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Evan G

???? Links - 8 views

Wow! Thanks, I honestly would never have guessed any of them on my own!

fast food nation grapes of wrath treatment of the worker the jungle ethics poor nickel and dimed workers america treatment

Travis F

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - SEVEN LYRICS - 0 views

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    This song, without directly mentioning the book, is greatly similar. Like Gatsby Dave Matthews is completely enthralled by another woman for he says "You are my obsession" . In addition the inflection in Matthews voice when singing "I Love you, Love you, love you, love you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you" is scary, it sounds as if he has a creepy obsession with some woman just as Gatsby feels about Daisy.
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    you clown
Evan G

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

  • . 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.
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    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.
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    This is great, I was looking for a review like this when writing the first paper.
David D

U.S. Department of Labor -- History -- Workers of a New Century - 5 views

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    This page is interesting because it talks about the tactics that employers used to combat unions and strikes. They used a combination of black listing, espionage, strikebreaking, and company unions. Unions were the only threat to the industrial machine, and had to be dealt with. Profits were the only goal for employers, so even mistreatment of the laborers and their unions was common.
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    I found this article very interesting, it seems ridiculous by our standard what some of these companies. To these workers though it is just a part of life. It seems that they would do nothing short of poisoning or killing their employees if it resulted in them turning a profit!
Vivas T

Gale Power Search - Document - 4 views

  • His new embrace of Islam greatly changed his views. When he returned to the United States in 1964, Malcolm X rejected racism of all kinds, spoke of a common bond linking humanity, and conceded that some whites did want to end racism. He formally broke with the Nation of Islam and changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
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      This article illustrates Malcolm's final ability to grasp the truth about his religion which signifies his new identity. Similar to IM, he is able to break from his controlling "brothers" and is advocate his own beliefs, therefore contributing his true beliefs into society.
Emily S

Imprisonment imagery in Invisble Man - 3 views

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    Winther explains that the imagery used in Invisible Man describes the idea of societal imprisonment that IM experiences. For example, the iron chain that he carries around in his briefcase refers not only to the physical enslavement of the Black people but the emotional and mental restrictions but on them by society.
Sydney C

Fast-Food Giant Ignores Rights of Workers - 3 views

  • ncreasingly, according to Oxfam, today's globalized economy is characterized by powerful corporations at the top of the product supply chain. "These massive, highly consolidated and vertically-integrated corporations are able to extract value from the supply chain by squeezing costs and offloading responsibility onto those below them--their shippers and suppliers." Suppliers, in turn, try to extract greater value from producers, while producers--with very few variable costs they can cut--"squeeze their labor force," resulting in declining wages and deteriorating work and living conditions
  • roblem, however, is that the company puts the obligation for monitoring and enforcing the code on its suppliers, rather than on itself--yet another example of the corporation at the top of the chain sloughing off responsibilities onto a lower link to avoid additional costs for itself.
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    Talks about the corporate strategies to thrive and prosper. The CEOS just want money, so they force the suppliers to make more money. The suppliers have to live up to these standards, so they in turn squeeze the workers out, milking unnecessarily large profits where they could have shared with the worker and still done reasonable well.
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    "The vow is admirable, according to Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, who, however, noted in a recent article that Yum! apparently gives higher priority to its responsibility for ensuring the welfare of the animals whose meat it buys than for that of the farm workers who pick the 40 million pounds of tomatoes it buys each year."
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    Didn't realize that people already used this source.
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    The businesses behind farms that provide for fast food companies are under scrutiny for not treating their (mostly immigrant) workers with respect and fairness. They are also buying out smaller farms, and removing a whole class of people from the system.
Evan G

