Key Question #11 The Rainy River questions and answers 1. I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed this story. Not only did it give some fascinating insight into the mind of a man forced to go to war‚ but he explained his argument with such eloquence and passion that I found myself thoroughly intrigued. The way he describes having to face the draft and the terrifying obstacles that seemed to crop up out of nowhere‚ really makes me think and try to put myself in his position. I would not know
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The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. It exposed the meat factories and this novel alone‚ changed how the meats were handled and produced. Upton Sinclair exposed how terrible meat factories were. Instead of actually having a book full of fact to interest readers he made up a fictional story and to make it seem he was not targeting meat industries. Without the efforts of Sinclair‚ America would have slowly crumbled due to unsanitary meat and the diseases that it holds‚ and
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make it back to work. Teta Elzbieta’s‚ Kristoforas‚ youngest child dies after eating bad meat for awhile. Marija lends money to Teta to help prepare a funeral because Jurgis refuses to help. Jurgis and his family know all about the secrets of the meatpacking and all the spoiled meat becomes sausages. It shows how dishonest the job works and sells diseased meats to American households. Ona and Jurgis end up growing apart because they have ended up dealing with grinding with poverty and misery in their
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The Jungle During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s hundreds thousands of European immigrants migrated to the United States of America. They had dreams of success‚ prosperity and their own conception of the American Dream. The majority of the immigrants believed that their lives would completely change for the better and the new world would bring nothing but happiness. Advertisements that appeared in Europe offered a bright future and economic stability to these naive and hopeful people. Jobs
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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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Real Threat of new Entrants When deciding on entering an industry as a new company one must be aware of the borrow costs of bank loans and credit rates. The meat packing and manufacturing industry is not easy to break into although it can be done. Real Threats of Substations Product or Services The threat of substation is high due to the fact that so many competitors are in this market. This type of saturation in the market even affects the level of competition. That doesn’t mean that it affect
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Sinclair’s novel does accurately portray times and events that happened during this time period in the United States. To get this information Sinclair stayed in Chicago and investigated the issues for 7 weeks before writing the jungle. He was hired by a Newspaper to write the book. So the novel is accurate‚ but can be considered one sided because Sinclair’s took a stance on some issues with the harsh working conditions at meat packing factories and also the cleanliness of the factories. The novel
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In the jungle book I feel like the author is trying to project the evil of capitalism. I got the impression that in almost every chapter Sinclair was pointing out a particular failure of capitalism. In his view it is inhuman‚ destructive‚ unjust‚ brutal‚ and violent. I believe Sinclair wrote the book to expose the holes and to exploit the failures of the system. He also expressed that the antidote to all the complications capitalism creates is socialism towards the end of the novel. He expresses
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A Novel Way to Clean Wastewater By SOPHIA LI Nytimes.com Seven years ago‚ Paul Edmiston was working in his laboratory on a potential way to detect the presence of explosives. By accident‚ he created a material that acted as a powerful sponge that could absorb small organic compounds like gasoline‚ motor oil‚ and pesticides dissolved in water. Today Dr. Edmiston‚ a professor of chemistry at the College of Wooster in Ohio‚ is hoping that his invention‚ dubbed Osorb‚ will have a new commercial
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Naomi Wallace wrote “Slaughter City” in 1996. Her play shined a light on the terrible working conditions that are still going on even in today’s society. “Slaughter City” documents the workers of a slaughterhouse (set in the now and then) and their struggle to survive the despicable working conditions‚ class disparities and discrimination of race and gender. The play is written in a very non-realistic style‚ making it suitable for any time period. When we first meet Cod she is in the Triangle Shirtwaist
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