New York State Tenement House Act

The play, 'Fences', presents a slice of life in a black tenement and is set in the late 1950's, through 1965.  The main character, Troy Maxson, is a garbage collector.  Throughout the play he rebels and frustrates as he struggles for fairness in a society which seems to offer none.  His actions and behavior towards his family can be interpreted by a reader as those of a violent and bad father.  However, soon one notices that beneath a mask of cruelty and toughness there is an individual who takes

common in this area, our home has some peculiar features that I have discovered recently. Because of its placement and small architectural cues this residence acts like a physical bookmark of a period in New York’s history that I have only recently been able to register and appreciate thanks to my newfound architectural knowledge. New York is known for its skyscrapers; however, there is architectural diversity that does not only reflect major building projects, but

Urban decay is an issue in the United States and will cause the act of gentrification. Urban decay is current in most, if not all, inner cities of the United States. Middle and upper class avoid traveling around downtown cities in their state because they do not feel safe. Government and private markets are implementing gentrification to decaying urban areas. The positive effect of gentrification is that there will be a renovation of buildings and local businesses. This is a controversy because these

9. In the late 19th century, the United States’ population tripled from the 1850s. The arrival of 16.2 million immigrants fueled this growth. However, beginning in the 1890s, most European immigrants, who were the largest group immigrating, started to have different origins from Europe. Now they were coming from Southern and Eastern Europe. When they came to the cities, such as New York City, which was their port of arrival, they formed ethnic communities because they did not share the same values

One of the most effective reform techniques is to “investigate, educate, legislate, enforce” (Fee/Brown, 2). This straightforward manner of rectification was summarized and utilized by Florence Kelley during the Progressive Era in the United States. During a period where women lacked suffrage, and most didn’t have steady jobs, Kelley was the head of the National Consumer’s League and had a resume that boasted affiliation with various other esteemed organizations (Verba, 1). She epitomized independence

writing these articles did not want to expose of corruption; rather, wanted to draw attention to the public's complicity in allowing corruption. A quote from one of his articles in The shame of the cities states ,"First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation. " This was just one of the inspiring Muckrakers awakening the public to the inequalities of the nation. Ida Tarbell

The Industrial Revolution in Victorian England was a period of time in history when new inventions and technology changed the way people lived and worked. It impacted how they communicated, the way products were manufactured, and created new forms of cheaper and faster transportation. Innovations resulted in changes that were previously unheard of. The invention of the steam engine revolutionized the way people and things were transported. Manufacturers were able to ship their goods more quickly

“Catholic menace” (Garraty 515). The “new” immigrants were treated as underlings by the Protestant majority. , who tried to keep them out of the best jobs, and from climbing the social ladder. This prejudice was only present at the social and economic level, nowhere else in America did prejudice lead to interference with religious freedom (Garraty 515). Also, neither labor leaders nor prominant industrialists took a broadly anti-foreign policy. After the Exclusion Act of 1882 and the almost meaningless

result of the Galveston disaster in 1900? Commission Plan 35. Explain Wisconsin Gov. LaFollette’s “Wisconsin Idea”. The was the use of professors from the University of Wisconsin --to draft bills and administer the state regulatory apparatus created by the new law; railroad reform looked at, direct primaries,

moments to their unintended historical consequences. By using the five innovations: clean, glass, sound, cold, and light, Johnson was able to deliver the themes: interaction between humans and the environment, development and interaction of cultures, state-building, expansion, and conflict, creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems, development and transformation of social structures. Through the