{"CACHEDAT":"2026-06-05 16:56:01","SLUG":"model-solution-tPNfUfw6X1","MARKDOWN":"**Suggested Solution:**\n\n\n**Before activity:**\n\nThe before activity: open-ended questions to better remember and connect the dots. \n\n\n**Task 1:** \n\nSHEIN's evoluSHEIN strategy ==anchors== our commitment to being more ==responsible== for our ==environmental impact== and ==improving lives== in the ==communities we reach==. It comprises three strategic pillars that ==drive our mission== to ==provide inclusive and affordable fashion== for all, regardless of culture, gender, age, body type, ability, or economic status.\n\n \n\nThe three strategic pillars are ==Equitable Empowerment== (People), ==Collective Resilience== (Planet), and ==Waste-Less Innovation== (Process). With these three pillars, we focus on the most ==material risks and opportunities== for SHEIN and our stakeholders within the ecosystem, and develop strategies to ==ensure our long-term business resilience==.\n\n \n\n1)     Identify the ==positive loaded words== Shein uses to get its message across.\n\n2)     Identify which issues the illustration focuses on.\n\n·       *Improve lives in the communities Shein reaches*\n\n·       *Inclusive and affordable fashion*\n\n·       *Design circular systems*\n\n·       *Sustainable innovation*\n\n·       *Protect nature*\n\n·       *Responsible materials*\n\n \n\n3)     Determine which issues related to fast fashion that are not focused on / mentioned in the text and illustration.\n\n·       *Toxic waste / toxic emissions, working conditions for the workers, impact on the environment, consumerism, ultra-fast fashion, possible poor durability*\n\n4)     Discuss and decide if this is a good source to use to find information about Shein's sustainability effort.\n\n·       *Biased, one-sided, much information on what sustainability actually entails is left out*\n\n\n\\\n**Task 2:**\n\n\nRead the excerpt below from The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) \n\n**Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living**\n\nBy Clark Nardinelli\n\nBetween 1760 and 1860, ==technological **progress**, education, and an **increasing** capital stock transformed England into the== ==workshop of the world==. The industrial revolution, as the transformation came to be known, caused a **==sustained rise==** ==in real income per person== in England and, as its effects spread, in the rest of the Western world. Historians agree that the industrial revolution was one of ==the most **important** events in history,== marking the **==rapid transition==** ==to the modern age==, but they disagree vehemently about many aspects of the event. Of all the disagreements, the oldest one is over how the industrial revolution affected ordinary people, often called the working classes. One group, the pessimists, argues that the living standards of ordinary people fell, while another group, ==the optimists==, believes that living standards **rose**.\n\nAt one time, behind the debate was an ideological argument between the critics (especially Marxists) and the defenders of free markets. The ==critics, or pessimists==, saw nineteenth-century England as Charles Dickens's Coketown or poet William Blake's \"dark, satanic mills,\" with capitalists squeezing more surplus value out of the working class with each passing year. The ==defenders, or optimists==, saw nineteenth-century England as the birthplace of a consumer revolution that made more and more consumer goods **available** to ordinary people with each passing year. The ideological underpinnings of the debate eventually faded, probably because, as T. S. Ashton pointed out in 1948, the industrial revolution meant the difference between the grinding poverty that had characterized most of human history and the **affluence** of the modern industrialized nations. No economist today seriously disputes the fact that the industrial revolution began the transformation that has led to ==extraordinarily high (compared with the rest of human history) living standards for ordinary people throughout the market industrial economies==.\n\nThe standard-of-living debate today is not about *whether* the industrial revolution made people better off, but about *==when==.* ==The pessimists claim no marked improvement== in standards of living until the 1840s or 1850s. ==Most optimists, by contrast, believe that living standards were rising== by the 1810s or 1820s, or even earlier.\n\n\\[…\\]\n\nSource: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html\n\n**In pairs:**\n\n1)     Identify which ==aspects== of the industrial revolution Econlib focuses on.\n\n* increased living standard for all \\n\n\n2)     Identify the **positive loaded words** Econlib uses to get its message across.\n\n* progress, increasing, sustained, important, rapid transition, available, affluence \\n\n\n3)     Determine which issues related to the industrial revolution that are not focused on / mentioned in the text.\n\n* Sideeffects are not mentione e.g. working conditions, pollution, exploitation of colonies (people, raw material), increased living standard for the Western world, north/south divide, \n\n \\n\n\n4)     Discuss and decide if this is a good source to use to find information about the outcomes of the industrial revolution.\n\n* one-sided\n* Eurocentric viewpoint\n* No acknowledgement for the harm caused in colonies and local pollution","HTML":"

