Professional Documents
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Preface+ The Project
1.)____What is the worker, who is tethered to the iron rail bed and an oxygen tank dying of?
“Metal in my Lungs”
4.)____ At the factory where they were making Char-Broil grills and gas stoves there weren’t any:
5.)____ Where is there a factory in the United States- which builds the same thing- in better conditions?
6.)____ Li Xueping lost ______ making metal kitchen and bathroom accessories for American
companies.
7.)____ How many Chinese workers have lost legs, arms, hands or gingers since 1995?
8.)____ Yu’s injuries were rated a grade _____. (The least severe…)
Deadly Dust
11.)____ What color was the dust that coated the machines, tables, floors, clothes and food?
14.)____ What did the factory workers do- that was considered ‘courageous in China’?
b.) called in to a national radio show. d.) wrote a letter to the Chinese President!
Who is Responsible?
b.) the U.S. should step up to the plate and pay a ‘fair wage’ to Chinese factories.
16.)____ Bill Freedman says he travels to China himself- to inspect factories. Up to ___ times a year!
Afterword:
17.)_____ In order to write this piece, Loretta Tofani visited more than ____ factories.
b.) the Nobel Prize for Literature d.) the Edward R. Murrow Journalism Prize