The Concept Of Normal In The Atlantis Gene

Mistakes are often essential factors of one’s wisdom and future success. People can always gain precious life lessons from their flaws, which resemble the pebbles that make a stable and perfect road. In the novel Typical American written by Gish Jen, the protagonist, Ralph Chang, makes a mistake in which he shifts and tortures his original American dream to a false and ‘poisonous’ dream that causes his ultimate familial, moral and financial collapse; in other words, he fails to create a ‘China’ with traditional values in America. However, he actually becomes more mature after gaining a valuable lesson from his flaws. Because of his excessive pride and confidence, Ralph is considered a tragic hero as he commits the tragic flaws that lead to

Before Henry Ford adapted the automobile production, they had developed an assembly line. It worked more like a disassembly line because there were 80 separate jobs in one line in the whole process of getting the meat ready. The immigrants did the most dangerous jobs, they worked in cold weather in the winter and the hot dark room in the summer (Willie).”

Once the Chang family moved into Los Angeles and had their herbalist shop and asparagus farm under way, they realized the need for more laborers. In order to support their wives and kids with groceries, clothing, and education, the Chang’s needed to find the cheapest labor possible while still establishing the farm as a business that could support their income. The cheapest laborers were relatives, and they were for the most part thankful to come and work for Yitang, even if it was not their ideal working situation. One frustration Sam expressed in the book that may correlate to the continuing poor treatment and vision of the Chinese, is that within the Chinese workforce, most hard-working laborers in the railroad, farming, mining, and

The capitalists and their industries greatly affected many citizens and even their own workers by dehumanizing them. Men would stand outside of factories for days, even weeks, waiting for the chance to get a job. The head of the industries would use this to their advantage by picking the strongest men and paying them a low amount of money and when they become injured or useless, they just hire someone else. The food industries were horrible with how they took care of their workers and their products. “For it was the custom, as they found, whenever meat was so spoiled that it could not be used for anything else, either to can it or else to chop it up into

As the great philosopher Heraclitus once said, “There is nothing permanent but change.” In “The Circuit” by Francisco Jiménez- set in America around the 1960’s- a young boy named Panchito (‘Franky’), his brother, younger siblings, and mother and father are shown overcoming draining circumstances and appalling housing situations that could at best be described as ‘fit for a pig.’ His family came from Mexico, but moved to America to start a new life and to hopefully earn more money through farming. Jiménez explains the many hardships of his life through descriptions of temporary, termite infested, hole filled living spaces and long, tiring hours of physical labor under the sun that in return earned him less than twenty dollars a day. Panchito,

( ) Once the men arrived arrived in California with the thought of striking rich, it deteriorated as they lost connection with their families, difficult to earn money, and the rough environment to live in. ( ) Once the Chinese realized that mining was not easy they had difficulties to provide for their families back in China

This tragedy pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages, long hours, and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about.

External conflict in Rivera’s story is what brings about the plight this boy lives through. As the boy tells his mother, “Either the germs eat us alive or the sun burns us up. Always some kind of sickness”(Rivera 109).As a migrant worker, the boy and those like him, had to toil and live in unsanitary conditions and under harsh elements in the field for 12 hour shifts These conditions often brought grave illness or death to the migrants. Another factor that added to the migrant’s unsavory working conditions was the lack of consideration given to them by their bosses. In the story, the mother tells the boy and his siblings, “Don’t pay any mind to that boss if he tries to rush you. Just don’t do it. He thinks it’s so easy since he’s not the one who’s out there stooped”

One such industrialist was Andrew Carnegie, who capitalized on the expansion of cities and the rail system by building an empire in steel. The success of Carnegie’s operations provided largescale employment opportunities for European immigrants, but these opportunities came at a cost. Factory work was a nearly completely unregulated industry, demanding long hours in increasingly dangerous conditions for incredibly low wages. Carnegie and others began replacing skilled laborers with heavy machinery to cut costs, opening the door for unskilled immigrant workers to run the machines. Work for these unskilled laborers was treacherous to say the least, with little to no precautions taken for employee safety and heavy machinery that would be considered death traps in today’s industries, staying alive was a daily struggle. Around this time, it was estimated that industrial accidents alone accounted for around 35,000 deaths per year.

Two women in Japan state the conditions they had during their childhoods of working in the textile factories (Doc. 3). They said that the worked in the dark and they had no strength to do any of the work. They said that in their first year of working, neither got paid and in the following years, their parents received the little money they got. They said how many people fell ill because of their conditions and having no heat in the winter. The women had first hand experiences and they were there during all of this and they witnessed everything that they described in the factories they worked in.

On March 25, 1911, at an New York City sweatshop, a deadly fire took many lives. For some of those workers it was their last workshift they worked. Many whom were young immigrants. It's was about 4:45 PM , almost time for the workers to go home after a hard long day of being in a hot, cramped, and a very poor condition workroom. They made mostly women’s shirtwaists which was very popular at the time.

The emigrants struggled struggled with harsh conditions, in which negatively affected their survival. Their working conditions were not ideal. The men’s everyday role was to deal with back-breaking labor. The men’s labor was very brutal. The labor injured many emigrants. The conditions made the trip extremely dangerous, even the cautious failed to survive. The conditions made the emigrants tired and

The principal decade of 1900 denoted the purported the dynamic period in the Assembled States. The US had quite recently experienced a staggering increment in the modern development which prompted a monstrous work issue. There was a quick move from agrarian to urban culture. Therefore, there was an enormous blast in the extent of the populace in urban regions. Settlers from various parts of the globe ran in the urban communities in the Joined States. The greater part of them was in a scan for work in industrial facilities. There was a clog, a condition that prompted one of the most exceedingly bad work issues. The working conditions in the production lines at times were despicable. The working hours were too long, for the most part, more than 10 hours and the wages were too low with normal of $500 to $600 every year. Government control of production line operation was insufficient and subsequently, there were uncontrolled manufacturing plant mischances. Many individuals were executed while others supported wounds. The period additionally denoted the ascent of tyke work in plants. Offspring of as low as under 16 years functioned as unskilled workers in hazardous industrial facility condition. These specialists lived in poor ghettos in smudged conditions. The once lovely condition was supplanted by stopgap structures that obliged poor specialists.

The Chinese began to immigrate overseas after many years of harsh living conditions in China. Some of these contributions were; the Opium wars (1839-42, 1856-60), the Taiping rebellion (1856-64), famine, and a sinking economy. These grave circumstances led to them flocking to faraway lands to seek work. One of the main draws of California for the Chinese was the opportunity for a better life through gold digging and fertile soil. The struggles for these travelers began early with the voyage, journeying on “coolie” ships in inhumane conditions caused the loss of many lives. Passengers were packed into steerage at the bottom of the boat, with poor ventilation and over-crowding sickness ran ramped. When these “celestials” as Americans called them, arrived in San Francisco or “Dabu- the first city” many found work as miners, farmhands, railroad builders, fishermen, or laundrymen.

In all aspects of the lives we live, normal can not ever be defined as a single idea. If normal is such a thing at all, it is a subjective opinion and can only be defined on an individual level. Everything we interpret is relative to our upbringing and our environment. Not one person had the same upbringing or lived in the same environment as another person for even siblings who have lived together their whole lives have different nurturing experiences. The differentiation between normal and abnormal is a topic of much debate. The meaning of normality varies in many ways such as by person, time, place, situation, culture and set of values. Normality is usually seen as good and desirable by society and what society thinks while abnormality may be seen as bad or undesirable (Boundless).