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Social Conditions as a Backdrop to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

This 4 page paper discusses the relationship of the text of the book The Jungle to the actual conditions of the Chicago packinghou...

An Overview of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...

An Analysis of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 15 page paper analyzes Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about the meat packing industry in Chicago in the early 1900s. The ...

The Jungle

Introduction Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle was a novel he wrote in the hopes of making people aware of the evil nature of capi...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

A Review of The Jungle

will find the hope that America said it could offer, but also the realities that make a capitalistic society oppressive and degrad...

Conditions Featured in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

out of the rain and a meal in their childrens stomachs (a snack to us). The people never really paid any attention to what they w...

Factory Worker Hardships in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In 5 pages this paper examines the intolerable working conditions that Upton Sinclair chronicled in The Jungle with the primary fo...

American Literature and the Issue of Class

leaned left. While it is true that the early part of the twentieth century provided an impetus on which authors could expound th...

Overview of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the story and characters featured in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. There are no o...

The Paradox of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper argues that Upton Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle was to argue on behalf of the benefits of socialism, ...

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: Reform

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...

Corruption in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

"There are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in ice-cold cellars with a quarter of an inch of ...

Upton Sinclair: “The Jungle”

- a small fortune at the time - for the party. They are starting their marriage already deeply in debt. Jurgis and his family are ...

"The Jungle": Unfairness in America

them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...

Jurgis’ Assimilation in Sinclair’s The Jungle

United States will prove to be a land of great opportunity. He believes that through hard work he will assimilate and find success...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Past and Present

into food. Meat packers typically used borax and glycerin to hide the smell of spoiled beef and candy manufacturers mixed shredded...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the American Dream

They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

reality, however, although The Jungle certainly had a commendable socio-political impact on American society, it was not in the co...

Upton Sinclair's Expose, The Jungle

would become incredibly active in the socialist movement and clearly a man who fought for the rights of many different people in r...

Communism and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...

Progressive Era and Modern Issues

the sentiments of the time very well when he said that political leaders had to use Hamiltonian means to ensure Jeffersonian ends ...

Modern Society and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In five pages the US of the 1990s and the shooting of Haitian immigrant Amadou Diallo in New York City is examined within the cont...

The Jungle and Don Quixote Compared

Two works of literature are compared and contrasted. Don Quixote by Cervantes is examined in light of The Jungle, which was writte...

Muckraking and The Jungle by Journalist Upton Sinclair

depicted in The Jungle, which based its premise upon the suffocating wage labor issue. The book painted a grim picture of the man...

Tim O'Brien and Upton Sinclair on Morality

drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and its Rhetorical Importance

Just about that time, there was a large strike in Packington, which was a large meatpacking area. "I knew that this was a place w...

Considering the Title: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

seasons, and be worked till she trembled in every nerve and lost her grip on her slimy knife, and gave herself a poisoned wound - ...