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"Out of this Furnace", 2007.
A discussion of Thomas Bell's "Out of this Furnace"; a reflection on the travails of American immigration.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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The paper discusses Thomas Bell's "Out of this Furnace" that tells the the story of a three generation struggle to find better lives in the United States. The paper looks at the lives of new immigrants who struggled to attain success in the squalor of the steel furnaces. The paper discusses how Bell shows how the immigrant family's experiences over three generations was defined by a shift in goals and attitudes.
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"The experience of the immigrant's family changed dramatically over the years, and Bell illustrates how one immigrant's family experience over three generations is defined by the shift in goals. Bell's story begins with the first generation immigrant, Djuro Kracha, who can't even make the journey to the United States without lapses in judgment. With little more than a day to day existence, and a wife that is meaningless to him, he rides the general immigrant sentiment, hanging out with his own people, drinking at the same saloons, working the same tiring hours."
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?Out of This Furnace?, 2003.
Presents a book review of Thomas Bell's "Out of This Furnace" as an example of Slovak acculturation in the United States.
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 24.95
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This paper reviews "Out of This Furnace" by Thomas Bell, which depicts the process by which a small group of Slovak immigrants are gradually transformed into active participants in a stable American society. The paper uses the social history technique to examine Slovak immigrants in a Pennsylvania mining town.
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"In the dirty, dangerous cauldron of western Pennsylvania, the uneducated muscle of the eastern Slovak mountains would be transformed into the confident skill of an organizer of men. Through the trials and tribulations of work in and transition to American life overcome by these immigrants, one can observe the forging of a new and more powerful American nation that would be ready to save the entire world from the challenges shortly to come."
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"Out of This Furnace", 2007.
A review of the issues of class as portrayed in the novel "Out of This Furnace" by Thomas Bell.
1,762 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses the novel "Out of This Furnace" by Thomas Bell, which is set in a Pennsylvania mill town and portrays the struggles of several working class families who are attempting to survive in early 20th century industrial America. The paper focuses on the issues of class and the awareness of class which has a crucial role in the ideological themes put forth in the novel, as the mills grapple with the issues of worker safety, capitalism's exploitation of immigrant labor and unionization.
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"Dobie attempts to cover up his immigrant past through the use of money, rather than taking pride in the hard work and labor of his father. Unlike Kracha, as a native-born American, albeit to a working class home, Dobie can partly erases his class and ethnic origin through "the effect of his clothes" and "his easy way with a dollar" (264) Dobie has lost his sense of personal, ethnic history to such an extent that he is surprised to discover that his generation is not the first to lobby for unions. But although Dobie's sense of ethnic origin is not strong, he sees himself as elevated above the working class, even when he strives to improve the conditions of the workers through unionization. While ethnicity is no longer central to the younger generation, an affiliation with the working class is not a source of pride."
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Out of This Furnace, 2002.
Examination of Thomas Bell's novel "Out of This Furnace".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses the positive and negative aspects of immigrant life from the perspective of Slovak immigrants to the Pittsburgh area in Thomas Bell's novel Out of This Furnace
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"Out of This Furnace", 2002.
A literary review of "Out of This Furnace" by Thomas Bell.
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper relates Thomas Bell?s late nineteenth century portrayal of life in Pittsburgh to the of a melting pot, or gathering of immigrants of all shapes, sizes and cultures into one community. The late 19th century in Pittsburgh, much like anywhere in the U.S. during the time reflected an era of economic and social growth and change. This influx of people from so many different countries, with little skills and high hopes paved the way for low-paying labor. Thomas Bell?s ?Out of this Furnace? tells the story of three generations of Slovaks that moved to America, and the challenges they faced in the new land.
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"Djuro Kracha is a recent immigrant from Hungary in Bell?s novel that desires more than anything to leave his native country and restart life in America. America became a melting pot because of immigrants such as Kracha. Many people flooded the U.S. during this time, from Hungary and other Eastern European countries, from Ireland, Mexico and China, all in the hopes of economic opportunity. Ethnically, socially and politically all of the people that came to live here were different. In Bell?s novel, Djuro is the first member of his family to come to live in the U.S. Like many immigrants his initial struggles include working in a Steel Mill for terrible wages and long hours."
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Out of the Furnace, 2001.
An analysis of women as portrayed in the novel "Out of this Furnace" by Thomas Bell and their treatment as immigrants.
