New York State Tenement House Act

The Asian American Experience Explained Through Art Introduction The United States is the "land of the free, and the home of the brave" according to the song, but there is a dichotomy that exists between those who have called the United States their home for a long period of time, and those who are immigrating to the US. Asian Americans are a group that very few think of as having difficulties because the stereotype is of a group that is intelligent and is actually doing better than the average

Socially, a significant issue affecting Montana at the time of Jeanette 's formative young adult years was the rise of the labor unions. Butte, a major mining center, had just formed a Miners Union. This created wide divisions in politics around the state. This would have a great impact on Jeannette 's eventual election to

Ironically, it was his thunderous voice that made him president, earned him enemies and brought him friends. That voice also made him the bulwark of the Progressive Movement. On October 27, 1858, Roosevelt was born on East Twentieth Street in New York City to Martha Bulloch, who he described as a "sweet gracious, beautiful Southern Woman" and Theodore Roosevelt Sr., who he wrote was "the best man I ever knew." Roosevelt was born into wealth, with his father a henchman of the family firm, Roosevelt

negligent and sick father, who rapes her from time to time, and has been doing so before she could even learn to crawl- since she was three years old. The film shows Precious in her second pregnancy, with both of them as results of her father’s vicious acts. Her mother is possibly the worst and unimaginable character. Naturally, mothers are expected to be supportive of their daughters, but this is not the case with hers. Her mother is a mean woman, who abuses her in every way possible- physically and

Starting in October 1929, the Great Depression, the stock market crashed. It awed a country used to the excesses of the 1920's. These are the events that lead up to the crash. Furthermore, a narrative of the Depression: "It was always cold in the house; the only warmth was a wood burning stove in the corner. We used to sit and listen to Gracie and Burn's on the 7 o'clock show. Dinner was watered down onion stew with a slice of bread. "We worked in the fields, maybe 9, 10, hours per day, maybe more

Public housing has the dubious legacy of being one of the biggest, most enduring and farthest-reaching failures in the history of American public policy. High-rise public housing projects like the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini-Green have become synonymous with poverty, violence, out-of-wedlock childbirth, welfare dependency, and a myriad of other social ills in the minds of most Americans. Although most have now been demolished, these towering high-rises became looming monuments to this epic policy

In October 1938 a Federal Writer, Levi Hubert, talked with African American residents of New York City. He interviewed an African-American man named Joseph Madden. He had said “A chance encounter in the street with a white woman in broad day, an accidental brush by a Negro against a white woman while walking along a crowded thoroughfare, a slight

C., in December, 1803. A dramatic notice of this performance in a local paper describes David Poe as being extremely diffident while— ". . .His voice seems to be clear, melodious and variable; what its compass may be can only be shown when he acts unrestrained by timidity. His enunciation seemed to be very distinct and articulate; and his face and person are much in his favor. His size is of that pitch well fitted for general action if his talents should be suited to sock and buskin. . . ."

not easily replaced. (Sinclair, 1960) During this time social reformers like Dr. Maria Montessori were developing new educational systems and programs for underprivileged children. The reformers' concern was that while parents were forced to slave long hours, the development of the children was inhibited. The families lived in horrible conditions such as the tenements of New York or Rome. Large families lived together in one or two room apartments with very little space or room for a child to

The novella, Of Mice and Men, is initiated by a heavenly description of a narrow, crystal pool. Inhabited solely by “yellow sands” and “willows fresh and green”, the tone used to describe the pool is blissful and poetic. Such a tone is only used when George and Lennie refer to their American Dream of prospering on their own land. The tone used in the novella’s opening, which mirrors George and Lennie’s unrealistic fantasy, contrasts with the honest, realistic tone that presides throughout most of