Do you think the world was made perfect? Think again because the world was not always like this. For example, the information text “About Cesar”, by Cesar Chavez foundation is about what Cesar Chavez did to provide a better working conditions for farmworkers and unions he made to make it better. The text from “Mother Jones”, by Judith Pinkerton Josephson is about how Mother Jones brought the attention to children working at mills and working at such a low age. It’s also about how she brought the kids to camp near President Cleveland's home. Both of these people helped, but not only help but changed the world to how it is today. Cesar Chavez did many things to make the world better but, in my opinion Mother Jones had a bigger impact. Cesar
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But in my opinion Mother Jones had a bigger impact on the world. Cesar Chavez was a farm labor leader and an important person to farmworkers in general. He also joined the U.S. Navy in 1946 and started nonviolent protests. Cesar later on died in his sleep on April 23,1993. The text states,”Cesar passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 23, 1993 in the small farm worker town of San Luis, Arizona, not far from where he was born 66 years earlier on the family homestead.”(CCF,25) But that doesn’t compare to what Mother Jones did. She saw that kids were working in mills and living in harsh conditions. Many of the children had missing limbs or broken bones. She also went to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania and saw thousands of workers from different mills were on strike but, many of them were children under sixteen. Mother Jones who has turned seventy-three gathered children to march to Sagamore Hill which is were the president’s house was. The author wrote, “Mother Jones now seventy-three, gathered a large group of mill children…..The march from Philadelphia to Sagamore Hill-the president's seaside mansion on Long Island near New York City-would cover 125 miles.”(Josephson,6) This is important because Cesar Chavez who died at sixty-six years old did a lot of things but, Mother Jones who is seventy-three is doing more things than Cesar. Mother Jones and the kids she is
But in my opinion Mother Jones had a bigger impact on the world. Cesar Chavez was a farm labor leader and an important person to farmworkers in general. He also joined the U.S. Navy in 1946 and started nonviolent protests. Cesar later on died in his sleep on April 23,1993. The text states,”Cesar passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 23, 1993 in the small farm worker town of San Luis, Arizona, not far from where he was born 66 years earlier on the family homestead.”(CCF,25) But that doesn’t compare to what Mother Jones did. She saw that kids were working in mills and living in harsh conditions. Many of the children had missing limbs or broken bones. She also went to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania and saw thousands of workers from different mills were on strike but, many of them were children under sixteen. Mother Jones who has turned seventy-three gathered children to march to Sagamore Hill which is were the president’s house was. The author wrote, “Mother Jones now seventy-three, gathered a large group of mill children…..The march from Philadelphia to Sagamore Hill-the president's seaside mansion on Long Island near New York City-would cover 125 miles.”(Josephson,6) This is important because Cesar Chavez who died at sixty-six years old did a lot of things but, Mother Jones who is seventy-three is doing more things than Cesar. Mother Jones and the kids she is