Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

1. Which account of the Lawrence Strike do you find most credible and why? 2. What happened during the Lawrence Strike, according to Vorse? What is her point of view? What is her attitude toward the strikers, police, the mill owners? Do you find her account credible and trustworthy? Why or why not? 3. How similar to Vorse's account was the description in the New York Times of the children's exodus during the strike? Was the Times article sympathetic to the strikers? What was the author's political stance? Is this account trustworthy? 4. How was the political stance of Il Proletario different from that of middle-class newspapers like the Times? How did Il Proletario's treatment of the children's exodus differ from Vorse's account and the story in the Times? Do you find its treatment credible? 5. Why did the removal of the children from Lawrence become a political act? What did it symbolize? Were the children themselves portrayed as politicized? How was the action “gendered” as feminine? your first answer will be your thesis sources.
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