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Willie C

As I Lay Dying- Novels for Students - 0 views

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  • Willie C on 29 Feb 12
     
    "The more sensitive characters, especially Addie and Darl, recognize their alienation from others. In particular, Addie is a striking example of someone who both longs to transcend this isolation and stubbornly works to maintain an impenetrable individuality"
  • Willie C on 29 Feb 12
     
    This source outlines the theme of isolation in the novel very well. It discusses the characters that recognize the isolation, as well as the isolation that is forced on them by Addie, who wants solitude.
David D

Ongoing Agriprocessors Scandal Raises Questions About What it Means to Be Kosher - 0 views

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the jungle fast food nation kosher meat

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    The Kosher meat industry is supposed to provide the highest quality meat while having high standards of business ethics and righteousness. The source shows that even in the Kosher industry, identity theft, child labor, and other unethical practices are abundant. However not only in 2008 have Kosher plants done wrong , they have been breaking the rules for years. This string of arrests has stirred much controversy in the Jewish community.
Connor P

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: FAST FOOD NATION (Book Review) - 0 views

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#4 fast food nation poor treatment workers consumers

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  • While cataloguing assorted evils with the tenacity and sharp eye of the best investigative journalist, he uncovers a cynical, dismissive attitude to food safety in the fast food industry and widespread circumvention of the government's efforts at regulation
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source shows the the government does not care about its food safety thus leading to the endangered lives of the workers and consumers. The government shows it evils by aiming for profits rather than helping the workers
  • Ben R on 04 Oct 11
     
    I completely agree with what you are saying connor. It seems to be a consumer trying to better our eating standards is a losing battle, when you have some of the most powerful corporations and influential companies cooperating with the government it seems that there is now way to win even a marginal victory.
Vivas T

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grapes of wrath ethics

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  • Steinbeck even describes the banks themselves as hungry beasts
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This portrays the "banks", which represents a trust during this time, as a "beast" which shows its corrupt and destructive nature toward workers and laborers in the U.S.in the 1930s
Connor P

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#5 fast food nation consumers

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  • According to an alternative version, high-pressure marketing promotes junk food that makes everyone fat, resulting from the heartless unloading of unskilled and dangerous work on youthful racial minorities.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote is designed for the consumers, as the businesses show no care for what happens to the people. As long as they provide the profits, the business can let them live unhealthy
Sarah Sch

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the jungle america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "In the 1870s, several large packing firms with headquarters at Chicago came to dominate the U.S. meatpacking industry, namely Armour and Company, Swift and Company, and Libby, McNeill and Libby."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article tells the history of the meatpacking industry. The source gives fantastic historical background information for "The Jungle". The history goes from the beginning of meatpacking in America to the late 1900's. This source can also relate to the current horrible conditions of the workers in the meatpacking factories.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "By the end of the twentieth century, meatpacking work was done mostly by an immigrant and impoverished workforce laboring in dirty, dangerous surroundings, as the decline of organized labor and the rise of government deregulation pushed the industry into a state not so different from the days of Sinclair's The Jungle."
Vivas T

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workers poor grapes of wrath

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  • By 1935 the farmlands in these areas suffered severe erosion of their topsoil causing a large number of farmers to abandon their land and move to other regions
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      this illustrates the plight of the farmers by illustrating their need to "abandon" their land in order to move to an unknown region.
Vivas T

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poor workers grapes of wrath ethics

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  • the hundreds of thousands of families that fled drought- and dust-ravaged farms in the Midwest to earn money as fruit, vegetable, and cotton pickers in California's fertile fields. Masses of fleeing workers endured a treacherous trek west only to find little work and unfair wages when they arrived
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      this portrays the undeniably harsh conditions of the poor in the 1930s due to the "treacherous" journey west only to find "little work and unfair wages". This also illustrates the lack of Business ethics through the fact that owners of large farms persuaded thousands of farmers to move west, which drove down the wages due to their hunger and desperation.
Sarah Sch

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fast food nation america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "But quality would appear to have lost out to other considerations. The main effort went into making the food easily handled and cheap."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The need to supply the rapidly expanding cities of the early nineteenth century made more room for food adulteration."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article discusses the evolution of food into processed food for convenience. The article gives historical background to "Fast Food Nation's" setting. The article also devotes a section to fast food and its preparation. The article lends support to the notion of convenience leading to low quality and poor nutrition.
Vivas T

