1. Immigration, Industrialization and Urbanization in America
Every book that is published in the United States must go through an inspection, which will allow or not allow the book to be sold to minors due to some sort of misleading content. ... By taking away the right for a child to read a book is outrageous. ... Reading a book is a choice. ... On a personal level, one can ban a book from there agenda, no one can make some person read a book, and no one can read the book for you. ... Therefore, book banning should not be a form of censorship. ...
This book is based on a true story, told from the author's perspective. ... The book tells how he overcame his family problems and became a better person because of it. The book starts when he is five years old and continues until he is seventeen. ... I thought it was a great book with an ending that made you want to read more. ... This truly was an excellent book and I enjoyed reading it. ...
This poor immigrant was a young Anzia Yezierska, beloved author of the book Hungry Hearts. The question I am asked to answer within this essay is why I liked this book, Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska. ... The way the story's narrator changes helps to give the book more depth and perspective. ... I believe if this book was written in any other style, it would not have had such an impact on me as it has. ... This book also destroyed most of the stereotypes I had about immigrants. ...
However, the book did not bring about the socialist reforms that Sinclair thought were needed. ... The book begins with the wedding of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukeszaite. ... This event begins the turning point of this book. ... He had problems getting The Jungle published in book form. He decided to publish the book himself. ...
The relevance of the issues discussed in the book today, concerning education of any color should begin with the people themselves. ... Reading this book helped and challenged me to express myself through words. ... For example, in chapter seven my football coach and then teacher had us write chapter summaries about thoughts on the book. ... The book mentions how in the past African-Americans have been mis-educated based on training and how the educated Negro has inherited his religion from the early white Methodists and Baptists, who evangelized the readily- made inferior classes of slaves an...
In the book, Mildred and her friends get exceedingly upset every time they are interrupted while viewing a program on TV. ... There is no doubt that the book's culture and today's culture are very different. ... For Americans, this book considers the direction they could be heading. ... For in the book, it can be seen what could happen. ...
The book's only crime has been deepening its reader's perception of life, and providing them countless hours of enjoyment, and what thanks does it receive? ... Other charges against this book include, but are not limited to, the appearance of sexual content and racial themes. I cannot argue that these issues don't appear in this book, because they do. I just believe that they are no basis for eliminating the book from our public education system. ... I think how this book effectively exposes the cruelty of racial (and other) injustice is a big part of what makes this suc...
I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. ... This book is about the Japanese internment camps that were set up in America during World War II, and how it affected this particular family. ... The book is told from Jeanne's own experiences in her own town, and how her peers at school treated her. ... The book also describes what it felt like to be split up from her father, and how they felt like prisoners in a country they called home. ... This was a great book, and a very informational, historical reference to a particular Japanese girl struggles du...
The First Measured Century The television documentary "The First Measured Century," illustrated trends in America, during the 20th century. The movie reflected the slow refinement towards equality towards minorities" and women's rights as well as roles in society. The narrator has a monotone d...
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse I chose this book because world war two era is very fascinating tome. ... Also my grandparents were apart of this period in history and lived through many of the hardships described in this book. ... Opinion I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to a friend. ...
While reading the book, my heart went out to the women as I realized they had to endure things that many others would never see. ... This book has heart and soul. Anyone with some sense of immigrant ancestry would take this book to heart. ... However, in the book, the girls obtained a growing desire to know about their heritage as the years went on, whereas I still am not interested in knowing about the past. ...
What I Learned This book was incredibly eye opening in that saying there is a war on sex is not slanderous or hyperbolic. ... What Surprised Me Most One of the most shocking things that I learned while reading America's war on sex was a theme that saturated the entire book, that the culture surrounding sex is very negative. ... The two most valuable things that I learned from this book are that this type of discrimination, and it most certainly is that, is an infringement on a human beings personal choices and democratic rights. ... All of my work going into the future will have to be loo...
In this book, Ehrenreich, explores what it is like to work for very low wages in America. ... The "working poor" in this book are not just characters portrayed by an author. ... I personally have worked in many places similar to the ones discussed in this book. ... So what does this book show about our great country. ... The ironic thing that this book shows is that many of these taxpayers cant afford clothes and food for themselves. ...
One example of racism is in the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou. In this book Maya describes her life growing up as a young insecure African American girl in the South during the 1930's and in California in the 1940's. ... This book clearly explains the struggle that Maya Angelou and many other blacks had to go through at that time. ... Another example of racism and sexism is the book, "The Color Purple" by Toni Morrison. ... The women of the book later on talks back to the men and make them realize what they are doing and make them change their ways. ...
The book explores the past and present lives of World War II veterans and others who live through that time period. ... The book is not a novel, but more of a historic documentary. ... It is obvious how the book relates to history. ... Tom Brokaw explains in the introduction that he wrote the book after chatting with veterans who had gone back to visit Omaha Beach many years after the D-Day invasion. ... After reading the book, I will not be one to argue. ...
Many fugitives reached Canada by way of Detroit or Niagara Falls New York, others sailed across Lake Erie to Ontario from ports like Erie, Pennsylvania and Sandusky Ohio (World Book, 21). ... Levi Coffin, a Quaker, was called "President of the Underground Railroad" it is said he helped more that 3,ooo slaves escape (World Book, 21). ... The slave catchers could obtain a search warrant and would never hesitate to use violence or a gun on a slave (Book of Knowlege,11). ... Slavery took place in the mid 1800's (World Book,21) and before and during the civil war (Compton&#...
According to The World Book, people practice religion for several reasons. ... This is due to the high Asian immigration rate during the 1930's. 1 One might think that there is no connection between sociology and religion; moreover, sociology interferes with religion since sociology is the system study of human society (as stated in the first chapter of the text book) and that what it explore is "real" and "scientific". ...
(p. 42) Towards the end of the book, there is a definite line between the differences of the two generations. ... The American-born daughters never grasp on to these traits, and as the book shows, they became completely different from their purely Chinese parents. ...
In the book racist people are very normal, an example of these type of people were; Charlie Simms, Mr. ... From the book I have learnt that for black people, like the Logans, have land is nearly impossible because thay had to pay the land with cotton they cultivate but every day the price of the cotton was lower and that made the payment of the land even worst. ...
It is expressed in the book that Lupe loved to learn and it was one thing that she was most passionate about. ... I believe that with the book's ending of "the beginning", a new chapter of life is commencing. ... The book ends with a one-word answer to a question. ...
The book failed to mention that having a gun is a good thing is the fact that people have the right to carry one. ... The book forgot to mention the other side to gun control which is really a big aspect in the article. One of the facts stated in the book was that there were 9,000 handgun murders in the United States. ...
A man by the name of Thomas Bell lived through some of these things, and wrote a book entitled, Out of This Furnace. Thomas Bell wrote this book to show us the hardships that they faced backed then. ... Thomas Bell shows us in his book that America was not always a land of success and great riches, yet that people were often racist towards Slovaks and other people of other countries, and often got low wages for hard work. ...
Upton Sinclair, author of the book The Jungle, narrates the actual realities of American life during this time, through the eyes of an immigrant family from Lithuania. Sinclair with intentions of writing the book solely for the purpose of promoting socialistic ideology ended up writing a novel that alarmed the public and forced our government into taking action. ... This however was not Sinclair's main intentions of writing the book. ... There is not another book out there that is able to depict life from this time as well as Sinclair's The Jungle. ...