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Commentary - Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed in America - 0 views

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nickel and dimed poor america

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    "The math just doesn't work. The average woman coming off of welfare since 1996 earns $7/hour, that's $280/week before taxes, and you can't support children on that, or even one person"
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This is actual commentary from the author on the book, and it highlights how the working class cannot live a healthy and safe lifestyle in today's society with the wages that they earn. Ehrenreich truly believes that a change must be made to help the poor working class of our country.
Willie C

Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By in America - 1 views

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nickel and dimed treatment of the worker ethics workers poor

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    "...and she examines how corporations often strip employees of their dignity. Random locker searches and drug testing occur despite what she routinely observes to be honest, hard working co-workers"
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote highlights more of the rich employers terrible treatment of their poor workers, and how they come up with schemes specifically designed for the purpose of, in this case, stripping employees of their dignity to keep them from trying to improve their situation.
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Nickel and Dimed -perspective - 0 views

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Nickel and Dimed treatment of the worker poor treatment ethics

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    "Waitresses, who cannot afford three decent meals a day, take pleasure in making the lunch-experience for the construction worker the best ever. Cleaning ladies, who scrub kitchens that are greater than the space they live in..."
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This source shows the hard work and determination of the poor working class and how it is not rewarded by their much wealthier employers. This is a main theme that highlights the businesses poor ethics in treating their workers like machinery.
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Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america poor

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    "when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli ... or it's more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald's than to cook a healthy meal for them at home"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is an interesting article proving that eating real food can actually be cheaper than fast food. This works well to explain how fast food has become a staple ingredient in many Americans weekly and even daily diet.
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Fast Food Nation - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america

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    " fast-food restaurants rely heavily on the services of the billion-dollar flavor industry, which manufactures and sells the complex chemicals that give distinctive flavors to processed foods such as "smoky" chicken, "strawberry" shakes and even 'flame-broiled' burgers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source examines the important points that Schlosser brings up in his book Fast Food Nation.
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Food and Beverage Serving and Related Workers - 1 views

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treatment of the worker Fast Food Nation america workers poor

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    "Most jobs are part time and have few educational requirements, attracting many young people to the occupation-21 percent of these workers were 16 to 19 years old in 2008, about six times the proportion for all workers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This website provides statistics for the fast food industry and how it uses the unskilled labor in the workforce that are young so they can pay them less. This can be used to tie in the jungle by using their use of he unskilled immigrants.
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Meatpacking - 0 views

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the jungle ethics workers jungle poor history

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    " Pork packers such as Philip Armour built large plants west of the stockyards, developed ice-cooled rooms so they could pack year round, and introduced steam hoists to elevate carcasses and an overhead assembly line to move them"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source does not go in debth one way or another on the issues of our paper but it provides an extensive background of the rise of the meatpacking industry and how it became a giant industry, which can be used in examining the rise of the meatpackers and how they built up their power.
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1906: Upton Sinclair - 0 views

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the jungle

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    "He told how dead rats were shoveled into sausage-grinding machines; how bribed inspectors looked the other way when diseased cows were slaughtered for beef, and how filth and guts were swept off the floor and packaged as "potted ham."
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source also shows how Sinclair wrote this book only to highlight the horrors of the meatpacking industry and how the world reacted to it.
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Farm Labor in the 1930s - 0 views

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grapes of wrath treatment of the worker

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    "The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for physical and ideological conflicts over how to deal with seasonal farm labor and produced literature that resonates decades later, as students read and watch "The Grapes of Wrath" and farmers and advocates continue to argue over how to obtain and treat seasonal farm workers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source takes an in debth look at the farmers and their treatment in the 1930's as well as looking forward to present day problems that are still going on.
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Student Research Center Ronald McDonald hops online - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america advertising

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    "In a nation where kid-targeted fast-food spots have been panned as a cause of childhood obesity, there has been much media speculation that the world's most famous spokes-clown was disappearing from McDonald's advertising"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source does not directly take a stance on fast food but it does show how McDonalds is always updating their ad. campaigns to avoid bad publicity and continue marketing to children. This is an example of their terrible business ethics.
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Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Upton Sinclair - 0 views

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the jungle ethics america reform

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    "The Jungle (1906), a brutally graphic novel of the Chicago stockyards, aroused great public indignation and led to reform of federal food inspection laws"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This shows how the Jungle effected the american public and led to reform of the food industry
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Dust Bowl - 0 views

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grapes of wrath dust bowl

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    "when the high price of wheat and the needs of Allied troops encouraged farmers to grow more wheat by plowing and seeding areas in prairie states, such as Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma..."
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This discusses the cause and effect of the dust bowl for the Grapes of Wrath
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The Great Gatsby - 0 views

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the great gatsby ethics america rich

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    This source goes over the jungle and discusses the historical facts it presents on the treatment of the workers and the horrors of the meatpacking industry that Sinclair goes into.
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  • Willie C on 12 Oct 11
     
    "Central to Woolf's campaign for female creativity is her insistence that women be educated. Instead of training that forces them to write and think as men do"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    "Nick's reflection on Gatsby's comment uses striking imagery to convey the connection between love and money so prevalent in Fitzgerald's writings"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    This quote shows how money is intertwined in everything for those who are rich. Daisy considers money to be heavily involved with love, and that it shapes love by itself. This shows how the morals of the rich are not align to the good of society.
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    "is destroyed by his devotion to a worthless woman and by his confusion of money with love"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    This quote shows again how the rich characters in Fitzgerald's novel have clouded vision, and cannot see that money is not the answer to all a persons problems. This is mainly due to the reality that they can get out of any situation with their money.
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Fast Food History and Perspective - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation business ethics treatment of the worker

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    "high-pressure marketing promotes junk food that makes everyone fat, resulting from the heartless unloading of unskilled and dangerous work on youthful racial minorities"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article catalogs the evolution of how we eat, and included inside is fast food. This shows how fast food is unhealthy and the corporate companies don't care about anything but money, and the food is not what we think it is.
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The Jungle Authorial Purpose - 0 views

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the jungle treatment of the worker business ethics ethics treatment

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    "The novel is remembered largely for its graphic descriptions of rivers bubbling with pollutants, slaughterhouse floors flooded with blood, sick cattle being slaughtered, rat dung being canned with the meat, and, of course, workers falling into boiling vats and being cooked down with the lard"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article argues that the popularity and purpose of The Jungle came from the way Sinclair used vivid description of the meatpacking industries treatment of the workers and their terrible business ethics.
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Grapes of Wrath Themes - 0 views

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grapes of wrath themes

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    "The Grapes of Wrath is a literary triumph, beautifully and movingly written, artistically interweaving great themes of westward movement, Biblical sacrifice, human courage and endurance, the centrality of the family and of women within the family, the importance of community and human brotherhood, and the evils of selfish individualism"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source discusses the major themes in the Gapes of Wrath the coexist with the major paper themes we are using as well as contributes to them. This quote encompasses them all, which can be picked out for the paper.
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html - 0 views

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    "many of the farms literally dried up and blew away creating what became known as the "Dust Bowl." Driven by the Great Depression, drought, and dust storms, thousands of farmers packed up their families and made the difficult journey to California where they hoped to find work"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This website provides accurate descriptions of what was going on time period wise during the Grapes of Wrath, and tells the story of the thousands of migrant farmers
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