you contemplate about becoming a vegetarian‚ and here’s why. The Jungle‚ written by American author Upton Sinclair in 1906‚ shocked its readers worldwide‚ but mostly in the city of Chicago. The novel focused on exposing the true horrors of the meatpacking industries in the United States‚ and the mistreatment of the workers‚
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political parties do not choose candidates in favor of their party. Moreover‚ one of the biggest success was the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act that helped build protection on consumer’s health. Additionally‚ the Meat Inspection Act ensured the meatpacking plants met a certain sanitation requirement. Evidently‚ the most significant political advancement was giving women the right to vote. Efforts made by progressives in women’s suffrage paid off with the passing of the
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Muckrakers were early twentieth-century reformers whose 1 mission was to look for and uncover political and business corruption. The term muckraker‚ which referred to the "man with a muckrake" in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ was first used in a pejorative sense by Theodore Roosevelt‚ whose opinion of the muckrakers was that they were biased and overreacting. The movement began about 1902 and died down by 1917. Despite its brief duration‚ however‚ it had a significant
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hospitalized‚ and fourteen die. I agreed from everything of what the author wrote. Fast food business owners are mostly greedy and do not care about the public’s health. Teenagers‚ uneducated adults‚ and undocumented people work for low wages. Meatpacking jobs is the most horrendous and dangerous jobs today. Fast food has shaped American society because it contributes obesity that many Americans face every day. Fast food companies spend a lot of money to sponsor their food and make people buy their
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life of Jurgis and his family who faces these struggles in order to attempt to achieve the American dream. The Jungle metaphorically paints a picture of the economic situation and the horrid conditions Jurgis and his family face in the Chicago meatpacking plants. The life in Packingtown resembles the jungle life because the weak and the old are rejected‚ while the strong and the young are wanted for awhile‚ which is the main idea in Social Darwinism. As Jurgis and his family comes to Chicago to
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was occurring in the nation where all men were created equal. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle highlighted the underbelly of the Chicago meatpacking industry both in regards to the work conditions as well as the quality of meat provided to the public. His exposé led to the passing of the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1907‚ which increased sanitation methods for meatpacking as well as regulated the branding of meats (Greenberg‚ 2016). Another muckraker‚ David Graham Phillips‚ uncovered the corruption present
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According to Administration For Children and Family stated that In the United States‚ children are trafficking in many different sectors for instance prostitution on the streets or in residence‚ hotel‚ dance bar or massage parlor; factory‚ or meatpacking work; construction; domestic labor in a home; restaurant/bar work; illegal drug trade and many more. Furthermore‚ Trafficked individuals may hint at disgrace or confusion; be ravenous and malnourished; experience traumatic holding and fear towards
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food and drug act was passed which prohibited the selling of dangerous medicines and impure foods. Along with that‚ the Meat Inspection Act was passed and it helped eliminate diseases caused by meat because it enforced sanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. However‚ Roosevelt’s greatest success was in the conservation of the environment. The Newlands Act was passed which created a way for government to irrigate deserts. Roosevelt became an admired public figure because of his involvement
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received much popularity. However in 1904 an editor from the well renown socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason asked Sinclair to travel to Chicago to record and document the lifestyle of stockyard workers. Having spent seven weeks in the city’s meatpacking plants‚ Sinclair learned countless details about the work itself. He also documented the home lives of the workers and the structure of the business. Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle was spawned from his research and was initially published in Appeal
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In The late 19th century and early 20th century United States was experiencing great economic change and population growth due to the rise of industrialization and the increase of immigration. However‚ even though the primary benefit and purpose of industrialization is economic growth‚ in this period of time the economic and social gap between the rich and the poor grew more than ever before‚ leading to the surge of socialist groups that demanded reform in workers’ conditions and salary. On the
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