Presentations are going great so far! Congrats to everyone!! I was ready to go on Thursday, so having a homework assignment done this early is kind of a shocker!
I've been working on my paper even more this weekend. I've been trying to make more and more connections between the boardinghouse environment, Maya, and then Now. I've figured out that I need to do less background on the factory and then add a section about the background of the women. Also, I need to work on the men section. Basically, the only reason they were in the community was overseers or potential husbands! But, I'm trying to connect them to compare how this boardinghouse system worked specifically to the women in Lowell and how it was the women who made up the community in Lowell. The men had a part in it, but the boarding system didn't apply to them in the same way.
I'm looking at Maya again because I'm trying to examine how the women's backgrounds affected their experiences and new individuality in Lowell.
I definitely am starting to realize that I need to focus more on the women instead of just the history. There's just so much to tell. Just as Fine said in REO Joe, I don't want to get the story wrong and misconstrue what actually happened.
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