When Disaster Strikes

getting in illegally. I found a safe house with two other people trying to flee their homeland. After living in hiding for a month, I found a people smuggler who promised I would get to Australia where I would be safe. This was the best news of my life. When I got to the boat I saw Rajeed; I was over the moon. I had someone I knew to talk to; someone to help me through the approaching sea of troubles I was never…

The Homestead Strike of July 1892 the American Federation of Labor of Iron and Steelworkers had refused to take the pay cuts and went on strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In return the president of the Carnegie Steel Company Henry C. Frick decided to close the plant and hired three hundred guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to protect the factory. After five long months the strikers of Homestead gave in and returned back to work. The Homestead Strike of July 1892 was an important event…

Thomas, John, Wilfred Waluchow, and Elizabeth Gedge, eds. "Case 3.3 Discontinuing Force Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient. "Well and Good -Fourth Edition: A Case Study Approach to Health Care Ethics. 4th ed. New York: Broadway, 2014. 131-135. Print. This is a case study of a patient who suffers from anorexia nervosa and has been force fed for 4 years in order to keep her alive. No improvements in her mental state have been made in this time, despite the many types of therapy have been…

unfortunately, the government does not act on these injustices towards the working class. The government at the time was not only corrupt, but also not ready or prepared for the problems they were about to be facing. The industrial boom starts in the 1870s when the advancement of iron and steel become apparent. Before the 1870s iron ruled the market, used mostly for railroads. However, after 1870 steel became the dominant metal of the market. The process…

It was not uncommon for laborers from unrelated fields and companies to be called to boycott and sympathetically strike against their employers in support of fellow union members working for other companies, even other industries. This significantly impacted many morally responsible employers who were undeserving of the aftermath that results from a strike, namely financial. In addition to ethically questionable tactics during collective bargaining with employers, there was a growing…

Diego figured into Charles 's life, and potentially why his siblings chose this symbol as a means of keeping their connection to their brother viable. From records, I was able to find that Charles was drafted into the Navy for World War II in 1943 when he was just 18. He was placed among the crew of the USS San…

If I worked for the B&O Railroad as a brakeman in 1877, I would have no other choice but to go on strike. The job is a risky one that puts me in danger every day. There was a pay cut 3 years ago that took its toll on all the workers. Adding another 10% reduction in salary, topped with working fewer days in the week, there is no way that a family can be supported properly. This is a job that keeps me away from my family and is incredibly dangerous. I deserve to be paid well enough to support my…

conditions. A non-compromise was reached when the miners stopped striking and the militiamen got what they wanted. As a result of the Ludlow Massacre, the miners acquired laboring rights resulting in better living conditions and coal companies making a profit, the Center for Public Integrity won a Pulitzer Prize for its report on the efforts made to deny benefits to coal miners with black-lung disease, John Hickenlooper…

The Great Railroad Strike started on July 17, 1877 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Employers cut pay for workers because of the debt the country was in from fighting in the Civil War. Many workers did not support this. Railroad companies stopped working and started striking. Workers stopped all trains and blocked any traffic from coming to the stations. Federal troops were called in to stop the strike, but they were unsuccessful. The strike spread to Baltimore, Maryland. This went from peaceful…

leaders from craft unions and skilled workers (AFL-CIO, 2017). The politically involved group supported the idea of using strikes, boycotts and focused on collective bargaining. This group that was organized by skilled workers who believed in simplicity and used the support of the public and of the American government. During this time period, there was a large amount of strikes occurring. Each union within the AFL were granted with internal freedom and were allowed to stand up for what they…