Sinclair's The Jungle Upton Sinclair's describes the struggles of immigrant life in his novel The Jungle. The book opens with a wedding scene between Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, a young couple from Lithuania. They celebrate with their extended Continue Reading...
Social and cultural capital enable access to educational institutions. Social and cultural capital also offer access to positions of power within organizations. The menial labor jobs that the Lithuanian immigrants do thwart social mobility. The myt Continue Reading...
Jungle, Upton Sinclair describes horrific conditions within the meatpacking plants, and writes of men falling into tanks and being ground up with animal parts and then made into lard (Sinclair pp). He writes that it was Jurgis's job to slide the cow Continue Reading...
Jungle Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle is perhaps best known for its historical and journalistic contributions, because the book opened the public's eyes to the horrors of the American meatpacking industry, and particularly its appalling heal Continue Reading...
Jungle Updated Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, is a worthwhile piece of literature that can contribute to the understanding of human development within the last century. It is a story of an immigrant family who experiences incredibly difficult and try Continue Reading...
Mr. W.H. Moody Dear Mr. Moody This writing is in response to works such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I believe that Mr. Sinclair is unfair in his assessment of the various aspects in my packinghouse. Of course his views are very subjective, and Continue Reading...
He was the typical immigrant who sought to make his way in America but the harsh realities of American capitalist system left him battered and broken with a dead wife and child. After wandering through a life of crime and corruption, Jurgis is final Continue Reading...
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" In 1906, a book was published that remains controversial in some circles more than one hundred years later. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair was a journalist's fictionalized account of worker conditions in the meatpackin Continue Reading...
Jungle" by Upton Sinclair The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair was written in 1901, it talks about corruption in America, Chicago around the twentieth century. The book includes graphic, images of the meat processing which are helpful to the reader Continue Reading...
He can take a women and use her body for his own pleasure and make threats against her family to get even more from her. It makes me wonder how he can look at himself and not see the filthy creature he is. Three: I must have done something awful to Continue Reading...
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle The Use of Style to Craft an Argument: Upton Sinclair's the Jungle "Sinclair uses language effectively, and in a variety of ways, to shape his characters and develop his themes" and thus effectively created a novel that Continue Reading...
Jungle and Fast Food Nation The American meat industry has been a source of public contention ever since industrialization, periodically brought to the fore by investigations into and revelations of unsafe labor and food safety practices. In particu Continue Reading...
Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck. Specifically, it will focus upon how characters represent the various ideas held by capital and labor by the 1930's. "In Dubious Battle" is the story of poor field workers fighting a lost cause against prosperous o Continue Reading...
What makes the Man Who Went to Chicago an especially effective culminating story for Eight Men is the way in which it transforms these motifs to generate new and strikingly affirmative meanings" (155). This transformation relates to the manner in wh Continue Reading...
Child Labor in the USChild labor during the early 20th century in the United States was a particular problem found in, but not limited to, many industrial cities. Children as young as five or six years old would be employed in various industries unde Continue Reading...
After World War Two, Carson realized the extent to which the government was permitting the use of toxic chemicals and wrote a book to expose the practice. That book was called Silent Spring, and it "challenged the practices of agricultural scientist Continue Reading...
Thus, in this country the government has procured labor relations so that it "should not attempt to interfere with market forces by fixing the terms of employment…" (Aaron, 1982, p. 1254). It attempt to keep a free market, in which individual Continue Reading...
For instance, according to Fischman (1991), "This need is generated by the task to which Marx believes all human beings are drawn, but in which the working class, of all segments of society, is most frustrated: the realization of their human powers" Continue Reading...
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, starkly and vividly describes the mass westward immigration of tens of thousands of displaced American Midwestern migrant workers, and the symbolically representative Joad family in p Continue Reading...
motivated progressives and how they began to use the government as a moral agent for change and the impact of Progressivism upon society and government during the early decades of the 20th century. The central question that will be addressed will be Continue Reading...
targets of the "muckrakers" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? How did the concept of "social justice" fit into these reform movements? Muckrakers were progressive journalists and authors who targeted corrupt capitalists, like the meat manu Continue Reading...
environment strictly controlled by its owning company, woman often found difficulty obtaining any kind of role outside of domestic duties. Work in company towns was generally reserved for males, which granted them the responsibility of providing for Continue Reading...
Thus, employees are discouraged from reporting abuses and safety issues because of fear of retaliation. As noted, if they are illegal immigrants, they fear deportation or reporting to INS, and they fear losing their jobs, and so, they do not report Continue Reading...
Teaching classic literature as the focus of a language curriculum for high school is an issue that has enjoyed considerable attention. Some critics feel that there is little purpose in focusing on ancient works of literature when attempting to cultiv Continue Reading...
Food Nation is the kind of book that you hope young people read because it demonstrates far better than any social studies class the need for government regulation, the unchecked power of multinational corporations and the importance of our everyday Continue Reading...
Silent films were caught in the cross-hairs of all this. Buster Keaton: Silent Film Visionary -- Too Much Imagination Yet, that sort of nightmare world of industrialization both inspired and was depicted in silent film. The Lumiere brothers were i Continue Reading...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright went beyond even Ives's achievements. Sharing affection for the organic ideas of the American Renaissance before the Civil War and asserting that form and function were one, Wright developed the Prairie school of archite Continue Reading...
It is interesting to note that most of the workers in the Chicago stockyards in 1906 were immigrants, just as today, and they had their rights trampled in much the same way many of the plants are accused of violating rights even today. Thus, the saf Continue Reading...
Physical Hazards of Slaughterhouse Workers The Nature of Slaughterhouse Work Musculoskeletal Disorders Diseases Trauma Burns Hearing Safeguards Ergonomics Dangerous Equipment Reporting and Organizational Culture Slaughterhouses are among t Continue Reading...
Individuality and Community Ethics How Self is Integrated into the Global Whole as an Ethical Entity The ethics of social justice is wrapped in the ideas of how individuals within a society are trained as ethical beings, and how they regard other Continue Reading...
Air Pollution, Cars, Carbons and Looking Upstream for Solutions Air pollution is a serious problem in the world but there are ways to deal with it. In other words, the situation is not hopeless. Yes, a large amount pollution comes from the burning o Continue Reading...
Rebecca Harding Davis and Realism \\\"Life in the Iron Mills\\\"IntroductionRebecca Harding Davis is often seen as an important figure in American literature due to her influence in helping to pioneer the literary realism movement. Her novella, \\\"L Continue Reading...
Short story -- A brief story where the plot drives the narrative, substantially shorter than a novel. Example: "Hills like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway. Allusion -- A casual reference in one literary work to a person, place, event, or ano Continue Reading...
Corporate social responsibility and business ethics have become the focus of an increasing amount of attention from the business sector and academicians following the scandal-ridden era of Enron and others during the 1990s. Although the findings from Continue Reading...
14). Soon, Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, which was signed into law in 1937. Like the Harrison Act, the Marijuana Tax Act placed marijuana into the same category as the cocaine and opium drugs. It was now illegal to import marijuana into the Continue Reading...
