11/21/1918: I’ve been wondering ever since the end of The Great War, as everyone is calling it, how does it affect us everyday people in our everyday lives? My mother works in a factory with my father to barely pay for what little we have. Since Sunday’s coming, I think I gonna go to my neighbors and see if they have been affected for better or for worse.
11/24/1918: Today was Sunday. Almost everyone was off of work. I went around my neighborhood looking for answers to my question. I first went to my neighbor, Mr. Henderson. Usually he would be working the mills, but he had the day off. Mr. Henderson said it was because of people’s greediness that they had to pay more, Quote “It’s because of the ridiculous amount of money that th’ shops are chargin’ average folks like us. Upin’ th’ rent, taxes, almost everything on
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You ask me, this is all a bunch of [tricks] to get us to pay more money.” I asked if Mrs. Henderson was there, but then all I got as a response was a door in my face. Next I went to Mr. Merfeld’s house. He moved here almost six years ago. He found a job quickly as an engineer because Mr. Merfeld was one of the people who designed cars in Germany. He lived alone in a nice little house on the other side of the neighborhood. I went to ask him about how the war affected him Quote “Everyone is mocking me and making jokes about my culture and my history. It’s indescribable on how rude people are with me everyday.” I went to over to my neighbors house to play kick the can and then went home. Then I asked my parents what they thought about their job. Mom said that the work she does needs more pay and less hours. Dad said he is getting a promotion to head of inventory which has way more pay. This was the greatest thing I had heard in a long time. After I heard this I began to wonder how it affect
In “The Weekend,” George cheats on Lenore with Sarah, and she still chooses to stay with him and work out their issues. The story by Ann Beattie can relate to “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin because Edna cheats on Leonce with Robert and Alcee Arobin. After learning Edna cheats on him, Leonce decides to stay with Edna to work their relationship out. While nothing is wrong with their significant others, they cheat because something in them is unfulfilled. Lenore knows George cheats because he spends much of his time with the other women, but she never acknowledges it, until she talks with Julie one day; “she’s really the best friend I’ve ever had. We understand things—we don’t always have to talk about them. ‘Like her relationship with George,’
was expensive, costing over $400, at a time when the average weekly wage was just over $30 a
The internet, an unregulated environment where both government and advertising agencies watch your actions and create profiles based on various traits. This is the picture painted in “The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth,” by Joseph Turow. Turow addresses the issue of how lack of government intervention and poor industry self-regulation has led to a situation where every click is analyzed to the point that even when advertisers omit the users name and address, users are still very much known. Based on these profiles, targeted ads and deals are sent to each individual, creating a class-based system that is defined by what advertisers have concluded the individual likes. The main thesis by Turow
He used to take me out quite a bit and when he went away to training he wrote to me. I don’t remember the date, it must have been 1915. He went overseas and four days later his head was blow off around Berlin, somewheres in Germany. He was killed. So I remember that and I remember soldiers desperate and I remember ... I don’t know—that’s why I’m beginning to hate wars, beginning to find out and reason with myself that there is no reason for it. We’re intelligent human beings. Can’t we find our ways and means of trying to live with us, ourselves and our neighbours, and our country with other countries’
Based on data from “The Equality of Opportunity Project” it states that “children's prospects of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half
...ing legend of the Good War" (Adams, 2). While the war changed the lives of every American, the most notable changes were that in demographics, the labor force, economic prosperity and cultural trends.
honest with and this demonstrates the decline of family life that the war causes. Later in
...though people believe that, those on the home front have it just as a bad as the soldiers, because they have to deal with the responsibilities of their husbands, there is nothing that can compare to what these men have gone through. The war itself consumed them of their ideology of a happy life, and while some might have entered the war with the hope that they would soon return home, most men came to grips with the fact that they might never make it out alive. The biggest tragedy that follows the war is not the number of deaths and the damages done, it is the broken mindset derives from being at war. These men are all prime examples of the hardships of being out at war and the consequences, ideologies, and lifestyles that develop from it.
Martin was a civilian relief volunteer during the war. He gave me an account of
In Paul Fussell’s book, The Great War and Modern Memory, he discusses some of the ways in which World War I affected the men who fought in it, specifically those in the trenches. One of Fussell’s main points in his book as he tries to characterize World War I was the widespread irony that spread in its wake. Even though the focus of his book is based upon the British perspective of World War I, Fussell also briefly mentions the effects of the war upon other countries involved in the war.
quickly became a close friend. He shared his experiences working at summer camps and volunteering in
The story, A Soldiers Home, is about a man in conflict with the past and present events in his life. The young man’s name is Harold Krebs. He recently returned from World War 1 to find everything almost exactly the same as when he left. He moved back into his parents house, where he found the same car sitting in the same drive way. He also found the girls looking the same, except now they all had short hair. When he returned to his home town in Oklahoma the hysteria of the soldiers coming home was all over. The other soldiers had come home years before Krebs had so everyone was over the excitement. When he first returned home he didn’t want to talk about the war at all. Then, when he suddenly felt the urge and need to talk about it no one wanted to hear about it. When he returned all of the other soldiers had found their place in the community, but Harold needed more time to find his place. In the mean time he plays pool, “practiced on his clarinet, strolled down town, read, and went to bed.”(Hemingway, 186) When his mother pressures him to get out and get a girlfriend and job, he te...
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Labelling persons according to the levels in the society is strictly manifested everywhere. This designation within people is shown in the novel’s text, “The trouble was, I just didn’t want to do it. I felt more depressed than sexy, if you want to know the truth.” (Salinger 96). Holden is talking about a young prostitute named Sunny who comes to him because of his agreement to have sex, although he declines after he meets her. His rejection to this represents his depression mostly, but also his thought of categorizing someone as a prostitute and having sex with her as stereotype and corrupt. Sex hugely impacts one’s loss of innocence according to what society mostly thinks. Although people just create this idea in their minds, which shows being
As far as I am concerned, the unpardonable sin is someone dropping by our house before noon on Saturdays.