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fast food nation ethics

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  • Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal maintains that the enormous growth of the fast-food industry has caused conditions in the big slaughterhouses to pose serious health concerns
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article displays the lack of ethics that businesses such as meatpacking industries posses due to the "serious health concerns" that their food possesses. In addition, this also, ironically,relates to the Jungle which depicts the lack of progress in sanitizing slaughterhouses in the past 100 years.
Vivas T

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fast food nation workers poor

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  • by centralizing the slaughterhouses, by using cheap, often immigrant labor and, in Schlosser's words, "by crushing labor unions and championing the ruthless efficiency of the market"
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This portrays the use of immigrant workers in today's society in order to save money for businesses and allow their own profits to expand, which clearly relates to the early 1900s, depicted in The Jungle.
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Sarah Sch

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the jungle treatment of the worker workers ethics america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "... a political philosophy joining his belief in fair play, the virtue of hard work, free labor ideology, and the role of central government in promoting these ends."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article discusses Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal. Roosevelt's idea was to promote the common interests of both the workers and the companies instead of taking a side. The article gives historical background for "The Jungle". The article specifically deals with Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the time, and his ideology. This is a good source for understanding the time period of "The Jungle".
Vivas T

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fast food nation

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  • Companies with brands associated with the salmonellosis outbreak recalled all potentially contaminated products, including peanut butter for home use and commercial peanut butter products used by some fast-food chains. The Salmonella-contaminated foods associated with outbreak affected approximately 370 people in over 40 states
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This illustrates the possible dangers in fast food in today's society through diseases such as E. coli. This example, depicts the irony of recalls, that Schlosser depicts, through the fact that 370 people were already contaminated before the recall.
Vivas T

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fast food nation

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  • Schlosser writes that "more than half of all American adults and about one-quarter of all American children are now obese or overweight
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This portrays the dangers of fast food restaurants due to the diseases such as "obesity" which result in eating there constantly which Schlosser clearly displays in Fast food nation
Ben R

Okies, Dust Bowl Migrants from Oklahoma & the Plains - 0 views

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grapes of wrath

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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "But there was not enough work for everyone who came. Instead of immediate riches, they often found squalor in roadside ditch encampments." This was exactly the problem for most of the migrant workers, including the Joads. They had false hope of finding a better life in California when in reality they had just been deceived by the higher ups .
Ben R

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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "In larger ranches, they often had to buy their groceries from a high-priced company store." The lack of ethics was not uncommon during this period. Many of these stores made it so that the farmers were eternally in debt to them and were then forced to continue working for them for less and less. The Joads experience with this was no different.
Connor P

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#2 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • Such cutthroat business practices ultimately have the twofold effect of hurting workers while also poisoning the meat with the cow’s own feces, which leads to the outbreak of E. coli bacteria illnesses.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is the "kill to birds with one stone" philosphoy but in a negative way. By the greed that pursues the corporations, it not only gives the workers poor conditions but endangers the lives of the consumers also. the lack of ethics which hurt the people are not important to making profits
  • Ben R on 04 Oct 11
     
    It seems that no matter who the corporations had to degrade to make a profit they are willing to do it. They have absolutely no problem endangering anyone, whether its the workers with the inhumane conditions they are pressured into because of their economic circumstances or consumer because of their ignorance, the underlining message to the reader is that there is nothing they would not do.
David D

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fast food nation ethics america

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    This article discusses one major consequence of Fast Food Nation, which deals with Trans Fats. Trans Fat is a type of fatty acid that is extremely unhealthy, and new legislation was passed in 2003, requiring all food labels to contain levels of trans fats. This is certainly a benefit of Schlosser's muckracking novel.
Connor P

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#1 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • the industry basically exploits its workers because they have no other options: the industry "now employs some of the most disadvantaged members of American society … people who can barely read, whose lives have been chaotic or shut off from the mainstream."
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    Source combines all three novels to describe social injutice. It talks about how the workers are exploit due to the overflow of labor and shows the management can do what they want because the supply of labor flow so freely
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.
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