Most of the people living in Colonial America lived and worked on a farm. Although there would eventually be large plantations where the owners became wealthy growing cash crops, life for the average farmer was very hard work. They had to work hard all year long just to survive.

During the 1600s and 1700s, hundreds of thousands of Africans were forced to work as slaves in the colonies. Most New England families lived in small houses with one main room. They cooked on the fireplace and slept on mattresses near the fire. Colonial homes were like busy workshops.

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One evening in the queens section of new york city a young lady was assaulted and stabbed in the street as she returned home fro

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<span>This feeling of detachment is known as anomie. Émile Durkheim identified anomie as a form of breakdown of the bonds between an individual and his society, so that society does not provide him with functional moral guidance. The Kitty Genovese case may be an example of urban anomie, since social bonds did not function to prompt her neighbors to alert police.</span>

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