Yet what they wanted was modest enough: a fifty-two-hour week with extra pay for overtime, an end to the fines and petty tyrannies, and a living wage. these were the demands that were hammered out by the shop groups behind the closed doors of the meeting halls. the officers of local 25 sent them on to the owners — along with one more demand, recognition of the union. which historical detail best clarify a reader’s understanding of the information in the excerpt female factory workers had to work long hours, sometimes up to eighty hours a week. many union men believed that women factory workers would never come together to strike. women’s clothing first began to be mass produced in the early twentieth century. “gorillas” were men who were hired to threaten and harass striking factory workers.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”