...The Jungle In Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, the main character Jurgis brings his Lithuanian family to America in order to seek prosperity. They take up residence in Chicago, where they find employment in Packingtown. There the family undertakes risky tasks under unstable conditions, giving them a troublesome realization that their ideal life in America was far from reality. Not long after, a bitter winter and sickness hits the family, showing them that sacrifices have to be made in order to make do. Through his novel, Sinclair aspires to connect with the readers in an emotional appeal, however his gruesome details of the meat-packing industry cause the readers to focus more on what could be on their own plates at home. Sinclair, aiming directly to the heart of his readers, successfully did so when Jokubas toured the family through Packingtown. Instead of being a thriving homeland full of assurance, Chicago proved to be a...
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...The period from 1929 to 1939 was known as the Great Depression. Millions of individuals were unemployed during this somber era in American history. Bankruptcies, stock market crashes, and corporate insolvencies characterized the Great Depression. During that period, Herbert Hoover, the president, attempted a variety of strategies to stimulate the economy. With the implementation of the New Deal, the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 altered how the public viewed the management of the Great Depression. As a result, fervent individuals emerged and proposed various courses of action. Three distinct plans, put forth by Upton Sinclair, Huey Long, and Dr. Francis Townsend, struck a chord with American citizens by addressing the fundamental concerns of unemployment, poverty, and pension challenges....
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...Upton Sinclair published, The Jungle, a book intended to describe the poor working conditions. Society responded to a different problem that was illustrated in the book, the filthy practices of packaging meat (Source 6). Sinclair's book was so troubling and moving that it caught President Teddy Roosevelt's attention to pass a law regulating this problem. For example, Teddy said, ‘“The specific evils you point out shall, if their existence be proved, and if I have the power, be eradicated”’ (Source 6). Four months later the Meat Inspection Act was passed, this law banned unhealthy dyes, chemical preservatives, or adulterants. To this day the U.S. is still using this law to regulate meat...
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...Throughout this paper, I will be discussing about the meat packing industry during the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th to 29th century. I would like to expand on the environmental consequences of the meat packing industry, the cruel treatment of the workers, and the epidemic diseases that occurred due to the unsanitary environment of the industries. The meat packing industry was a ground turning point of U.S history, which symbolized meat as a symbol of man’s conquest over nature and the environment. Meatpacking industries were largely concentrated in large cities such as Chicago, New York, Ohio, and Kansas City. The big four companies were known as the Armour, Swift, Morris, and National Packing companies. Live animals would be shipped via railroads and sent directly to the factories in the city, ready to be sliced and prepared. This was during the Industrial Revolution , a time when powerful monopolies and companies took control of U.S.: Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, including meat packing industry. Cincinnati, Ohio originally was the center of the meat processing industry. Environmentally, the industry gained benefits due to the plants located near the Ohio River, allowing easy transport of goods. However, Chicago replaced Cincinnati and demonstrated new unique advantages with the emergence of refrigerated railroad cars, allowing convenient transportation facilities throughout different cities. Despite the fact that the exterior of meat packing industries seemed powerful...
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...changes to America at the local and state level. Several of these changes became federal laws or amendments to the Constitution. Unfortunately, some areas in American life failed to change and are still being dealt with today. Progressives believed that inequality, corporate greed, and no protection for poor workers violated the Constitution’s promise of “a more perfect union.” The wealth of the Gilded Age, increased by new methods of industry was built on the low wages paid to workers, especially children. Mother Jones has suffered tragedy in her personal life, but she used her loss and her knowledge to tell the Americans about the suffering of the children in factories as they worked in unsafe and often dangerous conditions. They did not attend school. This changed when laws were passed to make attendance compulsory. Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle” alerted people to the fifth in the meat packing industry. The Pure Food and Drug Act Law was passed in 1906 to further protect Americans. Ida Tarbell took on Standard Oil and with the help of Doug McClure, the owner and publisher of McClure’s Magazine. In her books she showed how Standard Oil, an uncontrolled monopoly, was involved with the railroads, mining, and banking. As a result, the Supreme Court dissolved the trust of the Standard Oil Company. This helped open the American economy to smaller businesses.2 The election of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley brought more changes...
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...The book “The Jungle” was published at 1905 and written by Upton Sinclair. The novel’s main characters Jurgis Rudkus was a Lithuanian immigrant lived in U.S., and the book described the life he experienced while he was working in a meat packing house at Chicago. Jurgis’s family and his fiancée’s family immigrated to the United States from Lithuania; they thought they could have a better life after living in the U.S. At the beginning, they were lucky and found the job in a very short time. It look like everything should be better, however things didn’t develop as they expected. In the meat packing house, people had a long working-time and the work environment was horrible; it made some of the worker hurt and even some of them were died. After Jurgis married, in order to support the family, he was working very hard. Unfortunately, Jurgis was hurt in an accident and had to stay home. After he back to the meat packing house, there was someone already did his task which means he lost his job. Everything became worse and worse. Jurgis went to jail because he fights with his co-work; when he got out of the jail, he found his life was totally changed because both his wife and kid were died. After that, Jurgis became weaker and hard to find a job. One day, he was listened a speech about socialism, he was very enlightening. After experiencing so many unfair things, he thought the society need to be changed and socialism brought hope to him. “I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident...
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...ripped away from them. Riss describes the fate that many children’s childhood met by living in the horrid tenement buildings. According to Riss, “Life in the tenements in July and august spells death to an army of little ones whom the doctor’s skill is powerless to save…little coffins are stacked mountains high on the deck of the Charity Commissioners’ boat,” (Riss Source 1). Riss’ appealed to the sympathy of his readers by describing the dreadful amount of children that were dying due to the inhumane living conditions present in the tenement buildings. The muckrakers tried to gain their reader’s sympathy for the Americans who were suffering in this...
