Dora Ismailova
English 1101 (Prof. Scanlan)
Journal 4
September 30, 2015
My Favorite New York City Photo
The photo that caught my eye the most was “Sweat shop, New York City” by Lewis Wickes Hine. The author’s point of view of this photo is how hard women and girls worked in the 1900’s in New York. Some of the women’s faces look very tiring. Most of the women are not even looking up they are too busy working. These women only work to make money because in the 1900s it was very hard to get a good job. In the 1900’s, sweatshops would pay as little as $3 a week that’s how little they would be paid and some would even get hurt by working in the sweatshops and had no choice to work or leave. Sweatshops are not easy jobs they are very hard, and very dangerous. By looking at the photo it reminds me of the Holocaust, because the way the women are working and are dressed up like. The Holocaust had Sweatshops that children and women had to work for hours. My reaction to this photo is I think the women in this photo are doing the same thing work long hours and very tired.
There are still some sweatshops around the world going on today, and people are getting paid very little, Just to feed their families. The main reason I choice this photo was because I admire those hard workers that are willing to do anything and get even a penny that would keep them living.
Hey Dora,
Looking at this picture I agree that the women look tired and over worked, in a very unsafe environment. Just by looking at this picture I did not occur to me that a connection can be made to the holocaust. This is a very interesting point of view of this picture. While children are not present in the photo I would imagine that they are probably working in a factory, doing dangerous jobs. During the 1900’s there were no labor laws so the workers were often exploited. I did not even think of the children really until you had previously pointed them out.
Hey Dora,
Looking at this picture I agree that the women look tired and over worked, in a very unsafe environment. Just by looking at this picture I did not occur to me that a connection can be made to the holocaust. This is a very interesting point of view of this picture. While children are not present in the photo I would imagine that they are probably working in a factory, doing dangerous jobs. During the 1900’s there were no labor laws so the workers were often exploited. I did not even think of the children really until you had previously pointed them out.
The world of today is a complex system, of tunnels and differing routes that all bring us somewhere, in the sense of life and goals. The sweat shop workers probably all want to go home and see their loving families, but in the past, work came first. To survive is to succeed, in the past and very much in the present.
Let me plant a sort of seed, just for kicks.
We are here. You, me, the person down two floors of your apartment eating cereal at 10 PM watching Game of Thrones, whatever.
Then there were our ancestors, and their ancestors, and so on and so forth, back to cavemen.
And all cavemen had to do was to kill animals and survive til their end of time. Literally (maybe), that was all they did. And their kids, and their grand kids, and their great grand kids. If you really think on it, the people that do not exist TODAY, literally had their family line wiped out by our ancestors. Our ancestors killed someone else’s ancestor because we were better then they were. Be it luck or skill, but they all worked hard for it.