Analysis Of The Poem ' Lessons From The Assembly Line '

I think one aspect of the book I found most troubling is the working conditions some people around the world are subjected to. Even today these poor working conditions continue with the factory fires the author speaks about at the epilogue. I think many of us in the United States take what we have for granted. The authors reference to the poor working conditions around the

The book Out of Site by Erik Loomis discusses many problems when it comes to American companies outsourcing their factory jobs. One of the issues that he discusses are the horrible working conditions that plague foreign countries. These awful working conditions used to be normal in the United States in the early 19th century but laws soon changed that. Now these working conditions have just changed their location and continue to take people’s lives every year.

In the article "Some Lessons From the Assembly Line", by Andrew Braaksma, tells the story of the author during his time in college while working within an automotive plant in southwest Michigan, and the lifelong lessons in which he learned from his experience and coworkers. In this article, the author addresses his time attending college, majoring in French literature, while working back in his hometown over the summer, working a job that is best described as "torture." Some Lessons From the Assembly Line's theme of learning from the experiences in life to help teach the reader the lessons that everyone has to come to terms with at some point because most students in college always seem to overestimate the value of their time and knowledge,

Some Lessons from the Assembly Line is an informative story of a student, Andrew Braaksma, who works hard in his summer job. In his essay, Braaksma provides his readers with insights as well as an outstanding lessons learned from working as a factory worker. At the introductory part, Braaksma gives a clear depiction of his life on the production line, and it is transparent that his job is extremely hard and labor intensive (Braaksma, 2005). Besides, he explains that the disadvantage of his blue color job is that he can be laid off any time. He realizes that he is a fortunate person to enjoy the opportunity to attend college unlike some of his colleagues who have been working in the factory for over 30 years. The hard work demonstrated by several

One of the most important things I've learned while working in this factory is to never forget the little details. Never forget the way the birds looked when they would take off into flight; never forget the bright blue of the sky, and the clouds that cover the sun's modesty; and to never forget how important this job is to my family. Before I had gotten my job working at the Bibb Mill, I imaged I would work in a quiet factory with only the chatter of employees breaking the silence. I wouldn't have imagined the loud spin of the mills deafening both my mother and I. I certainly didn't imagine waking up in the wee hours of the morning, changing into my second pair of overalls, eating whatever I leftover from dinner, and heading to work. I wasn't really assigned to any specific work, but I would help my mother to whatever she couldn’t handle. Often times covering for her during her break to add a few extra cents to her paycheck. Whenever I was unsure of what to do, I would follow the lead of the children I work next to.

In Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves, Kirk Savage, through public monuments both real and proposed, analyzes the problems of American society following the Civil War and shows how race, class, and regional relations ended up as they did. Looking Backward, on the other hand, is a fictional book in which Edward Bellamy lays out his idea for how a utopian society could be constructed and run. In the era that Savage describes, more easily referred to as Reconstruction, there were a multitude of social issues facing the American people who were more divided than ever along lines of race, class, and region. Savage identifies some very specific problems that divided Americans which include the general and deep seeded view that black people were lesser and less human than white Americans, the fact that Americans were individualistic to the point that they cared more for themselves and groups they belonged to than society or the nation as a whole, and that the North and South required a mending of relationships after the war. However, Bellamy’s is a system which is purely economic and educational and does not provide solutions to these largely irrational issues and in fact would even be undermined by them given that the system itself is reliant on the fair evaluation of workers’ performance and ability of people to move up in society in accordance with their performance in labor. This means that even if Bellamy’s system could have been fully implemented in America at the time,

I felt the dust build up in my lungs, as I let out a throaty cough as the polluted dust contaminates the air I breathe, and my eyes goes foggy as my vision blurs. The amount of people that filled the streets as I continued my strenuous journey to the factory, all dressed in dirt ridden clothes with too many children and not enough food or money to feed all the mouths in the house. My day in the factory was just as horrible as usual, receiving a beating from Ugly Collins again for not being able to spin as much cotton as maybe my mother or even Celia would have. Afterwards, I continued to spin more cotton all day from dawn until the sun set, wiping away the blood trickling down my forehead with my worn out, wounded hands as if it wasn’t there. The life of the middle class was mediocre at best, and all of us are just hoping for a better life for our future and our children. As much as how drastic of a dream this could be or overly optimistic, but all wish is to see some improvements in our working conditions, and that work may be regulated or at conditions where work is actually

