Workers Rights Articles and Poems

       The argument in the article "Bangladesh rescuer operation near end" is that the workers in a factory got trapped inside a building when the building collapsed.  The workers were trapped under the building with no water and food, they had injuries and some died. Reshma Begum a 19 years old Bangladeshi woman spent 17 days trapped under the factory. She describes what happened while being trapped "After ... much time I regained my senses and heard several voices (of other victims) around me who cried out and said please give me water ... I replied where shall I get water? I could not see anything as it was dark everywhere,".  I think that this issue is breaking the Human Right number #3 (You have the right to a free and safe life). It breaks it because employees should be able to go to work without worrying about major accidents. What I found very upsetting is that the government didn't do it's job to check this building and because of it innocent workers had to die/suffer.

       The argument in the poem The Sweatshop argues of  a person who  is lost in a world where she is not a person but a machine. She kept chanting how she was lost and didn't know who she was. How she called herself a machine and that is all she is.  Reading a poem is different than reading an article because in the poem you can almost feel the emotions that the person is feeling rather than an article. This affected the meaning of my understanding because in the article it paints a picture in your mind and in a poem you feel the emotions of the person writing it.