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Vivas T

'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser - All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books - TIME - 1 views

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fast food nation

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  • When Eric Schlosser came out with Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal in 2001, it was hailed as a modern-day Jungle, and with good reason.
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article portrays not only the similarity between modern day working conditions of workers to those in the early 1900s, but it also illustrates the "declining power of labor unions" which illustrates the power of companies strengthening and unfairly taking advantage of these workers.
  • Schlosser did far more, connecting the rise and consolidation of the fast-food industry in America to the declining power of labor unions, sliding blue-collar wages and growing income inequality.
  • "The basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article describes FFN as a modern day Jungle, but continues by saying that it is more that just 'muckraking.' Rather, Schlosser exposes the motives behind large businesses and how they effect unionization and social equality.
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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    "I aimed for the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair, referring to his muckraking hit The Jungle, "and by accident, I hit it in the stomach."
  • Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article portrays not only the similarity between modern day working conditions of workers to those in the early 1900s, but it also illustrates the "declining power of labor unions" which illustrates the power of companies strengthening and unfairly taking advantage of these workers.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Fast Food Nation was acclaimed a modern day version of The Jungle when first published. However, this article shows that it was more than your average muckracking novel. It explains that the power of unions fell as the "Fast Food Nation" rose. Also, Schlosser's piece explained the widening social gap of Americans, as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
David D

Book Review: The Grapes of Wrath | Do Something - 0 views

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grapes of wrath treatment of the worker

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  • It's also a clear call to action for labor rights, unions, and other causes that still affect people today.
  • You can compare the migration from Oklahoma to today's immigration. Much like in Steinbeck's novel, today some Americans hold contempt for immigrants coming to California and other agricultural areas to labor as migrant workers. However, the food industry depends on this cheap labor, and goes through great pains to make sure that it remains cheap. Today, half of all migrant farm workers make less than $20 per day.
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    This review discusses the plight of the Joads and other Oklahomians to that of today's immigrants. The food industry of today, like that of the 1930s, depends on cheap, replacable laborers.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Great review of the Grapes of Wrath with specific topics brought out by the book.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    The review talks about the specific angles of poverty, labor rights, unemployment, and discrimination. It also compares the plight of the "Okies" to the treatment of today's immigrants. Just as current immigrants have derogatory names, the "immigrant Okies" were hated by residents of California where they eventually resided. The fight for labor rights was a strong interest of Jim Casy, and later Tom's, who began organizing people soon after coming to California.
Sarah Sch

Biography of Ehrenreich - 1 views

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nickel and dimed

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  • She made $6.65 an hour, but the company charged customers $25 an hour. In the book, she describes one day when a co-worker injured her ankle on the job and could barely walk, but refused to go to the hospital because she was worried about losing any wages.
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This shows the negative consequences of the poor treatment of workers. The irony in this is outstanding as the coworker refuses to seek medical care for an injury that occured on the job so she wont lose his low wages from that same job. The author evokes the readers sympathizes and leaves them pitying the workers
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  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree with this, which was in my section. It could also be tied easily to The Jungle, in that the meat packers make lots of money off each animal that is slaughtered, but pay their workers very little.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    Yeah. It's nuts how greedy these people are. They could pay their workers two, three times as much money and still make tons of profits. However, they just choose to squeeze every last penny of efficiency out of their employees. It's mind baffling.
  • Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
     
    This not only illustrates the harsh treatment of the workers, but it also shows the unfortunate conditions that these workers are placed in due to their low payed jobs. As a result of their tough living conditions, these workers are afraid to take time off for serious injuries due to the possibility of losing wages, or even their job.
  • Emily S on 04 Oct 11
     
    This reminds me of the Jungle when Jurgis ruined his ankle in the slaughterhouses and then got fired from him job. It shows how industrial ethics have not changed at all.
  • Sarah Sch on 04 Oct 11
     
    The article deals with Ehrenreich's education and her years of investigative reporting. The article tells of a second undercover book Ehrenreich wrote, "Bait and Switch". It said that she could not find a middle management job after ten months of searching. Even the middle class gets the short end of the stick in the buisness world.
Evan G

SparkNotes: A Room of One's Own: Analysis - 0 views

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AROOO

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  • These conditions—leisure time, privacy, and financial independence— underwrite all literary production, but they are particularly relevant to understanding the situation of women in the literary tradition because women, historically, have been uniformly deprived of those basic prerequisites.
  • She writes a history of a woman's thinking about the history of thinking women: her essay is a reconstruction and a reenactment as well as an argument.
  • Evan G on 10 Oct 11
     
