Pure Food and Drug Act

soon became known as the ¨trust buster¨. Roosevelt enforced the Sherman Antitrust Act, which made any trust that limited competition illegal. He then decided to take further action by making a domestic policy called ¨the Square Deal¨. It created acts such as ¨Pure Food and Drug Act¨ of 1906, which required truthful labels, and banned the use of harmful preservatives, chemicals, and drugs. Also the ¨Meat Packing Act¨ of 1906 enforced sanitary regulations and required government inspections.…

example of this. Mexico is well known for its sparkling beaches, lively culture, crooked government, and exotic food. It’s government acts aimlessly and without care of the issues surrounding their citizens, in response, this leads them into the arms of the, willing to listen, drug lords. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is internationally seen as a miscreant who murders for money and drugs, but in Mexico he is known for his charisma and generosity to the government’s…

addictive use of prescription and illicit drugs within the United States has been, and remains,an unending and sometimes controversial social and economic issue. According to research and statistics done on this issue, drug addiction has the ability to affect numerous branches of both societal and economic health. Statistically, one of the more common areas affected is our criminal justice system. (‘Bureau of Justice Statistics). The relationship between drugs and the criminal justice system is…

improved working conditions, food and drug companies, and even the environment. Theodore Roosevelt positively renovated the country by advocating a "square deal" for all citizens, limiting the power of trusts, promoting public health and…

Theodore Roosevelt Imagine the U.S. without any national forests. Imagine the world with the Panama Canal never being created. This is what the world would look like if Theodore Roosevelt had not been the 26th president of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt impacted the Untied States by designing over one hundred and fifty national parks, starting the creation of the Panama Canal, and being the 26th president of the United States of America. Theodore Roosevelt contributed to over one hundred…

Sinclair uses a series of grotesque imagery in order to expose the corruption that was going on in the meat packing industries. By doing this he hoped that people would start taking precautions and caring about the products their foods contained. This was aimed more towards the middle class people as they were the only ones who could really do something. The lower class were too poor and the higher class only made decisions that were in their best interest. He describes the way animals were…

Upton Sinclair purpose for writing The Jungle was to unmask and expose the disgraceful working conditions in the meat-packing industry in Chicago to bring light on the unsanitary way animals were kill to become process meat. But most of his concerns were how the meat packing industry workers were being treated. Sinclair began his story opening up with a wedding ceremony introducing the main character Jurgis Rudkus and his family from Lithuanian. Jurgis came to America believing he and his…

The PR principle is to represent the client and to influence the public opinion, “ moving the public to action”. ( Hopkins, 2016, p.175) PR may represent many legal categories, such as traditional media, commercial speech, and many others. The principles of a healthy economy are the basis of the US functioning. Consequently, 'corporate entities” ( Hopkins, 2016) benefits from the same rights as the physical persons, and are similarly protected under the First Amendment rights, as each…

The Life of Cocaine For this paper I chose to investigate the drug of cocaine and how it evolved and essentially lived its life as a drug. Cocaine caught my interest when reading the book Beyond Belief in which Josh Hamilton became addicted to cocaine in the late ninety’s. I found it very interesting that different drugs have had their famous era so to speak, like right now marijuana and heroin are the drugs you really hear about right now. Before this paper I really had no idea about cocaine…

The middle class of American society demanded change following the turn on the century for an increased emphasis on childhood education, women’s rights in society, and regulation of food and drugs. There was also an increase demand for the American people to be further involved in governmental affairs as well as the diminishment of monopolies and protection from financial exploitation. From 1900 to 1920, the Progressive reformers partially struggled to address the social concerns of the American…