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1. Hoe does Emiline reflect the changing role of women in society?
2. How do women's retraction and attitudes towards Holmes show the new role of women?
3. How do the repeated strikes of unions in the World's Fair reflect the current national issues of Unions vs corporations?
4. How did the electricity took its role in the fair's construction?
5. How does Burnham, Holmes, and Olmstead represent the three different social classes and the transition to industrialization?
6. How did the new technologies such as electricity and the Ferry's Wheel reflect of the new and powerful industrial America?
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1.Emiline shows how the roles of women are changing in society due to the fact that she is offered the oppertunity to advance her job to get more money and live on her own. Until this point women were usually at home moms or did "feminine jobs" for low wages. As the gilded age came about women were given more oppertunities to work higher paying jobs and become more self relient.
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3.The unions at the fair are constantly threatening strikes for reasons such as the hiring of immagrants and dangerous workplaces that even caused a few deaths on the fair grounds. This is very similar to the labor unions around today that are constantly fighting for fair wages based on working conditions and the outsourcing of jobs that could be done in the united states. Although labor unions today have more organized means of protest, they still fight for the same common ground argued upon in the gilded age.
4. The electricity in the fair played a huge role in the way we use electricity today. It was in the fair that they discovered that a direct current was very dangerous with the potential of killing a person if a shortage was to occur. They discovered that an alternating current would work best only delivering a non fatal shock if a misfunction were to happen. It was this discovery that set how electricity would be used from then on in most cases.
5. The three major characters of the book all represent a differnt aspect of the time period. Olmstead still holds the naturalistic values of wanting to perserve some of the landscape and keep the overall natural beauty. On the flip side Burnham embodies the gilded age spirit of wanting to bigger and that bigger is better. Burnham represents the positve innovation of the time period while Holmes represents the dark corrupted side. Holmes represents the wanting to make a quick buck mentality as shown through the pharmacy and other scandals. He also is a prime example of the dark and murderous side of the gilded age.
6. Electricity and the Ferris wheel both show how America is becoming a powerful industrial society. With the major improvement of being able to harness electricity and the construction of the Ferris wheel to overshadow that of the Eiffel tower, America is finally able to compete on a global scale in the industrial aspect. Through these inventions it can be seen clearly that this was a prime time for growth in America.