In Chinatown Family, Lin Yutang depicts the life of a family of Chinese immigrants living in New York City in the 1930s. Comment on the similarities and differences between Chinese and American culture, as they are portrayed in the book,… Continue Reading →
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Mention one new detail that you learned from the documentary segment that none of your classmates have commented on in previous responses.
Mention one new detail that you learned from the documentary segment that none of your classmates have commented on in previous responses.
Many of the people and incidents that make up the the plot of Ragtime are real, even the sensational ones. For instance, Harry K. Thaw really did shot and kill architect Stanford White, and he really was married to Evelyn… Continue Reading →
NPR Story on Jacob Riis Jacob Riis Photographs at MoMA
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Stephen Crane’s Maggie: Girl of the Streets has been both praised and criticized for its unsentimental and nonjudgmental style. As narrator, Crane describes events without commenting on the conduct of his character and without telling readers what they are expected… Continue Reading →
Follow this link to see a guide to New York: A Documentary Film prepared by PBS. An especially useful list of episodes and scenes can be found in the final pages.
Washington Irving’s depictions of life in New York in the 17th and 18th centuries share the sensibility of Dutch genre painting in the same period. Dutch painters in this period, which is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of… Continue Reading →
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