Muckraker

Working is never as easy as it seems to be. People from the years before us have struggled with work labor as well. Whether if it’s from looking for jobs, job layoffs, or unfair management, labor and business have always been difficult. In the story “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair employment is something they do not play around with. Sinclair states that “...Monday morning they will every one of them have to be in their places.. If one of them be a minute late, he will be docked an hour’s pay,…

No matter how structured a society is, political and social issues are bound to rise. Only a small group of people can be in control, resulting in the population being split into different classes. These different classes are in a constant battle because the upper class tries to take advantage of the lower class. This battle is also evident in works of literature such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. In The Jungle, Sinclair uses literary devices such as setting, symbolism, and imagery to bring…

During the early 1900s, urbanization brought about many rapidly progressive changes to society and how people lived their lives. With this came many issues, and a plethora of writings were published to expose these hidden downsides. Two of the most prominent of these novels were “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, a melancholy and empathetic commentary on the meat-packing industry, and the lives of those who were forced to work in it, and “Silent Springs” by Rachel Carson, which sought to expose the…

McClure’s and Collier’s stirred reform energies with articles exposing urban political corruption and corporate wrongdoing, some magazines later appeared as books. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized the authors as “muckrakers” publicizing the worst in American life, but the muckrakers actually awakened middle-class readers to conditions in industrial America. They raised skepticism toward the industrial elite and caused pressures for tougher business regulation. The corporate…

“Muckraker” is a word usually associated with the Progressive time period when discussing American history. The Progressive era was a time of widespread social, political, and economic reformation which took place in the United States. Before the public could be awakened to action, it first had to be enlightened on the scandalous realities of factories, politics, and slums. Muckraking exposed iniquities, educated the public about corruption in high places, and prepared the way for corrective…

Invetigative reporting has been taking place since the first American newspaper in 1690 but only recently has it become associated with more fringe media than the mainstream media sources. James L. Aucoin’s book provides 300 years of reporting; including exposes,watchdog articles, hard-hitting investigative pieces and everything in between. The book does a solid job of looking closesly at how investigative reporting has taken on the the qualities of a lasting social institution, specifically…

US is one of the most famous country for Fast Food. There are 160.000 fast-food all over the country. One of the biggest problem in US is the obesity. Fast food are full of unhealthy food. The two texts, from Uptain Siclair “The Jungle” (1906) and Eric Schlosser “Fast Food Nation” (2011) report the abomination that happen in the meatpacking industry in the United States. Upton Sinclair is an American writer of nearly 100 books, in 1906 became famous for his novel “The Jungle” which describe the…

“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.” One of the main characteristics of the jungle is that the powerful (the rich) is powerful thanks to the weak (the poor); the law of the jungle, the law of the strongest. Upton Sinclair calls “The Jungle” the socio-economic reality that the city of Chicago is going through at the beginning of the 20th century. In the…

Jeffrey Northcutt Mrs. Barbara Loomis AP United States History 19 October, 2015 The Jungle In The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, Jurgis Rudkis and his wife, Ona Lukozaite, immigrate to a small town in Chicago named Packingtown in hopes of successfully pursuing the American Dream. It soon becomes relevant that one of the major themes in the story is the qualities of evil in capitalism, an economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private…

“The Jungle”, written by Upton Sinclair, was one of the most well known books to emerge during the Progressive Era. The publication of this piece is known to have influenced the passing of two federal laws concerning food health and safety, the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906, and the Federal Meat Inspection Act. During the time of its' publication, it had evoked an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and federal policy. It had paved the way for federal laws regarding food health and…