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Impact of science and technology on modern civilization
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What is the last name of the mouse family? (2 pt) The last name of the family is Mousekewitz. What year does Fievel and his family leave Russia? (2 pt) Fievel and his family leave Russia in 1885-1886. According to Fievel's father In what way is America like a fairy tale? (6 pts) America will have plenty of food, housing, and freedom of speech. From what European city does the family board a ship to America? (2 pt) The family leaves for America from Hamburg, Germany. What is the only food to eat on the ship? (2 pt) The only food to eat was herring fish. What were conditions like on the boat? What type of boat is it? What section of the boat does Fievel and his family travel in? (10 pts) The boat they rode on was …show more content…
a steamship. The family rides in the steerage part of the boat and went through many harsh conditions. Some of these conditions were the boat was very crowded, there was only one type of food, and it was very difficult to survive in the storms. Where do the immigrants land in New York? (What is the name of the immigration station?) (2 pt) The immigrants landed at Ellis Island. As the immigrants are being “processed”, what does the official sometimes change?
Why is this change made? (4 pts) Their name is sometimes shortened up and changed. The officials would change them so people can pronounce and spell them. What is under construction on the island where Fievel lands? (2 pt) The Statue of Liberty was under construction on the island. What type of machine are the women using with their feet when Fievel is forced to work? What year was it invented and by who? (6 pts) The women were using sewing machines. These machines were invented by many different people, but the first inventor to get a patent on the machine was Ellis Howe. This patent was awarded in 1846. What new Thomas Edison invention fools Fievel into thinking he has found his Papa? What year was it invented? (4 pts) Fievel hears the violin which makes him think he has found his Papa. But, what Fievel really hears is a recording being played by the gramophone. This was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Describe the conditions in the New York City streets that Fievel wanders. There were typically six main problems that people living in the city faced. Name those six problems, the solutions and give 6 examples from the movie of a problem and/or a solution? (20 pts) This should be a minimum of three …show more content…
paragraphs. The six problems in the city are crime, housing, fire, sanitation, transportation, and water. Many single family houses were usually housing two families causing overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. The solution to this was New York City passed a law for plumbing and ventilation in these apartments. The next problem was transportation, the city invented the mass transit allowing them to move large numbers of people along fixed routes. The only problem was that the city struggled to repair the old transit systems and had a hard time to meet the demand of the increasing population.Cities also had a hard time keeping safe drinking water. The city tried used filtrations and chlorination to try and make the water safe, but many cities still had a hard time supplying safe water. As the cities started to grow the amount of waste did too. The city had a hard time keeping the street clean, some of these problems were sewage backups and smoky air. The city developed sewer lines and sanitation departments to try and help this problem. The amount of crime had also started to increase, pickpockets and thieves grew tremendously throughout the city. New York hired its first police force, but was too small to have much of an impact on the crimes. The last problems cities faced was fire, many fires grew out of control and had a hard time being stopped due to the lack of water. A first paid fire department was established to help. Another solution was sprinklers were starting to be installed, and they started use stone and brick for buildings instead of wood. In movie these problems are shown in many different ways. When Fievel fell of the edge of the house you can see how packed and how many houses are jammed into such a small space. At the beginning of the movie crime is shown when Warren T. Rat is stealing money. This shows the increasing rate of crime. When Fievel almost gets run over by the train it shows the mass transit. The transit was moving people to and from work. In the movie you can see the trash filling the streets and the lack of cleanliness in the city, this represents the sanitation problem. Fievel is bathing in water in the middle of the street and using old bath water, this shows the lack of clean water in the city. The last problem shown in the movie is fire, all the building are made from wood and its was very hard to stop and control the fire. Honest John is a political machine boss. Where does he work? Hint-this is a real place and is covered in your text. In real life who does John represent? Why is he writing down the name of a dead mouse in a voter registry book. Why do the mice think Honest John might know where Fievel's family is? (10 pts) This should be a minimum of two paragraphs. Honest John was a political machine boss which means he offered services to voters for exchange of political or financial support.These political machines had many steps to it, first precinct workers and captains would try to gain voters support on the streets and neighborhoods. They then reported this to a ward boss, who would go out and do favors for the poor and gain their votes. Then the political boss watches over everyone and works toward the success of the machine.One of the biggest politcial bosses was Boss Tweed. In real life John represents Boss Tweed who worked at Tammany Hall. The reason he wrote down the dead mouse's name is so he would vote under that name. Honest John might know where Fievel’s family is because he new and tracked every mouse so he would insure they voted for the right candidate. What is the name given to Fievel by the other mouse he meets in the sweatshop? (2 pt) The nickname given to Fievel was Fille. Why doesn’t the Statue of Liberty look green?
