1. The Industrial City
After ordering the German soldiers to lie down, the machine gun opened fire resulting in the deaths of nine Americans, including York's best friend in the outfit, Murray Savage. Sergeant Early received seventeen bullet wounds and turned the command over to corporals Harry Parsons and William Cutting, who ordered York to silence the machine gun. ... Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. ...
Most importantly, with the emergence of the "Boom" writers of the 60s to the early 80s, three common conflicts developed in Latin American literature: good vs. evil, nature vs. urban progress, and civilization vs. barbarism. ... The workers are slaughter and "become cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns."8 This also demonstrates another common theme in the "Boom" literature: the good guy rarely wins. ... The second conflict that emerged pitted nature vs. urban progress. ... The rest of the air contamination comes mainly fr...
The growth of United States' cities and the development of industrial technology gave rise to a number of features of urban life not before seen in American history, which resulted in the increase of the factory production. ... Reflecting to the sentence wrote by Whitney to his father, "One man and a horse will do more than fifty men with the old machines"5, factories began to dominate urban areas, and forced the United States' economy to a new level. ...
Reformers attacked corruption in municipal government and formed nonpartisan leagues to defeat the well-established bosses and their political machines. However, urban reformers were often frustrated because state legislatures, controlled by railroads and large corporations, obstructed the municipal struggle for home rule. ...
When the machine gun fired at him, he proceeded to investigate his enemy's identity, "The sniper darted across the street. A machine-gun tore up the ground around him with a hail of bullets, but he escaped."" ... This method is called urban guerrilla warfare. ...
Appleby reveals, "members of dissenting religious groups, free thinkers, and the newly prosperous all became participants in the disclosures and disputes that fleet-footed publicity carried to slave quarters, parlors, pioneer cabins, and urban tenements" (36). ... Appleby states that six technical changes influenced the early 19th century economy: the integration of surpluses from new farms into the market, steam power, retailing, machine tools, corporations, and banks (59). ...
Part I: Provide a history of the formation of the constitution and of early American government through Jefferson's Presidency. Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. The history of American government starts several year before there was even an American government with a series of events mainly between the British colonies and Great Britain developing into problems that would cause a change of power to the colonists themselves. Under British rule colonists were required to feed and quarter British so...
Such items as dishwashers, microwaves, washers and dryers, personal computers, fax machines, and modems have allowed us to save valuable time, but it does not come without a cost. ... Background of Black Power In the decade of the 1960's America there were riots and rebellions in cities and urban centers. ...