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...of New Jersey v. United States. Theodore also restricted the powers of the railroads by giving the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) new powers to set railroad rates. The Justice Department initiated forty-two antitrust cases during his presidency. Theodore Roosevelt brought the issue of regulating industry into the national spotlight, and gave the movement momentum, resulting in more progressive presidents following his presidency. The movement was also supported by muckrakers, such as Upton Sinclair and Jacob Riis, who were journalists that brought support to the atrocities of the Gilded Age and the poverty ridden nation. Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” wanted to give a fair chance to the American people, so he tried to achieve this largely through regulation of corporations. Another act passed by Roosevelt to support this Square Deal was the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts, which controlled the drug and food industries. This was actually inspired by Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”, which portrayed the harsh conditions of the meat packing industry. He also passed the 1906 Hepburn Act, which regulated the railroads. The shift from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era was a major point in American History, and Theodore Roosevelt embodied this shift, and served as a catalyst of this change. He also set a political precedent for the next two progressive presidents preceding him. Following the pivotal presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Era was preserved...
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...enduring than the 1906 food and drug legislation. The acts established the foundations of modern American food and drug law, and gave birth to the Food and Drug Administration. For the first time, the federal government assumed permanent and comprehensive responsibility for the health and safety of the American food and drug supply. Although the statutes have been revised many times since 1906, the essence of modern food and drug law remains consistent with the principles of federal responsibility for consumer safety that underlay the first statutes a century ago. The passage of the 1906 food and drug legislation stemmed from the actions of many people across the political landscape, ranging from Senator Albert Beveridge to socialist writer Upton Sinclair. But no indi- 1 viduals played a larger public role in the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act than Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Wiley. Roosevelt, as president of the United States, and Wiley, as chief chemist of the Agriculture Department, served as twin driving forces for Congressional passage of the acts. To be sure, Wiley and Roosevelt did not act alone. The 1906 legislation resulted from years of efforts by politicians, government officials, industry representatives, and “muckraking” journalists....
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...Although an outsider may question the decisions of the immigrants, how does one go about dealing with the harshness presented to them, when there are those with the power who are unwilling to change it? The flaws of the system caused a domino effect that would take much effort to put a halt on. Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, describes how alcoholism, poverty, and people in positions of authority had a negative impact on the lives of immigrants. Alcoholism is an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the mental illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency. This type of behavior and dependency is observed throughout The Jungle and three examples will be given for each of the three main characters, Ona, Jurgis, and Marija, that shows the negative impact of alcoholism on each individual. Many examples of alcoholism were shown to the reader, that had a bad effect; on Jurgis in particular. One good example of the effects of alcohol, occurs when Jurgis runs off to the saloons, with the children’s hard earned money, after the death of Ona. He spends every penny on alcoholic beverages. The...
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...Narrative A narrative is a sequence of events that a narrator tells in story form. A narrator is a storyteller of any kind, whether the authorial voice in a novel or a friend telling you about last night’s party. Point of View The point of view is the perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes. First-person narration: A narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as “I.” The narrator may be an active participant in the story or just an observer. When the point of view represented is specifically the author’s, and not a fictional narrator’s, the story is autobiographical and may be nonfictional (see Common Literary Forms and Genres below). Third-person narration: The narrator remains outside the story and describes the characters in the story using proper names and the third-person pronouns “he,” “she,” “it,” and “they.” • Omniscient narration: The narrator knows all of the actions, feelings, and motivations of all of the characters. For example, the narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina seems to know everything about all the characters and events in the story. • Limited omniscient narration: The narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one or a handful of characters. For example, the narrator of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has full knowledge of only Alice. • Free indirect discourse: The narrator conveys a character’s inner thoughts...
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...Books by Saul Alinsky John L. Lewis, An Unauthorized Biography Reveille for Radicals The Professional Radical (with Marian Sanders) Rules for Radicals RULES FOR RADICALS A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals SAUL D. ALINSKY RANDOM HOUSE New York Acknowledgments This chapter "Of Means and Ends" was presented in the Auburn Lecture Series at Union Theological Seminary. Some of the other sections of this book were delivered in part in lectures before the Leaders of America series at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California; Yale Political Union, New Haven, Connecticut, April, 1970; The Willis D. Wood Fellowship Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, May, 1969; American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 1968; U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.; March, 1968; A.F. of L.-C.I.O. Labor Press Association, Miami, Florida, December, 1967; American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967; Centennial Address, Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968; Harvard Medical Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Copyright © 1971 by Saul D. Alinsky All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. ISBN: 0-394-44341-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-117651 ...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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...Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to accompany A First Look at Communication Theory Sixth Edition Em Griffin Wheaton College prepared by Glen McClish San Diego State University and Emily J. Langan Wheaton College Published by McGrawHill, an imprint of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright Ó 2006, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1991 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The contents, or parts thereof, may be reproduced in print form solely for classroom use with A First Look At Communication Theory provided such reproductions bear copyright notice, but may not be reproduced in any other form or for any other purpose without the prior written consent of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. PREFACE Rationale We agreed to produce the instructor’s manual for the sixth edition of A First Look at Communication Theory because it’s a first-rate book and because we enjoy talking and writing about pedagogy. Yet when we recall the discussions we’ve had with colleagues about instructor’s manuals over the years, two unnerving comments stick with us: “I don’t find them much help”; and (even worse) “I never look at them.” And, if the truth be told, we were often the people making such points! With these statements in mind, we have done some serious soul-searching about the texts that so many teachers—ourselves...
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