New York State Tenement House Act

In 1959, American Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev came together at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, a “showcase of American consumer goods” (May 18), for “one of the most noted verbal sparring matches of the century,” aptly coined the “kitchen debate” (16). As Khrushchev applauded the Communist system and its hardworking women, Nixon “extolled the virtues of the American way of life” (16), emphasizing America’s “successful breadwinners supporting attractive

American family. These stresses helped create the style of writing he is famous for today. Himes' is known for a theme. He leaned toward a recurring writing style displaying discrimination of African Americans against themselves. Himes attended Ohio State University for two years. Himes was smart, but being very slothful in his studies at the time. He was asked to withdraw after 2 years. He later fell into a path of crime in 1928. Himes faced with his charges and convicted and later imprisoned. While

a disease of poor immigrants, living in crowded, filthy conditions to an affliction that struck across the social strata affecting the middle and upper classes. Pervasive fear of polio and its consequences coupled with the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s, public struggle with the disease and its complications propelled the fight against polio and its associated disabilities to the national forefront. Through efforts

The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves, and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions,

1) Reconstruction: A plan to reconstruct the society after the Civil War. This divided the south (except Tennessee) into 5 military districts under the control of the U.S. Army. It was the attempt to reconstruct the south, readmit the southern states back into the Union, and change the life of African Americans. (pg. 414) 2) Freedman’s Bureau: Congress created this in March of 1865 in order to provide help for thousands of poor black and white southerners uprooted by the fighting. They were

the people travelling to America did so for economic or political reasons, leaving behind their lives and the many things going on in it. Their cultural identities, however, were the main thing they held on to as they traversed into this completely new country of promised opportunities. These “cultural identities,” as some Americans feared, would completely ruin whom they were as people and turn their beloved land into a hodge-podge of colors and differences. The idea of shunning others for their

to come out as successful. A leader must also know, that it is wise to have people in his/her corner to advise them of good or bad decisions. President Barack Obama has his Vice-President, Joe Biden, along with his elite White House staff, including the Secretary of State, to help with major decisions that could affect the nation. Pastors have deacons who help them lead their congregation, or church, in the right path of reaching others, who are seeking for help and prayer in time of need. A leader

not a Democracy “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America...and to the republic for which it stands...one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.” (“Is the United States a Democracy?”) The United States’ pledge is taught to children of all ages, plays an active role in the patriotism of the people, and it symbolizes the citizen’s promise to never violate the Republic of the United States of America. The founding fathers built the foundation of America

New York City had started to provide publicly funded housing before the act was created and was one of the programs that the government used as a model. According to Bauman, (1987)public housing was not originally created to help the “poorest of the poor,” it was created to house select segments of the working class, specifically the “submerged middle class,” who were temporarily outside

is Ellison's more complex polemic, a by-product of the American theme he revisits so sublimely.  Ironically, the narrator is recruited by the Brotherhood only after a fervid display of individualism.  He forces his way through a hostile tenement crowd and prevents a white man's shooting with a speech. The throng of fellow invisibles will not budge until an elderly evicted couple is permitted back inside their apartment.  His words soften the mob with inspiration.  Unlike his well-rehearsed