{"id":5377,"date":"2012-08-15T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?page_id=5377"},"modified":"2014-10-09T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:48:47","slug":"from-the-instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/journal\/past-issues\/issue-4\/farooq\/from-the-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their second essay, WR 100 students revisit how Upton Sinclair\u2019s 1905 novel <em>The Jungle<\/em> prompted a presidentially-directed investigation that confirmed his findings of immigrant exploitation in \u201cPackingtown.\u201d\u00a0 A century later, undercover documentaries of the modern meatpacking industry suggest that little has changed, though industry representatives counter that such employment constitutes economic opportunity for immigrant workers.<\/p>\n<p>Students tested the industry\u2019s assertion, drawing on competing government and industry statistics of worker injury.\u00a0 One fall day Sameer appeared in class having graphically plotted both sets of numbers to demonstrate the unreliability of industry-backed risk rates and a misleading representation of worker well-being.\u00a0 This essay represents his effort to enter the public \u201cconversation\u201d and to argue for change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 MELANIE SMITH<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their second essay, WR 100 students revisit how Upton Sinclair\u2019s 1905 novel The Jungle prompted a presidentially-directed investigation that confirmed his findings of immigrant exploitation in \u201cPackingtown.\u201d\u00a0 A century later, undercover documentaries of the modern meatpacking industry suggest that little has changed, though industry representatives counter that such employment constitutes economic opportunity for immigrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":5300,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5377\/revisions\/5909"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}