(4 pts) You will need to do some research on this question. The reason that the Statue Of Liberty looks green is due to oxidation. This happens with the air and water react with the copper plates, causing them to turn green. What do you think the cats in the movie actually represented? (6 pts) This should be a minimum of one paragraph. When the mice moved to America the cats represented the nativists. The native born Americans pictured their country as a melting pot. A melting pot is a mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs. The only problem was these new immigrants wanted to keep their cultural identities. The cats were the nativists who tried to force the mice into these cultures and beliefs. When the rich mouse goes to visit Honest John, she speaks of helping out the poor, what was this movement known as? Who was a main activist in this movement? What were her contributions? (20 pts) minimum of two
paragraphs. This movement was known as the Social Gospel movement. This movement helped preach salvation to the poor. A way of preaching this salvation was through settlement houses, which were community centers in poorer neighborhoods that helped them out. Many of the settlement workers stayed at these houses so they could see they problems these people faced and help find solutions to them. One of the main contributors to these projects was Jane Addams. Jane Addams was the founder and creator of the Hull House.Many of these settlement houses operated in cities all over the country. The settlement houses were a huge factor in bringing social responsibility toward the urban population. What color is Fievel's hat? (2 pt) The color of Fievel's hat is navy blue. He received this hat from his father. Who would have been president during this time? (2 pt) Grover Cleveland would have been president at this time. Total /108 BONUS QUESTION (10 pts extra credit) On the boat there are different immigrants that sing about life in their country and why they are fleeing? Do some research and find out what countries these mice are from, and what was going on in their country at this time that made them want to come to America. 1870-1910 One mouse were from Ireland, and he fled because of the famine that had hit his country. This famine was due to the destruction of the potato crop, the destruction of this crop caused starvation and diseases in their country. Between 1820 and 1975, 4.7 million Irish settled in America. Another mouse on the boat was from Russia and fled due to poverty, starvation, and religious persecution. Between 1880 to 1910 more than 2 million Russians sent out for cities further east. When they arrived many worked in factories. The last mouse was from Italy, he fled his country because of war and poverty. Other problems includes unification and independent from foreign rule in their country. Between 1880 and 1924 more than four million Italians packed up and headed to the United States for a better life. Italians today make up one fifth of the nation's ethnic group.
Burns talks about the mouse in sympathy and is sorrowful that he had taken the mouse’s home away from the mouse by accidentally destroying its home for the winter, and that the mouse’s dream was to dwell in their cozy home, and even though the mouse had prepared everything Burns says that “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often awry.”
This is an immigration movie geared towards kids to show and teach them about immigration to America. It shows them the reasons they (the Mousekewitz) left their homeland Russia to come to America. In their case it was to escape the Czarist rule of the cats, parallel to most immigrants who escaped their land due to religious and political persecution. Once aboard the ship to America, it showed the long and unpleasant trip to New York Harbor, where in this movie, Fievel gets separated from his family to inclimate weather. Once they arrive in New York Harbor, it shows children the happiness immigrants got when they saw the statue of liberty and the process through Ellis Island to become a citizen of America. The rest of the movie takes place in America where it shows “political machines”, such as Warren T. Rat, who really is a cat but takes advantage of new immigrants by dressing as a mouse and receiving the mice’s trust. With trust came their money and broken promises, just as “political machines” really did back then. The movie shows the immigrants hardships and poor living conditions in America with tenement housing and unsanitary conditions.
The roots of the machine go back to at least the fifth century B.C. in China. In its most primitive form, it consisted of a pivoted beam with a sling at one end and ropes at the other. A stone would be placed in the sling and a team of men would haul the ropes, swinging the beam up into the air”1.
...from the Germans. The Germans were drawn as cat to show the fierce authority and power they have over the Jewish. The Americans were drawn as dogs to show how they help the Jewish mice free themselves from the German cats. The relationship between the Jewish mice, German cats, and American dogs represents a dog-cat-mouse food chain. The Jewish rats are attacked by the German cats, and the Jewish mice are freed by the American dogs, by the Americans successful attempt to conquer the German cats. Also in the story, there is evidence of relationships and stereotypes of Poles, French, and Gypsies. The use of animals gives readers a better understanding of the Holocaust. It also gives reader the knowledge from a surviving victim’s perspective. It is significant that authors do more than write a story, but also tell a story in a way a person can visually experience it.
In the Article “Sewing Machines Liberation or Drudgery for Women” Joan Perkin wrote about the positive and negative effects that came from the invention of the sewing machine. The sewing machine was invented by Elias Howe and Isaac Merritt Singer in the 1800’s. by 1877 almost half a million sewing machines were being used in the United States, making it the first home appliance in American homes. The author writes that this invention will transform the way clothing would be made from then on. Before the sewing machine women would make their clothes by hand at home, it would take up to twenty hours to produce one shirt. With this new invention the time was cut down to about an hour for the same amount of work.
