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Soundcities by Stanza. The Global soundmaps project. Sounds from around the world in an... - 1 views

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    Soundcities is an online database of the thousands of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world.The Global soundmaps project. The Soundcities website allows the audience the possibility to remix the hundreds of samples recorded from around the world. Soundcities is an online database of the thousands of city and urban sounds from around the world.
ericalorraine

MANKIND The Story of All of Us: Industrial Revolution - 0 views

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    Richard Arkwright's spinning machine turn Britain into the centre of the industrial revolution.
ericalorraine

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child ... - 0 views

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    This lesson correlates to the National History Standards. Era 6 -The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) Standard 3A -Demonstrate understanding of how the "second industrial revolution" changed the nature of work and conditions of work. This lesson correlates to the National Standards for Civics and Government.
ericalorraine

Portraits of Pain | Taslima Akhter - 1 views

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    The look of every individual expresses their horrible memory and scream for their spoilt dreams. Dalia Amena, Mitaly, Asma and all other are the victims of Rana Plaza, a nine-story commercial building that collapsed on 24 April 2013. With more than 1134 workers' deaths and sufferings by the collapse, their lives also have fallen into a cycle of distress.
ericalorraine

The life and struggle of Garment workers | Taslima Akhter - 1 views

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    "I wanted to be an artist by drawing and making handicraft but my dream is now ruined under the niddle of machine, under the rubble and sometimes by fire"- Lija a garment worker With a dream of living a better life million of workers from villages gather in workers barrack in cities.
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What is Capital? Meaning, Features and Types of Capital - 0 views

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    Great definition of capital, with a few non-examples, which are very useful.
ericalorraine

The shirt on your back: the human cost of the Bangladeshi garment industry - 2 views

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    How did the clothes you're wearing get to you? Guardian journalists trace the lifecycle of the shirt on your back via the teeming workshops of Dhaka, where labour is cheap, factories are cheaper and just going to work can be fatal
ericalorraine

Rana Plaza Collapse: Death of A Thousand Dreams | Taslima Akhter - 1 views

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    On that day, early in the morning many garment workers walked into the factories of Rana Plaza, their working place. Within an hour everything was shattered. Nobody knows how many workers were running to save his or her lives at the end moment. Workers' scream echoed on the walls of Rana Plaza.
ericalorraine

Sample Curricula | Voice of Witness - 1 views

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    Lesson Plans for VOW's newest book, Invisible Hands, address global manufacturing. By registering with your email address, you are emailed all of the pdfs.
ericalorraine

Fresh Hell - The New Yorker - 1 views

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    Rebecca Stead chose to set her children's novel "When You Reach Me"-winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal-in nineteen-seventies New York partly because that's where she grew up, but also, as she told one interviewer, because she wanted "to show a world of kids with a great deal of autonomy."
ericalorraine

Imagining Utopia - 2 views

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    A simple definition for Utopia (coined in 1516 by Thomas More and translated literally as "no-place") is hard to come by. Lyman Tower Sargent, founding editor of the journal Utopian Studies, describes the writers of utopias as "social dreamers." He explains in his article "The Three Face of Utopianism," I define the broad, general phenomenon...
ericalorraine

Ron Ritchart's thinking routines, etc. from Cultures of Thinking Resources - 1 views

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    Below you will find downloadable pdf files for some key Culture of Thinking resources. The research and theoretical basis for the Cultures of Thinking work can be found in my book, Intellectual Character.
ericalorraine

Industry's Victims in Bangladesh - 0 views

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    International attention has been focused on workers' safety in Bangladesh since the disaster at Rana Plaza, a garment factory complex which collapsed in April, killing 1,132 workers. As concern runs high about the safety of garment workers, Reuters photographer Andrew Biraj spent time photographing survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse and also documenting the lives of workers in other industries in Bangladesh, where conditions can be hazardous.
ericalorraine

poem by Chinese poet about factory life - 1 views

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    The Factory Girl From the damp, dirty hallway, From the long lines of the cafeteria, From the rumble of the machines and the unbearable factory noise, The daylight drifts by, the starlight drifts by. Forever crying on the production line, The factory girls endure exhaustion and hardship.
scmaestra

Oakland, California (CA) income map, earnings map, and wages data - 0 views

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    map, graphs, pie charts on distribution of income throughout Oakland
scmaestra

Reality Check: Violent Crime Is Down in Oakland | Seven Days | The Weekly News Roundup ... - 1 views

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    reality vs. media perceptions of crime in oakland
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How Can You Measure Income Inequality? Count The Trees - COLORLINES - 2 views

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    trees = teller of income inequality!
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