Yize Zhao
Ms. Cunningham
ENG3U – Period 4
18 May 2016

1. Book: Friedman, Lauri S. Human Rights. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2010: 126-132. Print.
Original article: Rebecca Clarren, “Paradise Lost: Greed, Sex Slavery, Forced Abortions and Right-Wing Moralists,” Ms. Magazing, Spring 2016.

Annotation: The editor of the book, Lauri S. Friedman uses the article from Rebbeca Clarren as the fifth viewpoint of the book. Clarren is an investigative journalist with a particular interest in labour issues. In the article, Clarren uses the facts of the sweatshop conditions around the world to illustrate that the sweatshop workers always work in unpleasant and abusive conditions for very low income. She suggests that Americans should know the cheap clothes …show more content…
Friedman uses the article from Benjamin Powell as the sixth viewpoint of the book. Benjamin Powell is a senior economist with the Beacon Hill Institute and a professor of the economics at Suffolk University in Boston. In the article, he compares the national average income with sweatshop workers’, to argue that even though their wages are low by America standards, they still earn more than twice what other workers in their countries do. Furthermore, when sweatshops are closed, workers are often forced into worse occupations such as prostitution. For these reasons, Powell concludes that U.S. should not oppose the use of sweatshops to make products. Although the author’s viewpoint is opposite from the one I am going to write in the essay, it still provides me with a considerable counter argument in the speech. The author is biased in the article because he only focuses on the material satisfaction of the workers and does not pay attention to their mental and physical health. However, combining two opposite article in the book, source one and source two from the same book, they give me a balanced view of the general …show more content…
He is a reporter that has been a correspondent for The New York Times based in Shanghai, China for ten years. In the article, he uses many quotations from workers, speakers, and supervisors from the sweatshop factories that make products for eastern countries, and shows the difficult working conditions and low wages that sweatshop workers could have. Furthermore, he points out that sweatshop is a serious and wide issue in China and there is little that any Western buyers can do about the issues. Instead, the Chinese government should modify and strictly obey their factory regulations. The quotations in the articles are good sources for pathos because these are real reflections from workers in the sweatshop. The author talked about both positive influence and negative influences of the sweatshop, in Chinese's and eastern countries’ perspective, so the author is balanced in the