...great extent in improving urban life and eliminating much of the political corruption which plagued the nation. An important area of reform was urban living conditions. Cities were constantly growing due to the increasing availability of jobs. This led to a need of lots of housing, quickly. It was built cheaply and most areas in the city turned into tenements and slums where crime went unpunished. Many families were crammed into the small buildings, most of which were unsanitary. Thus, disease quickly spread. However, the industrial revolution the nation experienced around the early 1900s led to improved city housing. This is because of the new technology that let richer people move farther out of the city and ride back in on the new automobiles and trolley systems. Since the wealthy moved out, a larger amount of poorer people could move in. Although there were no great reform movements due to the changing technology urbanization underwent a major reform. Another key area of reform was the Government reform. Laissez-faire capitalism overtook the nation. It allowed that private production was more successful without high taxation and the influence of a big government. This led to the domination of big businesses. However, they became too big and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was made. It prohibited trusts, therefore limiting how large and powerful one company could become. Another product of the political reform was the Populist Party. It...
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...and writers begun to pinpoint targets for the progressive attack. Bryan, Altgeld, and the Populists flamed about the “bloated trusts” with corruption and wrongdoing. • Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth in 1894, it was about the Standard Oil Company and on its “predatory wealth” and “conspicuous consumption” • Veblen viewed parasitic leisure class engaged in wasteful “business” which was making money for money’s sake rather than the productive “industry” which was making goods to satisfy real needs. • Jacob A. Riis was Danish and immigrated to the U.S. He was a reporter for the New York Sun, and he wrote How the Other Half Lives. It shocked the middle class Americans in 1890; he talked about diseases, and how dirty and how bad off the New York slums were. It influenced New York City police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt. • Theodore Dreiser wrote the The Financier and The Titan. He battered promoters and profiteers. • A lot of the socialists were European immigrants where there were already socialist movements in the old world. Messengers of the social gospel promoted a brand of progressivism based on Christian teachings. They used religious doctrines to demand better conditions for the poor. The number of Feminists also multiplied. Jane Addams and Lilian Wald fought to improve the conditions of families living in the cities. Raking Muck with the Muckrakers • During the beginning of the 20th century, American publishers exposed the evils of the u...
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...this question for centuries, and we can never know the exact answer that will fit everybody’s definition of friendship. Friends are people without whom your life wouldn’t be complete. They are the people who you know for ages, or even if you don’t you feel like you were born on the same day. They will always be by your side and will help you with any troubles. In the dictionary you can find three definitions of friendship:1. The quality or condition of being friends2. A friendly relationship3. Friendliness, good will In order to know what all these definitions mean we need to figure out what is the definition for friends. A friend is defined as a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. So friendship is when two people know each other well, and trust each other. Friendship is the relationship between two people who really care about each other. Your friendship will keep you happy, but it is not easy. Friendship demands time and effort, and sometimes you have to step over your pride and put yourself on the place of your friend, and see what she feels even if you think you are correct. But in exchange, a friend can provide a lot of support and comfort in good times and bad. Many things are needed to make friendship a real one, including trustworthiness, support, honesty, and loyalty. Friendship is supposed to make both people happy, and enjoying their relationship. Yes, each person has an individual character and it is hard to find people who...
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...better life. Allowed for the mass production of products at very low prices when compared to goods made at home. This enabled people of various incomes to have access to products from tables to washing machines to cars that would not have been able to afford them before. Henry Ford’s assembly line revolutionized the speed of production. These same factories enabled the owners of companies to become very rich. Captains of industry like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller used their fortunes to build libraries, construct universities, and to help fund thousands of charities. Body 2 – Disadvantages of industrialization to American society between 1865 and 1920: Monopolies / trusts – limited competition, inflated prices (ex. Railroads did this to farmers) - Social Darwinism – big businesses took over small companies, put them out of business - corrupted government (bought influence, controlled officials) Immigrants worked for very low wages, long hours. Kids...
