Date: November 8th‚ 2012 (Thursday) I. Employee Death Sparks Outrage at Sourcing Factories in China (2009) On July 16‚ 2009‚ a 25-year-old Foxconn employee named Sun Danyong committed suicide by jumping from the twelfth floor of his apartment building. Mr. Sun‚ who worked at an electronics factory in Shenzen‚ had been put in charge of a prototype of a new Apple iPhone that went missing. Mr. Sun’s death has sparked outrage about labor conditions at China’s factories and at the Western companies
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from Key West‚ Florida‚ to Havana‚ Cuba‚ to protect the U.S. from early conflicts between Cuba‚ Spain‚ and the United States. Three weeks later‚ an explosion occurred on board the Maine. The Maine sunk and hundreds of men on board died. This caused outrage and was ultimately thought to be the reason that the Americans declared war on Spain. The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine was not a fair reason to start a war due to the fact that it was a secondary battle ship and the spanish did not sink the Main
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though on plates into the ships" this quote painted an image of how America sought to control the people of the country where they had no authority (Neruda‚ "United Fruit Company"). "United Fruit Company" is only one of the poems where his sense of outrage and rebelliousness can be
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The Empire in Transition Explain the importance of the series of crises from the Sugar Act through the Coercive Acts. How did each crisis change colonial attitudes toward the mother country? In the pre-Revolutionary era‚ outrage was rampant throughout the colonies‚ as the British‚ seeking to correct their debts from the costly French and Indian War‚ decided to make good on direct taxation in the colonies‚ thus monopolizing the trade industry‚ and eventually‚ vying for total control of the
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Title: A speech of commemoration for Harriet Tubman Specific purpose: To commemorate March 10th as Harriet Tubman Day and to inform the audience about her life and fight for freedom I. Introduction A. Attention getter: Imagine a time when you have no rights of your own. From the time that you are born until the time that you die‚ you are someone else’s property and are under their directions and orders- and sometimes their cruelty. You are a slave in the mid 1800s in the Southern
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The Corporation-Long Essay. The function of documentaries is to present real life issues or subjects to the general public. As they present facts‚ documentaries can be accepted as‚ to an extent‚ an accurate representation of reality. However it is not true to say that they are completely factual and that everything presented in a documentary is true. Coming to an agreement‚ particularly over controversial issues such as the influence of corporations in our society‚ is extremely difficult. Even if
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The Vietnam war was a long and violent war. The students at Kent State did not agree with the war and the bombing of Cambodia. This caused an outrage after getting shot by the Ohio National Guard. The Vietnam War started on November 1‚ 1955‚ and ended on April 30‚ 1975. The war was fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North wanted to reunify Vietnam. The U.S. supported South Vietnam along with South Korea‚ Australia‚ and Thailand. The U.S. joined because they were
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If you do not realize that this proposal is satirical‚ you have no sense of humor or irony. It is impossible to imagine a serious proposal for eating children. Yet‚ it is not enough simply to indulge one’s outrage over the argument or to smile at the jokes. Is Swift just having fun‚ or does he have something serious to say? Stereotypes against Irish Catholics make it easier for Swift to use them as the subject of his satire. The stereotypes are present in both the reasons for the proposal and the
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around the world. Why has this particular rape inspired so much outrage‚ people ask‚ when sexual violence is‚ sadly‚ so pervasive and commonplace there? The savagery of the attack and the young woman’s inspiring story as the first in her poor family to pursue an advanced education and a career in medicine made this case deeply affecting. But this kind of crime and public awareness of it should not be seen as exceptional. In fact‚ outrage about the mistreatment and abuse Indian women suffer on a daily
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When Edward Snowden leaked internal National Security Agency documents to the American public‚ the result was outrage. This outrage was caused by the discovery that Americans were not free to have privacy on the internet and on mobile devices. Although the monitoring of communications undeniably created a higher level of safety‚ it was still widely opposed on the basis
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