    The site points out that women of back in the day were often unable to write a book simply for lack of three conditions that even modern day workers often take for granted. They were always kept too busy with simple preoccupations to bother with spending some free time writing books I also think the site made an interesting point in remarking that her style of writing is odd: she isn't talking about women's history, she's talking about thinking about it. Of course, it makes the book much more boring; however, it's a new and creative method of writing.
Connor P

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frankenstein #3 responsibility chaos vs order

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  • while Shelley's Gothic in Frankenstein (1818) urges personal integrity and social responsibility in an age of scientific progress, and represents the anxiety produced by the disruption of the traditional, known natural world order.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source discusses the theme of responsiility in the novel as Victor is responsibile for the monster life. It also talks about the theme of chaos vs order as the creation of a new life form disturbs the order of the world. Thus Victor must make order out of the choatic world and accpet the responsibillity of his actions
Ellen L

Courts Try to Maximize Jury Diversity - July 2007 - The Third Branch - 0 views

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In Cold Blood jury diversity

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  • But a study ordered in 2005 by Judge Nancy Gertner (D. Mass.) found that wealthier towns with few minority residents did a better job of keeping accurate residency lists than more diverse communities. The result: a higher percentage of jury summonses sent to minorities came back as undeliverable or went unanswered.
  • “The perception of fairness counts. A white jury may be fair, but a non-white defendant likely will think ‘the jurors can’t be fair because they don’t understand me.’”
  • Ellen L on 21 Mar 12
     
    This page discusses the importance in having a racially and culturally mixed jury in order to make fair decisions. The importance of have many differing perspectives gives the case a more concrete ambiance, thus increasing a ruling' rationality. In In Cold Blood, and all the other books, we see this common thread of truth through the many opinions of others, thus augmenting the importance of a multiperspective show. In the In COld Blood trial, there is a very monotonous showing of a jury, as all the people are white, christian landowners. 
Connor P

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#6 Malcolm X rebirth past education chaos vs order

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  • The doctrines of the Nation transformed the chaos of the world behind prison bars into a cosmos, an ordered reality.
  • Malcolm finally had an explanation for the extreme poverty and tragedies his family suffered, and for all the years he had spent hustling and pimping on the streets of Roxbury and Harlem as "Detroit Red."
  • Connor P on 08 Jan 12
     
    This helps show the rebirth of Malcolm X as he begins to understand the world around him and embrace his past. It also explains the theme of chaos vs. order for out of the chaos of prison comes the order of his new principles.
Sarah Sch

(1) "Great God, What They Got in That Wagon?": Grotesque Intrusions in As I Lay Dying - 0 views

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  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    "In As I Lay Dying, Anse Bundren is a grotesque character partly because of his moral deformity: his lack of self-understanding, his parasitic and manipulative relations with others, his pious posturing."
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  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    "Incongruous events continually upset the decorum of death. "
  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    "Insofar as the journey seemed to be a collective effort courageously undertaken by the whole family for the whole, involving heroic suffering and heroic action, that perception is undermined by the sudden dismissal of Addie, the expulsion of Darl, and the scurrying aftermath of selfish pursuits."
  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    This article discusses the use of grotesque art in As I Lay Dying. Grotesque art is art with bad manners that challenges ideals and notions of proper order with dissonant elements. The article emphasizes the backwardness of the events of Addie's burial like the burying of a week old stinking corpse. The article also highlights the unusually motives each narrative maintains through their journey to bury Addie even though their sole concern should be about the burial of the matriarch of the family. This article would support an essay dwelling on the detachedness the Bundren family experiences.
Ellen L

Why We Write About Grief - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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As I Lay Dying death nytimes grief

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  • writing has always been the way I make sense of the world. It’s a kind of stay against dread, and chaos.
  • After she died, I kept writing — and reading — trying to understand or just get a handle on grief, which was different from what I thought it’d be. It wasn’t merely sadness; I was full of nostalgia for my childhood, obsessed with my dream life and had a hard time sleeping or focusing on anything but my memories.
  • Ellen L on 28 Feb 12
     
    This NYTimes article discusses how people cope with death through various means of art and communication--specifically writing. The authors interviewed in this article explained how this form of communication was the only way they could understand what happened, thus saving them from the insanity of being lost. The Bundren family copes with Addie's death in no communicative way. As this important outlet does not exist within the household, it may well explain the strewed psychological states of many of the characters. 
Ellen L

