Category Archives: Informational

Cobbler, Informational, Writing

Cobbler

There have been many changes in our shoe company over the last 200 years.  Some changes that happened are we now use the internet to inform our customers about our shoes. We have also been using different materials like rubber and plastic. Making a shoe is much more easier with all the machines but back in 1815 it took long because everything had to be made by hand. In 1815 it was harder to tell people about our company, with posters and newspaper it was harder to inform. Now I have many workers helping by advertising, making shoes, designing, and selling the shoes at all the stores around the United States and our main location Maryland.

We have been making changes in our company every day because we have been looking at which advertisements are working and which our not and we are also changing the different types of shoes we sell each week or month. Change in our company is very important because if not we probably will not have the same amount of people buying from our company or we wouldn’t have advanced our company as much as we have done in these past 200 years.

I think that Shoes will have more design on them then they do know because back then they didn’t have colorful shoes but know if you look at shoes you can see that that they are more detailed. I think that we will be using different materials because all the time people are discovering new things to use like we did from 1815 to 2015.

 

2nd Quarter, Informational, Inquiry Project, Movement Essay, Social Studies, Writing

The Labor Movement

The Labor Movement

By: Briana

The Labor movement was started when farm workers were treated badly because they got paid horrible for the hours they worked. For example sometimes if they worked 10 hours they only got paid $2 for their work.

 

This is Cesar Chavez giving a speech

Cesar Estrada Chavez

A man named Cesar Estrada Chavez helped those people. Cesar Chavez was Mexican American. He was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927. Cesar and a few other people set out to help in 1962 and founded the National farm workers association. The union got together with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California in 1965.“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce It is always about people.” During that time volunteers fanned out across the country to try to convince stores to stop selling grapes and to convince customers to stop buying them. At the end they got many victories. Chavez was one of the important labor leaders. Chavez went on hunger strikes which is believed to have led to his death on April 23, 1993 in San Luis, Arizona.

 

First Labor Day

The first Labor Day was Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, and is dedicated to the economic achievements of American workers. Matthew Maguire first proposed the holiday but others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894. Today we celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September. People celebrate with parades, parties, picnics, barbecues, fireworks, displays and athletic events across the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farm Workers

For more than a century farm workers had been denied a decent life in the fields. They have tried but failed to organize giant agribusiness farms most of the observers considered it hopeless. But by the 1960’s things began to change. In 15 years more than 50,000 farm workers were protected by the union. The Bracero program is an arrangement between the U.S and the Mexican government’s began to be law 78 in 1951.

Because of the labor movement, farm workers got more rights and now they get payed better but their working conditions aren’t the best for them.  Because of this, more work needs to be done.