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...to the landlords and gradually moved to the cities, where they often only found poorly paid work in factories. The factories changed and eventually got bigger and bigger. The owner of the factory original lived near his factory and his workers, which he ruled over like a paterfamilias, during the 19 century, the factory towns developed into to large cities, where factory workers lived so closely together in horribly built buildings, also known as “back to backs”. The owners of the factories would, on the other hand, luxuriously in their big houses, far from the workers misery. After a while as the railway network spread in the 19th century, the middle class moved out of the cities, hereby the arise of the characteristic English neighborhoods with the double houses, that we know so well, and the cities were left to the working poor and the immigrants in the 19 and 20 century, which came to England from the Commonwealth. 1. He felt very sorry for the poor woman ouside the house, and said that she ought to be helped. 2. He bought at new car which was more expensive than the old car had been 3. I could not drive his car, so I took my own. 4. The radio means a great deal to the blind man. 5. This is the most remarkable sound I have ever heard 6. There are many poor people in London 7. Mr Nelson is the only person I trust 8. Fred took the big apple and left the small one for me 9. We have no big cigars, only small ones. 10. We must help...
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...Susan Cheevers herself, and informs us of her opinion of the city, versus the country. The essay takes us from Susans childhood, all the way through to herself having kids. Susan illustrates in several ways the difference between living in the suburbs, and living in the big city. It is safe to say that Susan has become accustomed to the lifestyle of the big city, which in return has made her discontent when it comes to the more primitive life of the suburbs. The way that Susan Cheever chooses to tell her story, is done through a series of metaphors and adjectives. The result of this is that the reader is drawn into Cheevers' dynamic writing, which helps to make the essay more interesting to read. An example of this can be seen on page 10, at line 278-283, where she says: “One night the surface of the water heaved and buckled, and a turtle as big as a small car, a mossy prehistoric apparition in the middle of the city, inhaled the biggest chunk…” Every aspect of the story is described in detail, so that every object and person in the story, seems almost real enough to smell and taste. As we’re told in the essay, Susan has both lived in the big city of New York, where she lived at Central Park, as well as lived in the suburbs. Because Susan may be a person who is scared of changes, this makes it difficult for her to accept a life in the suburbs, when she had been raised in the more modernized world of the city. The city is full of modern technology, which makes for a rather great...
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...Should relationships put to a test? Some may answer this question with a big YES reflecting complexities in their relationships while some may oppose the idea, showing full confidence over their relationships. Both the views of two different people are correct in their own way. Emotional Attyachar, TV show that allows one to spy over his/her partner on stupid note of ‘loyalty’ is the origin of such tests. “Yes, loyalty tests are important because 90% of the men attract towards pretty faces very often. Such people are not trustworthy at all.” Says Ayush, IT professional. What makes people to approach such programs? Lack of trust, over possessiveness, good for nothing doubting nature may be few reasons behind it. But real people have real problems that are directly and indirectly catered to by such shows. Inspired from this UTV BINDASS hardcore, our city people found the way out to clear doubts of such beau at local level. One of the famous FM channel of the city, made it happen by conducting such loyalty test for its listeners. The program has proved fruitful for few and disappointing for the others. A suspicious girlfriend Riya after proven wrong, asked her boyfriend to pardon her for doubting on him via this FM channel. If you are so not sure on your love then why to regret after proven wrong? There are also people who consider the idea of such tests as ‘immoral’. “It means you yourself are not loyal that you are thinking to make your partner undergo such disgusting...
