Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Business
ISBN :
Fifteen-year-old Ben runs away from the farm home of his stepfather and heads to New York City, but he later returns to save his stepfather from a swindler.
Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : Horatio Alger, Jr
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2021-02-21
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AFTER attending to his chores, Ben decided to take a walk-not in the direction of the village, butaway from it. A quarter of a mile to the westward there was a river with a rapid current which hadyielded Ben plenty of enjoyment in the way of fishing and boating.Across from shore to shore was a dam, by means of which the water was made available for afactory for the manufacture of leather board. The superintendent of this factory, a Mr. Foster, wasone of Ben's special friends.Ben overtook the superintendent sauntering along beside the river."How are you, Ben?" said the superintendent kindly."Very well, thank you, Mr. Foster.""You are going to the high school next term, I suppose.""I expected to do so, but I am likely to be disappointed.""How is that?""My stepfather, Jacob Winter, is not in favor of my going.""What is his reason?""I suppose he wants me to work on the farm.""And you don't like farming?""No. I hope you won't think I don't like work, Mr. Foster, for I enjoy nothing better; but to workon a farm, and especially under Mr. Winter, would be very disagreeable to me.""How would you like to work in the factory?""Much better than on the farm, but I will say frankly that I have not secured the education whichI desire, and I shall be much disappointed if I can't go to the high school.""You were always fond of study, Ben. My boys don't care much for it. Well, I suppose tastesdiffer. Have you ever thought of your future?""I have thought of it a good deal. A good many things will be open to me if I am well educated, which would otherwise be closed to me.""I see, and I understand why you want a better education.""I am not likely to get it, however. If the choice lies between working on a farm and working inyour factory, I will work for you if I can get the chance. The wages I got would hire a boy to workon the farm, and there are boys who would be willing to do it.""We employ about thirty at present, but I could make room for a boy of your age and ability.What pay would you want?""It is for you to fix that.""I might give you five dollars a week to begin with.
Author : Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
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ISBN : 9789354757518
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Horatio Alger
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
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ISBN : 9781411511521
A boy runs away from his cruel stepfather to New York City and takes a job as a newsboy and part-time actor.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 189?
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Author : Paige Gray
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438475411
Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children's literature of this time, including works from such writers as L. Frank Baum, Horatio Alger Jr., and Richard Harding Davis, as well as unique journalistic examples including the children's page of the Chicago Defender, subverts the idea of news. In these works, journalism is not a reporting of fact, but a reporting of artifice, or human-made apparatus—artistic, technological, psychological, cultural, or otherwise. Using a methodology that combines approaches from literary analysis, historicism, cultural studies, media studies, and childhood studies, Paige Gray shows how the cub reporters of children's literature report the truth of artifice and relish it. They signal an embrace of artifice as a means to access individual agency, and in doing so, both child and adult readers are encouraged to deconstruct and create the world anew.
Author : Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199910774
From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Author : Cecil B. Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Tom Nissley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135924589
The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Douglass, Horatio Alger, and James Weldon Johnson, and the work of silent comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. Thomas Nissley examines a number of texts, from Reconstruction-era autobiographies to the films of the 30s, to show the sustained market value of status and personal authenticity in the era of contract and free labor.
