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What I didn't like about the movie was how little they focused on actually being in the mines (although, for the record you couldn't see a thing while they were actually in the mines so maybe it's for the best.) because the audience never got a sense of how terrible work actually was in there. In some of the readings you can really get a sense that there was little air and that they were getting sick and trapped and injured but in the movie, more people died of gunfire than via coal mining. It just didn't seem to measure up right. -Kelly Wuyscik | What I didn't like about the movie was how little they focused on actually being in the mines (although, for the record you couldn't see a thing while they were actually in the mines so maybe it's for the best.) because the audience never got a sense of how terrible work actually was in there. In some of the readings you can really get a sense that there was little air and that they were getting sick and trapped and injured but in the movie, more people died of gunfire than via coal mining. It just didn't seem to measure up right. -Kelly Wuyscik | ||
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| + | The reading for this week titled “Oh God, For One More Breath”: Early 20th century Tennessee Coal Miners’ Last Words, showed how religious these people were. They constantly referred to Jesus, and how they were going to go to Heaven, and wanted to meet their family up there too. These documents reminded me of how religious the miners in the movie, especially the Italians, were with their statues of Mary, and other religious items. ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
== 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | == 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | ||