1,320 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the conditions of how immigrant women were treated when they came to America. This is done by examining the book "Out of the Furnace". Through the trials of the Kracha family, characters in the novel, one almost experiences the hardships these women went through.
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"When the struggles and early tragedies of the industrial revolution are discussed, most often we hear of the endless work days, unsafe conditions and corruption within the corporations. In Thomas Bell?s Out of This Furnace, the reader is exposed to all of these horrors and more. Yet what is so different about Bell?s version of the early days of steel mills and railroad monopoly?s is his inclusion of female characters. While they are not the main focus of his novel, women are ever present characters, and Bell succeeded in displaying how the poverty of the industrial age affected women and their day to day life, as well as the lives of their husbands."
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"Out of this Furnace" by Thomas Bell, 1992.
A review of the 1941 novel of three generations of Slovak immigrants in early the 1900s and their struggle to survive in a steel mill town.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"Thomas Bell, in Out of This Furnace, published in 1941, presents a fictional portrait of the life of three generations of Slovak immigrants in the United States of the early 1900s, emphasizing the struggles of these people as they carved out their existence in the steel mills of America.
The life of these struggling immigrants is so difficult that they inevitably find sense and comfort in their existence primarily in their families, in their communities. They have left the old country behind in order to pursue the American Dream, but they quickly discover that the dream is more of a nightmare.
Bell writes that George Kracha "came to America in the fall of 1881 . . . It may be that he hoped he was . . . leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peasant . . . He was bound for the hard-coal country of..."
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"Out of this Furnace" by Thomas Bell and " How The Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis, 2000.
A comparison of the depictions of Jewish immigrants and Slovaks, with a brief consideration of Lithuanians in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"Thomas Bell, in his novel Out of This Furnace, deals with three generations of Slovaks and their experience in the United States, and Jacob A. Riis, in his photojournalistic How the Other Half Lives, covers the experiences of immigrants of a number of different nationalities and ethnicities at the turn of the century. This study will focus on the experiences of Jewish immigrants as depicted in Riis, comparing those to the experiences of the Slovaks in Bell's novel. Despite some important differences among the experiences of the Jews and the Slovaks, and the specific years examined, the studies are far more alike than different in their overall portraits of the suffering and exploitation of those immigrant groups in the era in which the industrial revolution exploded. The study will also briefly consider Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, in which..."
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"Out of this Furnace" by Thomas Bell, 1992.
A critical review of the 1941 semi-autobiographical work on the life of immigrants in a PA steel mill town.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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""Out of this Furnace"
The purpose of this paper is to discuss Thomas Bell's 1941 novel Out of This Furnace. This semi-autobiographical work was written by its author without the benefit of formal education, and it derives from other novels with the style of "social realism" such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) and Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925).
In summarizing Out of This Furnace it is important to note the generational structure of the book. Bell wants to demonstrate the progress of Djuro Kracha, as he arrives in New York from Hungry. By moving beyond Kracha's marriage to the next generation--his daughter, Mary, who marries Mike Dobrejcak-- Bell is able to show how the immigrants assimilated into the mill towns of Pennsylvania, and they dealt with the inhumane treatment..."
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Progressivism & The New Deal, 1996.
Examines failures of reformist programs as described in two proletarian novels: John Steinbeck's"Grapes of Wrath" & Thomas Bell's "Out of This Furnace".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"Progressivism, with its plethora of social and moral reforms, was instrumental in developing new ideas about the role of government which the New Deal later incorporated. The series of reforms from the Progressive Era to the New Deal were a "mixed and shifting collection of morally concerned as well as self-interested pressure groups." James Patterson cites this incipient diversity as a result of two possible factors: the regional differences of turn-of-the-century America, and the improbability of accord among conflicting groups.
However, these groups did share a number of commonalities in spite of their wide-ranging gender, race and class concerns. Most reform measures purported an ostensible moderation that was really a "conservative movement dominated by business interests who turned to government in order to protect themselves....""
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Rowley vs. Board of Education, 2006.
A review of the case of Amy Rowley vs. the Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson District, in 1982.
1,263 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper takes a look at the Education of the Handicapped Act of 1975, which clearly states that children with disabilities should be assisted with supplemental services in order to provide them with "free appropriate public education". The paper reviews the case of Amy Rowley, a first grade student of Furnace Woods School in Hendrick Hudson District in New York, who suffers from a hearing disability.
