baym 606). His descriptions of the conditions of slaves in Charles-Town show that he is uncomfortable with the treatment of these people and the way that they were ripped from their native land to endure hardships for the American people. Crevecoeur expresses his anti-slavery opinions through his illustrative connections between slavery and Charles-Town’s luxurious society. To support Crevecoeur’s anti-slavery stance, he attempts to
Douglass’ narrative is a recount of the tough life on the plantations before his escape to New York. Douglas describes in this narrative the senseless acts of cruelty on the part of the masters as well as the debased lives of the slaves. In this book he also stated how his master forbade Mrs. Auld to teach him any further, because he felt that once Frederick Douglass learned to read, it would do him no good, but a great deal of harm, it would make him discontented and unhappy, it would forever unfit him to be a slave, and there would be no keeping him. This very much, somehow inspired Frederick Douglass to learn at whatever cost of trouble. Frederick Douglass would bring bread from his home and give an exchange for knowledge with the poor white boys, who was contribute to him being
This stream of consciousness and exclamatory language shows his devotion to his work and his family’s materialistic tendencies. “The young man had nothing in his head except business”, “Your commercial duties in a truly unheard of manner”. These quotes both show his enslavement to the capitalistic system and to materialism. The notion that people were enslaved to materialism is shown throughout the novel and this reflects the forms of materialism. Modernism also had dehumanising impacts on people; the lower class society and the metamorphosis is a powerful indictment of the alienation brought on by the modern social order.
Even though Jacob Riis was poor prior to this, Jacob believed the the poor were powerless in society and that he had the power to help them by using this his journalistic skills to communicate this to the public. He wasn’t very sympathetic towards the poor. He constantly argued that the "poor were the victims rather than the makers of their fate" (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk). Jacob Riis says that the poor are so powerless in society that they don’t even have control over their own fate, they are victims of it. When he got more and more involved with the tribune during these times as a police reporter, Riis worked and wrote about the some of the most dangerous slums of the city.
“Diving for Pearls” by Katherine Thomson “Diving for Pearls” is a passionate but intelligent look at one of our most pressing social problems; Australia’s ‘working class’ being repressed and forgotten by our shifting industrial landscape and the corrupt economic order. Set in the town of Wollongong during the economically unstable years of the 80’s and 90’s, the play presents truths about the evils of economic rationalism. Greed, ignorance and pessimism permeate the script, making it impossible to ignore the harshness of reality and the impacts this has had on the working class. Against the gloomy backdrop, the characters of Barbara, Den and Verge are used to portray the consequences of this pressing social problem. Through both narrative
Suffering is an experience of unpleasantness that nobody desires to endure, but at times itis forced upon others, whether they like it or not. In the great depression it had seemed as if pain and suffering had entered everyone’s life during this hopeless event, especially the hard working migrant workers in the western section of the United States. Lennie and George are migrant workers in the novel Of Mice and Men, meaning they move around in order to find work. It is a hard life, and suffering is a common experience with all of the workers. Knowing about the pain migrant workers went through during the great depression; I believe Mr. John Steinbeck intentionally made suffering a common theme in this particular novel of his.
Fredrick even notices and identifies this in his narrative by saying "it is the wish of most masters . . . to keep their slaves thus ignorant". Growing up as children in slavery is a difficult life.
This shows the reader Blake sees newborns as raging creatures instead of sanguine cherubs. This poem by Blake is what I would consider to be a work of societal allusion. It is well-known that Blake was a Romantic; he was vehemently opposed to the industrial revolution and he was likewise opposed to the mistreatment of children by rich, despot-ridden factory-owner circles. This infant is being brought into the 'dangerous world', helpless, naked. This world is the industrial revolution.