#6 Critical Analysis - Part I

1. What is the goal of both excerpts? In the Jungle article the goal that it is trying to explain is that people can catch diseases due to the insanitariness of a meatpacking plant. In the Fast Food Nation- article of the most dangerous jobs their goal was to notify us of the dangers of the job duties and also to advise us that the meatpacking companies, plants, industries quite frankly do not care about their employees. They just want to see the profit. 2. What kinds of details do both authors include in their excerpts to make their points? In the Jungle article they explain to us how insanitary the meatpacking plant is. They also explain to us the difference between insanitary privy and properly constructed privy. In the Fast Food Nation- article of the most dangerous jobs they explain all of the dangers that the meatpacking employee is exposed to. Not to mention that they talks about a few real stories of real people that were victims of injuries and how the company treated them. For example sending them back to work right after an injury had occurred. that is truly sad. 3. What were the effect of the Jungle's publication & what have been some possible effects of the publication of Fast Food Nation? The effect that I read from the publication of the Jungle was that it was in full realization of this fact that the people of North Carolina, through their representatives, the members the General Assembly, put themselves on record as desirous of protect themselves and their neighbors from ravages of fecal born diseases by passing a law in February of 1919 entitled "an act to prevent the spread of diseases from insanitary privies." The only understanding that I got from the Fast Food Nation- article of the most dangerous jobs is that political people were trying to shut down OSHA. I am not sure if I answered it correctly, but that is what I got from my understanding of it, unless I missed the answer.