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What two topics did Dickens discuss the most? Our money is on the McRib and season three of Parks and Recreation .
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens What topics to dickens
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focus on la shmoop theo to things that are not
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necessarily separate from each other that dickins cared most about
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in his life and in his novels were children and
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making sure that children got treated well So in this
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period various forms of child labor were not illegal on
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were very widespread unlike today So one of the enormous
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victorian problems for example was children working in coal mines
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among other things which was incredibly dangerous to their health
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both psychological and physical And it was actually a lot
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of reforms that the victorians brought out that sort of
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ended child labor and also ended just sort of labor
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abuses in general like establishing a shorter workweek especially for
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poor people so that they could have some free time
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to rest So not surprisingly because of his childhood making
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sure that children were treated well and focusing on the
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well being of children is a theme that you see
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running throughout many of his novels There's almost always a
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child in need You can practically every novel on the
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other thing i would say more broadly speaking that is
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related to child labour Is just poverty in general Besides
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dickens trying tio helping protect children he was also extremely
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concerned with prisons in prison reform So for example when
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he came to united states he visited lots of prisons
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and penitentiaries Some of them He was impressed by some
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of them not so much He also visited places like
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insane asylums um schools for the death of many kinds
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of people who were disenfranchised who were underdogs in some
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way It is very concerned about helping them out So
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a lot of the benefits and the sort of celebrity
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appearances that he made in places like in britain and
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america were meant to contribute to things like prison reform
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And again all of this is coming out of his
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father being in a debtor's prison and all those kinds
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of what two topics to dickens discussed the most What
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light experience inspired dickins focus on child labor How did
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dickens helped the poor Homework raises coal mining Now take 00:02:13.5 --> [endTime] the homework
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