Ang's Adventures in Writing

During what is known as the Gilded Age there was economic growth within the United States. There was significant growth in the labor section between the years 1870-1920 according to the article “Understanding Economic Change in the Gilded Age”. What is interesting is which sectors contained growth and which decreased. Between 1870 and 1920 farm production and land increased significantly while labor in the agricultural sector decreased significantly. The job sector that increased the most was the industrial sector. “This growth plus new positions created in trade, services, and administration proceeded at a fast pace so that the agricultural workforce actually shrank proportionately between 1870 and 1920 despite its absolute (numeric) growth.”  This leads to the question of why this happened. What was happening that more people had jobs in industry when America was largely an agricultural economy just a few years prior? How were the farms able to increase production while decreasin...

Dorothy Day’s life did not start out all sunshine and rainbows. She was born on January 14, 1912, in Rockford, Illinois. She was a tiny baby only weighing about four pounds and was born with a clubbed foot. Her mother, Edna Day, and father, Harry Day, worked hard to provide for their children. When she was about five years old, she gained a little sister named, Shirley Loraine. At the age of ten, her parents divorced, and her father moved out East. He rarely contacted the family. In school, she was often teased for having a clubbed foot. They called her “Little Crippled Girl” all through her school years. Edna raised the two girls with the help of her grandma Ledgett. She worked hard at multiple jobs in the early nineteenth century which was difficult for a mother. Dorothy often told the story of Saturday nights when they would take their baths, crawl into bed with their mom and she would read to them. Edna Ledgett remarried a man named Harry Rose, he was not fond of the two girls Doro...