Kristan Vanderhost English 102-027 A Path To Perseverance The Jungle‚ written by: Upton Sinclair‚ looks under the microscope at the deplorable conditions under which the people who lived and worked at Chicago’s Union Stockyards were subjected to. along with the impact those conditions had on an emigrant family from Eastern Europe. Its plot takes in the Packingtown district. During the early 20th Century the migration
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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 shows how America is a land for opportunity for immigrants. It explains how harsh the conditions were for the working class in the early 1900s. How families of immigrants would travel to America just for a fresh start to a new life. It also shows how hard it was to keep a job because if you were sick for a day you could lose your job. It shows how easy it was for American business men to rip off an immigrant who could not read English. Many of the social problems were new problems
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the restaurant without noticing the japanese gentlemen that has been sitting at the table next to her the whole time. This makes her seem like a bad observer which is an important tool to become a good writer. “He said‚ ‘I wonder what all those japanase are doing here’ ‘Japanese?’ she said. ‘What japanese‚ darling? Sometimes you are so evasive I think you don’t want to marry me at all.” (Streams in literature‚ p130) The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen By Graham Greene (Streams in literature p125)
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It is an elemental odor‚ raw and crude; it is rich‚ almost rancid‚ sensual and strong." | Meat packing industry makes the reader disgusted from the detail of the odor | Parallelism | "It is a sound‚ a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds. You scarcely noticed it at first-it sunk into your consciousness‚ a vague disturbance‚ a trouble." 1`7 | This quote has to do with immigration and giving the character a more humanistic view to the reader | pathos | "Relentless‚ remorseless‚ it was; all
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The society we live in today is not much fascinated by the notion of being a “lady or a gentleman”. According to Webster dictionary online‚ a gentleman is defined as a man of noble or gentle birth‚ or a man belonging to the landed gentry. To me‚ a gentleman is far more than that. A man can be of a noble birth but not a gentleman as a gentleman has certain qualities and characteristics that differentiate him for other men. The same is applicable to a woman being a lady; a lady is a woman who is virtuous
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THE INVISIBLE JAPANESE GENTLEMEN – (GRAHAM GREENE) Characters The story contains different characters: – A group of eight Japanese gentlemen: Most of them wore glasses and most of the time they were smiling. They talked in a not very understandable language. – A beautiful young lady: Blonde hair and pretty girl. She had thin features and a gorgeous face. She looked very sophisticated. – And her fiancé: He looked very handsome too. He was very similar to her fiancé‚ he looked from the
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written as his later plays‚ but he wrote about 38 plays in total and is said to have changed not only theater by his influences in other author’s‚ but the English language as well. Though he wrote many good plays‚ one of his earlier plays‚ “Two Gentlemen of Verona” will be discussed in greater detail in this essay. Shakespeare‚ did many things for the first time in theater and his plays that no other other had done before him. One of his most obvious achievements include language. It is said that
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The story Gentlemen‚ your Verdict is about whether or not it would be alright for a Captain to sacrifice some of his men to save a few. Although I do agree that his plan was justified‚ I believe that he should have chosen differently as to who should have lived. Lieutenant Captain Oram was justified in his actions because he made a good decision‚ he chose the men with families over the single men‚ and he acted as a strong leader for his men. I believe that Captain Oram had to make a decision
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Colton Oct 17th Gentlemen‚ Your verdict In this story Gentlemen your verdict‚ the captain of a submarine‚ L-C Oram‚ is put in a difficult situation which results in him sacrificing 14 of his men including himself‚ to save 5 men with families waiting for them back home. Of course killing people is wrong‚ but if I‚ or anyone else‚ was put into a situation like L-C Oram was‚ then I think it would be okay to…..as bad as that sounds. In situations like these‚ I think there are some exceptions
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