How effective were the Liberal social reforms in the period 1906 to 1914? In the early Twentieth Century poverty in Britain was a very serious issue. There were groups of society who had no way of tackling or rising out of poverty. Poverty was more evident in the North of Britain and in big cities, although rural poverty was also a problem. Particularly vulnerable groups were the old, who had no means of acquiring money.
The jailer made his money by charging the inmates for food and drink and legal services and the whole system was corrupt. One reform of the sixteenth century had been the establishment of the London Bridewell as a house of correction for women and children. This was the only place any medical services were provided. One of the most notable reformer was John Howard who, having visited several hundred prisons across England and Europe, beginning when he was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, published The State of the Prisons in 1777. He was particularly appalled to discover prisoners who had been acquitted but were still confined because they couldn't pay the jailer's fees.
Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
The change in climate and adverse weather conditions led to less agricultural productivity. The malnutrition led to the lack of antibodies people had in their immune system, therefore may have caused the Europeans to die more quickly. Poor sanitation was a major factor in the cities that led up to the contagious symptoms of the plague. The towns had no running water. Without running water, people didn’t bathe or wash their clothes.
Essay hard times outline Introduction General info, for example: Time and place written: London, 1854. Date of publication: pubished in serial instalments in Dickens’ magazine Household Words from April 1st to August 12th, 1854. Time: middle of the nineteenth century Place: Coketown, a manufacturing town in South England Discuss idea of people in Victorian age: three classes still Higher class: very few people, very fond of themselves and look down at lower class Middle class: not very rich actually but lived a better life than lower class Lower class: must work very hard and do not like the industrialisation Introduce thesis: In the novel Hard Times, the characters are representational for the time and place the story was written in, which can be seen by language, the setting and the name of the characters. Paragraphs Paragraph I To start with, language is a significant thing in the representation of the characters for the time and place the novel was written in as they use language significant to their ‘group’. Look how we live, an’ wheer we live, an’ in what numbers, an’ by what chances, an’ wi’ what sameness; and look how the mills is awlus a-goin’, and how they never works us no nigher to onny distant object-‘ceptin awlus Death.
Orphans, Half-Orphans, Foundlings, Waifs, Street Arabs, Street Urchins, Misfits, Young Beggars and Delinquents. Who are these people? They are the children who rode the Orphan Trains. When the Orphan Train movement began in the mid-19th century, it was estimated that approximately 30,000 abandoned children were living on the streets of New York alone. Where there once were few laws and even fewer programs to help these needy, abandoned, neglected, and abused children, were now charitable organizations assisting them to find a better life by putting them on a train to be shipped across the country to live with new families.
The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business. From killings to people living in poverty, that’s what the prohibition caused. If people really thought that prohibiting alcohol to be sold leally were going to help the way that people lived during this time, they were wrong. A lot of people were against the law, they argued that if they banned alcohol legal businesses were going to go broke and that was not going to help the economy get better. But alcohol was not the only thing breaking families apart they said, after the war, soldiers would come home and find themselves in a whole, struggling to find jobs.
Before the age of eighteen, he was arrested on suspicion of murder and got sent to jail. He was treated like an animal in jail but he never gave up. He got abused and was confined to deadlock maximum security in a subterranean dungeon. He would not eat for weeks and became more and more sluggish. But besides what he went through, he learned how to read and write.
The boys day usually consisted walking into the building in which they were going to work in. The breaker whistle would blow indicating it was time to work for the day. Children as young as five to six year olds would work as breaker boys. They were much too young according to the laws at the time, which the ages were twelve to fourteen. Due to their social class almost always in the lower poor class
He recounts the details of the torture his father had to endure. He states: that his father despised all the tortures, which they inflicted upon him. “Venture Smith’s Account of Slavery and Freedom” (Pg. 113, p.2). While Being interrogated his father showed resolve by not giving up his riches, and eventually dying with integrity.