Assessment

      The argument in the article, "Fight for fair treatment of workers: Don't buy Nike,"  was that Nike needs to stop treating these workers like this, and that they also should start paying them more, since Nike has been so successful. " In 2011, Steven Wright of The Associated Press reported physical and mental abuse in Nike factories," this was used as evidence. I agree with the article, since Nike has billions of dollars, Nike should start paying their workers more, and they also should stop abusing the Nike employees. Something I found upsetting was that Nike only pays their employees $1.25 per day. That is not enough for them to buy personal hygiene stuff, food, water, etc.

      The argument in the poem, "The Sweatshop,"  is that the narrator was telling the reader that she doesn't want to be a worker in the sweatshop anymore, she works and works and works,  day after day, tired, and without thought she works the machine. "Gashes his teeth, calls me 'machine,' and yells at me: 'Go!"  Reading the poem was different from reading the article by: the poem was written in first person, so she described how she felt about working so much, and in the article it was written in third person point of view, so I didn't know how these workers felt.  This form affected the meaning to my understanding of the book by: when the worker vividly described how she felt, I understood her, and also how she couldn't eat anymore because she was sick of eating the same food everyday.