I would be praying and be grateful for living as long as I have and hopefully be able to survive (:
This is a complicated issue, but in general the US government did not do much to intervene in the German treatment of Jews during this time, mostly because there was a great deal of both isolationist and anti-Semitic sentiment in the US during this time.
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The correct answer is B) Jan van Eyck who painted the famous Giovanni Arnolfini
Explanation:
Jan Van Eyck was a 14th Century painter who is credited with revolutionize painting and art in Northern Europe. Born in modern-day Belgium, he was soon recognized as a master painted and was employed by the Aristocracy of his time to develop their personal portraits.
One of this most famous surviving paintings is that of Giovanni Arnolfini known as the The Arnolfini Portrait from 1434.
Henry Grady was a Georgian journalist who encouraged the industrialization of the South following the model of the North. After the Civil War, the North experienced a period of fast industrialization and a rapid technological advance. All this prosperity was boosted by the Industrial Revolution that affected all over in the world during the 1800s. In contrast, the South was still predominantly agricultural. Its economy was based in a <em>sharecropping model</em>, in which white landlords had their fields worked and tended by farm laborers. Under this system, the landlord would provide the capital (usually obtained by a loan) to buy seeds and equipment, and the laborers would work. The profit would be not equally divided between both parts. Because of the low prices of the products, the farmers often fell in a cycle of indebtedness. This system left both farmers and workers in deep poverty. Grady had a voice. He was not just a journalist, but a newspaper editor with great oratory skills. In a series of public speeches, he envisioned an industrialized South, with manufacturing facilities, commerce and "<em>thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity</em>", in his words. This remake would be called <u>"New South"</u> and its main feature would be a "<em>diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this (the post-Reconstruction period) complex age</em>". His speeches motivated politics and he gained the empathy of the public in general. The modernization did happen, but it wasn't quite the same as Henry had dreamed. Some success could be seen in the iron and steel manufacturing segments. The textile mills was a great initiative, but it could have had more success if the wages weren't so low. Henry also defended the white supremacy and this idea held back the economic improvement. While landlords and factories prospered, the low-wage factoring work kept many in dire poverty.
Truthfully life itself is special. We live because others want us to, and we want them to live along with us. We live because we have hope, and want to see what happens next. I hope that lots of people live because they know life at its best can be wonderfully good, and want to help make it so; and that is a great reason for living.
