Only the city of Boston managed to keep decent sanitary regulations with regular scavengers' carts and manure-collecting farmers keeping streets clean(-er). ... Living in the city had worse conditions than those in the rural areas due to the close proximity to each other when using a chamber pot. ... By the 1830s, better city hotels and taverns started providing individual basins and pitchers in their rooms. New York City and Philadelphia had developed rudimentary water systems, in which richer families had water taps and "water-closets" by the late 1830s. ...

• Word Count: 1578
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Soon after her arrival in New York, he took her to the family homestead near Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where they joined Abraham's brothers and parents on adjoining claims. ... This first becomes apparent when Rachel is denied her first chance to experience love while living with her aunt in the Russian city of Belaya Tserkov. ...

• Word Count: 962
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is 10:30PM on Sunday November 30, 2002 and Tom is driving his nineteen-year-old daughter Amy to Penn Station. She must return home tonight to her mother in Marlboro, New Jersey "his formerly stable residence. There is a tension permeated with sadness in the New York City air and both Tom and Amy ...

• Word Count: 3707
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate