Choose a sentence from the clip, one that you think is interesting and explain why you like it. “Forget your past, your customs, your ideals. Select a goal and pursue it with all your might. You will experience a bad time but sooner or later you will achieve your goal. A bit of advice for you: do not take a moment’s rest.” I like this specific phrase, because it encourages me to pursue my dreams even if I encounter failure. In my opinion, in the past when poor people from a different place immigrate starting a new life. They needed sense of motivation and they encounter different situation where they wanted to give up and some of them persisted. What was unveiled in 1886? Who had given it to us? Who had paid for it to be erected? In 1886 …show more content…
This required to build skyscraper, subway, and bridges with the goal of making the New Yorkers to think as a whole city. Name some of the immigrant groups who were already here in the 1880s. Some of the immigration groups were from Northern and Western Europe before 1880s such as Irish, Germans, Scandinavians. In the early 1880s there were from the Eastern and Southern Europe such as Italians, Slavs, Poles, Greeks, Russian, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Turks, and Jews. What is a "tenement"? Name some bad conditions in New York around 1900. A tenement is a crowded buildings with many families living together in the poor neighborhood. When new immigrants come, they will be arrange to live in a tenement. In Elizabeth Street there were people from one town of Sicily and across the street there were people from Polizzi Generosa. Because of the crowded housing people stayed out in the street until the sun was down. The condition of the lower East side and East Harlem was in a extremely bad condition and most of the people were looking forward moving out of the tenements. If you have been the Museum of the City of New York, say a few words about your
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
The 18th Century was a time where most immigrants were of Irish, British, and German descent. From the 1890’s, through the next couple decade, Italians, and Jews would be the cause a new wave of immigration. Between 1900 and 1915, 3 million immigrants would take the journey, and travel to America. They would come through the famed “Ellis
They could speak their own language and act as if they were in their own country. Within these neighborhoods, immigrants suffered crowded conditions. These were often called slums, yet they became ghettos when laws, prejudice and community pressure prevented inhabitants from renting elsewhere.
Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing primary sources and the secondary sources to back up the information, one could find out about what Chinese, Italians, Swedish, and Vietnamese immigrants have experienced in the United States in different time periods from 1865 to 1990.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many American nativist groups opposed free unrestricted immigration. Although racism is a main reason, there were many others. Economic, political, social and moral standards seemed to be threatened by these newcomers. The immigrants were unfamiliar of the language and customs that we take for granted in our everyday lives. The fear that gripped the nation was why people reacted so strongly against immigrants. The people feared change might distort the course of our prospering country. We did not want to become what those immigrants were fleeing.
“Between 1880 and 1920 more than 4.1 million Italians were recorded as entering the United States” (Daniels, p. 188). The Italian immigrants of post-1880 were different from other immigrant groups by these topics of religion, labor, family orientation, politics, and education. The 1880s brought a change not only in the amount of Italian immigrants but also the characteristic of them as a group. This group of immigrants was incredibly male dominated, in comparison to the other immigrants of this time, most settling in New York and Chicago. The living conditions that these Italians encountered were not pleasant. It was common for them to live in very crowded four bedroom apartments. Compared to other immigrants, they had one of the worsts living conditions usually very close to industrial working sites. These apartments commonly did not have plumbing. As unskilled workers, they tended to work in manual labor, on the railroad and in steel companies with dangerous conditions. These work areas were so dangerous that over forty deaths were common for each year. Sometimes Italians in construction would live in boxcars while working on a long-term project. This can be seen in the third picture of the additional links, Italian Laborers, Padrones, and Pernicious Pasta. The boxcar is not very large space and is being shared by three workers. There is obviously no plumbing, very filthy, and most likely without furniture inside. The men look grimy and worn out in the photo. The workday would usually be over ten hours a day, more than five days a week so it is understandable why some would opt just to live on the worksite. Although they worked all these hours, many still picked through garbage for food and scrap resources. Many of these im...
In the end of 18th century to 19th century, more and more people began moving into developed cities. Especially in New York City, thousands of new immigrants were seeking a better life than the one they had before. Tenements were built as a way to accommodate this growing population, and the majority people who lived in tenements were working-class, cause back to that time most tenements were located near factories, tenements were highly concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of the city. A typical tenement building had four to five stories, in order to maximize the number of renters and to maximize their profits, builders wasted little space and buildings that had been single-family residence were divided into multiple living spaces to fit in more people, early tenements might dwell in almost 90 percent of their lots. There were no housing laws to protect the rights for people who lived in tenements until they stated The First
In the eyes of the early American colonists and the founders of the Constitution, the United States was to represent the ideals of acceptance and tolerance to those of all walks of life. When the immigration rush began in the mid-1800's, America proved to be everything but that. The millions of immigrants would soon realize the meaning of hardship and rejection as newcomers, as they attempted to assimilate into American culture. For countless immigrants, the struggle to arrive in America was rivaled only by the struggle to gain acceptance among the existing American population.
The word tenements means shanties, or dwellings where people of low income in a community lives. In the book, “How The Other Half Lives” the author begins by showing the worldview of riches and poverty. In the introduction of the text, the author indicates that people from rich places shunned tenements. Tenements have numerous problems. They were over-inhabited; people lead awful lives, poor sanitation, and general low living standards [1]. Jacob Riis in this text indicates that there was a time the tenements were intensely violent and the upheavals great. Meaning, people living in the tenements defied a lot of pressure and appalling circumstances to survive, something that the author says that people from the other half of the world did not grasp[2]. However, despite the generalities, the author gives prime preferences for some of the things that he thinks caused major problems in the tenements. Such as the overcrowding, poverty, the greed and impunity.
The Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of New York are both masterpieces of architecture that communicate their form and function in contrasting styles. The Met gives the viewer a sense of grandeur and hails back to classical styles and forms while the Guggenheim Museum intrigues and appeals to the aesthetic side of the viewer. Both Museum’s are products of their environment and accomplish the aesthetic effect that the art works inside them possess. If the Met is considered graceful, the Guggenheim can be characterized as simply beautiful. Both are priceless elements of the New York City architectural landscape.
Following the steps of the Dutch who first came to Lower Manhattan, we embarked on the Staten Island Ferry on Sunday, Nov. 10, and we could see one of the world’s most famous figures: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French to the U.S. that was put in such a strategic and historic place. The view of the green icon from the boat that was transporting passengers from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan, with the skyline of New Jersey in the background, and New York to our right, was a delightful experience. Not one person on the ferry was like the other, one could see people from all over the world, joined together and representing New York’s diversity, trying to relive the same experience that the Dutch had centuries ago. Some people take this ride every day for work; others were simply tourists or inhabitants of the New York metropolitan area.
After the American Revolution, New York became a part of the United States and the city expanded rapidly. Back then, before cars and subways existed, people had to live close to their work place. The Lower East Side became very crowded with working men and women who had families. In 1833, architects realized that they could make a good deal of money by building small, cheep dwelling for families. Soon after, the first tenement was built on Water Street in October, 1833. It was four stories high and was called a “single decker” meaning one apartment per floor. Within a few years, tenements had taken the place of one-family homes in the neighborhood....
The Civil War paved the way for Americans to live, learn and move about in ways that had seemed all but inconceivable just a few years earlier. With these doors of opportunity open, the United States experienced rapid economic growth. Immigrants also began seeing the fast-growing nation as a land of opportunity and began coming here in record
America is suppose to be the land of opportunity, the land of the free and brave, where all dreams come true. However, throughout history there has been certain situations where this ideal was not completely fulfilled. America was mainly founded and built on immigrants and since the very first days waves of different nationalities have traveled to the Americas. Immigrants come looking for new opportunities in education, employment, health and well-being, political participation and civic participation. In 18th century the first waves of european immigration started to rise, without any restrictions a plethora of different ethnic group started coming to the Americas seeking opportunities. This all resulted in some laws, that are still present to this day, restricting some legal rights for all immigrants wishing to stay.
When you associate anything with New York City it is usually the extraordinary buildings that pierce the sky or the congested sidewalks with people desperate to shop in the famous stores in which celebrities dwell. Even with my short visit there I found myself lost within the Big Apple. The voices of the never-ending attractions call out and envelop you in their awe. The streets are filled with an atmosphere that is like a young child on a shopping spree in a candy store. Although your feet swelter from the continuous walking, you find yourself pressing on with the yearning to discover the 'New York Experience'.