How soon this earth could be transformed and by the alchemy of social order made to blossom with beauty and joy?
How soon this earth could be transformed and by the alchemy of social order made to blossom with beauty and joy?
May 8, 2020 Comments Off on How soon this earth could be transformed and by the alchemy of social order made to blossom with beauty and joy? Uncategorized Assignment-helpDocument Analysis: Period 6Attached are 5 documents with HIPP being asked of each.H – Historical ContextI – Intended AudienceP – Point of ViewP – PurposeThere’s a copy of the attached document for each. Fill out the google doc directly.Keep in mind that the AP Exam is a 45 min DBQ. This assignment should take you no more than 45 minutes. If it does take you longer, use that as a sign that you need to study this time period before the exam.The problem with our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship… The conditions of human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized… The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us today measures the change which has come with civilization. This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts, and for all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none should be so… A relapse to old conditions would be disastrous to both—not the least so to him who serves—and would sweep away civilization with it. But whether the change be for good or ill, it is upon us, beyond our power to alter, and therefore to be accepted and made the best of. It is a waste of time to criticize the inevitable… Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, 1889Historical Context:Intended Audience:Point of view:Purpose: The recent alarming development and aggression of aggregated wealth, which, unless checked, will invariably lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses, render it imperative, if we desire to enjoy the blessings of life, that a check should be placed upon its power and upon unjust accumulation, and a system adopted which will secure to the laborer the fruits of his toil; and as this much-desired object can only be accomplished by the thorough unification of labor, and the united efforts of those who obey the divine injunction that “in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread,” we have formed the Knight of Labor with a view of securing the organization and direction of the power of the industrial classes…Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1878Historical Context:Intended Audience:Point of view:Purpose: The rapid displacement of men by women in the factory and workshop has to be met sooner or later, and the question is forcing itself upon the leaders and thinkers among the labor organizations of the land. Is it a pleasing indication of progress to see the father, the brother and the son displaced as the breadwinner by the mother, sister and daughter?…The growing demand for female labor is not founded upon philanthropy, as those who encourage it would have sentimentalists believe; it does not spring from the milk of human kindness. It is an insidious assault upon the home; it is the knife of the assassin, aimed at the family circle-the divine injunction. It debars the man through financial embarrassment from family responsibility, and physically, mentally and socially excludes the woman equally from nature’s dearest impulse. Is this the demand of civilized progress?Women as Breadwinners-The Error of the Age, 1887Historical Context:Intended Audience:Point of view:Purpose: There is no longer any room for a Populist Party, and progressive Populists realize it, and hence the ‘strongholds of Populism’ are becoming the ‘hot-beds’ of SocialismIt is simply a question of capitalism or Socialism, of despotism or democracy, and they who are not wholly with us are wholly against us… Oh, that all the working class could and would use their eyes and see; their ears and hear; their brains and think. How soon this earth could be transformed and by the alchemy of social order made to blossom with beauty and joy. Outlook for Socialism in the U.S., Eugene V. Debs, 1900Historical Context:Intended Audience:Point of view:Purpose: An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes. The Dawes Act, 1887Historical Context:Intended Audience:Point of view:Purpose: