Where sweatshops are a dream

Nicholas begins his column by talking about how our president and his team handle “labor standards.”The issue he brings to attention is how horrible this mountain of gross toxic smells, smoke and filth there is in Phnom Penh. A lot of the people there even have to live on this garbage. He is writing this to show the audience that even though our president means well, they are fighting back at sweatshops. The problem with that is these other families in poorer countries would love to have a sweatshop job. He states in his essay “ I’m glad that many Americans are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid, barely legal workers in dangerous factories. Yet sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty not a cause and banning them closes off one route out of property.” Readers and the audience wouldn’t know that because we just see them as bad for us and not others who are poor. He refutes his argument when talking about how people will ask him would you work in a sweatshop? He answered “ No, of course not.” Which makes since because we live in a America most people would not last in sweatshop. His main idea he is trying to get across is instead of campaigning against sweatshops we should promote manufacturing there to help people who are in poorer countries. Overall this column was very effective because most readers would just automatically gone to no sweatshops are horrible environments and no one should be allowed to work in them. Although the more information you learn about sweatshops you figure out that you could be helping other people in other countries. You would be helping not just them but there families as well. So from this column he teaches you a lot more about the issue than what others just go off from about what they think they know.

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  1. Good introduction but you are missing a couple of things in your introduction such as: date of publication and the summary needs main points. Overall, this is a good structure!

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    1. Good introduction but you are missing date of publication.The evidence is clear and has a main idea ,you are identifying the refutation but if you point out weaknesses, rebuttals or lack of rebuttals you would make your essay look better! You are also specifying the authors' purpose.You need to add how the author feels about this topic.This is a good structure!

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