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Before activity:

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The before activity: open-ended questions to better remember and connect the dots.

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Task 1:

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SHEIN's evoluSHEIN strategy anchors our commitment to being more responsible for our environmental impact and improving lives in the communities we reach. It comprises three strategic pillars that drive our mission to provide inclusive and affordable fashion for all, regardless of culture, gender, age, body type, ability, or economic status.

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The three strategic pillars are Equitable Empowerment (People), Collective Resilience (Planet), and Waste-Less Innovation (Process). With these three pillars, we focus on the most material risks and opportunities for SHEIN and our stakeholders within the ecosystem, and develop strategies to ensure our long-term business resilience.

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1)     Identify the positive loaded words Shein uses to get its message across.

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2)     Identify which issues the illustration focuses on.

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·       Improve lives in the communities Shein reaches

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·       Inclusive and affordable fashion

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·       Design circular systems

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·       Sustainable innovation

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·       Protect nature

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·       Responsible materials

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3)     Determine which issues related to fast fashion that are not focused on / mentioned in the text and illustration.

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·       Toxic waste / toxic emissions, working conditions for the workers, impact on the environment, consumerism, ultra-fast fashion, possible poor durability

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4)     Discuss and decide if this is a good source to use to find information about Shein's sustainability effort.

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·       Biased, one-sided, much information on what sustainability actually entails is left out

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Task 2:

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Read the excerpt below from The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) 

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Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living

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By Clark Nardinelli

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Between 1760 and 1860, technological progress, education, and an increasing capital stock transformed England into the workshop of the world. The industrial revolution, as the transformation came to be known, caused a sustained rise in real income per person in England and, as its effects spread, in the rest of the Western world. Historians agree that the industrial revolution was one of the most important events in history, marking the rapid transition to the modern age, but they disagree vehemently about many aspects of the event. Of all the disagreements, the oldest one is over how the industrial revolution affected ordinary people, often called the working classes. One group, the pessimists, argues that the living standards of ordinary people fell, while another group, the optimists, believes that living standards rose.

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At one time, behind the debate was an ideological argument between the critics (especially Marxists) and the defenders of free markets. The critics, or pessimists, saw nineteenth-century England as Charles Dickens's Coketown or poet William Blake's "dark, satanic mills," with capitalists squeezing more surplus value out of the working class with each passing year. The defenders, or optimists, saw nineteenth-century England as the birthplace of a consumer revolution that made more and more consumer goods available to ordinary people with each passing year. The ideological underpinnings of the debate eventually faded, probably because, as T. S. Ashton pointed out in 1948, the industrial revolution meant the difference between the grinding poverty that had characterized most of human history and the affluence of the modern industrialized nations. No economist today seriously disputes the fact that the industrial revolution began the transformation that has led to extraordinarily high (compared with the rest of human history) living standards for ordinary people throughout the market industrial economies.

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The standard-of-living debate today is not about whether the industrial revolution made people better off, but about when. The pessimists claim no marked improvement in standards of living until the 1840s or 1850s. Most optimists, by contrast, believe that living standards were rising by the 1810s or 1820s, or even earlier.

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Source: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html

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In pairs:

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1)     Identify which aspects of the industrial revolution Econlib focuses on.

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2)     Identify the positive loaded words Econlib uses to get its message across.

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3)     Determine which issues related to the industrial revolution that are not focused on / mentioned in the text.

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4)     Discuss and decide if this is a good source to use to find information about the outcomes of the industrial revolution.

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