Describe similarities and difference between both structures

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Reflect on the issues raised in Taube's text and how they exemplify the period in American history described as "Gilded Age." Carefully look at both Richard Morris Hunt's 1895 mansion "The Breakers"Links to an external site. in Newport, Rhode Island, and Jacob Riis's 1894 photograph Home of Italian RagpickerLinks to an external site. and conduct a close analysis by comparing both structures.

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1. Describe similarities and differences between both structures.

2. What does each setting reveal about its inhabitants, owners or tenants? What do we learn about their social and economic status?

3. Are there ways to link and apply insights gained from Taube's text to these settings?

4. Who are Richard Morris Hunt and Jacob Riis? Whom did they work for?

5. What insights do these works allow us into life and fabric of American society at this historical moment?

6. Could the ostentatious display of wealth in one setting and the depiction of abject poverty in the other setting point to a deeper relationship between the extreme wealth of some and the abject poverty of others?

7. What other contextual information have you been able to obtain about both settings that assist us in obtaining a deeper understanding of the stark contrast between both?

8. What do you learn from peer postings? Are there ways in which your findings complement those of your peers or vice versa? Describe and explain.

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