The Jungle Essay

during baseball games. The mist sprung onto my face every time the long white speed boat hit a wave. My family and a few others on the adventure weren't far off the coast, I could still see el cid, our resort. We were heading to a small beautiful green jungle in Mexico. The ride was quick. We thanked the…

life. One muckraker who was significant to the Progressive Era was Upton Sinclair who wrote the book "The Jungle" in 1906. He began research for his novel and investigated human conditions of stockyards in Chicago where he discovered terrible and extremely unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry which he went on to write about in his book. When President Theodore Roosevelt read The Jungle, he was sickened by what went on.…

The Green Code: Cinematic Communication for Sustainable Behavior In 1906, author Upton Sinclair penned a work of fiction that would change the course of history. His novel, The Jungle, led to the disintegration and reformation of Chicago’s meatpacking industry, which was plagued by managerial corruption and egregious health code violations. Shortly after the novel’s released, the federal government launched an official investigation into the industry and took legal action against the industry…

The shot barely grazed my shoulder. Anybody would be knocked unconscious with that much blood leaving their body. But they left me there, and they had good reason to. With the Reds trailing them on one side, and the harsh, unforgiving Vietnamese jungle on the other, they didn’t have the time or strength to take care of a WIA. I sort of feel bad for them. I could only imagine the guilt of leaving behind a fellow soldier. Lucky for me, they took the time to patch up the wound. Memories of the…

Two Leaves, One Gone You know, I tried. I really did. As I sit here, a hole in my heart, (literally and figuratively) I wonder what I did any of this for, why this came to be. Sorry, my name’s King. I get distracted easily. I am your average but not average high schooler. Not to brag, but I’m kind of a genius. I’m a senior at 16, and had a fairly nice life. I had my loving mother, but my father had died two months ago to cancer, and it was hard carrying on. My little sister in particular, had…

reformers, and two of our presidents in the 1900’s majorly contributed to the changes and reforms which define the Progressive Era. American author, Upton Sinclair, was one of many to push for better regulations in the workplace. In his book, The Jungle, Sinclair wrote about the terrible conditions in factories and included disconcerting pictures of how meat is processed and packaged. His account of meat processing helped enact the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. These…

to the guards… they noticed him. One of the guards came rushing over, swearing at the boy and lifted the boy by his ear. The boy began to whimper as the guard threw countless slaps across the boy’s face. The guard took the boy into the jungle… every one stopped when they began to hear the boy wailing and crying out for help. The boy came out whimpering, holding on to his falling trousers as he ran in to the toilets. The guard came out a few seconds after with a…

James Davidson and Mark Lytle’s article, “After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection,” stated that In just one week a scandalized public had snapped up some 25,000 copies of The Jungle.” The public demanded the government to respond to the following issues: “corrupt federal meat inspectors, unsanitary slaughter houses, tubercular cattle, and the packers’ unscrupulous [unethical] business practices.” President Theodore Roosevelt…

Ronit Patel Mrs. Stangl Ela/Reading 8 January, 2018 Ben Mikaelsen Have you ever wondered how Ben Mikaelsen writes such great stories? Well, in this analysis, you are going to find out! Ben Mikaelsen was born on December 8, 1952 in La Paz, Bolivia. His parents were of Danish descent and they were missionaries. Ben got bullied in Bolivia because of his race and at age 12, he moved to the US where he again got bullied for having a different tone to his english. Ben Mikaelsen owned a male American…

hiding, the days spent marching, they men and women killed, the villages they would burn, the lives they would take, the lives they would see fade away, the faces of the men that once spoke to them now lying on the cold red ground of the fields, the jungle, the very silence of it sending chills down their spine. It was impossible for those back home to understand that, there was no place for the returning vets to go, no place for Bowker to go to, nothing to do that would keep him at ease, for he…