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A Book ReviewReport of Triangle The Fire that Changed America by Daveid, Von Drehle
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A Book Review/Report of Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by Daveid, Von Drehle
Authored by Daveid Von Drehle and published by Grove Press in the year 2004, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America offers a recount and reevaluation of one of the deadliest and most damaging fires in the history of New York occurring on the 25th of March 1911. In the setting of its context, Drehle presents the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire an avoidable disaster that probably came because of negligence.
In the months and years preceding this fire, Drehle indicates the existence of the belief good life could only be found in America, this was the American dream that saw many wives of the Jewish and Italians migrate to America, only to find out that they had to work for this. At the same time, shirtwaist business was booming, and Triangle was one of the largest producers. Yet the working conditions had been unfavorable, and obsession with controlling theft and workers led the factory owners into ordering that one of the two major exits be locked. Nonetheless, the trial and inquest did not prove all this. Drehle recounts as the fire started on eighth floor while most of the workers worked on ninth floor. As for the case of the owners of the factory, they were alerted via a phone call in their tenth floor office from where they proceeded to jump to adjacent rooftops. A total of 123 women and 23 men died, making the whole death toll come to 146.
After the fire, there was the aftermath of the event. Drehle indicates that it is only then that America realized the way employers unequally related to employees. So, 2, 000 sweatshop factories had to be inspected by a commission step by step. In the end came rules about minimum wage standards, and working hours. Occupational health safety was given an important consideration and a total of thirty labor laws came into existence.
The book is quite comprehensive and organized, with all events in the pre, during, and post fire period organized sequentially. Drehle outstandingly notes that previous protests and demonstrations had occurred in an attempt to change the oppressive work conditions, yet no one took notice of these. Instead, factory owners like Blanc saw this as interference in private business. The common belief then was that the owners owned the business and so was the right to dictate conditions of work at the factories. To this extent, it had to cost 146 lives for changes demanded for decades to be implemented. Recounting the massive shirtwaist workers’ strike brings the reality of the fact that these changes were truly due and the fire was just an awakening call.
Considerably, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by Drehle remains one of the most outstanding presentations on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. This text moves step by step and enlists the most notable characters as they participated in the events leading up to the fire and those after the fire. It not only lists the major events in this industry and fire history but also does an incisive analysis of the interplay of various factors at the time of work. Considering the sorrowful and sad nature of the death of the workers, Drehle embodies their death as the starting point of and for transformations. Ultimately, inquiries and trials culminate into various legal implications. Further to these are numerous political transformations and changes in civil and urban liberalism. Quintessentially, it truly serves its topic, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America.
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Drehle, Daveid Von. Triangle: The Fire that Changed America. New York: Grove Press, 2004. Print.
Critical Analysis of “Young Goodman Brown
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Critical Analysis of “Young Goodman Brown
The “Young Goodman Brown” story by Nathaniel Hawthorne narrates the fascinating dream of Goodman Brown, a man coming from Salem. In the dream, Brown comes into the encounter with evil and is enforced to observe the nature of evil in society. In this story, symbolism is greatly used. The story was based during the Puritan era. The narrator describes that Goodman brown went on a journey into the forest; he believes he saw many members of his community out in the forest. He believed the people in his community including his wife faith were attending the “devils” ceremony. The narrator implies that Brown may have been sleeping, though the experience was real.
Exposition
The author starts the story in an atmosphere that is full of mystery and suspense. From the story, we can see that Brown is on an individual journey in the forest, but we are not aware of where he is going and for what reasons (Hawthorne, p.3). Moreover, there is little background information presented concerning his life. All that is shown is Brown’s happy marriage with Faith and the encounters with evil and the hypocrisy of his country people.
Rising action
Goodman Brown meets with a stranger with a snake-shaped object into the woods. Things start becoming complicated for Brown by the mysterious things happening around him. For example when a minister together with the deacon passes by talking about devil worshipping and some evil stuff (Hawthorne, p.43). To make matters worse Brown in some instance hears his wife’s voice and he became convinced that his wife was up to some evil things.
Climax
The devilish experiences above lead to Brown believing that his wife has obtained some evil spell. The situations around make him worried that his wife is running through the forest. However, Brown refuses to give in into the temptations of joining the evil.
Falling action
After the horrible night experiences, Brown returns home in the morning a worried person. He could believe what he experienced at night. Consequently, there is a sequence of conflicts that arise after that. Brown is seen trying hard as much as possible to counterattack the devilish influences by the residents of his home area. Brown sees them as being devilish and deceitful. However, the author does not present to us in what ways they are wicked and hypocritical, and the story ends.
