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Part I. Apply the Un Universal Intellectual Standards: In the article “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” pertaining Cromwell College sweatshirts, the information collects from Cromwell Clarion. The first violation of the Universal Intellectual standards is the accuracy. For example, “WorldWeave observers noticed some children who appeared to be as young as eleven or twelve working with dangerous fabric-cutting machine”, and how could this information find out the age of the children by just looking at them? Is this even possible? So WorldWeave report did not make investigation the age of those workers. Nothing was done to verify their ages. WorldWeave should go back to and investigate those workers before making a judgment. Also, this “details report by American garment workers’ unions.” The statistics of how many workers for the company’s total workers is not approved through a non-bias party, and works cited to go and read the details about this report. WroldWeave should better use UNICEF source because this is a good source to collect the demographic data in the industrial, and they are more reliable than the union’s source. …show more content…

When writer talked about the “little girl the age of an average fifth grade, working hour after hour without a break…..” this is obviously compelling an emotional response, and bring pity to the issues. Second is straw man. The writer overstates the working conditions as “ten-hour shift work day”, and “physical exhausting and mentally deadening” work. Americans work a ten-hour work day, and conditions are examined under the government regulations. Then, writer said “there are two things we can do to put an end to this exploitation…”, and this sentence is a false dilemma. This idea is given the readers a limited number of options. The writer wants the readers to feel that they have only two choices, when in reality, they could ignore the problem because they have only to choices to solve this

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