and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. ButDirty Workexamines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income...
Written for pre-teens, a prime target for the $300-billion fast-food industry, the book focuses on treatment of animals in slaughterhouses and employees in restaurants, and lays out how eating too much...
Kurt Vonnegut was a POW in Dresden during World War II. He only survived the allies’bombing of Dresdenbecause the Germans housed the American prisoners in a meat-locker in a building they called Slaughterhouse-Five. For years afterward, Vonnegut attempted to write a book about his experiences,...
“Satanic Mills” powered by child labor and the grim slaughterhouses that produced tainted meat and made the streets of New York and Chicago run red with blood. Keen also cites more recent example, including the auto industry’s “chrome coffins” that created carnage on U.S. highways in ...
18.Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt VonnegutBrave New World, Aldous Huxley 19.Invisible Man, Ralph EllisonThe Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger 20.Native Son, Richard WrightAnimal Farm, George Orwell 21.Henderson the Rain King, Saul BellowGravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon ...
5 Hemingway uses these seemingly mediocre words to suggest that the war is a machine for killing people and the battlefield is like a slaughterhouse, where death is inevitable, rather common, and not surprising. There are several soldiers in the novel who are badly hurt by the war. They ...
Chicago got its nickname “Hog Butcher to the World” for its once prosperous slaughterhouses. IV. Short Answer Questions 7. Into which large body of water does the Mississippi River flow? It flows into the Gulf of Mexico. 8. Which river forms a long border between the United States and ...
“The landlady is disgusting to me. It’s the same disgust I felt when I was a child and had to vomit outside the open doors of the slaughterhouse. If she were dead I would, today, feel no disgust—dead bodies on the dissecting table never remind me of live bodies—but she’s aliv...
t the start of the 20th century, Chicago was In poorer countries, the introduction of public the cradle of the slaughter industry. Using or private slaughterhouses is the first step towards moving production lines, it took just 15 the processing of animals in a hygienic way. At the a ...
One poem, “Sailing Ashland Avenue,” (Fortnightly Review, Feb. 2023) by Robert Archambeau, spreads from Chicago to Omaha to Texas. And there is much about Chicago and Omaha and Texas––a strange, strong poem. Another is “Easter 2022” (Fortnightly Review, Feb. 2023) by Michael Anania...