Personal Narrative: The Three Modern Reforms Of America

One million dollars, that is such a large sum of money. However I wish I would have obtained this money some other way, the money coming into my hands only means that your health is becoming more poor and I shall pray for you. As for the money, I will diligently delegate portions of it to three modern reforms that I feel are in need of it. The time that we’re living in is a great one, I’ve recently heard people calling it a progressive era, and that is a very fitting name. There are many people, muckrakers, politicians, activists who seek to better different aspects of our society. Perhaps this age may not last for very long, but I hope it does make a noticeable impact in the living situations of Americans. The reforms I am choosing from are forest preservation efforts, food regulation and safety, women’s suffrage, and the end of child labor. I have decided to give the bulk of the money, $600,000, to establishing food regulations and safety, a smaller amount, $300,000, to obtaining women’s suffrage, and $100,000 to forest preservation. Food affects our lives on a scale that cannot be mimicked by things other than the clothes on our back, the air in our lungs, and the house we live in. It is how we get our energy and how we produce satisfactory work. A starved man is one whose death is coming at thrice the usual speed. We have knowledge from the muckraker Mr. Upton Sinclair, whose book “The Jungle” showed the whole of America that the food that they eat are not regulated. In some of the passages from the book it clearly shows that eating these foods are a clear health hazard. They are putting poisoned rats with the sausage for God’s sake! It has shown to be a very clear problem in our modern society, and since food affects us on such a large scale it should be given top priority. The next largest portion of the money shall be delegated to the effort to obtain Women’s Suffrage. Women make up half of the population, and as such are providers of many services from house duties to the workforce. Yet the people making policies for these women are all men. At …show more content…
I admit, at first glance trees seem to be less important than the lives of our children, yet these living things could have more history than a child could ever see to live. They are not less important than humans on the grandest scale of things, after all we did not evolve better than everythings else, only differently. Like John Muir said Atlantic Monthly, they have survived through disease, avalanches, droughts, strainings, and floods. This is evidence that they are very capable of survival, but when greedy humans seek to make a dollar they do not consider any of this, as long as they earn profit, the trees are inescapable prey. America is built on opportunity, and some of this comes from the abundance of resources we have here in North America, so if we want to make sure that our descendants have the same opportunities we must preserve the land. All of this without mentioning that by supporting women’s suffrage we could also be helping out the child labor cause; as women gain more power they will seek to help their children, inevitable leading to child labor