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    The purpose of writing “In the Jungle” it’s to make readers appreciate nature, instead of going against it. The persuasive technique is emotional appeal means using words, which appeal to the readers’ emotion. I appreciate the fact the author uses the jungle to admire the beauty of nature and using it as a necessity. And how she is homeless within herself. She shares her personal emotions throughout…

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    “It’s not a question of responsibility, it’s just a fundamental disrespect. A disrespect of women.”1 So says one of Drew Purify’s friends as they discuss interracial relationships between black men and white women. The movie Jungle Fever tells the story of Drew’s husband, Flipper, who has an affair with a white woman. When Drew and her friends find out, they are outraged - with Drew feeling doubly betrayed, as her husband not only cheated on her, he cheated on her with a white woman. The women…

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    the people who live in it. To start off, I am partially guilty of being one of those people I despise because if you read my previous article you know that I did drive a car and I did leave a car in the jungle. I suppose I meet criminal standards for that. If anyone asks if my story about the jungle car is true I might even deny it; I am that bad. But I am on the bottom of the feeding chain when it comes to my contribution to pollution. I am a Yankee from New England, and I expect to see the…

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    steps have been taken in order to improve the quality and safety of food. Food and health advocates have made their impact on society by exposing the subpar quality of various corporations in which food is packaged. Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle produced a tale of what happened behinds closed doors of food manufacturing factories. In this story, he directs the attention of one man’s experience. This man shares details about how…

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    Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is an accurate presentation of United States history during the early twentieth century because it correctly depicts the exploitation of the poor working class and eventual shattering of dreams by the wealthy capitalists through: the political corruption such as the party bosses’ constant rigging of elections, the harsh labor conditions and cheating of wages put on workers, and the constant injustices and swindling that the working class endured. Sinclair…

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    oppose these corporations and the low standards they seemed to ignore. In particular, Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, led the way for urban renewal in the factories and for the production of food throughout the United States. Sinclair’s courage and the booming outcry from the public paved the way for urban renewal…

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    In the book “The Jungle” Sinclair was trying to push socialism. He was also trying to expose the factories that controlled the cities. The main character is Jurgis a Lithuanian immigrant who was looking for a better life so he moved to America with his family. The title of the book ties in with the story and all the characters. Sinclair makes a social class in the book and he puts Jurgis at the bottom. Jurgis encounters a lot of different people throughout out the book. Each character teaches…

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    The Factual Jungle When Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” he simply wanted a better-work environment and not for people to question what they were consuming. I believe that what Upton Sinclair wrote about the meat packing factories and the conditions of life in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s is true. Jurgis and his family lived their life similar to the actual real families in the height of this era according to Biennial Report of 1890. Even what Jurgis experienced everyday while working in…

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    Rudyard Kipling wrote many novels and poems including If-, The White Man’s Burden, Kim, and more. Upon moving to England in 1871, Kipling became interested in British imperialism, eventually leading to the creation of one of his most famous works, The Jungle Book. In order to ensure Kipling got the best education possible, his family decided to move to England whilst he was still young. In 1878 Kipling entered a boarding school where he often endured harsh discipline and was frequently bullied…

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    city that he lived before everyone most people were broke so there was not anyone to rule any other person. Therefore, the slavery and right to life that Sinclair had to face in his adolescent really raised the image of sinclair due to the novel The Jungle. In the novel Sinclair criticised those who had money because they were held in as slaves for the factory of those rich mens and this held many…

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