Reading "The Grapes of Wrath" in 2010: Immigration, Capitalism and the Histor... - 0 views

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grapes of wrath poor treatment

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  • People usually do not resort to risky and desperate moves unless they have nothing left to lose. Steinbeck begins the Joads’ story with the loss of everything they had
  • Whether as tenants or small landholders, either for subsistence or for markets, the vast majority of the poor migrantes now coming to this country are fleeing the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, just as the Joads
  • As far as capitalism is concerned, whatever will maximize profit is the arrangement that must be pursued, regardless of the human consequences. The situation in Mexico today resembles that of Oklahoma 75 years ago. Small family farms are no longer profitable enough, and people are being thrown off their land every year by the thousands.
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    Interesting perspective comparing the Okies of the 1930s to the Mexicans of today. Covers the capitalism, xenophobia, and enclosure presented to both groups. This article shows the attitude that little has changed over the past century
Connor P

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: The Grapes of Wrath - 1 views

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#3 grapes of wrath poor treatment workers helping

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  • The Grapes of Wrath is a bitter tale of humans against nature and against a brutally exploitive society, but it is also a tale of nobility, of self-sacrifice, and ultimately of hope.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote shows the constant battle between humans against nature and society. Nature and society is symbolic of the poor working conditions and few jobs that they must overcome. By displaying the theme of the fight for better conditions, Steinbeck parallels this with his theme of helping others to show their differences
Connor P

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#4 nickel and dimed 'grapes of wrath anger sympathy

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  • Though Ehrenreich still sees hope and a strong drive to succeed within this community, she fears a future uprising as people "are bound to tire of getting so little in return and to demand to be paid what they're worth. There'll be a lot of anger when that day comes, and strikes and disruption."
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote can be seen as the modern day version of The Grapes of Wrath. As the cyclical theory repeats itsself in history, the people of modern time are experiencing the same problems as the migrant workers. The author again evokes the passion to show the consequences of the poor treatment of workers
Evan G

Critical Analysis of "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck - Inkweaver Rev... - 3 views

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grapes of wrath

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  • . On arriving in “the Promised Land”, though, they find their dreams to be disappointingly unattainable. The advertisements about ample work for all are really just ploys by the land owners to get cheap labor by attracting more workers than there are jobs. Gradually the family’s condition goes downhill as different members of the traveling group leave
  • . Like the persistent turtle, the Joad family will not give up. In addition, neither the story of the turtle, nor the story of the Joad family may end happily, but both the turtle and the Joad family will survive despite attacks and difficulties.
  • Evan G on 28 Sep 11
     
    Discusses the author's motives behind the novel, as well as the strategies he uses to convey his points. It's a really good source that gives the background and reasons for the book. It mentions literary techniques used to write the story, analyzing the interchapters and discussing the diction and word choice used by Steinbeck. It has good analysis of multiple parts of Grapes of Wrath. This is a very useful source in part because not only does it discuss the novel, it also points out the reasons behind the writing of the novel.
  • Julianne M on 28 Sep 11
     
    This is great, I was looking for a review like this when writing the first paper.
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

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  • Just months after publication of The Jungle, federal legislation was passed mandating improved inspection of meat, as well as requiring labels listing the ingredients of canned food products. The legislation had been proposed years earlier, but a combination of business interests resisted it, arguing that it was not the business of the federal government to regulate what people ate. The Jungle demonstratedPage 145  |  Top of Article clearly that people had no way of knowing what was in canned food, and therefore needed government regulation to keep foods safe.
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article illustrates the lack of care toward customers both from large businesses as well as the government. "The legislation had been proposed years earlier, but a combination of business interests resisted it, arguing that it was not the business of the federal government to regulate what people ate" portrays the influence large businesses have on the government and also depicts Sinclair's view that the capitalist mindset includes undermining the society, at large, in order to make money for one's self. In addition, this also shows the impact of Sinclair's novel because after its publication, efforts to change the unhygienic and ill production of meat began to actually emerge.
Sydney C

BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry - Constitu... - 0 views

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the jungle working conditions

