Assessment

In the article I read about not buying nike products, the argument was really about why we should not buy nike products and how the workers are suffering just to make us happy. One piece of evidence was that the worker who help making the nike products get paid a low minimum wage of $1.25 a day.  The article also stated that the workers would be abused such as being slapped, kicked, and even shoes being thrown at them for not working hard enough. I think that workers should not be able to work for being treated like this. This issue should have been taken care of years ago instead of continuing. One thing I learned about this topic that was interesting was that with their pay from work, they could only be able to afford to rent an 8 foot by 8 foot apartment, get some drinking water, only buy two meals, and secure transportation to work.

In the poem " The Sweatshop" I think the argument is that these workers have to work endlessly and for so long that they have no time to care or be themselves. I think that with all of this non-stop working they don't have anymore feelings and they really don't want any part of social life. One piece of evidence they used to back up this claim was a line that said " I have no feelings, no thoughts, no understanding." Another important line that I found in the poem is towards the end when it states " the slave that is awake in me seems to fall asleep." The difference between reading this poem and reading the article was that in the poem it makes you feel like you are part of this situation. The poem makes you feel like you are this worker being treated poorly rather than the article which states important facts but does not help you understand that much about this problem. This form helped me understand what I was reading because I understood more about what I was reading and understood more about what these workers go through. I understood it more because it was easier to read the words and have a feeling for those words I was reading.