...1. Unrestricted Capitalism in America Determining the overall importance of the Homestead Strike in the American Civil Labor Movement requires the investigation to examine the reasons for which the common laborer moved towards unionism and, later, full-fledged strikes. The overarching structure of American capitalist society which grew significantly in the Progressive era which extended from post reconstruction into the early 20th century and consisted of the laborers of which was the most significant portion of the population; and the management which included a very select, miniscule percentage of the population. During this period agrarian work declined and did not have a large effect on the Labor Movement and the corresponding events...
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...Shane by Angela Day “Shane” is a screenplay that was based on Jack Schaefer's 1949 book of the same name. The film is a classic western tale which is a very familiar and highly regarded in the western genre and the most successful Western of the 1950s and it is also a period piece since it is set in the late 1800’s. The film's rich color cinematography captures the beautiful environment of the frontier which was filmed on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with the mountains as a backdrop. The location and the having been filmed in color is effective in telling the story and had it been done in black and white it would have lost some of the visual impact. This film received six Academy Award nominations including “Best Cinematography” and won one for photography. Many films since Shane have paid homage to the film and used a similar plot and theme. The film used technicolored panoramic angles to create a symbolic myth: the age old story of the duel between good and evil, the social conflict (with families, law and order, and homesteaders) the challenges faced in the era which included an implied love connection between Shane and Marion, lawless gunslingers, and a land-dispute conflict between a homesteader and cattle baron, and the coming of age of a young boy. The film is riddled with classic symbols and conflicts from the uprooting of the stubborn stump in the yard, Torrey's murder in the muddy street and his hilltop funeral, and the climactic finale...
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...__________________ INV__________________________ SUP ______________________ M&E_________________________ F&F ______________________ MISC ________________________ 8. WHEN CONVERTING A BUSINESS ACCOUNT INTO ACT WHAT DIGITS ARE ADDED ON TO IT? The number 2 in front and 5 zeroes at the end 9. IF AN ACCOUNT HAS NOT BEEN CERTIFIED BUT ASSESSED VALUE APPEARS ON THE WEBSITE WILL YOU RELEASE THE VALUE INFORMATION? AND WHY? No, It has not been certified and something may change 10. WHAT IS A SUPPLEMENTAL CORRECTION? It is the original statement sent out late due to it being certified late 11. WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR OBTAINING A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, AND WHAT IS THE HOMESTEAD AMOUNT FOR HARRIS COUNTY AND RELATED ENTITIES? Taxpayer has to live in the home as on January 1st, 20% 12. WHAT IS THE DISCOUNT AMOUNT GRANTED BY HARRIS COUNTY AND RELATED ENTITIES FOR...
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...Land in Chase County originally used by settlers in the 1862 Homestead Act to develop large family farms. Since 1870, with the railroads moving into Kansas, the land has moved from private ownership into corporate ownership with absentee landowners. Today the absentee landowners and corporations still own much of Chase County and the largest money making industry is from tourism. William Least Heat-Moon writes about the change in land ownership in PrairyErth in the chapter “In the Quadrangle: Elk” and effects that corporate and absentee owners have made to the family farmer and the average person born and raised in Chase County. Absentee ownership results in Chase County residents being unable to buy land, unable to find good paying jobs,...
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...Assignment 1.2: Industrialization After the Civil War David T. LaPradd Strayer University After the Civil War, the mass production of steel helped shape America. The mass production of steel allowed the country to increase the manufacturing of the equipment. This was significant in the production of the railway tracks and allowed the country to grow. This growth provided jobs for the working class, the ability to move the goods produced to the marketplaces, and moved the people for the expansion to the west. The early production of steel was costly and time consuming. In England, Henry Bessemer developed an inexpensive way to mass produce steel. The key principle behind his patent was to remove the impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. The iron heated up with the oxidation and kept it in a molten state. This new process changed the manufacturing of a rail that took two weeks to produce down to 15 minutes. Andrew Carnegie brought this process back to the United States. Carnegie saw all of the possible uses of this mass produced steel but before he could realize the materials potential he had to convince the public of its strength. He was charged with building the first permanent bridge to cross the Mississippi River by Tom Scott. Building the bridge utilizing this new processing of steel was what he needed. The bridge took four years to build and had many cost overruns. When it was finally...
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...It’s the year of 1870 and I recently have decided to move west in search of a better life. Farming is the only thing I rely on to make a profit and I am tired of the hard, rock filled soil that I have to fight every time I work on the field. The main reason that brought me to choose the West was “The Homestead Act”, which offered 160 acres of free land. The Great Plains is no more than a huge, flat, plateau that has a very wide variety of weather; cold and harsh winters, and very hot and humid summers. Furthermore, as grasslands are among one of the least protected biomes, there are often very strong winds. With all these new conditions, I had some trouble adjusting to my new home. For example, there were no trees on this dry land, so I was forced to make my house out of sod instead of wood. Although the sod house was very dusty and prone to leaks, it was well-insulated. I also started to do “dry farming”, in which soil was plowed to break up the sod and help keep the moisture in the soil. My main crop has now become wheat, as it was most suitable for the climate of The Great Plains. Despite all these new conditions, I am determined to make the best out of what I have....
