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During the 1800s, and early 1900s, American life were involved in several social problems and bad conditions. These problems led to the Progressive Era, which goals were created to address these problems. The Progressive Era included better working conditions, women’ suffrage, democracy, and an end to child labor. Although reforms proposed during the Progressive Era still had some problems to be addressed, Progressive Reformers worked hard to solved the issues to their best of their ability in…

“ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln I completely agree 100% with this quote because when people are faced with adversity, they can do nothing but fight an uphill battle, but when a man is the captor of power, they have to take in careful consideration on how their actions will affect people whether…

Judy Blume is a well-known author with more than 85 million copies in 32 languages. She is recognized for being for being a children's author but also has some books for teens and young adults. Judy s also a big part of the National Coalition Against Censorship. Growing up Judy had no interest in becoming a writer. Even though she loved reading, she had no idea she would become a world-famous writer. However, as a child, Blume loved to make up stories. She had many character ideas and stories…

The painting The Jungle by Wilfredo Lam was created in 1943 C.E. The medium used for the painting was gouache on paper, which is mounted on canvas. This work of art hangs in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York. The color of blue is used throughout the painting, along with a few strokes of yellow, orange, and green. Many bamboo plants and leaves are shown in the background suggesting the setting on a farm or plantation and show the use of organic shapes. Several distorted figures…

Hunter S. Thompson, named to be the creator of gonzo journalism, created the book “The Great White Shark Hunt” by compiling his past works of news articles, journal entries, letters to the editors, and personal works to inform readers about the seventies and eighties. In a specific article “The “Hashbury” is the Capital of the Hippies,” published in the New York Times Magazine on May 14, 1967 Thompson showed his experiences of what Height Ashbury was like, and told his predictions about what…

Jungle, Upton Sinclair wrote from the viewpoint of a teenage immigrant from Lithuania. Sinclair showed the extreme measures of how meat would be supplied to consumers no matter how old it was due to the fear of losing any amount of profit. Many times, the meat would be sitting on dirty floors and wouldn’t be cleaned. Many workers had their limbs cut off and mixed in the meat due to the bad machinery and rather than throwing that portion of the meat out the people over…

relate to being in poverty. The city of packingtown is suffering but can't seem to find any light. Everyone is for themselves and will do anything to survive. “Here was a population of low class, and mostly foreign, hanging on the verge of starvation”(Sinclair, 113). The jobs in packingtown are all risky but the people in packingtown will do anything to escape poverty, especially…

Jungle Negatives Paper Since its publishing in 1906, Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle, has been a mirror into what detailed the industrial revolution. It shows the rise of machines, allowing for expensive items to become almost priceless, and creation of new inventions and ideas that would change the face of the earth forever. But along with this, The Jungle shows the many problems people in there and now still face, that have been rotting the international community for many years after its…

The Jungle is a novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, who was an American journalist and novelist. He wrote this novel to express the terrible conditions that immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industries had to go through. Since these immigrants had no money , they would settle for any job possible, and settled for the extreme labor in factories. Specifically, it was written about the life of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, who were immigrants who came to America to work in…

successful progressive reforms. Both helped improve the life of many citizens during that period and today. The many laws, such as child labor acts and pure food and drugs acts, made the quality of living much better. The Jungle, a book written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, was a fiction book about poor conditions in the meatpacking industry. It helped spark up new laws for health regulations concerning meat. The new laws were: the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Both helped…