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"Much of the Invisible Man's experience is betrayal by the people and ideals that he trusts"

This source provides detailed examples of how IM's experiences are plagued by betrayal, both by white people and black people.

"Here, Ellison suggests the narrator's invisibility to the Brotherhood and his blindness to his own exploitation by the group"

This source provides a detailed analysis of the entire novel, highlighting the theme of invisibility and blindness. Here it describes how IM is betrayed by the Brotherhood, and how blind he was to the whole ordeal.

This article stresses the poor nutrition of fast food, especially the fat content of food items. The above excerpt demonstrates the excessive fat in food traditionally not high in fat content. Two slices of pizza can contain the total amount of fat in a daily diet for a typical person. This source reinforces the hazards of a fast food diet which was brought to light in "Fast Food Nation". ps. If you visit the source, try the british accent voice reading.

First of all, good nutrition quote! Thats really disgusting. I think that beyond just relating to the food produced in FFN, it also correlates to the diet presented in N&D, as well as the food being produced in The Jungle (the unknown canned stuff that they say is mostly fat and scrapes). Second, I appreciated the recommendation of listening to the source in a British accent.

"The white men menacingly watch as the young men tremble with fear, knowing that in the time they live, a Black man who demonstrates sexual interest in a white woman risks being lynched"

This source provides a detailed look at the battle royal, and this quote highlights the oppression that is evident in the first chapter.

Reports are out: modern day meatpacking is still considered to be one imposing extreme hazard to the worker. This is only one of the many modern instances of ethical injustice as employers continue to intimidate their workers from creating unions, as described with Fast Food Nation and McDonald's. It is a marriage of Sinclair's eye-opening description of the meatpacking industry and Schlosser's depiction of contemporary business ethics. 

This is a great source and annotation showing how the horrors of the meatpacking industry first brought up in the Jungle, and later in Fast Food Nation are still going on today. The terrible ethics of these big businesses are still a problem to this day.

You guys bring up valid points. Honestly it gets frustrating hearing the same topic being incessantly repeated, but it still is a good source about these novels and the poor treatment of the workers. I like how your second quote even relates it to modern times, just like FFN

This article describes the changes in wages and working conditions for labor since 1900.

Haha the comparison of exotic dancers to lemonade stand kids is funny at the beginning. But, anyways, the way this article goes in to such great detail about the conditions helps to get a better understanding of how bad it still is to work in some of these places.

"More than 750,000 children each year in America are abused or neglected, one every 42 seconds."

This article, published by the Children's Defense Fund, describes child abuse and neglect in America and the effects it has. The child welfare system does everything it can in helping neglected children, but it is common for them to turn to crime and end up in prison as adults.

The source decribes the purpose of "The Jungle", along with other topics like socialism, literary significance, and social disparity in "The Jungle". The source tells of Sinclair pursuit in revealing the poor worker's conditions to the public. The source offers insite into Sinclair philosophy and his trials in publishing "The Jungle". ps. username and password= morr36556

This article from corporate welfare discusses corruption in America and cites some incidents that demonstrate how money affects American politics. Some of the occurrences are typical of the corruption described in "Fast Food Nation", however there is also other stunning information. The excerpt above tells of how Texaco receives money from the government when it files taxes. Texaco receives money that is in the tens of millions of dollars while the lower class typically pays thousands of dollars in overall taxes per household. This article is helpful in an essay citing how big businesses benefit from corruption.

The narrator, in Invisible Man demonstrates total naivety towards the beginning of the novel. He does not realize the harm that is being done to him by white people and even by his fellow black people. The theme of communism is present within the narrator's work with the Brotherhood.

Malcolm's supposedly stated that white people did not approve of the religion of Islam because it reminded them of the injustices that they served to the African Americans. This shows the bitterness that Malcolm eventually gained towards white people. The irony of the matter is that Islam originally preached forgiveness as a high value. He using religion as a crutch for bigotry.

"Capote's recounting of Smith's childhood and family life begs the question whether Smith's crimes stem from inherent criminal tendencies, or whether he is pushed onto that path through circumstances beyond his control"

This source outlines the nature vs. nurture debate in the form of Perry and his actions. It cites examples proving Perry may have preformed the crimes out of mistreatment as a child.

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This source is all about the optimism of the workers, and how the big corporations constantly tried to manipulate and/or stamp out the sparks of hope and dreams that the migrants had. They used the migrants' dreams against them

Good article about the poor conditions or workers in the US.

This passage dictates that Malcolm was drawn to the religion of Islam because it focused on the rehabilitation of black men and the devilish tendencies of white people. Malcolm was prone to hate white people after being put into situations that led him to his drug and cigarette addiction.

shows the moral decay of the rich in the great gatsby (appearance vs reality)