An analysis of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff ‘by Alan Bleasdale Boys from the Blackstuff by Alan Bleasdale is a highly popular screenplay which tells about the lives of a group of Liverpool builders left jobless in the early1980s because of economic recession and resulting unemployment due to the Conservative Thatcher government implementing some important structural changes in the economy. As a matter of fact, this is a five-episode TV drama series based on the original play 'The Blackstuff’ by Alan Bleasdale, a playwright who is also from Liverpool. Alan Bleasdale, who was born in Liverpool on 23 March 1946, originally was a school teacher and started his writing career because there was not any available to appeal to his students. He first wrote a series of short stories about a teenager called Scully. These stories were broadcast read by the author himself on BBC Radio in 1971.
Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton’s History 7/24/2011 Axia College Debbie Dennis Allan J. Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland on August 25, 1819 and died in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1884 at the age of 64. He was the son of a police sergeant that was disabled due to work related injuries. Pinkerton began to work as an apprentice barrel maker to support the family, but a short while later joined a political group (Chartist Movement) dedicated to improve work conditions for the poor. On the run, Pinkerton at the age of 28, and his new bride of only one day fled to Canada in 1842, where a shipwreck off the coast of Nova Scotia left them without any means supporting themselves. He then for a year began to work as cooper for a brewery in Chicago, though still dreaming of starting his own business.
When he was seven, his dad died and a few years later the family moved to the poverty-stricken west side of Detroit (Unknown, 2012). He was keenly aware that his father’s death was directly related to the working conditions on the job in the town’s coal mines and never forgot the pain and hardships it caused. Hoffa began taking on odd jobs and continued this practice when he moved with his mother and three siblings to Detroit in 1924 (A Worker's Hero, 2012). Jimmy dropped out of school at 14 to work, spending his teen years unloading box cars and trucks. By age 19, he was working at Kroger Grocery’s produce warehouse where, despite being on call from 12-14 hours, he and the other
After graduating high school he enlisted in the Army Reserves and after basic training he worked mostly in his father’s bakery. In 1960 he fell in love and was married soon after. However, not long after being married Hansen was arrested for arson of a school bus garage and served twenty months in prison during which time his wife divorced him . While the impact of this divorce will not be seen until later, this action only caused more self esteem issues with Hansen who already had emotional problems. After being released from prison Hansen was married again within a few years, but also at this point was arrested for several small robberies.
On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Jonathan Kozol spoke at Indiana University East over his new book “Fire in the Ashes”. Jonathan Kozol received a Rhodes scholarship from Oxford University, however he didn’t use that scholarship and continued on to study in Paris, France with men like Richard Wright and James Waldron. After that Kozol gave up a wonderful career as a teacher to move to a poor black neighborhood and teach as a fourth grade teacher. Jonathan talked about the summer of ’64 on how he was around during the march from Massachusetts to Mississippi in order to break apartheid, however many were killed and buried by the police and the Ku Klux Klan on their way down south. During that time he met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. where he was asked to be a body guard for him, he turned down that position.
Early Years of Gacy John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago Illinois. According to the book Killer Clown, by Terry Sullivan and Peter Maiken, Gacy seemed to have a regular childhood with the exception of his turbulent relationship with his father, John Wayne Gacy Sr. The authors describe the father as an unpleasant, abusive alcoholic prone to physically and verbally assaulting his children. They describe Gacy as deeply loving his father and wanting desperately to gain his approval and attention, but failing to win him over. (Gacy Sr. died on Christmas Day 1965.)
The Jungle: Book Review In 1904, in the midst of a bitter stockyard strike, socialist writer Upton Sinclair’s two-month visit to Chicago’s “Packingtown” area provided him with a wealth of material that he turned into his best-selling novel, The Jungle. The book is best known for revealing the unsanitary process by which animals became meat products. Yet Sinclair’s primary concern was not with the goods that were produced, but with the workers who produced them. Throughout the book, as in this chapter, he described with great accuracy the horrifying physical conditions under which immigrant packing plant workers and their families worked and lived, portraying the collapse of immigrant culture under the relentless pressure of industrial
Malcolm relocated twice with his family before his fourth birthday. The Little home was burned to the ground in 1929 and two years later, Earl Little’s body was found lying across the town’s trolley tracks in Lansing, Michigan. The Little family were certain that the Black Legion had something to do with both events but the police ruled them both as accidents. Malcolm graduated top of his class where he was the school’s only black student. He was very smart and excelled academically.
Sinclair was inspired to write a book about the working class of America (consisting mostly of immigrants), primarily based on the packing town of Chicago and the different attitudes they can have and actions they carried out. Sinclair developed his story and his characters in an unusual way by using the third person and almost completely having no dialogue but instead used intricate details and imagery. Jurgis’ character seems to be caught in the trap of capitalism. Jurgis originally follows the harsh rules of capitalism and at first there seems to be hope that 12 hour working days (excluding Sundays) and low wages can support his big family but the society he lives beats and diminishes his expectations and hope until Jurgis completely changes and turns his life around for a life as a criminal. As a criminal, Jurgis finds money to come easier without working as hard but Jurgis learns that politics, crime and business is intertwined in Chicago and Jurgis fails again losing confidence and hope.
When i was only 10 years old, my father told me that he just got on the phone and that my uncle was in great danger. At that time my uncle was living in Florida. The tornado that was threatening my uncle’s life in February killed 25 people and nearly 200 buildings were destroyed. Thankfully, my uncle can still talk today about that event.Since then I have been fascinated and I have read and studied my collection of books about tornadoes many times (Hurricanes and Tornadoes by Neil Morris, American Tornado: Devastation, Survival-most violent outbreak of the twentieth century by Mark Levine).I have also seen every documentary on Discovery and have done research on