The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

During the late 1700s, production and manufacturing were centralized around people’s homes and farms. The majority of the work produced was done to provide for individual or community use; often hard labor, basic machines, and hand tools were used to carry out tasks. An era of powered machines and factories created the Industrial mark across the nation. Textile and iron industries developed the steam engine to help improve transportation and exchange to increase manufactured goods. While the impact improved the standard of living for a small majority, others a large majority remained poor and living in poverty. Urban cities that housed large manufacturing plants that provided jobs in often overcrowded cities and poor living conditions.

In the early to mid. 19th century, the world came to life with the introduction of machines that could create products in hours, compared to what it would take skilled craftsmen days to produce. These marvels began in Europe but soon found their way to the American shores. The very first textile mill was produced by an apprentice named Samuel Slater in 1790 after returning with the English secrets of the textile machinery still buzzing in his head (Wallace, 1985). Soon more factories began to rise up armed with the new technology. With the means to produce more products, railroads being built to ship vast amounts of goods between states and the mass amounts of wealth to be made during this revolution, what were once small rural farming towns

The Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain and America around the late 1700’s to 1900. This revolution improved the production of goods using new mechanisms and machines. Human labor was in high demand in order for the highest production rates. Factories employed low to middle-class people that were as young as three years old (Document 9). These workers were benefited with money, shelter, and clothes, but the working and living conditions were not satisfying. The average industrial worker experienced a variety of factors that can be classified as good or bad, including the positive effects of labor, like the shelter, money, and food they were given; and the negative effects of the factory,

Accurately established by many historians, the capitalists who shaped post-Civil War industrial America were regarded as corrupt “robber barons”. In a society in which there was a severe imbalance in the dynamics of the economy, these selfish individuals viewed this as an opportunity to advance in their financial status. Thus, they acquired fortunes for themselves while purposely overseeing the struggles of the people around them. Presented in Document A, “as liveried carriage appear; so do barefooted children”, proved to be a true description of life during the 19th century. In hopes of rebuilding America, the capitalists’ hunger for wealth only widened the gap between the rich and poor.

In the late 18th century when the Industrial Revolution started to spread from England to other countries such as France, Spain and Germany and even in the U.S, the changes that its dynamic brought to the society were drastic and radically different of what people were used to until then. The work hours become longer; young children and their parents were working most of the time; new factories opened up and old villages now were the main workforce source to keep the production level up to the demand and supply requests. Villages started turning into urban centers, crowded by large number of people; poor people that

The factory system in the United States began to grow before the American Revolution with shops that made wares to order (Clark 14). In the mid seventeen hundreds, farmers and plantation owners would give raw materials like cotton or wool to other families to turn into things like thread and yarn for a share of the profits. This was called the “domestic system” (Sands 4). With this, private capitalism, or the idea that you get to keep what you earn, developed and reinforced the want of cheap labor.

The effects leaching off of industrialization between 1865 and 1900 has many divided outcomes of prosperous pushes forward as well as hefty setbacks. During this time was the drive toward the second industrial revolution, this brought in many more immigrants to the workforce, reconstruction of the south but also the rise of money hungry industry owners (Doc. 4), turning into a movement for power being returned the people (Doc. 5). These little causes have brought much effect in the nation as it progressed it towards the future society and culture.

After the Civil War, the south was faced with creating a New South. This New South produced new ways of making money to try and help reestablish its economy. One of the ways for southerners to find work was industrialization. Industrialization was the process of producing clothes from cotton, and it resulted in mill villages being formed across the Piedmont landscape (Hall 106). These mills provided jobs for many people who lived in the south who left their work on the farm in search of a different life. Analyzing the relationships between the mills and its workers through resources found throughout the book, The Most They Ever Had, the reader can get a sense of how the workers felt about their labor and what effect the mills had on their lives. The relationships will be described by explaining what the mill work was, what the conditions were like inside the mill, and some of the curricular activities that took place outside the mill. This will help in

• “Girl One: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Girl Two: Beware, beware the Headless Horseman.

This paper will question the relationship between Slavery and Capitalism, and the extent to how dependent Capitalism was on slavery. Chattel slavery first arrived to America in 1619 and from there the business just kept on growing. It leads to the invention of the cotton gin and helped push forward the young country into the developed powerful nation it is now. This can be gained from the readings from Bailyn, Beverly, the Declaration of Independence, and other works that show not only how profitable slavery was, but also how important it was to the development of America as a country.

In “The Headless Horseman,” Atwood extends the role-playing in which Nell engages, and the purpose is quite similar—to reveal Nell’s attempts to explore her identity. This short story opens with Nell deciding that for Halloween she wants to go as the Headless Horseman, which is an allusion to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. Although she later dejectedly admits that she is too old for trick-or-treating, Nell is initially excited at the prospect of wearing the disguise: “Perhaps because I could take time off from being myself, or from the impersonation of myself I was finding it increasingly expedient, but increasingly burdensome, to perform in public” (24). As in “The Art of Cooking and Serving,” Nell is anxious to be someone other than herself, although this macabre transformation illustrates her emerging desire to experiment more with adventure and

The industrial revolution beginning from the 1800’s and lasting well into the early 1900’s, impacted humanity on a global scale. One impact is the rift between agricultural production and industrial production. Due to this division in productivity, the conditions of the workers began to contrast greatly. The agricultural productivity used mostly slave labor. While on the other hand, Industrial production used cheap, expendable workers. These workers faced many hardships each with their own conflicts.

Sleepy Hollow illustrates characteristics of Puritanism through the representation of Puritan values on God being active in all aspects of life and harsh punishments. One value that is highly emphasized in Puritan literature is God being active in all aspects of life. The importance of God in Sleepy Hollow is clearly shown through the town’s church. The town of Sleepy Hollow is small and dark, yet the church is grand, bright, and white. By building the church in this way, the people of Sleepy Hollow are showing how important of a role God plays in their community. In Puritan communities, the church plays a huge role in everyday life. The church was almost always the tallest building in the town and was built in the center of town. Puritans

The short story of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” by Washington Irving introduced the character Ichabod Crane. Ichabod’s name means “No Glory” which is the essence of the character himself. Ichabod’s legacy became a sort of an old wives’ tale by which he believed in so much he ultimately fell victim to. Ichabod is a character that is a bit of an underdog that you feel compassion for but inevitably conclude he received the outcome he deserves.

The industrial revolution stands as a time marker in history where a growing rift occurred between traditional and modern lifestyles. The revolution brought more than just industrial changes, it also brought along a new era of cultural differences that would disturb current society. The underlying changes come from the “social effect of industrialization: the breaking up of the old social units and social relationships” (Hartwell 242), these changes occur in Casterbridge between Michael Henchard and Donald Farfrae. Although Henchard and Farfrae are both successful farmers and grain investors, their methods of gaining success differ as Farfrae adapts new technologies while Henchard holds to old beliefs.