Arts & Humanities - 29 June 2007

The telegraph
Railroads
The stagecoach and pony express
Meatpacking factories in the Midwest, especially Chicago.


According to How the Other Half Lives by Riis, did one ethnic group work in their tenement apartments using adult and child labor creating textiles for resale?

a. Italians in the Lower East Side made wine in their cellars

b. Jews sewed coats and clothing reselling them to wholesale brokers

c. No, this did not happen

d. Children were not put to work by the parents at the turn of the century in NYC

2007-06-29 14:41:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-06-29 14:39:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

a. The cycle of debt created in years when there were poor harvests

b. The requirements by landlords and banks to grow cotton that drew terribly low cash prices

c. The control of costs by landlords in contracts to mostly black farmers skilled in little else

d. 'Forty acres and a mule' was a reality for 4 million free blacks after the Civil War; inabilities did not exist; blacks were given free land after the war (and livestock to use in farming)

2007-06-29 14:33:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

1}It killed almost 500,000 people in the US in less than a year

2}Its origin is suspected as a resulting virus between apes and humans (sexual contact)

3}It killed people of good health quickly and who were in the prime of their life

4}World War I troop movements spread the virus and over 30 million people died world wide

In the Hearst articles on the Spanish-American War, he sensationalized stories by throught the following efforts EXCEPT:

1}His reporters bribed informants to get the 'dirt' on stories

2}His form of journalism was not based on lies; he never resorted to writing 'untruths'

3}The angles of his newpaper articles contradicted US intervention in Latin American countries

4}After the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, he offered a reward in finding the perpetrators

2007-06-29 14:32:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

In line with Victorian morality in England and US cities, elite society would consider all of the following behaviors appropriate for an unmarried woman; choose the wrong answer, what one is it?

1}Women by the 1890s were riding bicycles astride (to work and school) while dress fashions and corsets were a bit slow in adapting to the physical activity movement promoted to the college set by the time (both men and women)

2}Women completed evening and day courses in the new clerical fields using machines such as the typewriter, learned shorthand (steno), took dictation, and became as--business offices transformed--secretaries; while men were promoted into management ranks of authority and decision making.

3}Women entered bars alone and would not be afraid of being approached as a prostitute

2007-06-29 14:30:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Conversely, if you wanted someone to experience a sense of contentment, what would you say to them?

2007-06-29 14:10:59 · 10 answers · asked by guru 7 in Philosophy

In the Five People You Meet in Heaven, Eddie asks his first person, "How long have I been dead?" The man replies "a minute, an hour, a thousand years." What do you believe the man means?

2007-06-29 14:09:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2007-06-29 14:02:35 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Jarrod Saltalamacchia is from the Atlanta Braves and I can't figure out where the heck his name comes from!

2007-06-29 13:58:45 · 2 answers · asked by bluechocolatedude 2 in History

2007-06-29 13:56:06 · 42 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Philosophy

I have found consistently, having given this a good, solid try for over a month, that certain people use this forum for massaging their egos and cultivating a following of teen-agers and lost souls. I'll say no more. What do you think?

2007-06-29 13:55:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

I want tomake my own personal virtrual world can someone help me plz

2007-06-29 13:48:52 · 3 answers · asked by ♥~rere~♥ 1 in Drawing & Illustration

but He won't read them, yet he keep throwing us theories of what he thinks will happen based on what he's seen in the movies.

So, what should I do? I don't want to spoil the books for him, but he really gets mad when his wife and I smile when he inquires on his own theories (and usually they're wrong), and that we won't tell him. Note: He is 33, and I am 21.

2007-06-29 13:48:13 · 13 answers · asked by Shadowfaxw 4 in Books & Authors

I'm looking for a teacher or studio in or around the metro DC area that specializes or includes Latin dances like Merengue and Salsa...

Anyone have any suggestions?

2007-06-29 13:36:55 · 2 answers · asked by PhoenixTatGirl 1 in Dancing

I've been looking for jobs that have a certain schedule set so that I can keep my mornings open for when I begin auditioning. I've looked at every type of job from babysitting to clerical work. I'm having a bit of a difficult time finding one, but what I'd really love to do is work at a studio or obviously anywhere else that deals with the entertainment field. I mean I've tried to find info on how to get one of these jobs but to no avail. Does anyone have any resources or personal information on how to get a job like this? Thanks!! ; )

2007-06-29 13:32:14 · 7 answers · asked by Iamready! 1 in Theater & Acting

A. First enjoyed by the working-class in the 19C, baseball
became a very popular sport across the classes by the early 20C (all white team members until 1947 when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers)

