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them how it should be built. Most buildings that are considered "sweatshop factories" are not built originally as factories. They are known to easily collapse due to their inability to maintain a large amount of people and all the vibrations from the sewing machines. The buildings don't go through regular maintenance; it's just a waste of money to the companies. They're the most unsanitary buildings. Buyers of these name brands wouldn't even dare to take a step into them, however they will most…

In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, one would soon realize that this play is about trying to find a motive for the murder of John Wright. The men and women gather in the Wright’s house with the sole mission of trying to discover Mrs. Wright’s reason for killing her husband. Also in the beginning of the play, Mr. Hale says, “I guess you know about how much he talked himself, but I thought maybe if I went to the house and talked about it before his wife, though I said to Harry that I didn’t…

All around the world, children are put into child labor where there lives are put in danger. Children in child labor live in dangerous conditions, even though they produce products that we use daily. These children work for billion dollar companies like Hershey and Nike, but the children are treated horribly. People around the world agree that this is wrong and that it has to stop, but not much change has been made. In child labor, children are deprived of a life with school and in replace they…

(“The Victorian). Technological innovation also influenced the period by giving rise to a growing middle class of consumers. These middle class consumers especially enjoyed the ornate though reserved fashions made possible by the invention of the sewing machine in 1851. The wealthy business owners, bankers, educators, and skilled laborers, who traditionally purchased their clothing custom-made, strived to imitate the standards for conduct and dress established by the elite class (“History).…

General life at the Kamloops Residential School was tough and grim. On the first day of school, students were given no time to learn the system or any of the English language; they were thrust into the daily routine, and European culture, very quickly. They were given identification numbers which was written on the few belongings they did have. One interviewee recalls being “denied . . . . any personal identity. “I was called, ‘Hey, 39. Where’s 39? Yes, 39, come over here. Sit over here, 39.’…

The Role of Women in the 1930’s As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The women know that life must go on and that the needs of life must be met and it is their courage and determination which, time and again, have pulled us through worse crises than the present one” (BBC). The 1930’s had major effects on the women of the time. Suddenly women were employed, minorities had it harder than ever before, and the gap between rural and urban life widened. For perhaps the first time in the 1930’s women were…

Ethos Statement When I first started at Concordia University three years ago, I thought design had to do with anything with fashion and print based media. I never thought I would of have taught me how to use machinery, crafting and sewing techniques. Originally, I wanted to focus my career path on graphic design, but with further studies with the help of this program I can know saw I can do a little bit of everything. Being a designer to means that I can take what people see in their minds and…

whom three died at a very young age. It was unusual because the mortality rate was quite low during their time. Bathsheba was also rumored to be seen sacrificing her baby to Satan. A child was said to be hurt during her care with a wound caused by a sewing needle similar to that of Carolyn Perron’s wound. The folklores also say that she practiced witchcraft. She lived till 1885. Stories say that she died from severe paralysis or she turned to stone, the truth being she died of old age. The…

cigarette would cause a fire that would soon change working areas in the future. The owners of the factory escaped the fire by making their way to the roof after being notified by phone and scrambled to another building nearby. No one notified the sewing machine operators on the 9th floor. As soon as they smelled the fire, rushing to the everyday exit was too late of an option. The first time the elevator came up everyone made their way towards it in hopes of escaping. Everyone was in a rush to…

were taken from the families against their own will and they were taken to boarding schools, where they were physically, sexually and emotionally abused. They had no voice and no one they could turn to they could trust. They had to work in farms, sewing and cooking that children should not have been doing. They were never shown or felt loved and resulted to drugs and alcohol abuse. The new way of life was marked in to the Native American kids’ lives. Reference:…