Troubled Living 3/6/1790
Today a group of writers visited a slum in Manhattan. We knocked on several doors, but became fascinated with the story of the Morris's. The Morris family have been housed in a single room apartment for about two years now. Last year the government placed another family to live in their apartment because the city had grown to become overpopulated. Mrs. Morris told one of our reporters that there are now ten people living there. Those ten people include her family, the Gertrudes, and the Yates. She began to explain how her family moved here to Manhattan, thinking that it would be a new opportunity for her family to start fresh with better jobs, housing, and money situations. She became furious with the topic of discussion because she explained numerous times that "I was not prepared to live dirty, and my children have gotten sick more times living here than down south." As we walked around the apartment we noticed that the water was not clean. Our garbage populated on the streets, I can smell it from our apartment. -Carter Miles; Sawyer News |
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Invention Central
In 1878 Thomas Edison finally successfully constructed the telephone. Alot of people tried creating a source of electric lighting, some were successful and some were not. However, no one thought of creating something predominately for home use. After a year of hard work Edison became successful in creating home lighting when "an incandescent lamp with a filament of carbonized sewing thread burned for thirteen and a half hours". Edison's grew many electric companies and they continued to grow until in 1889. Eventually they were brought together to form Edison General Electric.
In 1874 Alexander Graham-Bell thought of an wonderful idea. The brilliant idea would later become known as "the telephone." Graham-Bell explained that “If I could make a current of electricity vary in intensity precisely as the air varies in density during the production of sound, I should be able to transmit speech telegraphically,” so he tried it. Two years later on March 7, 1876 he was granted a patent( shown to the left). The patent was created so that no one could steal his idea and say it was their own discovery. On March 10, he sent his first understandable complete sentence: “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you," was transmitted in his laboratory. The telephone has taken place of people writing and sending letters through the mail because it does not take as long to communicate.
-Grayson Porter; Sawyer News
-Grayson Porter; Sawyer News
Dear Editor Dear Editor
Ultimately, did the Industrial Revolution contribute positively or negatively to society?
Ultimately the Industrial Revolution has positively impacted society. Many people have been exposed to new things whether they were good or bad. Children learned to help provide for their families and not always depend on their parents for income. It was a splurge in food supply. Merchants employed putters-out to distribute the raw materials to spinners and weavers who were scattered throughout the countryside which flourished the people with new materials for living purposes. The new agriculture provided an essential source of raw materials for the textile industry. Wool and cotton production for the manufacture of cloth increased in each successive year, as did the yield of food crops. In general people learned to survive through the worst. The housing was not the best, and it brought along diseases. In the end, you met new families and made new friends which provides happiness. So, therefore the Industrial Revolution positively impacted society because it brought people closer together as a country.
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