Miner

County, USA (1976) by Barbara Kopple. Harlan County, USA is a documentary about a group of coal miners and their family that attempt to go versus the power company. The documentary is meant to show the strife that is faced by those seen as the lesser man and her advocating for worker rights. Kopple’s native goal was to film the Miners of Democracy, but when she arrived upon the whereabouts and saw that miners had revolted and went to strike the mining company. Kopple had now seen that there is…

The Pastoral Expansion is said to have begun in the 1820s, Australia was starting to be known as “the land of opportunity” as the land became fruitful producing vegetation and providing for those who lived there. The healthy soils producing the fruits and wheats were creating wealth for the Europeans, enabling them to be assured they made the right choice settling here. Due to such a high demand of agricultural help the convicts were able to work in the fields and be treated as more than…

Massey Energy disregarded a lot of the regulations. Finally, we will see how the aftermath of the explosion effected others and the cost and benefits to stockholders. The Upper Big Mine Disaster Monday, April 5th 2010 is like any other day that the miners for Massey Energy Corporation in southern West Virginia. Around…

The Body Ritual of the Nacirema has a hidden message that some may not even pick up on and the ones that do are surprised by the message and the truth it carries. Throughout The Body Ritual of the Nacirema Horace Miner uses many satiric devices. The device it uses most effectively in getting the message across is Irony. There are many examples of irony throughout the whole text, however, the best example is the writing itself. The author goes about trashing the nacirema who are actually…

The concept of blood diamonds is one that people know too well, as a consequence, consumers have pushed back and demanded that all diamonds come from unethical suppliers. Gold has followed a similarly wrong turn, which leads to asking what the real price that we are paying for gold, is it merely the store tag or greater the ecological and social impact that we are leaving on the earth. From 2000 to 2010 the price of gold has grown exponentially, this has triggered a gold rush in Peru. The region…

traveling by sea most 49ers went thru panama to shorten the ride but what they did not know is that Panama was ripe with cholera and other diseases.Also those coming from Europe and the eastern states had to travel around stormy cape horn.” Many miners that did not travel through panama and went by the stormy cape horn suffered being super hot being right next to the equator and being so cold by the antarctic.Or “The passenger and crew bustled on shore, leaving the boats abandoned and…

for them. Nevertheless many white immigrants look for Chinese and Mexicans like a threat in economics and racism aspect. Whites immigrants demanding that Chinese and Mexicans need to pay a special taxes to be able to work at miners; California responding with “Foreign Miners’ Tax”. The tax was look for a tariff when somebody moved to the United States. The tax has an invective of twenty dollars in 1850 (five hundred dollars in 2008)…

through the accuracy of the films and how they portrayed the historic events. This essay will argue that although there are some inaccuracies with both films, that they both portray a suitable amount of accuracy for these film types. Pride follows the miners strikes and how the gay activists helped, while Suffragette follows the early period of the feminist movement. First this essay will go through Pride and the historic event, then Suffragette and its historic event. Both Pride and…

profits for the employer it also increased the poor working conditions and job dangers for the employees. In 1892 the unionized miners at the Coeur d’Alene mines in Idaho went on strike. Some miners were being paid full miners wages while the car men were being paid less. The miners chose to strike in protest of the wage discrepancy. The owners of the mine refused to hire any miner who was a member of the union. The owners of the mine brought in scabs from other mines to take the place of the…

The Truth about the West I believe that the West was a myth; it was actually extremely hard work and was not a great lifestyle to be a cowboy, miner, or farmer. Their jobs were very dangerous, and did not get paid very much. The money they did earn would go to new clothing, food, or bathing. Often miners came from China because the U.S. citizens would not want to leave their family and friends. People who entered these jobs were very hard workers who commonly had to support their families.…