A movie review. Watch a movie which portrays a work-related struggle. Write about some aspect of the struggle and how people overcome the obstacles. Some appropriate movies might be Matewan", "Silkwood", "Norma Rae", "9 to 5"
 
        The movie I chose to review was Norma Rae.  The movie protrays a town in which almost everyone, from black to white, young to old, male to female, worked in factories.  It showed how the conditions in the factory were hazardous.  The factory was basically a sweat shop.  They worked with machines that were dangerous and old.  They were treated like slaves.  They always had someone over there shoulder.  Norma was one of the workers.  She started to become friends with a union representative from New York.
    The man would stand infront of the factory inviting workers to the meeting they were having, while they were entering the factory.  But only ten people  went because the rest  were too afraid of losing there jobs.  Norma Rae was one of the people to show up at the meeting.  The meeting was about trying to start a union at the company.
    Because Norma had such pull in the factory she was offered a better job with better pay but after a while she left because her close friends were becoming were even closer enemies.  After that Norma got most of the workers to join the union.

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

    The triangle fire of 1911  was very tragic.  It claimed the lives of 146 people most of them were women.  The deaths were blamed mostly on the conditions of the factory than the fire itself.  The buildings exits were claimed to be blocked by boxes and fire escapes were unsafe.  The workers of the factory claimed there own lifes by jumping out of 8th 9th and 10th floor windows for reasons that they thought were safe.  It was said that the girls were paniced and pushing each other out of the way to get to what they thought were safe.
    Eye witness accounts say they people ran to help the young ladies and they ended up being crushed by the falling bodies that ended up making holes in the concertrate.  Fire fighters said that they found bady laying along side the dead body still breathing.  their was a group of students that tried to help the workers.  They took two ladders and hung them acrossthe roof as a path of some girls but it could not hold all the weight.
    Men that worked in the factory made a human ladder by stretching their bodies across the way bu all the weight from the girls made the ladder fall killing all the crossers and guys forming the ladders.  Because of the fire that state made a law that the
 

5.A letter from one character in the United States assessing the situation and trying to decided if the family would be better off returning to the "old country."

Dear father,
    How are you doing?  I'm doing alright but things aren't great.  I wish I could return home but I want to prove that I could work things out here.  I already have a job a t a factory, It's not the gratest job but it's a job.  Elzethia and Ona tryed to convinse me to buy a house I didn't, so Elzethia tried to surprise me and she brought it anyway.  The house ended up being more trouble than it was worth.  The house needed a lot of work that we just could not efford.  So therefore we ended up losing the house.  I really didn't mined but it put a great straon on our financial stitatuation.
    I really missing everyone.  Give them my best to everyone.  I love and I'll write soon.

                                                                                             Love your son,
                                                                                                Jurgis