B. Football became a very popular spectator sport for the working class but not the wealthy educated middle-class

C. Boxing was popular only with the wealthy; an import from German beer brewers, 1870s

D. Horse training was a sport dominated by the middle-class, but anyone (regardless of wealth and influence) could afford to train and race horses by the early 1900s at any American track

2007-06-29 13:31:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

1. Effectively disenfranchised black voters in the south
2. Rejected the notion of 'separate but equal'
3. Gave southern states (21 in total) legal blessings to the policy of segregation
4. Answers 1 & 3

#2Theodore Roosevelt handpicked his replacement for the election of 1908? Who and why?

1. President elect Hays because he supported state's rights
2. Taft because we would serve the party the best (not upset the political machine in operation)
3. FDR because he had forseen the Great Depression
4. He was considering a Native American because of the US government's embarrassment over the fiasco at Wounded Knee

2007-06-29 13:30:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

hi, i was hoping to have a career in acting. im 14 and im goign to be a freshman in high school. i have been in school plays and acting clubs etc. its amazing. i really truely think it will make me happy, but after i get out of high school it will be a rollercoaster ride because i will have competition. does anyone know how i can possibly make it into some movies, and meet some film directors?

2007-06-29 13:28:40 · 4 answers · asked by mike 3 in Theater & Acting

a. Britain urged Germany to sign the Platt agreement

b. The United States was encouraged in it by Canada to join the fight in Europe as allies

c. A new form of communication between Europe and the US president was established

d. The British uncovered information that Mexico was coming in on the side of Germany; they passed this along to the Americans because this threatened US national security; the US declared war against Germany in reaction

Which is the best answer in the bottom? In the early decades of the twentieth century (20C), the South:

a. Remained only slightly behind the western states as the 2nd wealthiest region in America
b. Came to equal the North in per capita incomes
c. Regained their wealth/political powers lost during and after the Civil War years (1860s-70s)
d. Remained the poorest region in the nation

2007-06-29 13:27:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

It's not easy to find much information about this, despite the fact that some of the conversions took place quite late (eg. the 1500's in Lithuania). It has been said that the reason there is so little information is because those tribes had no system of writng. Is that true? And were there not records kept by travelers from other parts of the world? Why do we know so little about this?

2007-06-29 13:24:55 · 6 answers · asked by Pascha 7 in History

1. Pushed the issue of women gaining the right to vote
2. Distributing information to women about how to prevent pregnacy with birth control methods
3. Creating a settlement house for battered women
4. Including her daughter in her campains against the reform of women's rights


From the following choices below, what remains one of the main driving forces that blocked child reform laws until after World War I?

a. The wants and desires by poor and working class parents to allow their children to work

b. The views of poor and working class parents: they feared education of their children; this would challenge parental authority; many parents believed that keeping them at a job was best

c. Economic interests in the business sector to keep wages low of unskilled workers

d. All of the above

2007-06-29 13:23:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Divorce and child custody for mothers/wives
Racial segregation
Restriction of mix-race marriages
Public school segregation


Which is the best answer for this question? After the Revolution and into the 19C, the issue of child labor was not seen as a serious social problem because:

a. Parents never had their children work in factories

b.Americans educated their children at home; they did not contribute to family economies

c. Across time and cultures, children have worked and contributed to the family economy; because America was industrializing did not mean they shouldn't work in labor jobs

d. From the very beginning of the founding of America, child labor was illegal

2007-06-29 13:21:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Hi, Please tell me how to unzip a zipped file!

2007-06-29 13:21:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

i absoulty love manga and animae but my sisters say im a geek if i watch and read that stuff only 3 ppl in my class including me like it am i a geek

2007-06-29 13:15:02 · 16 answers · asked by ME M 1 in Books & Authors

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2007-06-29 13:13:23 · 7 answers · asked by sunny s 1 in Philosophy

2007-06-29 13:09:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Why did Upper Volta change to Burkina Faso in 1984?

2007-06-29 13:03:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-06-29 13:00:50 · 11 answers · asked by Sonja 1 in Dancing

1-What is the reason for bringing people to the Ministry of Love?

2-Chapter 2 of this section is a disturbing one concerning Winston's torture. What is the purpose of this chapter?

3-In Chapter 3, O'Brien reveals the purpose of the Party. What is it?

2007-06-29 12:59:16 · 3 answers · asked by meee :] 1 in Books & Authors

2007-06-29 12:55:29 · 1 answers · asked by m.k. 1 in Painting