Due to the increase in production farmers and ranchers discovered quickly that they need more manual labors. To resolve the problem of needing labors the farmers and ranchers started importing foreigners for manual labor. When Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States of American, the economy for the country changed. Many Puerto Ricans were small farmers and cultivated a variety of corps and sold their products locally. When the Americans took over the country, the small farmers were bought out by the Americans.
In 1929, experts started to sell their shares heavily before the values fell even further. Eventually, everyone wanted to sell their shares but nobody was buying. This led to complete collapse of prices and thousands of investors lost millions of dollars. Tariffs – Due to America putting Fordney McCumber Tariffs on European goods, Europe responded by also putting tariffs on American goods so US business men found it hard to sell goods to European
Modern “America” The poem “America,” by Tony Hoagland, desc2ribes the narrator’s journey as he goes through a mental and implied makeover. One of the defining elements of Tony Hoagland’s “America” are the comparisons. Metaphor is perhaps the most important poetic device within Hoagland’s poem. The poem starts off with a student comparing America to a maximum-security prison, because the young student mourns the modern American consumer-based value system. In “America,” Hoagland uses metaphors to illustrate the growing influence of consumerism, capitalism, and most of all the greed that rules the modern American society.
The farm to pay back their debts to the bank. Some families may be able to pay back their debt, but most are lost in the never-ending circle of getting ahead only to fall behind again. In the final stage of this economic evolution, corporations take over and profits are the only concern in any situation. This is the most complex stage of the two previous time periods. This period is a mixture of corporations taking over and “old” farmers either doing what is necessary for them to feed their children or they flee to California where work is “guaranteed”.
The Gilded Age • “Gilded Age” by Mark Twain • New technology • Breaker boys: sat in coal refineries and picked out impurities in the coal • Corruption of every political office • Boss Tweed: one of the most corrupt figures of this time • Income disparity – extremely wealthy and extremely poor people • People are getting into debt • Government only cares about their own agendas • Social issues: immigration, international interventions, and new technology • Rise of industries leads to urbanization: the transition from rural to urban living to take advantage of new technology 80% in farms to 80% in cities • Rush of people to cities fills jobs but creates social problem: living conditions near all time low for most • Immigration to
How did they choose who they would examine? 2) What did some who failed the medical exams and were to be sent back to their native countries do? Why do you think they were so desperate? 3) Do you feel that immigrants were treated fairly during their Ellis Island inspections? Explain Topic#2- Urban Immigrant Life Introduction: Written in 1906, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle “provided a voice to the great masses of immigrants who came to America yearning to be free and comfortable and who found instead the wage slavery and misery of mill, factory, sweatshop, and slum.
Which Wall Street did not have in place or this would have never happen. Their virtues are money, how much they can get no matter what it costs others in the long run. Proof of this is the bail out that the taxpayers paid for. And that the government had to step in to or the economy would have been even worst. (Still think we are in a Depression not a rescission) Also the CEO of Enron for conspiracy and multiple counts of fraud is one example of dishonesty, fraud, disregarding one professional responsibility by given themselves Astronomical salaries and enormous benefits this reduces profits of the stockholders, who own the company.
Once the job is done, they bring them back to Mexico. For example, in paragraph thirteen, “In the nineteenth century, American contractors reached down into Mexico for cheap labor…-Mexicans were rounded up and the back over the border…” This paragraph explains how cruel Californians are and how much they used Mexicans to build their society. Alternatively, Rodriguez mentions a quote, on paragraph seven and the other on paragraph 75… “I will send for you or I will come home rich,” which brings in a powerful meaning, of a dream that they have as immigrants. Immigrants all have that image of California as to where money is found everywhere, where they will become rich, and no longer have to struggle. Then when reality finally comes, it is nothing like they have ever seen, where they struggle harder to become a citizen of America, and how it is to find
Society has influenced the way that a crisis with identity is pictured in a character on stage. Eugene O’Neill in The Hairy Ape has pictured one identity crisis with Yank, a working class man who works in the stokehole of a cruise liner. He struggles with finding the place where he belongs in the new industrial America. The class system at the time, as well as theories which were surfacing, have influenced how O’Neill developed Yank’s crisis on stage. Tony Kushner was writing in a completely different time in America, and his character Joe deals with a crisis about his sexuality in Angels in America.
In Mexico, women were forced to work for free because the farmers couldn’t afford to pay wages to them and their husbands (Doc 7). The caste system in India was diminishing due to peasants rising to the middle and upper classes from increased in their food production (Doc 9). It would help to show how strong an effect this change had on Indian society if there was a newspaper article of an upper class Hindu man describing how offended he felt to have to accept people from the lower classes into his social class. Document 10 the Guatemalan National Coordinating Committee of Indigenous Peasants stated that the Green Revolution has made people lose respect for the indigenous seeds and has contaminated them. The members of the committee must also be concerned that the Green Revolution will lead Guatemalans to also lose respect of their cultural heritage.