Assessment for Lit (Article and Poem)

In the article about Nike workers they had said how the workers had been getting about a dollar an hour. The writers believe that these conditions that these people are living in aren't right and they aren't livable, so they need to change and they can't live off of the $1.25. Although this isn't illegal it leaves the person only enough t rent an 8x8 apartment and pay for two meals a day. The people that work for the Nike company in Indonesia can't afford things to keep their body healthy like soap and other stuff to keep themselves clean and get away from germs. If the people buy things like clothes or soap, they have to go starving because they can't afford to purchase the food  These people are also working in factories where if they disobey the owners they'll get hurt or have things thrown at them and they just get poor treatment. Some people will have to stand in front of the hot sun. I think that these conditions and pay makes this practically slavery because this is how slaves were treated, they didn't get health benefits, they didn't get breaks for food and some people couldn't even leave until they had finished what they were doing. I heard how poorly these people were getting treated and I was surprised that there wasn't any labor laws like in America to prevent people from getting injured and having poor treatment. I also think that more countries should have a better law system to prevent this from happening to these people.

In the sweatshop poem the person feels as if they're a machine. They feel as if their life is all about work work work and nothing more that if a person doesn't work in their life they can't do anything. The person in the poem feels as if by doing all this work they literally lose their life as if it's taken straight out of them. They work makes them feel lifeless because of the time they spend doing it and it just transforms them into this machine as if they aren't even a human anymore. In the poem it conveys it's message differently than in the article. In the article they just gave the information out, but in the poem they used words and different was of writing to show that the person doesn't feel as if they're really a person anymore. Using a poem instead of an article can show people information and tell them a message in a different way instead of giving it in a boring article which sometimes can't be as well understood as a poem is.