Ishmael finds himself doing things that he never expects himself to be doing. In this story he depicts external conflicts of his environment and how it creates internal conflicts within himself. Most of the conflicts in this story are considered to be internal and mental which are a direct result of the external conflicts that are involved with his environment. “I am pushing a rusty wheelbarrow in a town where the air smells of blood and burnt flesh” (Beah Chapter 2, p. 18) These external conflicts include life in poverty, running from the soldiers, and eventually becoming a soldier himself. Life in poverty is hard enough without having to worry about a civil war in your country, let alone around the corner from your village.
Many monopoly owners did not care about what was put in their product and just cared about profit. Immigrants had to buy these products and consume them because there were few other options to pick from and they were very poor. Most younglings died and most adults faced starvation. Muckrakers tried to fix this and soon enough, Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle in response to what he witnesses. This was a detailed book about horrible working conditions and everything that was put in the meat hoppers.
Losing their land is much more difficult because of all the work they have put in to it. The men that work for the bank understand what the farmers are saying, but there’s nothing they can do. Steinbeck describes the bank as being some kind of monster, something more powerful than man, despite the fact that the bank would not exist without men to work there. “It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank
Cynthia Matos March 17, 2014 Latin I Period 4 During the repression everyone had been suffering from lack of food, water, and nutrition, everyone but the rich. They would walk past us with their fine jewels, and riches while we sit here suffering from the debt the country has put us in, but the one person everyone had despised was our great king Fernan. He was the richest of the rich, and would walk around our town with his servants feeding him, rubbing his food in our faces while we starve, but one day he will get what he deserves. I gathered the towns’ people over to the town square garden for a secret meeting in talking about the rich. I stated, “Why should we sit here and suffer while the rich are treated with luxuries and jewels, because we are poor?
Now in 2011, these workers make a dollar fifty an hour. The Filipinos were the very first group to go on strike for higher wages, but that was a fail. So everyone decided not to go to work; it did work for a while, but it was still the violence and prejudice that hindered them from succeeding. In the documentary, “Chicano: Struggle in the fields” talks about how hard life was for these migrant workers. Getting treated like property, no respect or dignity, completely invisible to all growers, and seen as lazy, ignorant, stupid, dirty, and poor and that’s one of the reasons why they were migrant workers; they also got treated like crap.
The camps are overcrowded and full of starving migrants, who are often nasty to each other. The locals are fearful and angry at the flood of newcomers, whom they derisively label “Okies.” Work is almost impossible to find or pays such a meager wage that a family’s full day’s work cannot buy a decent meal. Fearing an uprising, the large landowners do everything in their power to keep the migrants poor and dependent. While staying in a ramshackle camp known as a “Hooverville,” Tom and several men get into a heated argument with a deputy sheriff over whether workers should organize into a union. When the argument turns violent, Jim Casy knocks the sheriff unconscious and is arrested.
Factory farms in the United States are growing at a very strong rate. In these factory farms the workers do not take the animals lives into consideration. They do not give the animals proper living environments and they all die in a very painful death. The government must put new laws into effect so that the animal abuse stops. Most of the United States’ meat, eggs, and milk come from Factory Farms or concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Of Mice and Men Setting On a broader scale, it’s important that the action takes place during the Great Depression. Accordingly, the people that populate this novella are mostly all poor and desperate for work. Because of the poverty and general tough times caused by the Depression, the characters have good reason to be suspicious and distrusting of each other, feeling that there isn’t enough food, money, and work to go around. If you wanted to think creatively, this air of distrust and isolation is central to the American Depression and seems to be a set piece in this work. The friendship between Lennie and George seems all the more remarkable set against this backdrop, and the end of the friendship means that distrust and isolation will
The new workers had to endure blatant discrimination and be wary of labor recruitment schemes that promised jobs but stole what little, if any, money they had. Many Irishmen arrived without a cent, trying to escape the potato famine of the 1840s and 50s. Working on the rails was intensely hard work, always battling competition and suffering in crowded, shabby labor camps for shelter. Death from exhaustion, lack of medical and other supplies, illness and disease was a constant threat and reality. Contractors frequently exploited and abused them, to the point where there were abundant violent riots, giving the Irish their fighting reputation.
The children of the poor families were targeted the most. Since they were poor they were forced to go work in factories, this was considered child labour but they couldn’t do anything about it since they had no money. These children had there future planned out for them they would work in the factories, since they would not be able to afford to go to school. This caused more poverty in Canada since they would still be working for little pay, so industrialization really didn’t make this issue any better for most people in the society especially children. Overall children were treated horribly and forced to work at young ages were children should never work at, all because of industrialization.