Lincoln Sinclair participated in political activities throughout most of his life but his most well known for his political convictions against the meatpacking industry that improved the quality of the American society. Lincoln Sinclair emigrated from Baltimore‚ Maryland to New York City with his family when he was a child. Lincoln Sinclair’s family was not blessed with wealth and lived on the edge of poverty. When Sinclair was a child‚however‚ he was exposed to the extravagant life of the wealthy
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attitude‚ allowed business to consolidate into trusts‚ and with lack of competition‚ into powerful monopolies. These multi-million dollar monopolies were able to exploit every opportunity to make greater fortunes regardless of human consequences. Sinclair illustrates the harsh conditions in Packingtown through a Lithuanian immigrant family and their struggles to survive. Jurgis Rudkus and his extended family come to the United States to find work and to make a better life for themselves. When everyone
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how much we pay for goods. Consumer Goods may seem like an irrational reason to have a reform‚ but during the 1900’s‚ people realized that the meat that most people ate came from places that were very unsanitary. This was discovered after Upton Sinclair published
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the afroed painter Bob Ross. It was from that moment I became completely infatuated with art‚ I would sit and watch him paint for hours and just imagine my 5 year old self being able to create these fantastical‚ beautiful scene with the stroke of a paint brush. I had always shown advanced art skills from the beginning‚ surpassing other children my age. For me‚ it was something I had always done‚ I was born with a pencil in my hand. But‚ it was in those hours of watching Bob Ross that
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Some people view capitalism as an evil form of government‚ and favor Socialism. One of these people being Upton Sinclair‚ author of the novel The Jungle. In the novel The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair illustrates capitalism as evil and goes out of his way to show how awful a capitalist country can be. He writes about a Lithuanian family who comes to America in hopes of a better life‚ but their dreams are soon crushed by the reality of the countries capitalist ways. As soon as the family arrives to Packingtown
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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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The American Dream within The Jungle The Jungle is the account of an immigrant who discovers the American Dream can only be a fable under America’s capitalist system. Upton Sinclair wrote the novel after spending some weeks working in the meat packing industry‚ basing many of the events and conditions described in the novel on the notes he took firsthand. "[The Jungle] is remembered as a stomach-turning exposé of unsanitary conditions and deceitful practices in the meat packing industry; as such
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was until “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. This book unmasked the monstrosity that was the meatpacking industry and impacted audiences like no other book has. Sinclair used graphic depictions such as dead rats being put in the food and spoiled meat still being used to impact the audience and achieve his purpose. One of the disgusting facts that Sinclair mentioned about the meatpacking industry was that they used very old‚ bacteria-infested meat sometimes. Sinclair wrote‚ “For it was the custom‚ as
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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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of over 1 million immigrants came to the city. During this time‚ author Upton Sinclair was working undercover‚ investigating working conditions in the city’s meatpacking district. Sinclair’s research was integrated into his novel The Jungle‚ a tragic story about a group of immigrants from Lithuania led by Jurgis‚ the main character that is set on providing for his family while chasing the American dream. Sinclair narrates the struggles of Jurgis and his family’s encounters as they battle exploitation
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