In the story “ Flesh and Blood So cheap” by Albert Marrin, uses both Implicit and explicit evidence to convey his theme that unsafe practices lead to 146 deaths in the Triangle Fire of 1911. The worker’s lives were not valued they worked in horrible working conditions which led to the fire and so many deaths. In the story, Albert Marrin uses explicit evidence to show why the building was not a good working condition. For example “ a foreman ran for the hose on the stairway wall. Nothing! No water came. The hose had not been connected to the standpipe.” Showing that they were not prepared. Also, the workers worked in bad conditions “ Most likely, a cutter flicked a hot ash or alive cigarette into a scrap bin. “ The owner of the building should not have allowed smoking in the building especially with a lot of flammable materials. Another reason why there were not prepared “ Those who reached the ninth floor stairway door found it locked. This was not unusual as employers often locked doors to discourage latecomers and keep out union organizers.” As you can see the workers could not …show more content…
escape which lead them to there death. Meanwhile “ They caused a pile up so that those in front could not open the door” The owner of the building should have made bigger stairways because It was so crowded workers began to trip and fall on each other which made them get crushed to there death. The author also uses Implicit evidence to show how they could have been more prepared for the fire.
“The Ariel ladders failed only to reach the sixth floor” The firemen were not prepared because they didn't have a ladder to reach to the ninth floor. The owner could have also put lights in the stairway. “They were no lights in the stairways” Since the workers cannot see they fell down the stairway into there death. Also, they shouldn't have made an elevator and made bigger stairways because they “ heat can easily damage their machinery leaving trapped passengers dangling in space, to burn or suffocate." The elevators are not just taking up space and cannot be used in a fire. The firefighters could know that “ a burst of water under pressure would hurl them backward, into the flames.” In addition, they also knew the nets would never be able to catch someone that's jumping from 9
floors. An hour later an inspector came and checked the building “He found the Asch building had no damage to its structure. Its walls were in good shape so were the floors, It had passed the fireproof test.” As you can see the owner of the building was cheap and didn't care about the value of human lives. The owner of the building should have done more to keep his workers safe. Is the owners of building guilty for allowing the workers to smoke at work with a bunch of flammable materials and the reason why so many workers could not escape or is it the worker's fault for smoking and starting the fire. The owner could have saved so many of his workers and put them in danger but instead was selfish and cared more about the condition of his building. As you can see The Triangle of Death Fire in 1911 was a really upsetting tragedy. Do you think that the fire was the worker's fault for smoking or was it the owner of the building fault for letting them smoke and why so many workers died because they couldn't escape.?Who do you think is guilty?
Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone is a historical novel that focuses on the uphill battle to build the first permanent English colony known as Jamestown. In order to survive the colonists had to find a way to trade with the Indians for recourses and battle against the common enemy, called death. Having a healthy, functioning society was by far the hardest thing to maintain.
On March 25, 1911, 146 garment factory workers their lives in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. In less than an hour, these workers died from asphyxiation, burns, or jumping to their deaths in a futile attempt at escape (McGuire, 2011). The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory the eighth through tenth floors of New York City’s Asch building, and employed approximately 700 workers, 500 of them young women and girls (McGuire, 2011). A fire quickly broke out on the eighth floor shortly before the end of the work day. Loose fabric was strewn about the floor and stuffed under equipment, providing kindling for the fire to quickly become an inferno. As women attempted to exit, they were met with locked doors and forced to find other means of escape, including jumping from the eight floor windows, climbing down elevator cables, and scampering down the fire escape - each route of escape tragically failed, costing many their lives. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is an example of how quickly dangerous and neglectful conditions can quickly take many lives, but it has also served as the impetus for great changes in workplace and fire safety codes and regulations, including the development of Fire Safety Codes, implementation of state-based worker’s compensation laws, and the formation of New York State’s Industrial Code. The impacts of these changes and many others are still felt today, more than 100 years later. There is, however, still work to be done in the area of workplace fire safety, as evidenced in the Kader Toy Factory fire and the Imperial Chicken Processing Plant fire.
Many of the lives that were taken in the fire tried to fight their way out it but they could not, because doors were locked and also because they just could not escape. The story also involves stories of women and immigrant women’s who came to America to find a difference and fight hard to maintain their families. The Triangle Factory was three floors and was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the Triangle Waist Company produced shirtwaists, or women’s blouses and employed more than five hundred workers, many who were Jewish and Italian women. The author talks about how unjustly the girls were treated while working, being at work in the machine since seven in the morning and leaving the machine at 8 at night, with just a one-half hour lunch in that time. That was the life the girls were living in the shop, a life that could have been handled better. Many argument that Argersinger had were sweatshop conditions in the factories during this tragic event, development of series of laws and regulations to protect the safety of the
On the fateful and unforgettable afternoon of June 17, 1972 Hotel Vendome experienced yet another fire. Actually it experienced several fires in different locations on this date. Electricians working on the first floor reported smoke coming from the upper floors, and a bartender reported smoke in the basement. All occupants in the basement café were safely escorted out, and 3 engine companies, 2 ladder companies, and 1 District Chief arrived on scene noticing ...