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...Cassandra Rollins HIS125: Labor Assessment Assignment Linda Rhoades-Swartz: Instructor February 1, 2015 Write a 350-word essay in which you do the following: •Identify what you think to be one of the most significant strikes of the late 1800s or early 1900s. •Describe what it accomplished and what it failed to accomplish. The Homestead Strike was one of the most famous strikes that happen in the late 1800s. This is an example of the struggle between labor union and business owners. In some cases, as at the Homestead, the struggle turned violent. The Homestead Strike was at the Carnegie Steel Mill and owned by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie thought that the labor union at the Homestead Steel Mill made it harder on the manager to run their business proficiently. Carnegie was out of town at the time of the strike but he knew that it was going to happen so he warned the steel mill top managers. The Labor Union which was called Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was highly upset about the pay drop that was going to happen. Because the price of steel was dropping the pay was going to be reduced. The Union member and most other workers decided to have a meeting and they all decided to go on strike because they felt that they did too much for their pay to drop. When the manager decided to hired armed guards to protect the company from the strikers the whole situation became violent. They were also trying to protect the workers that they hired to replace the strikers...
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...believes the police officer is from one of the stories he'd heard from when he was younger. While he believes two arrowhead is enough protection for both of them, Leon takes with him a .30-30 rifle in the truck. During another run on the highway they find themself being stalked again. Leon pulled over and got out of the truck and left Tony in the passenger seat with the .30-30 rifle across his lap. Right when the big cop took out his stick and raised it up high, Tony fired his rifle and killed the cop. While Leon doesn't know if he should run or stay, Tony believes he has killed "it" and thinks they're safe now. Historical Values Throughout history the Natives has been pushed away and treated like they were a weaker race. During the homestead act in the 1860's the Native Americans were thrown out of their land. During that time they were heavily suppressed and discriminated by "the white men". Theme Tony's story describes how the native americans have been inflicted with violence and discrimination from the white men who took their land. The cop treats the natives like they are a problem and tries to attack them. This is more or less how some people treat natives...
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...among men in Pittsburgh from 1880 to 1889 were steelwork related accidents. Carnegie often came across as uncaring when accidents would happen. For example, when a machine would explode he showed more concern for his loss of a machine and production instead of the man that had died. Or if a worker got injured on the job they would be fired because then they couldn't work as efficiently as before. Carnegie believed in “Survival of the fittest” (Document B), so in his opinion who ever was not able to meet the physical demands that the job required where no use to him. This caused the workers to created unions and go on strike for better working conditions and workers benefits. Carnegie's Homestead mill, in Pennsylvania was the site of a major strike in American history (Document J). Homestead was managed by Henry Clay Frick who was determined to break the union, which represented 750 Homestead's workers. On July 1, 1892, Frick closed the mill and locked the workers, after they had rejected his proposed wage cut. While Carnegie remained in Scotland, on July 6 Frick hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to arrive. A gunfight erupted when the Pinkertons attempted to land at the Monongahela River docks, and the battle lasted all day until late afternoon. Altogether at least sixteen people were killed and more than sixty wounded. On July 12, the fighting was ended with a workers victory. Although victory was short lived, two weeks after the steel mill was back in production using newly...
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...Predominantly within the post-modern, American context the "good life" is understood as the freedom and ability to do or posses whatever we want; a complete lack of nothing but the ability to posses anything one might desire. However, in Robert Neuwirth's book "Shadow Cities" readers are introduced to multiple people groups, more commonly known as "squatters", who's lifestyles and beliefs challenge what many might consider the good life as generally accepted by members of Western civilization. As Neuwirth takes us from Rocinha, Rio De Janeiro to Istanbul the reader is continuously faced with the same three issues plaguing our world: the fact that the worlds population is steadily increasing at an alarming rate, that everyone must have a place to live and that housing costs and must be lowered in order to provide the amount of houses necessary to sustain our world's growing population (Neuwirth xiii). In this paper I will seek to summarize Neuwirth's book, "Shadow Cities", beginning with a brief history of the squatter community. When comparing past and present examples of squatter communities Neuwirth begins by noting that, "very little has changed since the Middle Ages. The barracks of Rocinha, the mud huts of Kibera, the wooden shanties of Behrampada, or the original Gecekondu houses in Sarigazi are not far removed the dwellings that were common centuries ago in Europe and North America." With very little difference between communities of the past and present it becomes apparent...
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... he closed the mills. It was an open declaration of war. The steel-workers declared that they were ready to take up the challenge of Frick: they would insist on their right to organize and to deal collectively with their employers. Their tone was manly, ringing with the spirit of their rebellious forebears of the Revolutionary War. Then the news flashed across the country of the slaughter of steelworkers by Pinkertons. In the dead of night, Frick sent a boat packed with strike-breakers and heavily armed Pinkerton thugs to the mill. The workers stationed themselves along the shore, determined to drive back Frick’s hirelings. When the boat got within range, the Pinkertons had opened fire, without warning, killing a number of Homestead men on the shore, among them a little boy, and wounding scores of others. Source: Emma Goldman was political activist and radical who fiercely...
