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When I Revisited “Some Lessons From The Assembly Line”,

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When I revisited “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line”, the author 's goal has changed for me. It has expanded and became broader. Because I see now that the author is trying to show the readers, the lessons he learned while working his summers away on the factory floor.Adjacent to that propose the author wanted to show the readers the different ways he learned the lessons, which made him appreciate his opportunity to go to college. My evidence for this is when the author refers to, “These lessons I am learning, however valuable, are always tinged with a sense of guilt." "At times, I feel almost voyeuristic, like a tourist dropping in where other people make their livelihoods. My lessons about education are learned at the expense of those …show more content…

Issues like downsizing and overseas relocation had always seemed distant to me until my co-workers at one factory told me that the unit I was working in would be shut down within six months and moved to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents an hour”, in this statement he gives the readers reasons for factory work being a hard way to live. Lastly, this statement he made, “The things that factory work has taught me how lucky I am to get an education, how to work hard, how easy it is to lose that work once you have it are by no means earth-shattering” the author is giving examples of the different lessons that leads to my main claim about his purposes for writing his article. Moreover, my potential challenges will be to prove the author 's purposes for writing, "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line." Adjacent, to helping the readers attain a more detail vision of this article. In addition, to convincing the readers to agree with my view of the key points of "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line" by using evidence from the article itself. Like the author being taught lessons that made him appreciate his time spent at college. I will use evidence such as the author 's own statements about his day 's in the factory and college. To support my argument that the author proved his purposes in his article.
My goal will be to present detailed evidence that will not only show the purposes the author wants to express to the readers. For instance, my claim that the lessons he

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