Open the above link and watch the video. What is the Big Idea behind this article and video? Make sure to include examples from the text and video. Include your own opinion in your response.
Do you know what is being done to stop this? Do you think enough is being done?
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The big idea in this video is 'feel sorry for these people who are in these mines'. I learned that many people here don't get any education or any good future. these people are 'robbed of their future' and sent to live in these terrible conditions. my personal oppinion is that if the countries leaders are dumb enough to let this happen, let them.
I think that the Big Idea of the artical and video is that some of the kids in India are in mines and are mining in dangerous conditions, but they need the money. One 15 year old boy says he would quit if he could, but he and his family need the money, “Yes, I am fearful, but I have to do it. If I don’t work, how can I put food in my stomach?”
None of them want to work there because it is to dangerous, but they have to: “I don’t like it, but I work out of compulsion”, “You worry about collapse, about dying. There is danger”
The place where they live isn’t the best either, “The mines live in single room shacks, without electricity, running water, or much protection”
It also “robs kids of an education and of much of their future”.
The big idea in the video is the hostile work that these indian miners have to do every day and at such a young age. They are being put in the mines as early as 5 years old preventing them from going to school and getting a good education. They have terrible living conditions but they are doing it to help their families survive. The CEO's of the mines are making it almost unbearable for these people to make a decent living.
I think that the Big Idea of the article and video is that some of the kids in India are in mines and are mining in dangerous conditions, but they need the money. One 15 year old boy says he would quit if he could, but he and his family need the money, “Yes, I am fearful, but I have to do it. If I don’t work, how can I put food in my stomach?”
None of them want to work there because it is to dangerous, but they have to: “I don’t like it, but I work out of compulsion”, “You worry about collapse, about dying. There is danger”
The place where they live isn’t the best either, “The mines live in single room shacks, without electricity, running water, or much protection”
It also “robs kids of an education and of much of their future”, because when they are down in the mines all they learn to do is to mine, and when they get older (if they don’t get trapped in the mine, or killed in a cave in), they will have to work in mines anyway because the only thing they learned when they were younger was how to mine.
The "Big Idea" in this article is that young workers who have been working aproximately ages 12-15 mining coal (which is illegal in america) I believe that the workers are being paid 500 rupees or $8.80 a day. Workers die because cave-ins and toxic gases some of these ignited by crude torches made of fire. Some workers are injured slipping on the damp ground and being caught between claustrophobic rocks. Sometimes falling off the rickety stairs that either collapse or cause slips cause either death or broken legs and the infuriating thing is, you have to go to work the next day with the use of your legs or not. I believe that people are doing things about this but not enough to have an impact. if someone makes a rule about no child coal labour people will bribe some officials into looking the other way. I believe that not enough is being done for these poor children caught in these mines and if there is anything can be done I support it.
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