Low pay. Poor Conditions. Harsh treatment. Life is definitely not easy at all. I spend my days in the factory, trying to get my job done, but it’s for sure not the easiest thing. The only reason I do this is to earn enough money to allow my family and I to be able to eat everyday. Why else would I want to work in a dangerous job? But, it’s kind of my only choice. My goal is to live the American dream and be the successful owner of a factory, but for now I just have to work hard and focus on being a regular factory worker. While trying to live up to that American dream, I’m also fighting for myself and my rights since the factory owners and the overseers don’t really care about us. All they want is for the job to get done so they can make …show more content…
When I say poor conditions, I not only mean by how we feel in the factory but also because of how dangerous it is. First of all, the weather conditions are horrible. Spending your summer in the factory is hot and miserable. Just imagine working very hard in hot conditions for 11.4 hours. Not fun at all. Another way I could describe the summer in the factory is stifling. You feel very stuffy, especially since you are working right next to people. Also, the machines give off heat, making it more unpleasant than it already is. Winters in the factory are just as bad as summers. We all suffer the cold, our hands freezing as we work. Many people fall sick with the cold causing them to miss a few days of work. Just by missing a few days, they get fired because the owners don’t have time to delay on making our products. Then they hire someone eager for a place to work in our factory. Second of all, the factory is very dangerous to work in. The leather belts that connect the machines to the factory’s water- powered driveshaft have no protection on them. Injuries are as bad as losing a finger or breaking a bone. Usually the fast spinning belts cause these type of horrifying injuries. Also just think about all those poor young kids who have to work in the factory and how cautious they have to be since they are especially at risk. We also get treated harshly by both …show more content…
It’s how I make money for my family and it allows us to buy food or whatever we need. Some people are in need of jobs and I’m lucky to have one so I can’t lose it. Another plus about working in the factory is meeting new people. Even though we don’t get to talk that much, we still can make new friends and know more people in general. Also the entire factory production system takes place all under one roof, which set up the factory system. This way it also makes it easier to produce goods. Other than that, there are not many other pluses of working in a factory. The main bonus is to earn money and that at least I have a job. It may not be the best job, but it’s how I have to raise money and it’s important to my
The owners of these factories had no incentive to look out for the child’s safety or health. The workers also followed a very strict schedule. All workers had to be at the same place at the same time allotted to them. If a worker was injured, he was easily replaced. Another negative was the working conditions.
Most of the factories owners treated their employees unfairly and unequally. They made them work large amounts of hours for underpaid wages. Most of the people, even children, worked 16 hours for 25 cents a day. Their employees had to deal with unsafe machines that sometimes were extremely dangerous. If they got injured, they didn’t have any financial aid or any kind of compensation that helps them to get better.
Sweatshops are a very big topic today, especially in politics. People are chaotically protesting against these factories. What are the reasons behind this? One of the main reasons, they say, is that they factory owners and
The American Dream by default is a selfish and materialistic concept based on an individual having more than his neighbour; and always striving to have more, no matter how much they’ve gained. Of Mice and Men explores the American Dream as an individual seemingly impossible dream evolving into a communal, increasingly realistic future; reshaping the possibility of what the American Dream means to me. Throughout Of Mice and Men there is a multitude of different individual dreams that range in varying levels of stereotypical ideals to small innocent desires, however, when these dreams collide there suddenly becomes hope to even the most hopeless of characters. From the different dreams inside a shared dream – to “Live off the fatta the lan’”
The American Dream is something that many Americans, as well as people from all over the world, strive to accomplish. Although it has progressed over time, many people still want to grasp a hold of it. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath represent the struggle of migrant workers and the unrealistic concept of the American dream. Steinbeck illustrates the impossibility of the American Dream in the 1930s through George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men, and through the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath. He ties in realistic struggles that many individuals suffered from during the Great Depression and the time following.
Failure of the American Dream in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a story about the dark side of the "American Dream. " Willy Loman's obsession with the dream directly causes his failure in life, which, in turn, leads to his eventual suicide. The pursuit of the dream also destroys the lives of Willy's family, as well. Through the Lomans, Arthur Miller attempts to create a typical American family of the time, and, in doing so, the reader can relate to the crises that the family is faced with and realize that everyone has problems.
