The Relief Commission estimated that 4 million Irish would need to be fed during the spring and summer of 1846, since nearly 3 million pounds worth of potatoes had been lost in the first year of the famine (TGF). ... By December 1845, the price of potatoes had doubled, and by the summer of 1847, over 3 million people were being fed by government soup kitchens and those organized by Quakers (TGF). ... A passage to America on a Coffin Ship was approximately $10, but there was no guarantee that you would actually arrive there, considering how many died on those ships (LFI). ... Approximately 1 in...

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In the winter it reached 35 degrees below zero, and summer brought temperatures as high as 115 degrees. ... Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. ...

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Our nation's past is often perceived as a glorious and monumental country. We are nurtured into believing that it was built by past presidents, politics, wars, and the life and values of the nation's elite. Ironically, we do not focus on social classes, economical conflicts, tensions between main...

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"What better way to spend a beautiful summer weekend than by spending it indoors with a few thousand fellow freaks?" ... It's not unusual for a major character to die, lose the one they love to another, or fail at what they're trying to do." ...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were a...

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