The Asphalt Jungle

The ethical theory I’ve selected to support my position on opposing eating dog meat is Psychological Egoism, presented in Chapter 7 of our textbook. Here’s Shafer-Landau, speaking on Psychological Egoism: “If we have the power to do as we liked, we would always seek out our own best interests, no matter the harms we caused” (Shafer-Landau, 89) Here’s how this quote is linked to my position in oppose eating dog meat. Let’s say we have a Vietnamese friend name Tim, who was born and grew in a poor…

American life during the 1800s and early 1900s had an abundance of social, political, and economic issues. Progressive and populist reformers worked to improve such complications, which can be seen during the Progressive Movement. The Progressive Movement’s success can be recognized through issues such as meat packing, women’s rights, and workers safety. Meat packing was a major issue during this time period. The factories where the meat was processed was extremely unsanitary and had unfit…

Crime was rising, and people cared less and less about each other. The new flood of people prevented the police from investigating all of the murders. Police also turned a blind eye in The Jungle, as they were too interested in personal gain. In first chapter of Devil in the White City, Larson says “How easy it was to disappear,” in Chicago. (Larson 11). The concept of disappearing is displayed through H.H. Holmes, as he and his murders…

Upton Sinclair is quoted as saying “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach,” because his novel did not get the reception he was looking for. The Jungle was first published in a Socialist magazine called “The Appeal to Reason” in 1905. It was later published as a standalone novel in 1906. The Jungle follows the life of Jurgis Rudkus and his family after they have immigrated from Lithuania to Chicago. The novel portrays the lives of immigrants and what…

Kaitlyn Herbrandson Professor Brandon Davis HIST-112 21 February 2016 The Jungle Book Review Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Cambridge, MA: R. Bentley, 1971. Print. In the book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair demonstrates his viewpoints on how the industrial movement impacted culture, politics, and businesses in general, as well as becoming a voice for the workingmen of America. The book follows an immigrant named Jurgis and his new wife Ona, who came to America from Lithuania, on a journey starting…

The shot barely grazed my shoulder. Anybody would be knocked unconscious with that much blood leaving their body. But they left me there, and they had good reason to. With the Reds trailing them on one side, and the harsh, unforgiving Vietnamese jungle on the other, they didn’t have the time or strength to take care of a WIA. I sort of feel bad for them. I could only imagine the guilt of leaving behind a fellow soldier. Lucky for me, they took the time to patch up the wound. Memories of the…

Upton Sinclair uses the theme of class struggle in The Jungle to illustrate the how the capitalistic economic system in America is a no win proposition for the workingman. The workers are portrayed as pawns in society to make the most money possible for the meat packing industry. Sinclair’s use of the metaphoric comparison of society to the jungle is threaded throughout the book. This naturalism is a hierarchal order of predators in the jungle who prey on the weaker animals, which in this case…

Upton Sinclair published his book, “The Jungle”. This story was about Jurgis Rudkus and his family. Immigrants came to America in search of a job and many of these immigrants worked in the meat-packing plants of Chicago. The people working in these industries had to go through difficult working conditions, poverty and hunger, people were taking advantage of them, as well as politicians who passed laws that supported this. This story reflected the reality that some people were facing. After the…

The book The Jungle stats out with the wedding of Jurgis and Ona who immigrated from Lithuania to Chiacgo. After a while hold a wedding and ask for guests to give gifts of money but most dont and they dont have enough for the wedding yet they promise to work harder. Their family and them quickly find jobs and agree to buy a house unknown that its a poor house with lots more costs than shown. The jobs they get though are not ones that require a lot of thinking but rahter hard working labor, with…

The Forest and the Trees- The Forest and the Trees integrates the topic of social inequality both oppression and privilege into a story in a way that no other book I’ve considered does. Johnson has the ability to explain and elaborate on concepts in a way that is very easy compared to most authors. "The Forest and the Trees" is an account of how sociological practice finds its way into almost every aspect of life, from headlines in the morning paper to the experience of growing older to the…