servitude were illegal. While slavery may be deemed as illegal‚ it still occurs in our modern times‚ just as it did in the 1800s. This can be seen across our time in exampled such as how blacks were not allowed to vote even after emancipated‚ triangle shirtwaist company fire‚ and the way in which we treat those in other countries who are employeed by American companies today. Fredrick douglass himself said after African americans gained freedom‚ that they were not yet free until they had a say on the ballot
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discrimination of race and gender. The play is written in a very non-realistic style‚ making it suitable for any time period. When we first meet Cod she is in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire talking to a seamstress. There is a fire blazing all around them and the sound of a fire truck siren is in the distance. The Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 was one of the most infamous industrial accidents in U.S. History. The
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The Triangle Fire was one of the worst workplace disasters in history up until the attacks on the world trade center on September 11‚ 2001. Flesh and Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin tells about the conditions that the workers had to face‚ and the fire that sparked such a great conversity that worker rights were forever changed. Most of the non-fiction text deals with a lot of explicit and implicit details about the fire‚ all regarding the mistakes of the owner that lead up to the deaths of 146 workers
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protection; while also highlighting the poor‚ dangerous conditions they were expected to work in. One such way Zinn supports these points is by recounting the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and its devastating aftermath. With the NYC fire department only having ladders tall enough to reach up to the fifth floor‚ workers above were left to suffer in the fire due the horrible environmental conditions that left them unable to escape safely. While laws stated that factory doors were to open outward and those
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Nike shoes are endorsed by numerous professional athletes and are quite famous for their aerodynamic designs and the great comfort they provide. From famous tennis players like Serena Williams to NBA all-stars like Michael Jordan‚ many professional athletes‚ who have quite a significant influence on the public‚ can be seen on television advertisements endorsing Nike. Persuaded through these advertisements on television and social media‚ consumers line up daily in front of Nike stores worldwide‚ but
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Vocabulary Lesson 1 1. gauge- width of a train track 2. network- system of connected railroad lines 3. consolidate- combine 4. rebate- discount 5. pool- system in which several railroad companies agreed to divide up the buisness in an area Lesson 2 1. Bessemer process- method developed in the 1850s to produce strongersteel at a lower cost. 2. vertical integration- practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products. 3
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anxious about his mother’s condition fumbled with his cigarette‚ and caught it against the wall of the elevator. The freshly polished wood went up in flames at nearly 11 am. Smith and the elevator attendant put forth their best effort to put out the fire but to no avail. Neither survived. The flames soon spread from the elevator shaft to the rest of the Hotel. Only the dining room was left
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SWEATSHOPS: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF POVERTY Introduction How should Global Corporations behave in a period of Globalisation filled with International competitors and cheap imitators? It has been argued that such competitive pressure is likely to create new lows in global labour standards. In an attempt to remain competitive‚ Corporations cut costs by paying lower wages‚ hiring child labour‚ and imposing unsanitary working conditions on their workers. From this perspective‚ globalization is
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but in a smaller town‚ they got paid even less. The Garment District in Manhattan‚ New York was home to a large majority of sweatshop factories during the 19-20th centuries. Single handedly‚ the most famous sweatshop disasters was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In the NYC factory‚ the employees who were women‚ everyday were locked inside the small‚ dimly lit‚ and poorly ventilated building to sew shirtwaists. On March 25‚ 1911‚ around 150 women died inside the factory since they were unable
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where corporations will take action on improving working standards in sweatshop but they will be never completely gone. A good example that demonstrates this cycle is when the spread of sweatshops were reversed in the U.S. in 1911. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire was the first incident to bring awareness of sweatshop conditions‚ which dramatically reduced the number of sweatshops due to unions organizing improved wages and conditions. Sweatshops were still never completely eliminated‚ even with
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