Anand’s preoccupation with the theme of exploitation derives from his experience in the rural life of the Punjab and elsewhere in India. He has seen the poor peasants naked but for the loin clothes, groaning under extreme poverty, and insulted and exploited. His sympathy for such poor and oppressed people is so deep and sincere in his Coolie. He almost cries with anguish against the injustice and cruelties inflicted upon them. Anand’s Coolie is about a class-ridden society. In this society or world of the coolies, the sufferers are subject to more rigidity and deprivation. The focal point in Coolie is always Munoo the coolie, who has no such assurance. He drifts from place to place, job to job and thus he is virtually rootless, incapable of finding a place for himself in society. Anand portrays in Coolie that the sufferings, torments and uncertainty of the underprivileged that have to accept subhuman existence. The protagonist of Coolie is modelled on one of Anand’s childhood …show more content…
Munoo remembers how his father has been exploited by the landlord who seized his five acres of land because the interest on the mortgage covering the unpaid rent has not been paid by Munoo’s father when the rains had been scanty and the harvests bad. Anand portrays the exploitation of the workers by the native employers in the factories of Daulatpur. The pickle factory of Prabha and Ganapat looks like an inferno. The old women workers, engaged in peeling apples, have to do their job in the caverns of the factory. The coolies are huddled against each other when they are sleeping. The factory itself is an outhouse converted into a factory which has no chimney even. The smoke from the factory is a health hazard to the workers as well as to the neighbours, and what is more pitiable is that the health authorities are lethargic to such unhygienic
When workers ran to the exits, they found the stairs and elevators blocked and filled with smoke. The building’s
They weren't forced into having fire safety laws or fire drills so that didn't help either. So why was Isaac Harris charged with murder? The Triangle Factory had a few errors in
Numerous reports and inspections on the hazardous conditions in factories across New York City went unheard
Because of the fire, many new safety regulations have been issued. “Every building has to have a enforced fire drill and fire alarms” to keep the workers safe (The Labor Law). In 1970, the government created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to make sure that the new safety regulations were being enforced. The girls in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire all died a horrific
Regardless of how the fire started, due to the piles of fabric all over the factory, the fire spread quickly. According to User (n.d.), the New York Law stated that buildings under 150 feet were not required to have stone or concrete floors and metal trim/window frames; since the Asch building was 135 feet, it did not have metal trim/window frames and a stone or concrete floors. Instead, the Asch building was constructed out of wood surfaces. If it would have had non-wood surfaces, the fire might not have been able to spread as quickly or done as much damage. All of the workers panicked as they tried to find a way out.
Capitalism turns decent human beings into selfish, merciless individuals preying on the innocent to satisfy themselves. The Rudkus family buys a home in hopes of saving money but are not told about the hidden fees associated with owning a house. The women in the family set out to find work and the children are forced to drop out of school to work as well. Ona is blackmailed by her boss into having a sexual affair. Upon discovering this, Jurgis becomes enraged and is arrested after attacking Ona’s boss.
As being the hero who survived the tragic incident, he feels hopeless and empty. Having the sense of alienation from people around him, the existence
When an individual smokes from a hookah instead of smoking cigarettes, they increase their chances of developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Women in India do most of the cooking for the family, where the stoves can let off Biomass fuels. This fuel is a common factor when people are diagnosed with COPD. The Biomass fuel is detrimental to a person’s health, if that individual is breathing in its harmful air. In India 70% of the homes use Biomass fuels in the kitchen, and in places with poverty there is not proper ventilation in the kitchen that allows the gas to escape.
The analysis of this short story reveals a narrator of an Afro-American community who wanted to be part of the white culture but in vain, because he was confronted to tragic events, such as his brother’s imprisonment at an early age for drugs’ deals. This event makes him realize that he is part of that society where even in the school students are addicted to drugs. The story focuses on the necessity to accept its own community’s heritage as a factor to reach any political social o economical purpose. The narrator finds peace really when he reconnects with his family and his heritage that he tried hard to sacrifice in order to live.
In the Brown’s factory Teta Elizabeth’s Son Stainslovas catches Frost bite his ear lobes falls off and 3 joints in his fingers becomes damaged because he works at the lard machine. Most of these machines were managed by unskilled immigrants. Second, most of the factories were unsanitary. The fog was so high in the factory that if you were to cut a piece of meat you would probably cut your hand off.
The woodlands by the ranch were peaceful, not alarmed by the breeze of death and sorrow that followed the men as they marched through the canvas of green. Alerted by the footsteps of the men, the rabbits scuttled back into their burrows. The trees swayed in the glistening sunlight that bounced between them, igniting the woodlands with light. It was quiet, but death intruded on this harmonious atmosphere. Laying in the arms of George, Lennie looked as calm and peaceful as a kitten cuddling its owner.
Additionally, the factory's ventilation was subpar, exposing the staff to hazardous chemicals and dust. The countdown of the fire was initiated by many safety hazards that made the building more prone to fires starting. Firstly, before the fire started, in garment factories it was normal to fill buckets with water in case of a fire. Although this was a normal practice, Mary Domsy-Abrams recalled ‘“On that particular morning, the day of the tragedy, I remarked to my colleagues that the buckets were empty, and that if anything were to happen, they would be of no use,”’ she said” (Kiger 2019). The lack of a sprinkler and a fire system also proved to be a huge safety hazard.
One of the drawbacks being for the workers and one being for the owners. “Half the workers worked on the 7th floor or above, which was at least one floor higher than the city fire department could easily reach. Being the owners of a shirtwaist factory it was very hard to be organized. ”(Drehle 48) The day the building caught on fire there were more than 180 people working on just the 8th floor that initially went up into flames.
Although his writing can be engaged to an audience who reads the situation the boy is encountering with his neighbors ,but to analyze themselves instead of another person. Therefore the intended purpose of this writing is to not analyze or criticize how a person live, but to analyze themselves , as they could be living their life differently such as being greedy. ”You should look at yourself. I mean really look at yourself ” .Therefore the author notifies the audience of the situation he was in throughout his life,through the use of emotional appeal using personal experiences in his life and humor
It portrays the 1917 Russian Revolution atmosphere with the replacement of Russia into Animal Farm. The characters also did not fail to resemble the real people involved in the revolution. Power leads to greed, used to take advantage and manipulate. A person with absolute power tends to choose greediness after a certain time period, despite having followed a wise person’s vision and mission.