Essay on Benny Goodman, King of Swing

70% of migrant workers are children who work in terrible conditions. Two-thirds of which drop out of school and aren’t able to get a proper education. In the short story “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez he puts his experience into creating a family of Migrant workers. In his story, Panchito is a young boy traveling place to place following the harvest. Francisco Jimenez uses language and setting to display the hardships Panchito and his family face.

In a column written by Nicholas D. Kristof, he quotes a 19-year-old girl, “I’d love to get a job in a factory, at least that work is in the shade.” (120) This 19-year-old girl is striving for a job that many outsiders are striving to eradicate. In these impoverished countries families bring in so little money they are forced to ask their children to seek work so their families can survive.

Jeannette and her siblings adapt to self- sufficiency from a young age, from being emotionally and physically neglected by their parents. The children don’t expect anything so they learn to work with what they have and what opportunities come their way. Jeannette saw the suffering of the family and took this leadership for the family guiding her sibling in the correct path.

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

During the 1900s, America’s children went to school and played. Children spent their summer in the sun by doing outside activities like swimming as well as reading books and enjoying an ice cream break. However, as recently as the early years of this century, there were many poor children that did not live the same lifestyle. These children did not have time to play because they spent their days in factories, coalmines, and in fields. Over two million children in America under the age of 16 had jobs that consisted of twelve hours without stopping. Many children were forced to work because many came from poor families who needed the extra help. The brutal conditions of working long hours and unsafe environments lead some individuals to

In a column written by Nicholas D. Kristof, he quotes a 19-year-old girl, “I’d love to get a job in a factory, at least that work is in the shade.” (120) This 19-year-old girl is striving for a job that many outsiders are striving to eradicate. In these impoverished countries, families bring in so little money they are forced to ask their children to seek work so their families can survive.

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America was the first book of its type that I’ve ever read, a real life analysis of what its like to “live in poverty,” working minimum wage jobs trying to make ends meet day in and day out. It was an intriguing story of how a woman with plenty went on to document how she lived without and I found that Ehrenreich’s commentary throughout the book offered a refreshing perspective to the usual conversation that surrounds poverty; she never thought that she was better or better off than those she met working low-paying jobs, and she was always conscious of how race intersected with class throughout her so-called field experiment.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

The importance of hard work and earning your way instills a sense of independence within the young generation who was reading the McGuffey textbooks. In the stories “Henry, the Boot-Black” (128) and “Poor Davy” (130) both boys, living in poverty, are praised for their work to support their mother. Working hard to earn a living, even at a young age, is commended and the value of family is reiterated. There is a belief that hard work prepares and enables one to lead a prosperous life. In “Charlie and Rob” (133) and “Advantages of Industry” (97), hard work pays off and is portrayed as the only way to become successful. This core value of work ethic for the American will be important in the changing world of industrialization and effect the attitude of the working class American toward those of wealth, as well as immigrants.

When one hears the term “Child Labor”, an image of children making low quality clothing in some dingy third world sweatshop inevitably comes to mind. While this imagery is unfortunately founded in fact, the third world is not the only area complicit with this heinous practice. Truthfully, we, as a nation are also guilty of propagating this heinous practice. For over a century, this nation’s youth were subjugated to exploitation and abuse at the hands of captains of industry in the hopes of extracting every ounce of profit they could. Fortunately, sympathetic individuals recognized the children’s need for advocacy and rose to their defense in the form of organized dissent that appealed to the highest powers of this country to fight for those who could not fight for themselves. In this paper, we will look at what exactly child labor is, the circumstances that gave rise to the widespread acceptance of child labor usage, what working condition these children experienced, and how the United States eventually made its use illegal.

United States social worker and reformer, Florence Kelley, in her speech to the convention of National American Woman Suffrage Association attempts to convince the audience that child labor laws should be abolished. Kelley adopts a shaming tone in order to persuade the members of the Woman Suffrage Association that child labor laws are wrongful. Florence Kelley begins her speech by conveying the idea of underage children around America, who are currently working under harsh conditions. She first appeals to the listener’s logic using logos by referring to the children that are ages six and seven and who work “in the cotton mills in Georgia” as well as eight, nine and ten year olds who work “in the coal-breaking of Pennsylvania” (paragraph 1,

Dizzy Gillespie In today’s world, people get excited when they hear about artists like Kanye West, Muse, and Beyoncé. Our generation has seemingly overlooked the musicians that laid down the pavement for these artists to be famous. These legends watched music progress from jazz, to rock, and now hip-hop. The music that once made hundreds of people rise to their feet and dance is now heard in elevators and coffee shops, which is truly a shame.

     Therefore, Chicago’s south side became the new melting pot for jazz. On arrival in Chicago, jazz experienced a time where small performances and ensembles became more

the early 1940s. Many bop pieces were played at the fastest tempos yet heard in

Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in 1909, one of twelve children, grew up in a Chicago ghetto with his family, who fled Russian anti-Semitism. Encouraged by his father, an immigrant tailor, to learn a musical instrument, Goodman took up the clarinet at a young