The Other Half

The time period during which The Other Half came out was an important and exciting time in our history. There were many changes in our country. We were becoming an urban nation. Instead of people staying in rural towns and making a living off the land, they were coming to big cities to make it. This brought a lot of good changes. As cities grew up, technology grew up with it. We became an industrial society that began to depend on machinery more and more. The cities brought a culture to America that we had lacked before. As with everything in life, there were some bad points that came along with the good. One of those problems was with the "other half" of society. Many people in this time period were growing richer by the minute. These are the people that owned property or ran companies. The people that rented from them or worked for them weren't so lucky. Most of these people were immigrants that had come over to seek new opportunities and instead they found now work, and...