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  • The progressives revealed how these companies eliminated competition, set high prices, and treated workers as "wage slaves."
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article reveals this lack of business ethics during this time period through the cooperation of large industries in order to reduce competition. As a result, they are able to drive prices up, which depicts their cruelty towards customers as well as the treatment of workers as "wage slaves" in order to gain more profits.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article gives historical information on the meat packing industry of the early 1900's. The article tells of the progressive movement of the age which supported reforms. The article tells of the response to "The Jungle" and the innovative aspects of the new processing regulations. The article also gives a short biography about Sinclair's childhood to his death.
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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    speaks to alot of the conditions Jurgis and his family went though
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Unskilled immigrant men did the backbreaking and often dangerous work, laboring in dark and unventilated rooms, hot in summer and unheated in winter." The article shows how cruel the conditions of the factory worker were. And since the work force was unskilled and immigrants, they were often taken advantage of because they knew no better
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The ethical issues addressed in The Jungle and how they relate to the bills passed after the publication. It talks about how Roosevelt responded to the book and passed many new restrictions on the Chicago meatpacking district, as well as businesses all over the country.
Brian C

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hardships workers jungle sinclair

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  • The brutalization is underscored by Sinclair’s use of numerous analogies that compare the individuals to wild and hunted animals and of parallels between the fate of the innocent livestock and the fate of the common working person. Factory life is variously compared to an inferno, a bubbling cauldron, and a medieval torture chamber, where it is considered good sport to extract the last ounce of flesh from the hapless workers. The factory, however, is only a reflection of society’s disregard for democratic values and its indifference to truth and justice.
  • From the beginning, it is clear to the readers that Jurgis and his family are fighting against the odds. Each new detail makes it abundantly clear that the system tempts people with unrealistic dreams and then erects insurmountable barriers to prevent the attainment of those dreams.
  • Brian C on 30 Sep 11
     
    Even as Sinclair describes the wedding feast in the opening chapter, he mixes images of gaiety and trays of piping-hot food with vignettes that chronicle the hardships of those forced to work as canners, picklers, beef boners, and general laborers. These workers' tales are tragic, yet the workers refuse to admit defeat. shows the hardship and resolve of workers in the Jungle
Connor P

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#2 grapes wrath poor treatment workers

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  • Certainly, he paints the oppressive economic system in bleak colors. Many critics note, however, that Steinbeck was basically a reformer, not a revolutionary. He wanted to change the attitudes and behaviors of people — both migrants and economic barons — not overturn the private enterprise system.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    The oppressive economic system is symbolic of the poor treatment of the workers by the nasty aristocrats. Steinbeck was in favor of changing the images of the migrants and economy and therefore he used the plight of the migrant workers.
Connor P

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#5 jungle poor treatment workers helping others

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  • He witnesses the greed and corruption in the industry and the deterioration of the lives of many workers. He is also shocked by the unhealthy handling of the meat. The novel presents graphic descriptions of diseased animals and rotting meat being sold to the American public.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the images of the poor treatment of the workers and the consumers during the early 20th century. Not only were the workers repressed, but the bosses did not care about their consumers. As long as they bought the product the bosses did not worry and the lack of the universal theme of helping others is left out
Sarah Sch

The Rhetoric of American Protest: Thomas Paine and the Education of Tom Joad - 0 views

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grapes of wrath

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "By turning his anger outward to benefit a larger community, Tom makes a final commitment to his society. As readers, we sense that Tom Joad's greatest actions are yet to come. These future actions, we sense from Tom's rhetoric, will become an intentional protest against established authority."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Tom's transition from the private to the public, from an inner, intuitive sense of morality to an outward expression of that morality, parallels the exemplary American man embedded in the rhetoric of one of America's first social rebels, Thomas Paine. As an augmentation of Paine's rhetoric, Tom further mythologizes rebellion and protest as the natural right of all Americans."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article tells of Tom's transformation from a private man into a public one. The article discusses the similarities between the audacious Tomas Paine of the American Revolution to Tom Joad. Although Paine has nothing to do with business ethics or treatment of the workers, it is interesting to see the parallels between Paine and Joad. The article also brings to light how America's morals change over time.
Evan G

Analysis of Corruption in Nick Carraway of the Great Gatsby. Essays on Literary Works - 0 views

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great gatsby

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  • the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power.
  • Jay Gatsby, who epitomizes the purest characteristic of the American Dream: everlasting hope.
  • depravity of the modern dream to wealth, privilege, and the void of humanity that those aspects create. Money is clearly identified as the central proponent of the dream's destruction; it becomes easily entangled with hope and success, inevitably replacing their places in the American Dream with materialism.
  • Evan G on 24 Oct 11
     
    Discusses the conversion and corruption of the American dream, which becomes more materialistic and greedy than ever. Even Gatsby, the eternal optimist, an archetypal dreamer, makes his fortunes through underhanded, sneaky ways with his partner Wolfsheim.
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