The Hall and the Hamlet,or Scenes and Characters of Country Life
Author : William Howitt
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Release : 1847
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Author : William Howitt
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Author : William Howitt
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Bryant Simon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1469661373
For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
Author : William Howitt
Publisher : Palala Press
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File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2016-05-22
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ISBN : 9781358457128
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Author : William Howitt
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Country life
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Author : William Howitt
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2019-08-03
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ISBN : 9781406984583
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Author : William Howitt
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Release : 1848
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Author : William Howitt
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Release : 1848
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Author : Erin Dionne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101155752
All Hamlet Kennedy wants is to be a normal eighth grader. But with parents like hers - Shakespearean scholars who actually dress in Elizabethan regalia . . . in public! - it's not that easy. As if they weren't strange enough, her genius seven-year-old sister will be attending her middle school, and is named the new math tutor. Then, when the Shakespeare Project is announced, Hamlet reveals herself to be an amazing actress. Even though she wants to be average, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she- like her family - is anything but ordinary.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544187512
"To be or not to be" confounded by Shakespeare-that is the question. Hamlet is an action-packed thriller with apparitions, murder, revenge, deception, poisons, and diabolical traps. With timeless themes, it explores friendship, relationships, honor, fate, madness, and more. Now you can savor Hamlet in a modern, easy-to-understand translation that makes reading it quick and painless. Other aids make following the action and grasping the meaning a snap: A brief synopsis of the plot and action A comprehensive character list that describes the characteristics, motivations, and actions of each major player A visual character map that shows the relationships of major characters A cycle-of-death graphic that pinpoints the sequence of deaths and includes who dies, how they die, and why Reflective questions that help you understand the themes of the play With Shakespeare on the Double! Hamlet, you'll be enlightened instead of confounded.