GRAPES OF WRATH - 2011 « The Burning Platform - 3 views

  • “It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” – John Steinbeck
  • By 1929, the richest 1% owned 40% of the nation’s wealth
  • The have-nots can dream about becoming a have, but the chances of achieving that dream today are miniscule. Steinbeck pointedly distinguishes between the selfishness of the moneyed class and the altruism of the working poor. In contrast to and in conflict with this policy of selfishness stands the migrants’ behavior toward one another. Aware that their livelihood and survival depend upon their devotion to the collective good, the migrants unite—sharing their dreams as well as their burdens—in order to survive. 
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    An overall summary of the depression/GOW. It especially hits on the selifshness of the rich, who seek to keep the poor divided, as well as on the unity of the poor, who die and sacrifice for each other. It contains an EXCELLENT quote from Steinbeck which cynically describes human nature, basically saying that nice guys are admired, but they never get ahead. Greedy, mean guys are hated, but they are admired for their success.  Again, later  it ties into crushing the migrants' dreams in order to keep them down and divided.
Evan G

SparkNotes: The Grapes of Wrath: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 3 views

  • Steinbeck consistently and woefully points to the fact that the migrants’ great suffering is caused not by bad weather or mere misfortune but by their fellow human beings. Historical, social, and economic circumstances separate people into rich and poor, landowner and tenant, and the people in the dominant roles struggle viciously to preserve their positions.
  • In order to protect themselves from such danger, the landowners create a system in which the migrants are treated like animals, shuffled from one filthy roadside camp to the next, denied livable wages, and forced to turn against their brethren simply to survive.
  • ” In the face of adversity, the livelihood of the migrants depends upon their union. As Tom eventually realizes, “his” people are all people.
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  • . Simple self-interest motivates the landowners and businessmen to sustain a system that sinks thousands of families into poverty.
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    Although Sparknotes is a very stereotypcial website on novels, it's still a very effective source of information. It makes blatantly clear the fact that the rich, aristocratic upper class is mainly responsible for the poverty and economic devastation in the country. The rich get richer at the cost of the destruction of the lower class. The workers are treated poorly in an effort to keep them desperate, which in turn keeps the rich people rich. Selfishness and greed, key themes in practically every novel read so far, is clarified and pointed out. The condition of the migrants is no accident, it's an intentional, deliberate plot to oppress them. Their only hope is through unity.
Brian C

The Invisible Man in Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man - 3 views

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    goes into detail about the theme of invisibility and connects it to the real world. Relates the apocalyptic ending of the novel to the theme of invisibility, as well as discussing Ellison's literary influences
David D

The Chain Never Stops - 2 views

  • The meatpacking industry not only has the highest injury rate, but also has by far the highest rate of serious injury—more than five times the national average, as measured in lost workdays
  • The meatpacking industry has a well-documented history of discouraging injury reports, falsifying injury data, and putting injured workers back on the job quickly to minimize the reporting of lost workdays
  • The typical plant now hires an entirely new workforce every year or so.
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  • In a relatively brief period of time, the meatpacking industry also became highly centralized and concentrated, giving enormous power to a few large agribusiness firms.
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    This whole site talks about awful treatment of the workers in packing industries. It's a lot like Fast Food Nation and the Jungle, because it gives both specific stories and overall points about the dangers that the workers face, and how little the companies care about such dangers.
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    This article is one that describes the depressing plight of Kenny Dobbins, a worker at the Monfort/ Con-Agra Beef Plant in Greeley, Colorado. A hard working and loyal worker, Dobbins suffered injuries, saved lives, and broke strikes during his years, only to be rewarded by getting fired after suffering a heart attack and seeking compensation. A recurring theme seen in Fast Food Nation and The Jungle was that profits are the only concern for businessmen, as the worker is indespensable and replaceable.
Evan G

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Fast Food Nation - 2 views

  • uncovering a bloated business empire grown insensitive to anything but the bottom line, and he discusses all of this in an effectively quiet, informative way without overwhelming the reader with forced rhetoric.
  • What was once a bewildering array of different companies boiled down to the successful few that survived and spread, and they succeeded largely through marketing and by various aggressive techniques for maximizing profits.
  • gruesomeness of a job that victimizes workers as the company speeds up the production line to maximize profits. The faster the slaughterhouse functions, the more money it makes, but after a certain point, workers are increasingly likely to hurt themselves and others with knives, and also to pollute the meat when they fail to cleanly cut the intestines out of each cow.
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    Talks about the Suvival of the fittest of companies, and how they must fight in order to survive and grow. Unfortunately, surviving and growing means devaluing and diminishing their workers, which "victimizes workers as the company speeds up the production line"
Vivas T

