Compare And Contrast Thrundheim And The First Kingdom

The slums were packed with the urban poor. These people would be crammed into awfully built apartment buildings. There were roughly four families that would live on each floor. These building were called slum tenements. These buildings were placed side by side, therefore making them appear and feel even more crowded. Since these tenements were so incredibly crowded, fire and illness were a big hazard. Many city roads and sidewalks were made of wood which made them very flammable. If a fire was lit, it could spread to the crowded building forcing many people to attempt to evacuate, which was very difficult because of the tiny space and the surplus of people. Illness was another big issue. Illness would spread incredibly fast because of the horrid conditions of the tenements and again, the amount of people crammed in these spaces. Therefore, the slums are not suitable for any person, especially not one who needs an adequate amount of rest after an incredibly exhausting day at the factory.

Poor health and safety, and health and hygiene conditions were due to untrained/poorly trained staff and working under staffed. Residents were taken to other residential homes in the area and Orme house was closed down.

Most contracts never mentioned the safety and comfort of tenants (p. 10). In addition, many of the tenants were working and needed to be close to where they worked. The costs of living in these tenement houses were ridiculously high for the condition and size of the rooms.

They were put up very rapidly, and so they were very badly built. They soon became damp, and walls started to crumble, and furniture became ruined, and people ill. In extreme cases, the walls had completely disintegrated. Families were also split up, or fragmented as a result of the relocations.

The upper, middle, and lower class. The upper class streamed from the aristocrats of earlier time periods. The middle and lower classes were the working classes. The middle class however had jobs with better pay, a better standard of living ,and better sanitation then the lower class but still had struggles with day to day necessities. The lower class were very poor and had difficult lives. Many children worked in the lower class. This relates to A Brave New World as the lower classes were not focused on in society very often, and had difficult jobs and less access to resources from their conception, this caused the lower classes to in general have low

Tenement buildings are run down buildings, mostly in the city. Poor families and mostly poor immigrants would live inside these buildings. Tenement buildings were very unhealthy to live in. A danger that families had to face in these buildings was that they were run down. Run down buildings could fall apart and the ceilings could be tore. Also, the buildings could have mold and people can get sick from breathing in mold, laying on mold, or ingesting mold. Tenements were also small and crowded with people, so if someone gets sick in the tenement it will spread very fast to the whole family. Tenement buildings are also very unsanitary. There were outhouses outside the buildings and these outhouses would stink up the neighborhood. Outhouses are unsanitary because the waste inside them would be stuck inside them for a long time and that can attract bugs. Furthermore, outside these tenements in the backyard, were mud and animal feces all over the place. Along with the mud and animal waste children would try to play outside but, it would be to dirty for them to go outside and play. Fires were one of the many dangers that people in tenement buildings had to face. If there was a fire it would be hard for tenement residents to evacuate the building because there was no fire escapes. Likewise, tenements residents could also have fire hazards like cigarettes or

Life in tenements was tough because as the population was increasing exponentially; the quality of life was becoming increasingly crowded and unsanitary. Since these buildings were in high demand, housing over two thirds of the population of New York, they were commonly made of cheap materials. Maks’ family’s rooms were not well made because “the ceiling is tin. The floor is wood. As for the walls, they’re all faded green with a few cracks” (Avi 54). The buildings themselves were packed with inhabitants so that the landlords could pack more money in their back pockets. The tenement flats were very dimly light, which left many lowlifes living in low light. There was a lack of light put on the subject, and some of the regulations to have better sanitation

Living in a poorhouse in the 1800’s was considered normal because poor families couldn’t support themselves. “They are believed to have slept six people to one bed,” (Document 6) which is very disturbing because there aren’t any showers back then or even hospitals. It is a huge negative because of how horrible pollution and illnesses were commonly spread easily and killed off more people. Furthermore children were affected during this time because they had to stay at home in dangerous living situations with no protection. Luckily, this is a positive affect because child labor laws were passed. A huge defect is while they sat home, they weren’t being educated. Another main key point in this writing is children not being able to have an education. Instead of going to school and learning children were forced to work laboriously for a long amount of time. “From six in the morning till seven at night,” (Document 7). I acknowledge the suffering the children had to go through because they didn’t have a regular childhood. They were brought up in the world believing that working just to get by is normal

This shows that kids were forced to work and had no education. Some kids may have faced working problems as much as adults do. If the kids do not have an education they would have to face working at a place for their lifetime. As a result, this shows one of the robber baron problems that people faced back then and kids should not be working because they should be able to have an education.

Many families were threatened by advancing cholera and smallpox which would spread very fast because they lived in the small badly ventilated tenements that housed many families. There are modern day tenements, but now they are called apartments. The definition of a tenement is “occupied by three or more families, living independently and doing their cooking on the premises; or by more than two families on floor, so living and cooking and having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, ect.” The modern tenements are much cleaner with better lighting and

It was not only the new ideas of what made the settlement house a success. Addams and her colleagues lived among the poor in the settlement houses. It was a way to fully understand how the other half lives, learn from them by experiencing how they live in the communities. Addams visited Toynbee Hall which taught her to discover the life of the poor and have a first hand account and understand the daily activity. (Addams, pg.78) The nursery provided care to the children while parents were working and poor women, who are dealing with unsupportive husbands. (Addams, pg.111) With the safety of the children, factory condition were unsafe for children to be working there. There was one boy that was injured from a machine in a factory , which led to his death. The factories acted in such carelessness as they replaced the child with another worker. Illinois State Bureau of Labor was investigated the child labor in the factories. The Factory Laws of Illinois regulated the sanitary conditions of sweatshops and fixing the age to begin working at 14(Addams, pg. 123). The Juvenile Protective Association was created to protect the children in the city and improve the conditions affecting their lives.The association communicated with other associations to stop the sale of liquor and tobacco to minors. (pg. 168) In public health measures, the workers of the house created a small incinerator to reduce the garbage problem in the city. An investigation began to garbage collection as it was suspected that buildup of garbage led to the rising death rates (Addams,

First of all, living conditions were horrendous. There were 2 families living in a 10 square foot home. That’s as big as a garage! There would barely

Think back and imagine your own personal worst experience in life… then multiply it by a thousand; to what a person would have to endure daily in one of these buildings. The brutality, abuse, neglect, pure mental and physical torture is something uncompressible. For someone, anyone to benefit from such circumstances is shameful and honestly the most disrespectful thing I can imagine, I personally don’t think

Cole is a boy in Five Kingdoms by Brandon Mull that was trying to save his friends, but then he runs into some trouble and was persistent on saving them, that contribute to the theme. “‘I guess we’ll have to with her.’ ‘Not necessarily’” he was wanting to go with her so he could get some help to save his friends. The speaker describes Cole as the person that just wants a normal life with his friends, ”Can’t you send me home? And my friends, too? Those guys kidnapped them.(32)” In other words, He only wanted to save his friends, but he was trapped as a slave in a magical world where he risked his life to survive. He went with his new friend to take down the high king, so he could have a better chance to save his friends from earth. Overall,

The epic poem Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney, presents two heroic kings that have very clear differences on how they overcome challenges but they still keep their people in safe keepings. Hrothgar and Beowulf are admired by their people because they both show strong characteristics of what an Anglo-Saxon king should do or be.