Homework –EAV Chapter 12

<1>
1. change
2. increase
3. danger
4. rate
5. control
6. motivation
7. attitude
8. finally
9. improvement
10. search

<3>
1. electrical contact
2. contact leases
3. contact sports
4. face-to-face contact
5. physical contact
6. business contacts
7. established contacts
8. contact number
9. loss of contact
10. contact information


<5a>
1. exploit – workers, immigrants, resources
2. enforce – regulations, the speed limit, the law
3. pursue – a criminal, happiness, a career
4. sustain – growth, injuries, life

<5b>
1. public transportation
2. group dynamics
3. mood enhancers
4. transitional government
5. medical advice
6. ideological differences
7. tax incentives
8. survival rate
9. press exposure
10. ultimate responsibility

<7b> #2
My new day begins with cries of several children of the next room and with the sound of a quarrel of their parents. They have brawled about the same topic for several days: money – the most indispensable thing in life. Due to the poor sound proofing between the rooms in this ragged house accommodating a number of families in small space, it is unavoidable to hear what they are doing and saying. What I first feel is fatigue and pain in my back and shoulders after several days’ struggle with heavy textiles without any rest from early in the morning till late evening. I hope the more familiar I become in dealing with heavy wet cloth, the easier my work goes. I cannot understand why women are paid only a third as much as men, however, I have to stay silent. As many people are moving into the city and finding jobs, workers who are not subordinate to the employer cannot sustain the breadwinning. I prepare breakfast for my husband and 3 children – each of them is 6 year-old boy, 5 year-old girl, and 2 year-old boy – but all I can serve is a lump of brown bread without any milk or juice. Though I feel very sorry for my husband who should go through the tough labor in the coal mine and for my children who are very skinny due to poor nourishment, I cannot help it.

After my husband started to his workplace, I hurry to the factory taking my 3 children. The small room all my family share is messy, but I cannot afford to arrange it. Outside is much messier than my room. The street is full of sewage and trash disposed by the residents without care. Combined with the excretion from the domestic animals roaming in the street, the nasty smell of them irritates us. We should watch out our every step not to step them on. Moreover, the sky is grey as usual, which is said because of the smoke from the chimneys. Even though my employer complained of taking my children to the workplace yesterday, I could not leave them in the dusty and dangerous house by themselves. While the factory is also dangerous with the machine, and while the children have to play outside not disturbing the work process, I can check if they are okay in the factory from time to time between my works. Because there are not sufficient schools or care centers, and because the fee is too high for the people like us, it is only a dream to educate them. There are many boys and girls not older than 9 years old in my factory doing trivial things like carrying dye buckets and cleaning the machine. They always look exhausted and their payment is only a third amount of women’s. I cannot find more suitable expressions than ‘exploitation’ about this practice. Though the manager implicitly pressed me to make my eldest son work for the factory, I don’t want my son suffer from hard work in his early age. However, I might be enforced to make him work, considering the current economic condition of my family.

Before moving to Manchester last month, though we were also poor, I and my husband could work together, sharecropping in the farm and sharing the care for our children. We have plenty of time to see and talk each other. But now, the life here is like a survival battle in much poorer circumstance. We cannot have time to share smiles and laughs because we work too long and are too tired to. I am not certain that we made the right choice to move the industrial city, finding the enhancement of quality of life.