Clean Up Your Act
Clean Up Your Act Project
Individual Work: Read the four documents and answer the questions below.
“Andrew Carnegie Visits Oil Creek” and “Environment Checks and Balances”
1. What is Andrew Carnegie’s attitude concerning pollution?
2. What is his main concern? Give an example.
3. Do you agree or disagree with Emerson Hough’s metaphor? You must give an example in your answer. (Clue, do you believe that nature is here to be used or as a spiritual moral, lesson?)
“The Jungle”
4. Describe the economic consequences to meat packers if tougher and better inspection laws were enforced?
5. At the time Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” a few large companies controlled meat packing in America. Would the operation of a free market, “laissez faire” economics have brought about changes in the meat packing business on its own?
“The Triangle Fire”
6. Who is at fault for the lack of safety features, the owner, the consumer, or both? Explain your answer.
Individual Work: Read the four documents and answer the questions below.
“Andrew Carnegie Visits Oil Creek” and “Environment Checks and Balances”
1. What is Andrew Carnegie’s attitude concerning pollution?
2. What is his main concern? Give an example.
3. Do you agree or disagree with Emerson Hough’s metaphor? You must give an example in your answer. (Clue, do you believe that nature is here to be used or as a spiritual moral, lesson?)
“The Jungle”
4. Describe the economic consequences to meat packers if tougher and better inspection laws were enforced?
5. At the time Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” a few large companies controlled meat packing in America. Would the operation of a free market, “laissez faire” economics have brought about changes in the meat packing business on its own?
“The Triangle Fire”
6. Who is at fault for the lack of safety features, the owner, the consumer, or both? Explain your answer.