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At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, cities and businesses were expanding rapidly. Some business leaders gathered enormous profits and didn’t seem to care how their actions affected the people or places around them.
Some courageous reformers decided to do something about the abuses they saw. First they had to expose a situation and convince people that it needed to be changed. To do that, they picked up their pens and wrote persuasive stories in newspapers and magazines. Some of those reformers had influence that we still see today.
In this unit, you’ll have a chance to write about an important issue. The topic you will consider is, Did one person make a difference in an area of society that we can still see the effects of their efforts today?
themes:
Corporate Responsibility
Social Reform
Conservation
Use 8th grade level wording.