...The Time Me and My Friends Went to the Atrox Factory It was a Saturday afternoon, I was in need of a fun thing to do. I call two of my friends, Jabrian and Zay. We made plans to go to the Atrox Factory. Since it is Halloween, of course, we decided to go for a couple of hours. Xavier says “ I’ll drive if you want me to.” But I tell him that I was already here, which they thought was strange. Minutes go by, Xavier and Jabrian are on their way when I told them that I was at the entrance. They get there and call Me and I go to the truck and dap them both up and says “ what up yall.” Xavier laughs and says “ how long you been up out here?” I respond with “ about thirty minutes.” Me and Xavier look at Jabrian and he is looking around very strangely. We ask him what he was looking at and he says “ man im looking for a girl out here.” Well it was already getting late so we didn’t have time for...
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...Through a steady chain reaction, fast food has slowly changed factory farming and agriculture. Corporate ownership, harsh working conditions, and new ways to produce food have risen out of the fast food industry and are now prominent in all aspects of agriculture. Although agriculture affects many, those who witness its negatives first hand are workers. Agriculture in today’s terms can no longer be called farming. Regarded as “agribusiness” by an environmentalist group known as Grace Communications, factory workers are often employed and controlled by corporate owners. These corporations have an unexplainable upper hand over workers and other farmers. Two types of corporate farming are common in the U.S: contract farming and vertical...
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...Farm Animals face great abuse in the food industry when they are raised; they are being treated as objects instead of living creatures. “Animal Rights: An Overview,” explains the conditions the animals are brought up in: “Common factory farming methods include confining animals in small windowless cubicles, feeding animals hormones to improve the flavor and texture of their meat and milk, and limiting exercise and interaction with other animals” (Rich and Wager). The cages used to keep the animals in are far too small for all of them to fit and have room to walk around in. This is all on purpose so the animals never have the chance to exercise, which increases the amount of meat on them. Another way the industry fattens up the animals is by...
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...their bodies increase. Factory farmers have been restricting the lives of their live-stock. Animals in factory farms are living lives which are far from the lifestyles that nature had intended for them. After reading many articles about the negative effects factory farming has on animals, I now know what truly goes on behind the walls of factory farms. I’ve been so disgusted by this that I’ve decided to eat less meat and consume organic products. Consumers of meat need to be aware of this foul practice. This not only affects the animals, but it also affects the consumer and the environment. Factory farming is not only inhumane,...
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...Immigrants and women workers were powering the factories in the east, while farmers were supporting them in the fields in the west. The laissez-faire strategy of the government allowed corporations led by captains of industry to form monopolies and control entire industries. However, this boom of industry came with many byproducts. Many of the owners of the corporations were known as robber barons because they would profit off the long hours and low wages of the factory workers. The late 1800s brought many strikes such as the Pullman and Homestead strikes, both spreading nationwide...
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...The Triangle Factory Fire took place on March 25, 1911. It made history by being the most deadly workplace fire to have ever occured in New York. The flames that attacked the top three floors of the Asch building killed 176 people. Families were left devastated and citizens were horrified. Most of the people that worked in that building were immigrants. They moved from another country, many wanting a better life. What was life actually like for the brave people who sailed across the ocean, hoping for change? Between the years 1900 and 1915 over 15 million immigrants arrived in America. This is about equal to the number of immigrants who arrived in the previous forty years combined. The majority of newcomers came from non English speaking countries. It was during this time of immigration that the Triangle Factory Fire took place. Most of the people working in the Asch building at this time were Italian or Jewish. Jewish families were trying to escape the prosecution and economic hardships that were taking place in their home countries. Italians came across the sea with the promise of wealth and prosperity in America. (Haddix 283)...
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...What happened during The Triangle Factory Fire? The Triangle Factory Fire was on March 25,1911,This fire was a massive tragedy for many people and their families.The fire started up because someone dropped a bud from a cigarette or something from the cigarette into a bunch of shirt parts that was in a bin under the table.The wasn't really anything it was just a small fire under the table until guys in the room tried to stop it with water the fire didn't die down tho it just got bigger it caught cloth that was hanging from the ceiling on fire.It was to dangerous now and there was no stopping it. Unlike it is now fire safety wasn't something that was practise back then it wasn't the most touched subject for the people in factory because i guess they thought it wouldn't ever be a problem.Well they were wrong to think that cause now its major problem.People decided it was smart to go down the elevator but in got stuck So people decided it was pointless to wait for it and jumped down the elevator door away only to land on top of the elevote and die....