Throughout the history of writing, cats have symbolized craftiness, misfortune, deceit and death. Richard Wright creates no exception to this reputation in his novel Native Son. Bigger Thomas, a young, depressed black man, is placed in an awkward position when he is interviewed for a job with the Daltons, a wealthy white family. The Dalton's unnamed white cat, gazes at Bigger, symbolizing initially white society. This gazing causes Bigger to feel angry and awkward so that is comes to assume a far more critical symbolic level on the night of Mary Dalton's murder. His feelings lead him to express himself overtly in violence, specifically Bigger's killing of Mary. In effect, the Dalton's cat kills Mary.
The picture of the crewmen; Michael Moran, Dale Murphy, Alfred Pierre, Robert Shatford, david Sullivan and Frenky Billy Tyne Jr. on the Boat shows the viewer how they had to dress everyday to work and what they would have been wearing when the boat capsized and sank but the bodies were never found. This picture shows the imagery of how life as a fishermen would look like on the open seas. This also gives insight to how the ranking of the crewmen worked captian telling the fishermen what to do depending on the
On May 15, 1809, Mary Dixon Kies got the first U. S. patent issued to a woman. Kies, a Connecticut local, created a procedure for weaving straw with silk or string.First, Lady Dolley Madison praised her for boosting the country's hat industry. Lamentably, the patent record was annihilated in the tragic Patent Office fire in 1836. Until around 1840, just 20 different patents were issued to women. The creations identified with clothing apparatuses, cook stoves, and chimneys.
Firstly, there were many incidents where the Jewish people were trying to escape the Germans, and so they had to hide their identities. The author represented this disguise by drawing cat masks on his mouse characters (MAUS 1 page 136). These thin masks symbolized how easily they could have been recognized and caught; thus it accurately details how dire the situation was for those who were in hiding. It also helped the reader consciously think about who the oppressor and the oppressed is. Secondly, the animals that represented each race, accurately symbolized what role they played in the events of the Shoah. The Jewish people were represented by a vulnerable animal, mice, and were hunted down by the German people, who were the cats. The Polish people were represented as pigs, because they often sold out the Jewish people (i.e., page 143 MAUS 1). The Americans were drawn as dogs, because they chased cats, and sympathized with the mice. The author’s choice to use mice as the representation of the Jewish people is multifold. The Nazi’s themselves negatively propagated the Jewish people as the “vermin of mankind” who “infected” society. They were treated as subhuman, caged like animals, and forced to live in ghettos where they would be swarming in tight quarters. Its as if the perpetrators, in this symbolic imagery, were
One of the most well known technological innovator and manufacturer was Thomas Alva Edison. He invented many devices which are still being used today, with some modifications. He even built a vote-recording device before he was twenty-one. Some inventions were the phonograph, incandescent light bulb, and the kinetoscope, which was much like a motion picture camera. In total, he has patented 1,093 inventions. He earned the nickname “The Wizard of Menlo Park”.
When life turns into a living nightmare, a child may not know what is real nor what is fake, life may become confusing. In the excerpt A Death in the Family by James Agee, this is the unfortunate sequence of events. A Death in the Family follows the events and internal conflicts that are happening inside the 6 year old, Rufus when he finds out of the unfortunate and untimely death of his father. Rufus cannot believe that “My daddy is dead.” (Jewkes 88) and is seen in denial throughout; but the child is only thinking about his own feelings, and does not know how to cope. James Agee, the author of A Death in the Family also had the unfortunate series of events
...late 17th century, and beginning of the 18th century, transportation was favored by American society so much, the wealthier would hire chauffer’s to take people places. So not only did the motor produce a better and more efficient life style, it also created a huge business industry, as we know it today called, “valeting”. The actual motor worked like this. “Two cups filled with mercury would contain a magnet and a wire with one being fixed and the other free to move. Whenever a current was passed through the wire, the free moving magnet or wire would revolve around its fixed partner due to the electromagnet forces being produced.” (History of Innovation). This first motor was a prime example of the fact that movement could be created by electricity and electricity could be created by friction. This motor was the most useful and applicable invention in the 1800’s.
This passage represents the cat as the family’s pet. Instead of referring the animal to “cat”, they instead refer it
Elias Howe, who also was the inventor of the sewing machine, received a patent in 1851 for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure." Although it never was marketed, it is the humble predecessor of what is known as the " Zipper" today.
Thomas Edison is widely regarded as one of the most influential inventors and innovators of the Twentieth Century. Edison’s efforts ushered in a new era of technology; a world in which electricity would be harnessed and made to bow before man’s will. Walter Lippman wrote, “It is impossible to measure the importance of Edison by adding up the specific inventions with which his name is associated” (qtd. in Baldwin 409). Edison’s decades long career was a synergistic melding of his success as an inventor and his prowess as a promoter and businessman. He exemplified the ideals of intelligence married to hard work and perseverance. He forever changed the landscape of American invention and the limits of technological change (Baldwin 409).