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...Dear Editor; I am a professor and research consultant In the School of Public Health here at Loma Linda University. In this capacity I have been fortunate to have traveled to many parts of the world. I also served on the Loma Linda City Council for 20 years, 10 of those years as mayor. Several years ago I was teaching a graduate level class in biostatistics at a university in Kenya. My students were from 22 different African countries. Since some students were from French speaking Africa, all my lectures were interpreted into French. My interpreter was Yenge Yenge Yenge Isaac, a business administrator from the Cameroons. One day during a break, our conversation turned to global economics. Mr. Isaac speculated on how nice it would be if Bill Gates gave each African a million dollars. Mr. Isaac knew that I had some understanding of African culture as I had taught and lived in Zambia for 7 years in the early 1970's. He then turned to me with a serious questioned look and asked; "Why are you rich and we are poor"? And by "you" he didn't mean me personally, of course, but we as Americans Wow! A profound question. A question that everyone must have pondered at some point in their lives: why are some peoples rich and some poor”. I replied that many books had been written on that subject including the 500 page “Guns, Germs, and Steal" by ULA professor, Jared Diamond . "But", I said, "I have a simple answer": We have a famous American by the name of Thomas Jefferson who wrote...
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...Party bosses, who were people that were rewarded with political appointment for essentially buying their supporters, were very popular in this time. These bosses were crooked and their actions were illustrated in Lincoln Steffen’s book, “The Shame of the Cities”. He believed that the party bosses had “betrayed his own ideals; he believed in the code of loyalty, but he was not loyal to the community.” Steffen’s book was the reason why we now have city commissioners and city manager system. The implementation was to limit the corruption of these party bosses and to create checks and balance on a local level; a city manager is to report to the city council. While Lincoln’s was a bit broader in his approach, Thomas Nast, wrote specifically about the political corruption of Boss Tweed who led Tammany...
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...“Living With Strangers” Many people think that urban life in big cities means a happy life, with no worries and just pure happiness. But what is happiness? And what makes us think that urban life is pure happiness? In the essay “Living With Strangers” by Siri Hustvedt, we hear about a woman's move from the countryside of Minnesota, to the Big Apple in New York City. Her move is described with many comparisons with her previous life and experiences, and a lot of humor, which underlines her situation and her attitude to urban life. In the following essay I am going to analyze and comment on Siri Hustvedt’s essay “Living With Strangers”. Part of my essay will focus on the genre, the attitude to urban living and the contrasts between Siri’s life in Minnesota and her new life in New York City. As said, the essay is based on Siri Hustvedt’s own life and experiences. Siri Hustvedt grew up in Minnesota, where everybody knows and greets each other. Now she lives in New York City where nobody seems to care about each other, and where greeting strangers would be “impractical and unsound”. This is a big change for her, and she uses an overwhelming amount of detailed descriptions to describe her situation in the Big Apple. She uses many personal experiences and examples, which characterizes the essay genre. Furthermore, she is very reflective, descriptive, subjective and very personal in her way of writing the essay. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival...
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...followers who don’t want to intervene or can’t, (Johnson, 2012, p. 248) because he didn’t know when to stop; he just kept taking and taking from the city. Rizzo started with writing his own employment contracts, giving himself raises and falsifying documents to hide salary information. Then, he was awarding city contracts to his friends and making unauthorized loans to himself and other city officials. Last, but certainly not the least, even after he was removed from office, and taken away in handcuffs, “Rizzo is in line to receive the highest pension of any official in California” (Johnson, 2012, p. 266). Rizzo was callous, uncaring about the needs of his followers (p. 248) and corrupt, lied cheated, and stole (p. 249) from the city and the city’s occupants. Interestingly enough, the people within Rizzo’s circle were insular, a clear boundary between the welfare of his immediate group and that of the outsiders (p. 249). Los Angeles County attorney, Steve Cooley was right in calling the looting of Bell, “corruption on steroids”. Question #2: What ethical challenges of leadership did Bell city officials fail to meet? Power, privilege, responsibility, and information management ethically challenged the city officials of Bell. Power and privilege generally go hand-in-hand (p. 241) and Rizzo and his circle of took advantage of their power as city officials and abused it. They took privileges in giving themselves raises, falsifying legal documents to hide...
