These men began removing boxes and pieces of machinery from the warehouse. There were loaded in a U-Haul that had been parked around back with the lights off. This activity continued for several days with each morning bringing more missing machinery and even the furniture in the offices disappearing. The workers realized that the company was disbanding their factory and probably setting up a factory somewhere else with the equipment from Republic. It had become news that a new window and door factory was opening up in Red Oak, Iowa and that the owner was from a company that was just incorporated on November 18, 2008.
There is an apparent level of control over the workers in ‘Metropolis’, most notably evident in the opening scene. The emotionless men sway in the same direction like machines, appearing as if in they are in jail while various cuts are made to show the machinery moving in a fast-paced motion. At the time of the production, WWI had ended nine years previously bringing much scepticism regarding the use of machinery, as the cost of life of the War was on an industrial scale. Therefore the imagery of the machinery in concurrence with the lifeless workers represents a correlation between the two, as the workers are merely machine-like. The mournful soundtrack creates a dismal and despairing atmosphere, with its low pitch shaping the overall gloomy feel of the setting.
There was a policeman standing to guard the factory against any mishaps. The young comrade handed a leaflet of the text to a factory worker and asked to read and pass it to the others. Soon enough, the policeman snatched the leaflet from the worker’s hand when he entered the factory. The policeman started to interrogate all the workers to find out where the leaflet came from. None of them could mention about the comrade correctly.
It’s really a “get the job done and leave” kind of a place. The workers clearly reflect the feeling of this bunk house. First Candy, he is one of the workers who had lost a hand probably due to a work related accident. He and Slim are the only ones actually talk normally to George. Candy opens up many behind-the-back stories and general info of the life in the bunk house.
As Kathy and the kids left Zeitoun was left to take care his house and his tenants houses. All by himself he went to every house to secure any lose tools that could damage the houses. He shows that he is unselfish when he brought everything to the second floor because of the flood waters. “Elevate, he thought. Elevate, Elevate.
Anderson 1 Derek Anderson Instructor Coates English 1101 February 27, 2013 Summary and response to “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line” In his essay “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line”, Andrew Braaksma gives his insights and lessons learned from working as a temp in car factories during summers in between semesters of college. Braaksma begins with an introduction to his job at the factory by giving descriptions of his position on the production line, building assemblies for auto makers. He describes it as hard, dull and labor intensive. Within his essay he explains that the worst part of being part of the blue collar workplace is the worry that he could be layed-off at any time. Through these thoughts he came to the conclusion that factory life was something to escape by higher education.
Kids, starting at very early ages, worked as well with no remorse for them. The conditions were very bad for all the people whether they were old, young, small, or big. They were all the same. There was no light until Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Also there was tons of dust all over the mines and even inside factories such as cotton factories.
They were usually beaten by their masters if they weren’t working hard enough or had a problem with what they were doing. Adults did this to children because kids back then were easy to push around and didn’t stand up for themselves and even if they did, owners of the factories could get rid of the child and hire another since there were so many orphans out for a job. The owners of the factories weren’t as pleasant either; they used violent means to drive children. In England the Factory Act of 1802 stopped this pauper-apprentice work system, but the law did not apply to children who had parents. Children still worked in the mills for twelve hours a day at the mercy of often tyrannical supervisors.
People wear T-shirts all the time, but not many of them ever wonder how these T-shirts come to their hands, and what raw material they are made of. They just simply do not pay attention or do not care. Let’s have t-shirt manufacturing as our example to prove that Leonard’s point of view is correct. In order for the material system to work, raw materials are needed. The extraction of a specific material is founded in some areas that have compatible conditions to plant or to manufacture these materials such as culture, environment, and economy.
Also while lester is at work there is a scene where he is looking into his computer and the words form “bars”. According to the text, “American life in general was becoming increasingly conformist with both blue-collar and white collar men feeling trapped in their work routines.” We have become slaves to our life’s. but we saw how two people in the film broke free from the prisons of their life’s one being lester, when he started smoking pot he began to feel more free. he quit his job and the way they filmed that scene it showed he and his boss as the same size instead of one bigger than the other. He started to run and work out and in a sense escape back to his past.