The pursuit of the American dream can inspire ambition. It can transform a person and cause him to become motivated and hard-working, with high standards and morals. Or, it can tear a person down, to the point of near insanity that results from the wild, hopeless chase after the dream. This is what occurs to Biff, Happy, and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's book Death of a Salesman. In the play, Willy Loman is a traveling salesman whose main ambition in life is wealth and success, neither of which he achieves. Corrupted by their father, Biff and Happy also can not attain success. Biff fails to find a steady, high-paying job even though he's 30, and he hates the business world, preferring instead to live on a farm in California. Happy, on the other hand, has a fairly well-paying, steady job, but still suffers from emptiness and a sense of being lost, a void which he fills by sleeping around with many women, some of whom are even married or engaged. Thus, Miller uses motifs, such as deception, theft, and hallucination, to show the pathology that all three of these characters experience in the wake of the American dream.
This fact alone implies that a factory job is no where near the worst working situation. As Matt Zwolinski points out in “Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation” published by Business Ethics Quarterly, “For the most part, individuals who work in sweatshops choose to do so. They might not like working in sweatshops, and they might strongly desire that... they did not have to do so. Nevertheless, the fact that they choose to work in sweatshops is morally significant” (Zwolinski 2).
Death of a Salesman is centered around one man trying to reach the American dream and taking his family along for the ride. The Loman's lives from beginning to end is a troubling story based on trying to become successful, or at least happy. Throughout their lives they encounter many problems and the end result is a tragic death caused by stupidity and the need to succeed. During his life Willy Loman caused his wife great pain by living a life not realizing what he could and couldn't do. Linda lived sad and pathetic days supporting Willy's unreachable goals. Being brought up in this world caused his children to lose their identity and put their futures in jeopardy.
The term, “American Dream,” came from American historian James Truslow Adams who first used the term in his published book, “The Epic of America.” According to Adam himself, he believes that the American Dream is the “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (Amadeo). The term has been used differently in today’s society and recalls it as maturing, getting married with the love of your life, having a beautiful home, and positioning in a good paying job to provide for your kids. Others say that the dream is to have a better life and do what you love. Either way, it all boggles down to just being happy. The “American Dream” became widely popular in the United States as Adam published his book during the 1930s and has been used in speeches, memoirs, and literature (Fallon). This term became important to the people in the U.S. because it sets a goal for all of the citizens to work hard for their dreams and happiness. Without this vision, most people wouldn’t know what to live for in life.
The development of individual identity has long been scrutinized by scientists of all disciplines to determine the biological and cultural aspects of life which influence the creation of identity. The structure and agency debate within the social sciences was born from opinions considering the postmodernist social changes throughout history; and aims to determine the influential significance held by the structural institutions within a culture, compared to that which is obtained from social interactions and personal agency. Social structures within society range from the larger global structures; to the macrostructures or institutional organisations that govern certain aspects of the way we live, such as political, economic, and education systems; to the smaller microstructures of face-to-face interactions and behavioural patterns accepted within a society, such as etiquette and social norms (Furze et al 2012, p.5,6). Human identities are undeniably shaped by the social structures that govern the culture from which they belong. This essay aims to discuss the influences of structure and agency respectively, as well as the altering frameworks predetermined by social scientists during different historical periods, in an effort to assess the levels of influence that social structures and social interaction possess over establishing an identity in a cultural world.
What is the American Dream? That’s a question everyone is trying to answer. People find it in their own unique ways; money, success, freedom, or love. However, these aren’t easily obtained, and in most situations people figure this out the hard way. People can be immensely wealthy but still fail in their journey to the American dream. A man may be the most successful in the world but in his eyes he may have not reached his American dream. People fight for their dream every day, as colonists they had to fight for our freedom and to pursue our dream. Some think that to obtain their dream and goal is to fall in love, but they may never be able to find or have “the one” and will never truly be in love. The American dream is an unobtainable ideal that everyone is still searching for today.
Even though the pay was low for adults, it was still too much for the factory owners to afford. They also needed workers who were small enough to fit into the tight spaces in the new machines. Child labour is the only option. There were many more dangerous jobs which children had to perform, some included crawling under the wool and cotton machines to fix threads. These children had to work for the majority of the day with little or no breaks.
The American Dream in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Material happiness provides the ambition behind seeking the "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman." In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy Loman's determination to live up to his "American Dream" and to seek material happiness only takes his life. What is the "American Dream"? The "American Dream" cannot be defined. I know that my "American Dream" consists of a Porsche, a large house, and a happy family.
The American dream is a very controversial subject. What is it? What does it mean? Can anyone achieve it? The “American dream” is the dream America promises: happiness in life. When someone is happy and content with his/her life, then he/she has reached the American dream. But, not everyone reaches the “promise” America offers due to discrimination, social classes, and gender gaps.