Rubyfruit Jungle

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…

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…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a story set in the early 1900s, in Chicago. It follows the life of a Lithuanian immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus who moved to America to start a new life and become rich. When he moves to America he is a young and strong man and gets a job at the Brown’s meat packing factory. Through all the troubles he faces he finds the idea of socialism and becomes a radical man trying to convert everyone to his new way of thinking. I think that this a very well written book about…

Biomes Survival Story We were flying in the government's new 737 million dollar B-2 Spirit jet. My sergeant gave me and my co-pilot orders to go to the coordinates 6.1° S 106.9° E, which is Jakarta, Indonesia. Our orders were to observe the areas that have military-like forces in the tropical rainforest. As we were making our last pass for reconnaissance over the tropical rainforest, there was a huge thunderstorm. A few minutes after the storm started the B-2 jet was struck by lightning,…

Life as a commoner comes with lots of dissatisfaction and hunger. Many commoners ate bread or meat on a stick. They never had the money to eat like the nobles. Many commoners worked for knights or were servants to kings. Some even worked as blacksmiths or was a soldier. They didn't have any clean clothes and they couldn't take a clean bath like most people. Commoners had it rough either having to work really hard just to get a cent to feed them or their family. Many survived by selling trading…

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…

There once was a girl named Beastie. She had been born in a field one spring. No one in the area would ever think that one little, powerful girl would grow up to become the most talented in the history of heroes. Little did she know that so many people would soon look up to her for her strength of becoming a legend. As a child, she had emerged from a golden ball. That golden ball had been her source of power since she was really young. With the ball, she would send all the horrifying, mysterious…

Topic-Outdated Political Undertones in Large Groups Seal, Dean. “Governor Calls Signer's Request for Special Session of General Assembly 'Redundant'.” The Daily Progress, 18 Aug. 2017, After the protests against the removal of the confederate statues in Charlottesville, Mayor Mike Signer issued an emergency meeting to make a final decision whether or not to proceed with the removal, despite the unanimous agreement in favor of the removal earlier this year. Although the conclusion of the meeting…

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 owners for profit, and one of Sinclair’s purposes for writing The Jungle was…

“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…