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Issue
District Court Ruling
Supreme Court Ruling
Analysis of the Case
Conclusion
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"The decision of the Supreme Court gave rise to an ethical debate as people argued that to deny the handicapped child additional assistance indeed violated his or her basic rights as the citizens of the United States. This is because the child was denied this assistance only because it was felt that while the government was responsible for providing appropriate education to handicapped children, it was not legally binding to achieve or maintain 'perfect equality'. This shows a hidden prejudice against such children and it is clear that decision was based on more than mere performance of the child. Everybody knows that children with hearing disability are unable to grasp and comprehend some of the instructions by the teachers and therefore fail to perform up to their full potential. "
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"Fahrenheit 451", 2005.
An analysis of the theme of fearless free thought in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".
745 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the thesis that in a world consumed by the fire of fear, physical eradication of freedom to think is fuel for the furnace of oppression. It uses as an example Ray Bradbury's fictional novel Fahrenheit "451" in which the protagonist Montag over the course of several weeks, questions society, endangers himself and his associates and eventually is driven to rebel against the norm by his inner desire for knowledge and morality.
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"Utilizing the populous' fear as fuel, the Government manipulates and controls society. By keeping everyone constantly occupied and not allowing them access to the thoughts and opinions of others through literature, citizens are controlled and cannot escape the influence of the government. For example, Montag's wife Mildred is afraid to think for herself. She is unceasingly engrossed and entertained by the hypnotic banter of a seashell (a mechanical device similar to a earpiece, which incessantly plays music or meaningless conversation into the listener's ear) or her virtual "family" who occupy three gigantic wall screens."
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"Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, 2001.
This paper discusses the story, "Life in the Iron Mills," from a social commentary perspective.
2,290 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, $ 70.95
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The following paper discusses the story by Rebecca Harding Davis with an aim to show the beginning of a resurgence of interest in a woman whose first major work wrought radical changes in how fiction would be written and read in America.
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?Life in the Iron Mills? has been called ?one of the revolutionary documents in American literary history.? The same year it was published by Atlantic Monthly, then America?s leading national magazine, the country became embroiled in the Civil War.
"The narrator of this story is very familiar with, but at the same time very removed from the world she describes. She takes the reader on a tour of a factory town and an iron mill, where a young man named Hugh Wolfe shovels coal for the iron furnaces. Hugh is worshipped by his cousin, Deborah, who while visiting Hugh at the Mills steals the wallet of leading males citizen of the factory town when he comes through the mills for a tour and notices, along with the other men on the tour, the ?korl woman? figure sculpted by Hugh."
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Pennsylvania?s Natural Resources, 2006.
This well-researched paper details Pennsylvania as state with a long and rich history as well as vast natural resources and a vigorous environmental program.
2,098 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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The writer of this paper clearly details the ecological and environmental makeup of Pennsylvania, while also supplying relevant data and statistics regarding the state's economy. Due to the abundant supply of ore and hardwoods for furnaces, iron smelting became important in the 18th century and by the 19th century, Pennsylvania became the nation's leading steel producer. Although the state still manufactures metal products, chemicals and transportation equipment, this paper describes how heavy industry has declined in recent years. This paper delves into Pennsylvania's rich history while citing several major events. Pennsylvania has also been the site for some of America's most horrendous ecological disasters. In 1889, the South Fork Dam gave way after a heavy rain and destroyed the downstream factory town of Johnstown, killing over 2,000 people in what has come to be known as the notorious Johnstown Flood. The first oil well in the U.S. was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859. Pennsylvania became a leader in the U.S. iron industry during the days of the American Revolution. This paper also discusses the fact that Pennsylvania spends a disproportionate share of development money on outlying areas while abandoning established communities, just one of the reasons why Pennsylvania still has a long way to go before it will be a sustainable state.
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"Pennsylvania's state forest system includes sixty-one special natural areas and fourteen wild areas that are set aside to "protect unique or unusual biologic, geologic, scenic and historic features, or to showcase outstanding examples of Pennsylvania's major forest communities." Generally speaking, sustainable forestry is defined as protecting the long-term health and viability of forests by using management techniques that value "all uses of the forests," thus, protecting the forest "ecosystem, recreation, clean water, and the production of timber for current and future generations." Pennsylvania employs sustainable forestry practices of its 2.1 million acres of state forestlands. In 1998 and 1999, a team of scientists praised Pennsylvania's commitment to its forests and its "exemplary practices and innovation in managing forest resources."
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