Exploitation

In Gourmet Rhapsody and The Book of Salt a "thin line" of labor and exploitation is present. Abusers certainly know the victim can't defend them self for whatever the reason being. Many of the cases in the food industry is because they can't find another job whether it be for their language barriers, enough money, or only thing they know how to do. A "chef" could be referred to as the owner and a "worker" as the slave. Ultimately, the chef has the last word on how things are done. If you don't…

the time, and this was explained in spectacular detail through a ‘poster child’ Eva Smith, a working class woman who ended up committing suicide, setting off the events in the play. Eva Smith is portrayed in the play as one of the victims of exploitations of women…

The book Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children is an informative story on an epidemic that is growing in the United States. The author Linda Smith founded the Shared Hope International organization that helps to fight sex trafficking worldwide. The book brings awareness to the horrors these kids face when forced into sex trafficking. The author after every chapter has a commentary that explains in more detail the world of these children. She explains how these children become a…

The movie Biutiful (2010), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, presents a plurality of situations in which cultural interaction is at work. Among the many themes, the nature of the relationship between workers of different ethnicities is particularly thought-provoking. The film sees the story of Uxbal, Spanish man of a poor background, who acts as a liaison between immigrants of different ethnic groups (Chinese and African), providing them with work; he is also a mediator between these…

detriment of the majority. Evidently, the world has turned out as Marx described one 150 years ago and the capitalist system has become more complex and integrated than before. Nowadays, the exploitation has categorized individuals either as the global poor or global wealthy (Moseley, 2018). The current massive exploitation can be witnessed in all societies. This is evident from the propagation of the sweatshops and the establishment of the export processing zone that concur with Marx's…

You wake up in a corner. You can’t speak, it’s like your mouth is glued shut. You’re paralyzed. You look around and see needles lying on the floor, slowly realizing that you’ve been drugged. You still have your sense of sight so you try to recognize where you are. The second you realize that you aren’t at home, but in a strangers apartment you try to scream. You look at an old man wake up from a bed and slowly walk toward you. He starts to touch you in places you don’t want to be touched, yet…

Discrete Sides of Human Trafficking Human trafficking is so concealed, yet it is a huge issue in today 's world. Amrita Biswas and Zach Weissmueller share two different opinions while arguing on human trafficking. In Biswas article “Human Trafficking Scenario in Bangladesh: Some concerns,” she argues against human trafficking and the huge issue it brings to the world. She also compares sex trafficking to slavery. The second article, “The Wrong Cure for Sex Trafficking” written by Weissmueller,…

combination of environmental and economic history could not be clearer here, as the lumber that was taken from forests was converted into cash, which was then converted into labor and resources used to obtain more lumber. It was an endless cycle of exploitation of the environment and economic…

The satirical tension in A Modest Proposal is between the supposed humanitarian and cannibalistic aspects of the proposal. The proposer uses innocent phrases to make the proposal seem genuine. The children are described as helpless to gain the audience’s sympathy: “helpless infants”, “poor innocent babes”, “children, all in rags” and “children of poor parents” (Swift 2633-34). However, later in the proposal, the proposer takes on a sinister tone by presenting the children in a dehumanized manner…

Some agencies they make a legal document that both the surrogate mother and the commissioning parents cannot part during the pregnancy. In surrogacy process the woman rents her body for other couple. This should be a new form of exploitation and trafficking in women. In surrogacy process, the child is treated as a mean for earning money or the object of a legal agreement. The main goal of surrogacy is to fulfil the wish the of couple, to enable foreign parents to satisfy their need for a child…