Socialist Party USA

Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle intends to expose the hardships and corruptions that occurred in America during the early 1900’s in industrial cities such as Chicago. Sinclair does this by creating fictional characters to represent the average working family in this time period, such as Jurgis Rudkus and his family, who are the main characters in the novel. Jurgis and his family experience many injustices after traveling from Lithuania to America and Sinclair uses these experiences to reveal…

ignorant. … The truth is that Helen Keller was a radical socialist. She joined the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from Radcliffe, and not, she…

Isabel Peron was born on February 4, 1931, in La Rioja, Argentina. Isabel’s real name was Maria Estela Martinez Cartas. Isabel changed her name after her confirmation in the Catholic Church. Isabel was born in the low to middle class. Her father was a banker and he died when Isabel was a young girl causing her family to have financial issues. Isabel learned had training in French, the piano and dance. However, after the fifth grade Isabel dropped out of school and became a dancer. That’s when…

“I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people”. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser and future secretary of state, said a few months prior to self-proclaimed Marxist, Salvador Allende's democratic election as President of Chile. This quote encapsulates American political ideology during the Cold War and sheds light on the nature of the Allende regime that was toppled just three years after its democratic victory.…

one of the reasons why she became a huge supporter of socialist politics. She had very strong opinions on politics and social issues. She spoke out about women’s suffrage, pacifism, and birth control. Originally, the media was very nice and supportive of Helen Keller. They loved her drive, courage and intelligence, that is until she began to support the socialist party. Helen wrote several articles about socialism and supported a Socialist Party presidential candidate. This made people begin to…

creating a adoption of the popular election of judges and primary election among political parties on a large scale. The Seventeenth Amendment was a progressive reform…

The two films I watched for this film journal were Harlan County, USA and Salt of the Earth. The two films were both about miners fighting for their rights. Harlan County, USA is a documentary about the Harlan strike in Kentucky. The miners wanted to get better safety measures and pay. The Duke Power Company would not take the necessary precautions to protect the miners from unsafe conditions in the mines. Salt of the Earth focused on the Mexican miners in New Mexico who went on strike…

Don’t take this article the wrong way, support of women 's rights is a good thing, but there are few that take it beyond what it is. They call themselves feminists, others would consider them as radical feminists. There is a difference between the two, feminism is a belief that man and woman should be equal in society and have equal opportunity in the world; radical feminism is a belief that men have been dominating over women for years and the women should be above the men in the societal…

George Kennan created, and sent, quite an intricate telegram pertaining to the Soviet Union government, and small details on the people who reside within the USSR. I will attempt to summarize the details to answer critical questions asked of him, pertaining to development of a response for the US considering this matter. While some details are redundant to the US due to previously known details, Mr. Kennan has proposed interesting views that should be given attention too, with the greatest…

Authors portray characters in different ways to help express events that are happening in the world that they live in that are either in some cases forbidden to talk about or are a sensitive topic for most of the population. In the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich certain characters such as Ivan, Alyosha, Tiurin, and Fetiukov all have different backgrounds but all end up in the same situation which is being thrown into the gulag and they all have the different traits that could…