Abby Fitzgerald May 16‚ 2013 Period 3 "The Seafarer" and "Sea Fever" Comparative Essay People have been drawn to the adventures the sea has to offer for centuries. Many attempts have been made to express this desire in various ways. Voyaging on the sea has been a constant topic in all of the arts throughout history. "The Seafarer" and "Sea Fever" are poem that both express how a sailor’s love for the sea creates an obligation to be on the sea‚ whether it is wanted or not. This necessity
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Greg Huston Amer. Hist. II 3/22/11 Book Review 1: The Jungle America has always been the country of opportunity and new beginnings. It is a place to start a fresh and better life for immigrants (at least that’s what they think). In Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis wants to better his and several members of his family’s lives. He does this by packing up and traveling to America‚ but he is unaware of the downfalls in his future. The family members who came along
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“Welcome to the Jungle; we take it day by day.” These are song lyrics from the song Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N’ Roses. It explains the McGhee family very well. Most of the time‚ my dad will say‚ “I can’t make any plans yet‚ we have to take it day by day.” Obviously‚ this quote is suitable for my family. My dad isn’t the only person who says it though. I consider my family to be a jungle because there are very many people involved in my family‚ whether it’s step relatives or very far distant
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Upton Sinclair wrote this book for a couple of reasons. First and foremost‚ he tries to awaken the reader to the terrible living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of the century. Chicago has the most potent examples of these conditions. Secondly‚ he attempts to show the advantages of socialism in helping to remedy the problems of a society such as the one that exists in Chicago at this time. Sinclair accomplishes his objectives with an extremely powerful story. Jurgis
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who’s just had her best friend die from an unknown disease. Then after that‚ almost everyone starts to drop dead from this disease called the “Yellow Fever” that came back and started to infect everyone you know‚ even you. So now you’ll have to survive the Yellow Fever. “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson” is set in philadelphia 1793‚ the Yellow Fever was a fast spreading disease. The most important plot events include the following. “Dead? Pollys dead?” I couldn’t have heard her properly. “Polly
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The essays “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” by David Sedaris and “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” by Dave Berry choose to outline the differences between two completely different subjects. In Sedaris’s writing‚ he chooses to express the extremely unique childhood of his partner growing up in Africa to his so-called “average” childhood growing up in North Carolina‚ while Barry elects to take on the concept of gender roles and social differences between men and women. In spite
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Mattie’s Life and Changes In Fever 1793‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ sixteen year old Matilda (or Mattie) Cook changes dramatically over the course of the book. In the beginning‚ she is portrayed to be a young selfish girl who was always too lazy to work. By the end of the book‚ she is shown to be a strong young woman. Her family of three consisting of her grandfather‚ mother‚ and herself runs a small coffee shop. Her family usually works relentlessly before‚ during‚ and after the shop’s hours
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In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair‚ the main character‚ Jurgis is the hero. He moves from Lithuania to America to give his new wife‚ Ona‚ so that she can live the American dream. Soon after their immigration‚ Ona and Jurgis realized that the USA wasn’t all it was said to be‚ Jurgis still fought and worked hard to give Ona the best life. Some of these things include‚ getting a bad job‚ putting a roof over Ona’s head‚ and always staying strong when bad things happened. Jurgis keeps fighting through his
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dealt with segregation‚ remaining discrimination‚ and feminism. Segregation was a serious problem in America‚ as not only were blacks segregated still‚ but races from all over the world who immigrated to America were segregated just as much. In “The Jungle”‚ it is stated “…there was an agent who helped them‚ but he proved a scoundrel and‚ and got them into a trap with some officials‚ and cost them a good deal of their precious money…” (Sinclair 471) and “…when they said ‘Chicago‚’ people no longer pointed
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The Jungle‚ by Upton Sinclair takes the reader on a journey through the inadequate factory conditions throughout the industrial revolution. The Jungle introduced us to the the Rudkus family‚ with the father (Jurgis) being the main character of the book. Upton Sinclair uses this family to show how extremely terrible the environment was for new immigrants into America. As the story begins to unravel Upton becomes frustrated with the capitalist society; He had been cheated plenty of times out of work
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