Girls and women ran to the doors and to the elevator. The elevator operator saved as many as he could, but he had to stop running the elevator because the fire had spread too far to keep operating it safely. Sisters, mothers, and daughters were separated. For some, the last thing they saw of their family member was either them going down the elevator, or trapped in the building. The workers became truly desperate. Some threw themselves down the elevator shaft after the elevator stopped coming. Others rushed to the fire escape, but it collapsed under all the weight. The firemen were not able to catch any of the girls that jumped through the window because the nets broke, the ladder on the tuck only reached to the sixth floor, and the water from the fire hose only reached the seventh floor. The firefighters sprayed the building as high as they could in hopes that the mist would cool the fire and start to put it out. The women soon realized that escape was hopeless. Knowing that they were going to burn to death, some turned to the window and jumped. None of the girls that jumped survived the fall. Within twenty minutes of the fire breaking out, there were bodies lying on the street and people surrounding the building. The total number of victims of the fire was 146. Nineteen bodies were recovered from the elevator shaft, and fifty-four workers died by jumping out of windows. 12 The two founders, Harris and Blanck, made it out of the burning building alive, but some of their family members worked in the upper floors of the factory and were killed by the fire.
“The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. We know what these things are today: the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews, the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the ‘fireproof’ structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire,” suffragist Rose Schneiderman vehemently declared in a memorial speech after the terrible tragedy that occurred more than a century ago. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in United States history. Taking place on March 25, 1911 in New York City, a fire broke out on the 8th floor of the factory, spreading quickly to the 9th and 10th floors,
After dressing for work, the speaker “would descend / step by slow step into the dim world / of the pickling tank” (5-7). Comparison of the pickling tank to a “dim world” reveals that there is nothing enjoyable about the work he does. As he climbs back out “with a message / from the kingdom of fire,” the reader gains a better understanding of the poor working conditions of the speaker (20-21). Equating his working conditions to such a terrible place shows that these factory workers should have been thankful to even make it out of work alive each day.
“On one side we see men of some years disheartened and retired from productive exertion. On the other hand, we see places open for younger men” (“Political Economy of the Fire”). After the devastating fire, one hundred thousand people were left without a home.
The corporation had no compassion towards its laborers. This extract from Sinclair’s novel The Jungle explains the terrible conditions in which employees work: “.your hand slips up on the blade, and there is a fearful gash. And that would not be so bad, only for the deadly contagion. The cut may heal, but you never can tell,” (Sinclair, 12).
Having to take your anger out on someone isn’t fair or good, especially if you’re being killed with frozen lamb. Based on everyone’s understanding, when you kill someone you’ll have to pay the price and consequences. Apparently this lady didn’t. But are we sure she’s going to marry another man and kill him too? In “Lamb to the slaughter”, I’m going to be talking about Mary Maloney and how madly crazy she is.
The novel Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle is a novel that brought worldwide recognition of what terrible events that occurred on March 25th 1911. Von Drehle is a well-known American author and a journalist. With a bachelor degree from the University of Denver, and earning his masters in literature from Oxford University. He worked in many newspapers such as the Denver post, the Washington post, and the Times. Therefore, publishing many pieces which he received an award for such as Among the lowest of the dead: inside death row, Deadlock: the indie story of Americas closest election, and Rise to greatness: Abraham Lincoln and Americas most perilous year. The novel Triangle is about a shirtwaist factory fire that occurred on March 25th, 1911. It was a deadly fire that happened in the New York triangle factory that killed approximately 146 workers. This tragedy is well remembered in American industrial history, because the deaths could have been prevented. Most of the victims were burned alive or jumped to their death, because the factory did not have the proper safety equipment and the doors being locked within the building. This tragedy brought attention to the dangerous working conditions that the victims endured in the sweatshop factories. Which therefore led to new laws
Sinclair explained how the workers who worked in the meat-parking stockyard were also in danger when he said, "in its way as horrible as the killing-beds, the workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases." Even the employers who worked in the stockyard were very sick each with its own stage of diseases from the rotten meat they were parking.
Many impoverished people immigrated to America in hopes of achieving the American Dream but instead were faced with dangerous working conditions while the factory and corporation owners increased their wealth and profit by exploiting this cheap means of labor. Upton Sinclair succeeded to show the nature of the wage slavery occurring in America in the beginning of the twentieth century. People felt distressed and unimportant in the community because they were being used by the wealthy to generate capital leading the industry for the future success and efficacy in the market. Upton Sinclair was an American journalist who incorporated his personal research of the meatpacking industry conditions and people’s life, as well as the structure of the present business into the novel under analysis. Thus, real facts and data were incorporated into this literary work, which helps the audience to feel involved in the work and understand the overall atmosphe...
Throughout recorded history, fires have been known to cause great loss of life, property, and knowledge. The Great Fire of London was easily one of the worst fires mankind has ever seen causing large scale destruction and terror. Samuel Pepys described the fire as “A most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made.” (Britain Express 1).
in reading of the atrocities of the Chicago meat packing plants. Take for example the