Assessment

• Paragraph 1: What was the argument in the article? What evidence did they give to back up this claim? What do you think about the issue? What did you learn that was surprising/interesting/upsetting?
• Paragraph 2: What was the argument in the poem? What evidence did they give to back up this claim? How was reading the poem different than the article? How did this form affect the meaning or your understanding of the poem?

The article I am reading is called "Don't buy Nike". The argument in this article is that the workers in the factory are being physically abused an they are being extremely underpaid for their work and their hours they put in. I know this because throughout the article, it explains how workers only earn 1.25 a day from a hard days work. They workers also state that they are working in very hot conditions in the factory. I really don't agree with the terms or the things that the workers have to go through in order to make this meager amount of money. What really upsets me is that the problem also comes and still exist is because the government doesn't do anything to help and prevent the problem. They can do many things to stop and prevent it by doing sweeps of suspicious buildings or make the companies have review or a paper to fill out about their workers.
 The poem I am reading is called "The Sweatshop". The argument of this poem is about the narrator working in the horrible conditions of the sweatshops the narrator is in. The narrator explains his/hers time in the sweatshops as hard, tiring, and make you so dreadful that you won't even know what you are doing anymore. The narrator also explains that after a while of working in one if these shops, you tend to forget who you are, and since you do the same movements over and over again, you feel like a machine working nonstop. It shows all of these problems the narrators faces in the poem time after time. Showing how the narrator feels while he/she is working. I think that the poem really did express more than the article because the poem used certain words that made you feel like you were the one working. Another thing that that made the article and the poem different from each other is that the article has more facts about the topic and has more opinions of the other people that were there. This form of the views on sweatshops really made me feel like I was the one working in the shop because the the narrator explained every single thing they feel when they are working in these horrible conditions.