while working in the factories and mines. The Cherry Coal Mine Disaster created a need for the Workers Compensation Act‚ which compensates workers who are harmed while working. On November 13‚ 1909‚ at 7:00 a.m.‚ 481 workers‚ men and boys‚ descended into the Cherry Coal Mine near Cherry‚ IL‚ a few miles northwest of La Salle‚ IL on Illinois Highway 89. Some sections of the mine where 500 feet below the surface. That day the electrical system broke down‚ and the mine was lit by kerosene torches that
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For our game‚ we chose to use the downward spiral of life as our format for the playing board. We chose this because it is the symbol on some of the actual Native Son books. It is very fitting for the events of Bigger’s life‚ it truly just gets worse and worse. At the same time‚ it gets better and this spiral explains it because we never know where it starts. His path from what he does leads to the affects on his soul. In our game‚ multiple characters are invited to travel along this journey
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Week 4: Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Report Monique Carr BCOM/275 February 21‚ 2013 Instructor: Yuvonne Richmond Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Report In the article that I had to research called “Over 30 workers trapped after Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” (Weik‚ 2010) it talks about what occurred on August 5‚ 2010 in which the San Jose mine collapsed trapping approximately 30 workers. The article indicated that prior
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The poem‚ ¨Mother to Son¨ by Langston Hughes depicts a mother talking to her son about how life treated her and how he should treat it in return. In the first stanza of the poem‚ it says ¨Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it. And splinters‚ And boards torn up...¨ This can be seen as the mother’s life has not been sunshine and lollipops‚ but it was filled with pain and heartbreak. With these emotions coming in throughout the good and the bad times‚ sometimes it may want you
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In the novel Native Son‚ there is a central idea of the oppression on African-Americans and the psychological effects caused by such racism. The main character‚ Bigger Thomas is the embodiment of this theme as he is a black male who lives on the Southside of Chicago. His whole life has been oppressed by the white male as he has only completed the eighth grade‚ lives in a cramped household with his mom‚ little sister and brother‚ and does not have the means to support his family has caused him to
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James Baldwin‚ an american writer for his novels on racial and perosnal identity focus on civil rights struggles in the united states during the civil rights movement. Notes of a native son‚ written in the 1940’s to the eraly 1950’s allows the readers to understand baldwins first hand experiences during this movement‚ where he faces the consequences of racial descrimination. throughout the novel‚ baldwin explores the most obvious actions of sexual and racial descriminations in western
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Oppression In the novel Native Son written by Richard Wright a young adult named Bigger Thomas goes through a metamorphosis‚ from sanity to insanity. He starts out a normal trouble youth‚ living in a run down housing project‚ where all he does is hang out with his gang. But the city relief program gives him an opportunity to work and make something of himself. All he has to do is chauffeur for a very rich family. But on his first job everything goes wrong and he ends up murdering
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pawns of a white society. The late writer‚ Richard Wright shed light on this plight within America. Richard Wright was born in Roxie‚ Mississippi in 1908. This was an era that African Americans were treated as second class citizens. The novel Native Son by Richard Wright is about discovering strength through family pressures‚ self values and social norms. This
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Chilean Mine Collapse Over two months trapped underground waiting to be rescued their waiting had finally come to an end on October 13‚ 2010. Two months ago on August 5th‚ 2010‚ in the city of Copiapo‚ Chile‚ near the Atacama desert an underground mining had collapsed trapping 33 miners 2300 feet below the surface. Now‚ given under the circumstances that the mine had a history of previous accidents and deaths‚ this led everyone to believe that the 33 men underground
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patriarchal society it is expected for men to have the best or most well noted opinions when it comes to topics of feminism‚ writing‚ sexuality and much more. In Malinche’s Revenge‚ Chicana rebels work to discredit Octavio Paz’s views in his essay the “Sons of Malinche” from a Chicana‚ Lesbian‚ Working feminists point of view. This was done by using women in different scenarios at different times in history‚ in order to call out the sexist‚ racists and homophobic views Paz had in discussing the La Malinche
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