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...Robert E. Lee PAD 4419 Zully Tirado Summer Term 2010 July 8, 2010 I. Agency y Selected: “RCMA” (Redlands Christian Migrant Association) History Since 1965 RCMA has been helping these working poor families and their children break the cycle of poverty and ignorance to a broad range of programs from early childhood development to collage training. ("Redlands Christian migrant," 2008). RCMA began its existence in October 1, 1965. It was founded by Mennonite Church Volunteers in the Redlands farming area of Southern Miami-Dade County to provide safe and nurturing environment for children while their parents worked in the fields ("Rcma- childcare and," 2010). RCMA began with three centers, serving approximately 75 children in the Homestead and Florida City area. Today, RCMA serves nearly 8,000 children in more than 75 centers and two charter schools in 21 Florida counties. ("Rcma- childcare and," 2010). Across the state of Florida, not just children and families but the entire communities have been changed to this combination of involvement, education and opportunity. * Appendix I shows the 21 Florida counties where RCMA’s centers are located. Mission Statement The RCMA mission statement is to create and foster opportunities for the children of migrant and other low-income rural families to maximize the choices in their lives (Rcma employee handbook, 2009). Vision Statement RCMA will continue its emphasis on educating children and empowering families (Rcma employee...
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...Hensley, Marcia Meredith. Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West. Glendo, WY: High Plains, 2008. Print. Reviewed by Megan Smith. This lovely piece of work is about the true stories of some incredible pioneer women who seized the opportunity to own their own piece of land during a time when this was almost unheard of for women. Marcia Meredith Hensley wrote this book after moving to Wyoming in the 1980s. She was taking a Western History class and read the book “Letters of a Women Homesteader” by Elinore Pruitt Stewart when she noticed a few differences between her college textbooks and these letters. She learned that Stewart was a single homesteader who had come out west with her daughter and was very appreciative of the land and the lifestyle, contrary to how pioneer women were perceived in her textbooks. This sparked an interest in Hensley and started her on a twenty year research project to write a book about women becoming landowners in the west, and the role played in western settlement by single women homesteaders. The twenty diligent years of research conducted by Hensley provides the book with incredibly detailed looks in to the intimate lives of women’s adventures and hardships as they fight to win social and financial independence in a world where many women still led their lives by a strict and restricted Victorian belief system. From stories of lemon pies that make your mouth water to a story about setting fence posts in the summer heat of Utah, Hensley’s...
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...In the documentary we watched in class, Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel, I learned a lot about what steel manufacturing had to do with the Gilded Age time period in America. The film first opened by talking about how in the late 1800’s Andrew Carnegie was now the richest man in the United States. But how did he get to be that way? Well, that is what the film goes into next. New Englanders were faced with a crisis in these times, iron was too expensive, but iron was the thing that fueled the New Englanders industry. So the colony started to manufacture their own iron to try and cut costs. Many iron mills were created in the New England area, and some Americans, but many indentured servants from Europe worked in the iron mills. With America becoming a hub for producing iron, the British wanted to restrict the growth of the iron mills in the United States but ultimately failed, because by independence day, the United States now produced 1/4 of the worlds iron. Many cities emerged with the creation of the many iron mills in America, one being Pittsburg, which became iron’s capital. When Andrew Carnegie was a young boy, he was poor and worked as a telegrapher, until noticed and admired by Tom Scott, a man who was very knowledgable in the railroad and iron industry. Soon after Tom Scott discovered Carnegie, Carnegie became his assistant, and became very interested in iron and the use of it to build America’s many new railroads. However, while iron was a great industry for...
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...An immigrant with a passion for social reform and philanthropic work advanced the transportation system in America and became the richest man in the world. Andrew Carnegie is the man behind the Carnegie Steel Company. Carnegie had a strong work ethic that started at a young age when he began working at a cotton mill for $1.20. He changed jobs several times before meeting, Thomas Scott, the head of Pennsylvania Railroad and becoming his personal secretary. This job is where Carnegie experienced first hand the high demand for steel and oil in America. He took the money that he earned in his secretary position and $500 from mortgaging his house he invested in oil, sleeping carts and the Adams Express Company. These investments gave Carnegie the finances to start the Carnegie Steel Company in 1875. Carnegie had competition when he started his business because the demand for steel was so high and everyone wanted to have a part in it. Carnegie had experience with steel due to his time spent working on the railroads. He knew that the transportation of goods and travelers wasn’t time efficient with the current use of stagecoaches and that railroads would soon be the future transportation system. Steel was needed for more than building railroads though. The demand for steel came from several different areas of work and advancement in America. Agriculture was growing to become a large-scale production business, textile factories were popping up in every city, construction of skyscrapers...
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