The Late 19th Century: The Gilded Age

She needs to take care of an entire family, and herself. Lyddie’s work started to decrease. “She needed the money. She had to have the money.” She used to work four looms but now she works two.

She uses it three times, the first time was, “ Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working on textile mills…” Then in the next paragraph, “...and while we sleep little white girls will be working tonight in the mills in those states, working eleven hours a night.” Finally, “And they will do so tonight, while we sleep.” Repetition was used to emphasize the point that while plenty of people would be sleeping without a care there were children working in very hazardous conditions and risking their lives. It was also used to get the message across that whether they had paid attention to child labor before or not, now they were fully aware of it.

The horses gave transportation to go places. Sophia and Anna went to school everyday for five days. They both loved school. Sophia was getting ready for school, when

The author begins with discussing about his mother’s work as a waitress and how much physical work and mental work she did. He said

Jeannette used to do work after school to earn money for enough food and clothes for the family, because their parents were dysfunctional. Her mom always focused on her passion, while her dad was always drunk and kept getting fired from different jobs. Jeannette used to work as journalist in school to write articles and helped the teachers out. Jeannette’ sister, Lori, was offered a job from the relative at New York and she settled their. Along with Lori, Jeannette went there after turning eighteen and started working at a restaurant, then she started saving up and went to college and achieved her degree in Journalism.

It starts out by the author explaining her cousins houses, “Dishes are piled high in he sink”. This helps us understand that the job is taking up a lot free time. Then the author makes the remark “I thought this was for twelve hours, not twelve days”. This helps us understand how time consuming the job is. “Do you think you can handle an all-nighter?”, also shows us how long the shifts are.

In the third paragraph, Kelly describes how on a given night “several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms.” This auditory imagery is intended to portray the painfully loud noises created by the machinery that young children are forced to work among. Additionally, Kelley depicts “a girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins,” who may spend the whole night working in a factory. This image emphasizes how incredibly young and small many working girls are, making child labor unsafe and unethical. Florence Kelley’s use of such emotive imagery moves the audience to pity working

Child Labor Analysis Child Labor was one of Florence Kelley’s main topics at a speech she gave in Philadelphia during a convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Kelley talks about all the horrors children were going through and the injustices they were suffering. She talks of the conditions children working in, the hours they were going in, and all in all, how wrong child labor was. Her purpose for this was to gain support of people to petition for the end of child labor. Kelley’s appeals to Ethos, Pathos and Logos through the use of great rhetoric is what allows her to achieve her purpose.

Imagine working sixteen hours a day in an unsanitary, dangerous, place for a big business gaining two dollars. This is what laboring-class Americans had to go through during the Gilded age. Politically, the first largest American labor union was formed during the Gilded age and many other organizations formed as well as violent strikes. Socially, different ethnics joined together to share their thoughts and realize the evils of big business and of the federal government. Mentally, most we 're losing their personal life while some were financially stable and glad.

The Gilded Age was a time when there was rapid economic growth, America's wealth was above majority of countries due to their vast industrialization and skilled workers. This lead to the rich getting richer and the poor becoming vastly poorer. I believe that this attitude had not vanished in our society today. We live in a society where 1% of the population are in charge and hold majority of America's money. While 99% of the population fall underneath middle class.

Desperate for money, she worked 12-hour days, six days a week. First she worked as a cook, then in a nail salon. To this day she still feels

She soon escaped from the school and found herself living alone and without any money during the middle of the Great Depression. It is believed that Ella survived by singing on the streets, a far cry from the top venues she would soon be performing

While in "Gilded Age", all levels of government had corruption, graft public money for their own. One of the most notorious New York City Boss Tweed William M. Tweed, his wealth has more than $25 million in 1871, all was dirty money. During the period he served as mayor of New York, the city requires all public officials to report false, false ratio as high as 85%. He presided over the construction of the New York county government office buildings, 40 chairs and 3 tables then discount about $179000, but a thermometer was quoted $7500. According to statistics, in 1860 ~ 1900, American municipal debt by $200 million soared to $1.4 billion, most of them are the City boss and partisans pocketed.

The Guilded age was a period of wealth and improvement which was used to cover up poverty and corruption inside the united states. Eventhough there were lots of improvements, not only in technology but also in society, there were lots of problems. Problems such as corruption and poverty. As time went on people started to realise this problems and some got improved, but others didn’t. 　　This gilded age was a problem.

Child labor was a great concern in the Industrial revolution but very few people did something to stop it. Women and Children were forced to work more than 10 hours a day with only forty minutes to have lunch. Elizabeth Bentley once said that they didn’t have any time to have breakfast or drink anything during the day. They worked standing up and if they didn’t do their work on time they were strapped (whipped). Children were treating like they were not important, like they didn’t deserve a better life.