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by pioneering the labor activism through unions, inspiring other activists with successful strikes, halting growing labor activism with the violent Pullman Strike, changing the American politics with the socialist parties, improving public health by supporting “sewer socialism,”

the property. The infuriated workers soon ran the guards out when they realized that Frick had intentions of reopening the plant with strikebreakers. After a thirteen hour struggle Carnegies Company persuaded the governor of Pennsylvania to provide help, the state militia was summoned to restore peace. The company began to bring in strikebreaker to replace employees who had walked out. Many of the leaders of the strike were prosecuted for rioting and murder. The steel workers' union was detroyed. Some

over 14 states and ten railroads involved” (AP Study Notes: Rise of Unions). President Hayes eventually sent troops to coral the strikers but they were so unorganized that they eventually stopped and went back to work. The Pullman Strike was an effect to the Pullman Palace Car Company hit a depression and cut workers’ wages 25-40 percent while keeping the rent and housing prices the same. Many of the workers joined the American Railroad Union. Debs, socialists that followed Karl Marx’s classless society

The Gilded Age was one of the most vibrant and unpredictable eras in the history of America. It brought about a new wave of industrial and economic opportunities that allowed some to build massive businesses and fortunes, while other lower and middle class citizens struggled to survive. Some would go as far to say it created a war between the classes across American societies. Giants of industry, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, revolutionized how big business led to the rise

Starting in 1865, the United States began to experience a series of changes and transformations that completely altered the landscape of the country. On the political side, the federal government had to deal with the aftermath of the Civil War and faced the challenge of reintegrating southern states back into the union while also attempting to institute desegregation movements in the South. From a social standpoint, almost four million slaves were freed by the end of the Civil War and in search of

I am doing the Great Railroad strike. It was a strike on the railroads. In late July of 1877, Chicagoans played their part in the first nationwide uprising of workers. On July 16, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, walked off the job to protest a 10 percent wage cut leveled by their employer, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strikes to protest cutbacks in the midst of a period of nationwide economic depression soon spread westward across the country. News of attempts to control boisterous

the story, or even good in any sense of the word. Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass and Milton’s Paradise Lost share many similarities, but none were as striking as the view on authoritarianism and eventual rebellion. In the first, The Amber Spyglass, Pullman shows the main characters Will and Lyra in a constant struggle against the ruling authority, the church. In the second, Paradise Lost, Milton displays Satan in a never-ending battle for his own freedom from God’s ruling hand. In either story, the

Philip Pullman is one of the most famous writers of the Norwich, England. He was born on19th of October 1946 in the place known as Norwich. He was the son of Audrey Avelyn Pullman Alfred Outram Pullman. His father was basically in the air force so he used to travel a lot. He travels to many countries and when he was in Australia, he explores his love with the writing. After completing his studies, he joined the most famous college of that time Exeter College, Oxford get aware of English for reading

In The Golden Compass, daemons act as an extension or real-life manifestation of someone’s consciousness or soul. They take physical form as animals, revealing information about the character’s personality and identity. Daemons are always by your side, basically like wearing your heart on your sleeve. It is more than just a soul however, a daemon is also like a friend/extension of yourself that you can talk to as a friend wherever you go. You can talk to your own daemon like you talk to yourself

In Philip Pullman’s novel, The Golden Compass, a young girl, named Lyra Belacqua lives in a parallel world in which human souls take the form of lifelong animal companions called daemons. In Lyra’s world the antagonists, a group of people known as Gobblers, have been kidnapping kids from the streets. Lyra vows to save her best friend, Roger, after she discovers that he disappears along with one of the Gyptians’ boys. She sets out with her daemon, a tribe of Gyptians, a witch, an ice bear and a Texas