Clara And The Hurrier-Personal Narrative

The topic I have chosen to discuss related to the last 400 years in Western Civilization is the industrial revolution in Britain. The industrial revolution was what created the modern capitalist system. Britain was the first to lead the way in this huge transformation. Technology changed, businesses, manufactured goods, and wage laborers skyrocketed. There was not only an economic transformation, but also a social transformation. The industrial revolution is such an interesting subject to further explore, because it truly made a difference in Britain in the late 1700s. The industrial revolution brought an increased quantity and variety of manufactured goods and even improved the standard of living for some individuals, however, it resulted in grim employment and living conditions that were for the poor and working classes. The industrial revolution had a bright and dark side to it. It was dark due to all the horrible working conditions, crowded cities, unsanitary facilities, diseases, and unsafe work environment, but the bright side is that it was a period of enormous social progress.

The night air was heavy with silence. Clouds drifted across a calm sky, and a full moon shone in the distance. In a small hut on the outskirts of the valley, an old man lay in bed, awake in the peaceful slumber of the village. His breaths came in rattling gasps, his forehead burned, and his joints felt stiff with pain. He shifted on the blankets, his withered hands clenched in fists as he tried to suppress the wave of bitter memories coming to him. His life had been nothing more than work, loss, tragedy. He remembered all of his hope, his ambition, in his youth, and he smiled bitterly. No one would remember him as the man that he had once hoped he would become. Now, as his breathing became heavier and he felt himself fading on the brink of

Over the years, Emma got moved around a lot, being placed into various foster homes after being too much to handle for the previous one. Each time she moved to another foster home, Emma felt miserable; No one cared about her and she always was lonely. No one ever came up to her; only deeming her as the child who was lonely and desperate.

Olivia approached her mother who was lying on her back on the bed. One arm and one leg were half off the bed and she wasn’t laying the normal way. She was askew.

From 1750 to 1850, the world was changed indefinitely. The Industrial Revolution was one of many things that cause this change. Many people had to adapt to the new ways of living during this time period. From moving to new locations to young children having to work long, tough hours. The Industrial Revolution had a major impact on social and economic standing’s, some of them beneficial, others more trivial.

Frantically trying to find her way up the cold, dark stairs she trips over old, dirt covered shoes, dusty ragged dolls who’s dresses have been torn, and moldy glass bottles. As she gets to the the top she pulls trying to open the brown, wooden door, her hope of getting out anytime soon starts to vanish as the flickering light goes off behind her. Never being in the basement for very long , she never noticed how badly it had smelled of insects, and rotting mice. Deliberately she climbs back down the uneven staircase to the cobwebbed entrance.

It was that time of the year again. Her daughter, Daisy, and husband would pack up the minivan with everything she could possibly need. Each time they embarked on this journey, there was a sense of silence and unknowing in the air. She would be there for a couple months, unable to feel the fresh autumn air and using all the strength left to just simply brush her teeth. Daisy hated seeing her mother this way. She hated the way the chemo made her mother weak and fragile, she hated knowing that she could lose her at anytime.

According to this pro industry novel “houses are better built”, “clothes are cheaper”, and there is “an infinite number of domestic utensils”. Furthermore, one can “travel cheaply from place to place… ten times quicker than two hundred years ago.” This is likely to show how beneficial the Revolution had been on the everyday of the British people. The new excess of goods greatly raised the standard of living for the working people. This is undoubtedly a positive and the effect of the Industrial Revolution was massive economic growth.

When my mom married my step-dad, Jon, in 2009, I was only eight. I had to move and I was getting a whole new family that I had never even met before, so of course I was scared. I met Mabel Hickman a little while after the wedding. She was a family friend that my step-dad had grown up with. Mabel was the nicest person I had met in my life and she made me feel very welcome. She was born on December 25, 1923 in South Bend, Indiana. She met her husband, Marvin, at Fort Custer when she was in her late teens. They got married not too long after meeting each other on October 31, 1940 when Mabel was only 17. Unfortunately, Mabel died last year when she got sick. Mabel Hickman is my hero because she never stopped being nice to people, even though she went through a lot or even if the person didn’t deserve her kindness. Not only was the nicest person I had ever met, but she was amazingly talented.

Florence Kelly, the author of the speech appeals to logic and emotion, along with the use of rhetorical devices to evoke the tragic reality of child labor and what is means. Kelly starts off by giving examples of dangerous places where children had to to work. Places such as coal mines, cotton mills, and textile mills. These places have been proven unsuitable for even adults to work in, let alone children. Kelly also states that young girls in the workforce, from age fourteen to twenty, have received rapidly increasing wages, meaning more people want them to work. In fact the girls were earning the highest income at the time and made enough money to bring food to their homes and were described as “bread winners.”

First, she felt her body slipping through the hay beneath her, as if the horrid mound had swallowed her whole. Then she found herself at the bottom of an enormous bucket. Despite attempt to scramble up the sides, she could not escape her confinement. In the distance she heard the footsteps of a giant advancing toward her. She glanced up to the whiskers and nose of a huge mouse peering into the bucket. Hulga woke with a shout. In her sleep she had rolled of her hay mattress onto the wooden plank floor, damp from the rain. She realized she had to find a way out, or she would just starve up here. Crawling around in despair she cursed that crook who had left her not only blind but unable to walk. He had practically killed her by abandoning her here. However, she quickly forgot her self-pity when her leg slipped down the ladder hatch. Having discovered a way out, she dropped herself through the hole but fell on her left arm with excruciating pain. There at the bottom of the ladder she fell asleep crying. The next morning Hulga heard her dear mother calling for her. She opened her mouth but she could form no more than a slight whimper. As her mother’s voice grew softer, Hulga knew her last chance was gone. She felt something on her foot and noticed the mouse was nibbling on her shoestring. Yet, Hulga no longer cared about the mouse; she had given

Clara was born on December 25,1821. She was born in Massachusetts and had six siblings and was the youngest out of all of them.When Clara got older she worked for he brother as a bookkeeper and a clerk to get practice to become a teacher. When she had enough practice she became a teacher for many years. She loved teacher so much she started her own school in Bordentown, New Jersey. The she moved to washington D.C to find warmer weather. She worked in an Penitent office but her slavery options were too strong so she went home. She did a lot of charity

Only to be torn down by a sentence, by the women who had helped build them.

Pete walked into the kitchen. His mother was sat at the large wooden table doing paper work. He was slightly hurt that she didn't even look worried but excused it on account of the note he left.

…my father never wanted Mama to work, but she understood that to ensure the educational advancement of her children she needed to bring money in. She defied him to go out and work. Working helped her self-esteem. She moved positively forward and helped us all move forward, and Dad stayed stuck, pissed that she went out to work. (136)