A Small Town In The 1800's

As you walk down the streets of Arcadia, Nebraska, you look from side to side and see nothing more than a quiet little town. What you probably aren’t aware of is the history behind this “little town”. Arcadia is built off of determination, character, and distinctiveness. As you make your way down Main Street, you start to grasp a glimpse of the past. Arcadia, Nebraska is a village with quite a story to tell. Not many people know how Arcadia was founded or even how it came to be. Arcadia has dealt with struggles and overcome tragedies, whereas most towns simply would have died away. In addition to the charm of Arcadia’s perseverance, there are also many fun

Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1970)

Growing up in the small town of Pocahontas, Iowa gives appreciation to the simplicity of tight-knit communities. With a population of 1,800 people, there is single café where local farmers enjoy a morning cup of coffee while discussing the news. Rural communities are a place where children have birthday parties at the local pizza place and teenagers’ first jobs are as detasslers. As a child, your mother knows if you got in trouble at school before you return home and everyone’s name is well known throughout the area.

At the end of the 1800s Wilmington North Carolina was a very active city which centered on its port. At that time it was the largest city in North Carolina. They had a very large African American population, only one-third of the people in the city were not African American. Wilmington was considered a great place for African Americans because they were thriving economically and involved politically.

As he stepped in front of her he asked the maid if he can see a woman named miss ellen, and he asked her in the same way he practiced saying it at home. The wind was pushing so strongly into his face that he thought he went deaf for a brief moment. The maid answered saying, “ Dont know if she's at home”. As she said that he was trying to convince her that she needed to see him and that she would regret not seeing him.

After some time, Louise opens the door to find comfort with her sister. Someone nook the front door, they went downstairs and open the door; it was Brently Collar her husband

The sound of heavy footsteps echoed up the corridor and wiping the tears from his eyes, he stared expectantly at the open door. Moments later, two EMTs walked in. The elder of the two—a woman in her forties—squatted down next to him and smiled

Urbanization of the United States in Late 1800s In the late 1800s, the United States experienced rapid urbanization, or growth, due to the massive amounts of immigrants from all over the world, who came over to America in search for work in the recent technological boom. Despite the hardships of the journey, they came, which strengthened the United States. With the massive amounts of immigrants, it led to many problems including lack of sanitation in large cities, transportation problems, housing predicaments, large fires which devastated thousands, crime, and lack of clean water in bulk for the public. To fix these problems, people such as Jane Addams started to find solutions to the multiple problems that came with urbanization, and some solutions by the government included the Social Gospel movement and the establishment of settlement houses.

The title of the story suggests that the townspeople have some sort of caring feeling

The Industrial Revolution in America began to develop in the mid-eighteen hundreds after the Civil War. Prior to this industrial growth the work force was mainly based in agriculture, especially in the South (“Industrial Revolution”). The advancement in machinery and manufacturing on a large scale changed the structure of the work force. Families began to leave the farm and relocate to larger settings to work in the ever-growing industries. One area that saw a major change in the work force was textile manufacturing. Towns in the early nineteen hundreds were established around mills, and workers were subjected to strenuous working conditions. It would take decades before these issues were

The story takes place in a rural American community, Dickson County, at the turn of the twentieth

A) I believe that the phrases “the dry September of the dirt roads,” “grassless yards of the shanty-town,” and “a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust” contribute to the atmosphere by revealing specific details of the setting. When the author uses the phrases “the dry September of the dirt roads,” and “sunny yellow against the dust,” it portrays the setting as dry and dusty. This is further supported by the phrase “grassless yards,” which allows the reader to picture the landscape as bare, dry ground. The term “shanty-town” means an area consisting of a large amount of roughly made houses.

Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, tells the story of two young teens who slowly fall in love through a play, in three acts, in which received the Pulitzer. Thornton Wilder was a pivotal figure in literary history during the twentieth century. The story begins in the first act, where the Stage Manger welcomes the audience, while introducing the people and places of Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. Grover’s Corner is where the whole story is being set.

The street was eerily quiet as I crossed. So was Mike. Staring at me unwaveringly, he said nothing as I approached. The crow's feet framing his eyes, the ridges in his forehead, and the crinkles in his cheeks still stand out in my mind. How many nights had he lain on that bench, covering his face as the wind whipped against it? Now he hugged his body tightly. He was wearing an old pair of tan khakis, a shirt that I couldn't see clearly, and a light multi-colored jacket, its sleeves ending above his pale wrists, that was just slightly too small and clung to his body. As I gave him the money in my wallet, he took it--slowly--and stared at it for a second in disbelief. Although the street in front of the library is usually an amalgam of car horns, headlights, whining engines throughout the night, nothing--not

The doctor went out on the porch. The screen door slammed behind him. He heard his wife catch her breath when the door slammed.