Working Title: Paragraph #1 (Introduction) Hook/Attention Grabber (1-2 sentences) Many problems arose in America as a result of industrialization. Background Information (2-3 sentences) Muckrakers were writers that voiced their concerns about different problems in America. This started Progressivism, which changed social, economic, and political policies. Stating the question with key terms defined (1-2 sentences) My Aunt Bessie gave me $1,000,000 to contribute to Progressivism. Thesis statement (1 sentence) I will put my million dollars in the three most needy causes: • Environment (doc A) • Child labor regulations (doc B) • Women’s suffrage (doc C) • Food/Health regulations (doc D) Paragraph #2 (First Body Paragraph) Baby Thesis/Introduction sentence (1 sentence) The most needy cause of Progressivism .
ASA PHILIP RANDOLPH Sharon Young Siena Height University LAS 301 Although, often looked over Asa Philip Randolph achieved extraordinary feats for the plight of the African American during his lifetime. Early involvement in the Socialist Party set the pace for his radical monthly magazine, the Messenger. With some experience with labor unions in New York, his first immense effort was the organization of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In 1941 he and two other colleagues suggested the March on Washington, to protest racial discrimination and the desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces; typical of this time era the march was cancelled by President Roosevelt. In a time when African Americans had few piercing voices in the “sea of racial injustice, Asa Philip Randolph made huge waves socially and politically Introduction Asa Philip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida on April 15, 1889 to Elizabeth Robinson Randolph and James William Randolph.
Laura Masteller H106 Block 8 Critical Book Review The Jungle is a novel that focuses its story on a family of immigrants who came to America looking for a better life. It was written by Upton Sinclair, who went into Chicago and the stockyards to investigate what life was like for the people who lived and worked there. The book was originally written with the intent of showing Socialism as a better option than Capitalism for the society. The main arguments in this novel are the horrible conditions in the meat packing industry, and the treatment to the immigrants. The annihilation of Jurgis’s family at the hands of the economic and social system demonstrates the effect of capitalism on the working class as a whole.
More importantly, is there such thing as ‘American’ culture? In Randolph Bourne’s “Trans-National America” he rejects the concept of a cultural ‘melting pot’ intended to fuse together aspects of various cultures to form an inherently American one. In Puwat Chaukamnoetkanok's “Triply Identity: My Experience as an Immigrant in America”, Chaukamnoetkanok in part suffers an identity crisis upon arriving in the United States and finds himself filled with feelings of frustration and isolation. By contrasting these two papers, one can see similarities between Bourne’s reasons for the melting pot’s failure and Chaukamnoetkanok’s actual experiences. Yet through further comparison, one can also find subtle differences between the two author’s views about assimilation.
“So Immigrants are Taking Jobs from Americans” by Jimmy Santiago Baca and “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dream” by Studs Terkel. Jimmy Santiago Baca and Arnold Schwarzenegger have a very different way of viewing opportunities in this country, USA. Jimmy Santiago Baca is only focusing in the bad things that happen to immigrants, for instance, that it is so hard to find a job when they do not have their documentation. On the other hand, Arnold Schwarzenegger focuses on the advantages that immigrants can take in this country, for example, studying what they really want as he did. Moreover, Jimmy Santiago Baca has a really bad concept of Americans because some of them are complaining that immigrants are taking their jobs away; however, Arnold Schwarzenegger shows gratitude to them because he has achieved many things in this country and no one has interfere in his dreams.
What is nativism? citizens who fear that large influxes of foreigners will corrupt American culture, undermine American democracy, and impoverish American workers. 3. How does Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem "Unguarded Gates" represent a strain of American thought? Aldrich's poem may strike modern readers as embarrassingly xenophobic, if not downright racist.
The Common Dissent After a thirty-year presidency, Porfiro Diaz’s centralized agrarian policies favoring the elite haciendas had caused formidable rebellions in the North and South of Mexico. Diaz established many new technologies and industries only to appeal to the greater European investors. These industries, such as mines and sugar plants, robbed the people of their land, dehumanized working conditions and cut minimum wages resulting in major dissent among the suffering middle class. By October of 1910, during Madero’s release from prison, militant rebellions led by local leaders erupted in the North and South states killing several units of Federal troops. Separated geographically, Poncho Villa in the North and Emiliano Zapata in the South contrasted in both their origin and military strategy, while
Immigrants are the foreigner. They are the intruder. Immigrants are the thieves here to take jobs and wealth from the native people. Its easy to blame immigrants for the problems of the country, its easy to turn immigrants into a scapegoat. In A Tapestry of Hope, author Jeanne Houston describes how Japanese people were placed in internment camps during WWII, and states “There are those in our political leadership who are all too ready to find scapegoats ”(149) and that the situation is such that “More and more, it seems, those scapegoats are immigrants” (149).
Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle, is a 1906 novel written about subjects that would eventually change the fabric of America. Sinclair’s novel point out the troubles of the working class. He uses the struggles of blue collar and poverty struck people. The rigorous working conditions and the borderline slave wage made a very hard life for one to support ones family. Also the living conditions were often worse than the actual jobs that one had.
Allison Kelman Professor Sheila Austin Literary Genres 21 January 2014 Discrimination Hundreds of thousands of immigrants traveled to America in search for a better life. I often wonder what expectations they had as they stepped of their boats. What was the life they assumed they’d have compared to the life they found? Since the beginning of time, Caucasians seemed to be unwelcoming and discriminatory. The racism and discrimination demonstrated by American’s contributed directly to the life styles of the immigrants coming to America.