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...The term “gilded age” was a term coined by Mark Twain, who wrote jokingly about the problems of an expanding population masked by a thin sheet of gold. The Gilded Age was a time period in American history that spanned from 1871 to 1900. It was a time of growth and change in cities. In a more proper way, or as Mr. Lore says, “The Gilded Age was a time of vast change in America’s cities. Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and immigration transformed cities”. In the classroom, students always learn about what happens everywhere but not in their own individual cities. This essay demonstrates what happened in our hometown city of Philadelphia: the industries, immigration, laws, and movements. The region’s major industries included textiles, locomotive manufacturing, ship building, iron and steel production, and sugar refining. When petroleum was discovered in Western Pennsylvania, Philadelphia became an oil storage and refining center. They played big roles in producing a large sum of money into...
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...Speech 10/8/12 Loss of Farmland I. Introduction A. According to the American Farmland Trust between 2002 and 2007, 4,080,300 acres of farmland were lost and converted to development. To put that into perspective, that’s an area almost the size of Massachusetts. Currently our farmland loss is at an astonishing 1 acre + a minute. Now you might not think that this affects you, but you are wrong. B. I want you to think about things that you do every day. Well I know that one thing almost everyone does every day is eat. Eating is necessary to live, and about 99% of your food is probably coming from a farmer. According to Nelson at the American Farmland Trust farmland is necessary in society providing essential goods as well as open space, environmental protection that land markets fail to account for. C. We have been using farmland for things other than farming and it needs to stop, urban development is taking over the land which is so vital to our existence. D. Farmland is being lost way too fast. Urban development is one of the biggest reasons for this loss. We need to stop using our farmland for other things. II. Body A. The amount of land that is usable for farming is very small compared to the amount of land on the earth. Coming from the researchers at farmland.org and the American Farmland Trust is this analogy. (ppt) Consider the Earth as an apple. If it was sliced into 4 pieces, 3 of these would represent water...
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...Ethical Obligations breached by Smith and Halloran: According to the news report in Politico (2013), the New York state Sen. Malcolm Smith and New York City Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested Tuesday in an alleged plot to rig the New York City mayor's race. Considering the ethical norms mentioned in Northouse text, Smith and Halloran breached following ethical obligations: Bribery: Smith tried to bribe his way into the election campaign. According to Preet Bharara, US Attorney, "Smith drew up the game plan and Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked that drive by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes." Using unlawful means, being on a leadership positions in something that is never acceptable and creates long lasting conflicts. The same happened in the case of Smith & Halloran. They tried to set up whole scenario through the pay-to-play scheme. The US government is already into investigating the public corruption matters which are proceeded through the pay-to-play plans. As per a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer, Smith tried to bribe leaders of Republican Party county committees around New York City to run for mayor as a Republican. According to a news article in WNYC by Hamilton (2013), “…Vincent Tabone, the head of the GOP in the Bronx, and Joseph Savino, the vice chair in Queens, were allegedly set to receive $40,000 in bribes to help Smith get on the GOP ballot. Halloran himself was...
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...Organizational Structure and Processes Kim Henderson, Kimberly Butler, Ronda Evans University of Phoenix Building Community in Human Service Organization BSHS 461 Chris Shreve July 18, 2011 Organizational Structure and Processes People working with marginalized, displaced or special populations experiencing obstacles to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness human service workers considered. Human services encompass a wide range of responsibilities. In human services, professionals have a broad range of skills in their collective roles in helping people with various social issues. The human service field can include a variety of job titles such as Director, Counselor, Therapist, Caseworker, Program Coordinator, Social Worker, or Victim Advocate (Martin, 2007). The human service field includes the human service agency as well as the human service workers making up the human service agency. According to “Management of Human Services Program” discusses the human service organization as a group of people large or small working together to improve the live served (Lewis, Packard, Lewis, 2007). Human Service Organizations come in when people facing various social problems have no support systems to help them in overcoming their issues. The settings in which human service professionals practice can vary. Lewis, Packard, and Lewis mention tiny storefront agencies to multifaceted community organizations to statewide public service departmental settings (2007). However...
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