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...The role I plan on doing is the common factory worker. Many things had happened during the time of the Great Depression and what had lead up to it. The main thing that people believe started the Great Depression was the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Things like the Fiscal Policy, the Monetary Policy, and the Labor Policy helped stabilize the United States after the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash. Many other factors took place during this time but the main ones stand out more. Fiscal policy is the means by which a government adjusts its spending levels and tax rates to monitor and influence a nation's economy. Monetary policy is maintained through actions such as increasing the interest rate, or changing the amount of money banks need to keep in the vault....
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...Triangle Factory Fire safety issues. The triangle factory fire was one of the most tragic events in New York, up until September 11th of 2001. 146 bodies were identified, any others were burnt in the fire or too massacred to tell who it was. No one knows exactly how the fire was started. There are theories, but for it to have gone the way it did, the conditions of the building, and the people, couldn't have been safe. The women who worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, had apparently been asking for a wage increase, (then only making 6$ an hour.) and better fire safety. Only their pay was increased, and the hazardous way things worked in the Asch building pursued. Doorways were only able to have one person go down at...
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...In the Industrial War there lay a factory called The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory .The factory made blouses for women , that would make the women look tinier around the waist area so they could have more curvature to their body. The Triangle Shirtwaist factory also had a very bad tragedy in the early years of the factory which i will tell you about in a little bit. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was owned by two gentlemen named Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. The men opened the factory in 1900’s. The Factory was located on the corner of Greene St. ,and Washington Pl. in Manhattan.They factory had a majority of women working at the factory and a couple of men here and there. The Homestead Act was an act on how factory owners...
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...In the early 1900s, people who worked in companies, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, came from different countries, mainly from Europe to New York City. These immigrants knew that by coming to the United States, they had a better chance of finding a job and were in charge of their own future. Meanwhile, men, women, and children, who worked for Triangle, knew they were not being treated fairly. However, even though labor conditions were horrifying, immigrants needed jobs desperately and felt like they had no choice. They had the option to confront their employer about cruelty, such as taking money from their paychecks for unreasonable reasons, but they knew at the end of the day they could be easily replaced. The staff of this factory...
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...The Triangle Factory Fire Was the Perfect Storm On March 25th, 1911 at 4:45 P.M., workers on the 8th floor of the Asch Building are getting ready for quitting time and are standing around idly and conversing with one another. Although it is unknown exactly how the fire started, it is assumed that a worker flicked a cigarette ash into one of the baskets of spare cloth under the desks. And while the Asch Building itself was fireproof, the contents unfortunately were not. The fire consumed the table above it and continued to spread out. The workspace on the 8th floor had perfect conditions for a fire, overcrowded and stuffed full of flammable cloth. Locked doors and doors that opened inward instead of outward also caused many deaths. Many...
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...How Does the Triangle Factory Fire Effect us Today? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was tragic moment for the city of New York. You could have done many things to not start the fire. People don’t know for sure how it started, but we people today think a cigar was thrown into a bin which caused the fire. How does this affect our lives today? Well it does because this tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. 36 laws were enacted after the fire. Many health and safety laws enacted. 146 people died on March 25, 1911.The 36 laws enacted covered improved sanitation conditions such as...
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...Survivors of the Triangle Factory Fire Most people that were on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of the floors Triangle Factory during the fire did not survive. Within eighteen minutes the fire was over and 146 people died. Those who did survive were left to live with the memories and agony of the tragic event. Some of the survivors were even willing to do interviews and tell about about their experiences. Josephine Nicolosi was a blouse maker working on the eighth floor when the fire started. A cutter named Sal had a match on the table and yelled “It’s a fire,” but he usually joked about it so Josephine didn't realize it was real until he threw a bucket of water at it and flames started shooting up. She immediately ran towards the windows with a crowd of other girls but she was too scared to jump. Leo Brown, the mechanist, yelled to the girls “Get on the side, I have a key!” Josephine walked through the door with him along with others trying to escape the flames. When they got out side one of her friends said “Thank God we are not like them, we’re alright.” Her friend walked over to one of...
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...The Triangle Factory fire was the most dangerous thing that had ever happened in New York, in 1911. Over 146 people died in this tragedy and 71 were injured and survived. There were many conditions and hazards that made so many people die. People have said that the fire had spread under the door, but how? Isn’t the door low enough? No because there were so many flammable objects in the factory, so this means that the fire had spread because there were papers,boxes,and even plastic. The building wasn't in good condition in the first place. They had very poor working conditions in those factories. But some witnesses said the doors were locked so they couldn’t get out. Also people on the ninth floor were to high up so people could not...
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