Answer: The poem “The Buttonhook”, was created by Mary Jo Salter and it was published in 1982. Salter was born in 1954 and started writing poems around the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. Salter wrote about the immigration process that took place in the 1920’s. She wrote this poem after she was inspired by a photo showing the eye inspection examiners gave to immigrants. One of the immigration stations was located on Ellis island. An infectious disease called Trachoma was an eye disease that often lead to blindness and it was quite common around this time period. To be cautious, the U.S government decided to examine immigrants for contagious diseases or stop them from entering America. To do the inspectors would pull back the eye lid using buttonhooks in order to check for the disease. This poem is presented though third person point of view. First the poem starts off by talking about how President Roosevelt viewed the inspection then the focus of the poem moves to the authors grandmother. The poet imagines the experience her grandmother would have had at the inspection. In the poem her grandmother is a young child observingher surroundings and waiting in the line to be cleared. Her grandmother is familiar with English and feels she can teach her parents, since they only speak Italian. The grandmother is also with her mom and she witnesses an inspector examine her mother's eye with a buttonhook. The inspector then went on to check her face and at this moment she felt that she has been blessed to come to America and that she can make it through the examination to see her father in New York.
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<h2>Answer: Unifying Germany
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Otto von Bismarck was a German politician who lived between 1815 and 1898 and who in 1862 became the Prime minister of Prussia (a kingdom with high military power that officially disappeared in 1947, at the end of World War II).
Bismarck is remembered for his role in the unification of Germany and is considered one of the greatest diplomats in history and a master of international relations. He was also called the "Iron Chancellor" for his determination in pursuing his political objectives to achieve them and for having waged three wars to gain control of much of Europe.
In addition, he is awarded the fact of having established in Germany the electoral law and social protection systems such as health insurance, accident insurance and the retirement system.
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A. a policy adopted during this period was the economic policy known as laissez-faire. This policy was totally focused on economic liberalism and believed that the government should not interfere in commercial relations and let trade regulate itself, including in matters related to wages and conditions and work.
B. The Social Gospel was a movement that contributed to this conflict because it stated that the government had a responsibility to help the working class and claimed that this aid was made with the interference in labor rights. The government and businessmen, however, had tried to combat this thought.
C. The evidence that can be presented on this subject is the constant strikes caused by workers who demanded better working conditions and wages, such as the Great Strike of 1877 and the Pullman Strike, in addition, can be presented as evidence of government violence in trying to prevent these strikes.