Good versus bad jobs have really good and bad affect in our social life. In the book, John Lie tells his experience that how he applied in a factory for a job in summer. He tells that just an elderly person asked him a few question and hired him but John tells that in the factory the supervisors asked the employers to work faster yet make fewer mistakes. John hates the smell, the noise and heat were unbearable for him. He started to do this job at minimum wage. One day, he was finishing his job and going home and he bumped into his friend and John’s friend told him a new job in book store. Compare to the factory job the book store job was really good. From this experience, we can say that how he faces difficulty we he even did not have any school diploma. He talks about his another good job when he completes his university and he got Ph.D. He got one of the best job with his Ph.D. but he started to do another job too because with that one job salary, he hardly covered his rent. His second job was as a business consultant in a major corporation. It was a really good job

My first entry in this journal. I figured if I must be forced to leave the farm to work in a factory all day under another man’s will, working hours in a closed up shanny with tight walls and little breathing room, I may as well document it. If I don’t write, I fear that I may go insane in the tight little space, everyone breathing on each other and working on top of eachother. I have heard of many people moving to the city, excited to make more money and to be inside rather than laboring in the sun for hours, but I do not trust the machines. I fear that my wife’s skirt may be caught while spinning thread, to be torn off her dress or to drag her into the machine with it. My boys aren’t used to machinery either, and they are naive and stupid

Those in prayer are his prey. We weep for souls forever on their knees in the holy city.

Chomp, Chomp, Chomp, Please close your mouth. The noises you make are annoying. Like styrofoam rubbing together and squeeeaking over and over.

'The Parade' by Corporal Colin Mitchell (50), Duke Lancaster’s Regiment, Iraq (Operation Telic) 2007, taken from 'Heroes' For every action there is a reaction, this scenario is no different in war. In every war there are a lot of deaths and injuries, some may be necessary while some may not, some out of self-defense and some out of good will, some out of expertise and some out of ignorance, some out of bravery and some out of cowardice. Talking of deaths by bravery we mostly think of soldiers, who are patriotic enough to fight for their countries at all cost. The war in Iraq claimed an approximate half a million lives.

layoffs and displacement. Many blue-collar workers, like David Quinn, were disproportionally affected by globalization because their jobs could be easily automated. When Quinn’s company shifted production outside of the United States, he felt his job “was stolen” by Mexicans. Furthermore, manufacturing plants were often the core of community life in many small towns. Not only does outsourcing and plant closures threatened a worker’s livelihood, it also jeopardized their “identity” because they often measured their “self-worth” by their employment and ability to provide for their families. As one unemployed worker mentioned, “liberalizing world trade should not harden the lives of ordinary working people.” Therefore, globalization creates

Carleton Ellis was born September 20, 1876, he was raised in Keene, New Hampshire. He continued his higher level of education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The inventor and pioneer in the field of organic chemistry later then set up a laboratory in Montclair, New Jersey where he continued his research and creating patents. In total Mr. Ellis has 753 patents, one of the highest amounts of patents for any individual. “He invented important methods of cracking crude oil as well as methods for synthesizing isopropyl alcohol and acetone. He invented lacquers for automobile paints and developed processes for applying plastics… He was also an early proponent of hydroponic plant growth” (Bowman). Overall Carleton Ellis is not too well known of an inventor but has more than seven hundred patents. He is attributed to helping out in both the World Wars because of his inventions in the field of organic chemistry. Mr. Ellis has so many patents that are still being used in today’s society.

The poem Beachy Head begins with a narrator who reclines “on thy [Beachy Head’s] stupendous summit” (1). After the narrator leads readers through the idyllic scene at Beachy Head and introduces a character the shepherd, curiously, this first person narrator “I” silently vanishes in the middle of the poem. The third person narrative henceforward dominates the rest of the poem. Instead of the narrator, a stranger, later in the poem referred to as the hermit, comes under the spotlight. Adding one more dimension, this binary narrative scheme thickens the texture of this poem and thus complicates it. Although the narrative revolves around the hermit once he appears, his identity remains ambiguous throughout the whole poem. While the disappearance of first person narrator and the simultaneous abrupt arrival of the anonymous hermit might tempt readers to believe that they are the same person and raise other speculations, the hermit is a breach through which we can understand other characters and the whole poem.