Muckraker

the Progressive movement looked to make changes to some of the issues within the country, such as monopolies and the issues within the urban movement, like poverty and drunkenness. The progressive movement was typically made up of intellectuals, muckrakers, and middle class women. The movement looked to deal with these issues through reform, but wanted American society to remain faithful to its long-held values and beliefs. Progressives sought out how government intervention could help out the…

IDA TARBELL 3 Ida Tarbell: A Muckraking Investigator Ida Tarbell was a woman who had a whole bunch of ambition. She achieved a lot of accomplishments in her life. She didn’t let anything get in her way. Ida Tarbell was a strong willed woman who revealed the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company, created a new type of journalism, and became famous for doing something she…

had exposed. Not only did her career disappear, she was brutally killed. Doing right by the law cost her her own life. Through their stories, muckrakers allow for a more ethical society, where justice can prevail. After countless months, even years, of continuous work, sometimes a muckraker’s only reward is their own death. Others would argue that a muckraker goes too far in their research, and digs too deep into the private, personal details of an individual. But, if one idolizes said…

The Jungle was a book I was wary to read at first. With the depressing theme growing tiring, it was hard to get through this book properly. It was somewhat enjoyable in some chapters, and in others it was drab. It was probably the most dreary book I’ve read yet. It was a strenuous task to get through the entire thing in one sitting ; it wasn’t read in one sitting, I had to keep putting the book down. From the way the book starts out, it is painfully obvious that Jurgis’s family’s journey will…

The Jungle acknowledges the exploited life of the immigrant community through Jurgis and his family, as they come into the United States ignorant of system. Like most immigrants, Jurgis and his family came into the country, more specifically Packingtown, with the words “American Dream” written across their forehead. The family settles into a home with hidden expenses, quickly scamming Jurgis and any other members who were forced to find a job in order to maintain the home. Antanas, Jurgis’s…

The Jungle by author Upton Sinclair is a story about Jurgis Rudkus and his family who immigrated to America from Lithuania. Jurgis, his wife Ona and their relatives end up getting conned into buying a house with all of their savings near the stockyards and meat packing district in Chicago. Jurgis winds up working in the slaughterhouse where conditions are harsh and unsafe and the pay is low. All of the relatives including the women and the children have to go out and have to seek work to make…

In the early 1900’s, many immigrants moved to America with hopes that they could live freely and work to have a better life. The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is about a Lithuanian family who worked in the Chicago Stockyards and discovered the true horrors of working in the meatpacking plants. The theme in Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, reveals how much damage capitalism caused and the effect that capitalism had on people. As the main character goes throughout life, he is constantly…

Wilson 1 Heaven Wilson Ms. Sambol AMH 2020 30 March 2015 The Jungle In the year of 1905–1906 America was still trying to “reconstruct” and put everything in line to be a good country. You had American citizens dying including children; you had people in debt working extreme hours and in conditions to pay off. People were living in America supposedly called the “home of the free” to really the home of the worst. In the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair it describes exactly what was going on…

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle (New York: Signet Publishing, 1986) pp. 386. Upton Sinclair was born September 20, 1878 in Baltimore Maryland to parents Beall and Priscilla Sinclair. Growing up, he loved to read books, and started school at the late age of 10 years old. His father was an alcoholic who never kept a good job, and was always moving. After graduating in college in 1897, he focused on writing, and in 1904, went undercover to work at a meatpacking plant to research his novel The Jungle.…

Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair is not only an accomplished writer that wrote nearly one hundred books based on events that took place during the twentieth century, but a man who has improved and solved many problems within the United States. He exposed the problems within the meat packaging industry, which led to the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. These things would not have been possible without his motivation, preparation, and accomplishments. With this…