Gale Power Search - Document - 2 views

  • Smith lived with an alcoholic mother who became a prostitute; a brother and sister who committed suicide; and a father whose fanciful dreams kept Smith moving from place to place, unable to continue his education past the third grade.
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      This article clearly illustrates Perry's horrific childhood and its negative effects on him as an adult.
Evan G

A review Fast Food Nation | Grist - 2 views

  • Turnover is huge, and the companies profit from it: Short-term workers accrue few benefits and are less likely to organize. Schlosser recounts how McDonald's and its ilk have fought against unions, sometimes closing stores to prevent workers from unionizing.
  • . Three companies grow and process about 80 percent of all French fries now served by fast food chains
  • The meat-processing industry and restaurant chains continually lobby against regulations that would improve worker and food safety
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    Gives a brief summary of all of Schlosser's complaints in FFN, while whining about the meat industries and their expansion, development, tactics, and industrialization. 
Zach Ramsfelder

McRage - 2 views

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    Article about why and how the environment produces so much violent crime.
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    This is a good source but your annotation should include how it relates to our other books like The Jungle and how Jurgis is forced into a life of crime or the Oakies, with no money to get gas forced to steal.
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    Willie what are you talking about? It's an article about McDonald's aggression and how angry customers are clowning around and causing commotion! That doesn't mention Jurgis or Joads. It just talks about how the workers, ex-workers, and even customers of the fast food industry get incited to take aggressive action. It reminded me of the chapter of FFN where it spoke of how restaurants are robbed incredibly frequently; and said robberies even result in more deaths than police-related activities. Or something along those lines.
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    Hahahaha calm down ^ But this is good! It's funny that fast food restaurants are the place for so much crime when they were originally meant as a safe place for families.
Vivas T

JSTOR: The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 125-134 - 2 views

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      This article portrays the Gothic theme of isolation as it relates to Faulkner's novel. It also illustrates the importance of communication and language, which the family lacks, further enabling their alienation from one another.
Zach Ramsfelder

"Rally against McDonald's" Flyer - 2 views

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    A flyer that claims that McDonald's profits off the low-wage, back-breaking work of not only slaughterhouse workers but also impoverished farm workers. The flyer urges people to come to a rally at McDonald's corporate headquarters in support of farm workers.
Vivas T

Gale Power Search - Document - 2 views

  • he saw his task as waking up "dead Negroes" by revealing the truth about America and about themselves.
  • While he was in prison, his life was transformed when he discovered, through the influence of an inmate, the liberating value of education and, through his family, the empowering religious/cultural message of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam. Both gave him what he did not have: self-respect as a black person.
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      This article illustrates the growth of Malcolm X through his years in prison and portrays his identification of himself, as well as the truth which surrounds him. This article illustrates his willingness to "waken"others around him portraying his social responsibility in society.
Connor P

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: PERCEPTION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BEI... - 2 views

  • With Cash, Darl believes that he shares a close affinity, as though he and Cash truly were one person. Addie's narration partially explains this curious affiliation, for she has lumped the boys together and disowned them both:
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    This here shows the specfic isolation of Cash and Darl. Addie disowns them as she lumps them into the pre-Jewel children, and this isolation has different effects on both boys
Sarah Sch

(2) Malcolm X - An Islamic Perspective - 2 views

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    "El-Hajj Malik is a source of pride for African-Americans, Muslims, and Americans in general. His message is simple and clear: I am not a racist in any form whatever. I don't believe in any form of racism. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. I believe in Islam. "
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    This article is a biography of Malcolm X written from an Islamic perspective. This article discussed the legacy of Malcolm X in terms of his contributions to the Islamic faith in America. Malcolm X's perception changes when he witnesses the orthodox Muslim pilgrimage where everyone was free from discrimination. Malcolm X comes to the realization that he is wrong to decree all whites evil and that there are decent white people along with the bad just like any other race.
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