Resolution
However, this does not seem to be the end of everything. This is because the author at some point jumps into some years and narrates what Brown ends up becoming in life and the story leaves us with suspicion.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown and other stories. Alma Books, 2018.
A Book Review of Mastering Self-Leadership Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence
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A Book Review of Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence
Authored by Chris Neck and Charles Manz and published by Pearson Education, Limited, the book Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence presents itself as one of the most powerful guides to self-improvement for the purpose of enhancing one’s leadership capabilities. As commented by the authors, this is an offer of an awakening process that begins at an individual’s personal level. It presents the true belief that individuals capable of managing themselves in the best way stand better chances in managing others through leadership skills. In sum, it offers a comprehensive collection of tools and skills that truly empower an individual to personal excellence, brilliance, and perfection of leadership at personal and group levels.
It is worth noting that Chris and Charles approach the issue of leadership mush objectively. In their approach, they offer real-life and existent examples of ways to apply leadership skills and horn them to produce the best of them. Further, it is adequately considerable that the vast of these samples draw from across different professions and societal fields in which leadership skills are found and applied. To this extent, they cover active, passive, and other forms of leadership in the corporate world and other entrepreneurial fields. It is also evident that this book contains a collection of research provisions which add to its credibility. Borrowing largely from scholarly sources offered by renowned authores it endeavours to cultivate improved emotional intelligence, the application of social responsibility, and a broadly improved leadership skill in the overall.
In its presentation, the book journeys through ten chapters and two other sections named as Some Additional Thoughts and an Epilogue. The first three chapters form the foundation of the book. They lay the ground upon which the book gets written. Their titles include: The Journey, Mapping the Route or We Do Choose, and Rough Road, Detours, and Roadblocks or Leading Ourselves to do Necessary but Unattractive Tasks. In the first chapter, they define leadership, establish the sources from which it is pulled and end by establishing the fact that we all engage in individual leadership by leading ourselves. Thus, the book emphasizes on the relevance and need for self-leadership. This is followed by a peer into the factors we must consider when when choosing the paths of leadership to take. In this, the authors outline both external and internal; personal factors involved in the choice of leadership. Chapter three establishes the strategies relevant for enhancing self-leadership. In these, the ability to apply self-generated strategies is contrasted with existent world strategies to settle on the best interpretations of an individual’s scores.
The next four chapters cultivate the take-off in one’s journey to self-leadership and apply them its application in team leadership. Overviewing the relevance of natural rewards, activities relating to natural power, and the way to enhance this, the book goes ahead to kick of the psychological journey that establishes the power in the mind in preparation for a take-off to the thinking-travel that sums leadership. The whole of these directions on thinking get summed up in two chapters that establish thinking as a central tool to establishing and enhancing personal and team leadership abilities. To sum up this part of the book, the authors conjoin various mental aspects, balancing, and self-leadership tools to achieve a greater team leadership.
Considerations towards achieving the greatest outcomes in self-leadership are probably found in the last chapter of the book which runs from chapter eight to ten. The beginning of these chapters is characterised by real-life examples that make learning self-leadership even easier. Using various tale perspectives; the authors sum up the book in the last chapter which is named The Journey Completed. This is purely based on thoughts of Personal Effectiveness where the authors finally outline it as the greatest tool of achieving self and team leadership.
Considerably, the concepts presented in this book actually achieve the essence of the purpose for which the book is written. Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence: may seem an easy goal to achieve. However, it is only after one reads the text that they realize the authors took time and did incisive research on the real issues that determine how self and team leadership is controlled and propelled. The concepts presented in the book are quite useful: they awaken ones hidden self, reminds individuals of their secret leadership abilities, and equips them with real tools to improve where they have limitations.
Perhaps, the fact that the book is a collection of information from varied resources makes it one of the strongest in its field. Added to this strength is the fact that it still applies psychological, psychosocial, and other effective tools in applying its concepts, Further still is the fact that varied professional and societal perspectives get considered in its applications. Examples of these include leadership in academics, corporations, other businesses, and administrative units.
Substantially, the book altered my way of thinking in various approaches. One of such is the understanding of the application of integrative frameworks in applying self-leadership growth and development. This would entail integrating the environment, individual abilities, and skills from other individuals in achieving self and team leadership.
Work Cited
Neck, Christopher P, and Charles C Manz. Mastering Self-Leadership. 1st ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.