Essential Question

From this project I learned about how important the Triangle Factory Fire was and how much it affected the people of today. My view changed because before I thought that people wouldn't be interested in the Triangle Factory Fire, but I was wrong. People today still care about the workers that had died on March 25, 1911. Based upon what I had learned I will let everyone around my block know about all of this and ask them to help us fight with me to put a stop to poor working conditions around the world. Also I would tell everyone that they must help in order to put a stop to all of this cruelty.

Campagne Letter

The Honorable Jose Serrano

Bronx Office
788 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10455

Dear Congressman Serrano,

I would like to say that there should be something done about the poor working conditions of factory workers in the U.S. The reason why is because back in 1911 on march 25, which was the day of the Triangle Factory Fire, the workers had wasted most of their days working in the factory for very little pay. Now a days, the factory workers still go through the same conditions just like back then. There should be a stop to this. Sweatshops were made to make manufacturing easier and faster for people to get the materials that they needed in a short amount of time. Now that there are many immigrants in the U.S factory owners are taking advantage of them by opening up sweatshops and making them work for very long hours for very little pay. It's cruel!!!!!! I find that wrong because immigrants came to the U.S for a better life for themselves and their families. Just because they opened back up sweatshops for immigrants to work doesn't mean they can take advantage of them by making them work for so little money. That's very rude and mean of those factory owners. People who agree with me would stand up and fight for the rights of immigrants to never work in sweatshops ever again! If you need any further information click on the following link below for more information:

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/triangleaccount.html

The person in charge should change the way people look at others because if a citizen were to look like an immigrant they shouldn't put that person to work in a factory. we must protect and respect each other. After all the United States is a country of immigrants. If no one would want to work in a factory for very little money then they should shut down the sweatshops for good!

Thank You for your Consideration.

Sincerely,
Tiffany
8-805

Poetry & Working Conditons

The poem,"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou talks about people who are oppressed and how they can't escape for that they feel like birds stuck inside cages and will never be set free. The bird in the poem sings for freedom. The theme of the poem is freedom.

The poem is related to the Triangle Factory because the workers were working there with no way to escape from the fire that broke out. They had worked hard and what did they get, a one way ticket sentence to death and the person who owned the factory did nothing but lock doors to avoid theft. They also felt like caged birds because they spent most their days working the factory for very little pay.

Values and Working Conditions

Two activists are Cezar Chavez and Nelson Mandela. The values of Cezar Chavez are that he was a Labor Leader and Civil Rights activist. The value of Nelson Mandela is that he was elected as a full representative democrat. Their values are connected to my values because they worked very hard to get to where they had gotten to. Nelson Mandela helped with the democrat election. While Cezar Chavez helped with the civil rights movement. Also, right now I am trying to become either a singer or an attorney. But in order to do so I have to work hard and focus on my studies. If I am not able to become either an attorney or a singer I will have to find a job. I believe that it is my destiny to become an attorney or a singer.

Factory Workers Then and Now

The important circumstances that affected employees at Nike and at the Triangle factory are that in the Triangle factory the workers were going through very bad labor conditions and also there were many injuries and deaths because of the machines that the people were handling. The employees at the Nike factory did not suffer as many injuries and deaths, However, they were paid very little money. I say that the workers at the Triangle factory were working under many harsh conditions. As a result, there was sickness and injuries.
I can compare the circumstances of the employees at Nike to the employees at the Triangle factory because the employees at Nike work just as hard as the employees at the Triangle factory but at Nike, they don't have any deaths or as many injuries as there was in the Triangle factory.

My opinion upon regarding the situation is that at the Triangle factory the workers went through very hard times at the factory but at Nike it is different because the Nike workers had work that was very easy for them to do. The Triangle factory workers had harder jobs to do. Also they had longer work hours.
Sites:

http://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1693757.html

http://www.zpub.com/notes/znote-nike.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june98/nike_5-13a.html

Movie Critique "Glory Road"

Other groups that faced discrimination were immigrants.
I think that sports did contribute to the Civil Rights movement because back then they wouldn't let African-Americans would want to play sports but they weren't allowed because of their skin color and their race. They would always find ways to play the sports they wanted to play.
An appropriate theme for this movie would be, "No matter the color of your skin or the clothes that you wear, you are still human."
A book with a similar theme would be The Color Purple.

I think the movie was kind of cool but yet boring at the same time. I say that because the only part that was cool was when they played games and the rest of the movie was boring.

Story Themes

The theme to my story was, " Isolation." The reason why I believe that is the theme to my story is because I felt alone in the world when my father was gone. I felt that there would be no one to get me out of that little corner except for my father. When I was searching for my father, I felt that he had left forever and to never return. Part of me wanted to cry while the other wanted to keep on looking for him. He was gone and there was nothing I could do to make him come back. I felt helpless, useless, and a doll that just standing still on a shelf with no one to get me down and play with me.