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Teddy’s Triumph “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”( Roosevelt 1). Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City and strucken with asthma as a child. He was mostly home schooled through his early childhood but when he got older he was a governor of New York before he became a vice president. Theodore Roosevelt accomplished to fix the…

Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878. His family lost their wealth and land due to the Civil War. At 10 years old, Sinclair’s family moved to New York City. Sinclair went to his primary schooling there and also college. He attended Columbia University, while he was there he started selling stories to magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1897 and married Meta Fuller and had a child three years later. Sinclair joined the Socialist Party in 1903 and started writing for…

The Jungle During the 1880-1910 times, a lot of tragic events occurred relating to urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. Workplace safety, treatment of immigrants, and child labor were events that changed America as a whole the worst way possible. Numerous of areas in the United States were settled as a trading post and transportation routes. As the industries and technology improved, cities in America became the center of products. Cities grew in populations and in size. Countries…

In the article “The most Dangerous jobs” by Eric Schlosser, we here the story of a man who worked at a meat packing company. Kind and loyal to a fault, Kenny Dobbins gave arm and leg to the company, and turned down the unionized work force based on the things he heard from his supervisor. The company then proceeded to use him up until he had nothing left to give; then throw him away without so much as a warning. Union’s should be mandatory in meatpacking operations because, it provides a way…

Throughout human history, there have always been people who step up to make a change in our world. When people encounter something they don’t like they want to change it. The author of The Jungle and the producers of Food, Inc. are no exception. Both The Jungle and Food, Inc. set out to reveal the food industry and they have changed the what people know ever since. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 with a clear purpose, to expose the American meatpacking industry and the lives or…

In many ways, the time period in which an author lives greatly affects their writing. The time period influences an author in how they write, and also in what the author writes about. The events during the lifetime of Upton Sinclair influenced his writing enormously. During the 1900’s the working conditions of the meat-packing industry were very harsh. Many workers were injured and many were even killed. Countless Americans at this time were not aware of the terrible conditions the workers…

Many facets of Upton Sinclair’s book relate and portray different parts of the meatpacking industry. Many believe the title itself relates back to the cruelty seen in the business. The story follows a man named Jurgis who had recently moved from Lithuania to a Chicago suburb, called Packingtown in reference to Chicago’s meatpacking district in the early 1900s. With him, Jurgis brought eleven of his family members, including his father, his young wife named Ona, and Ona’s stepmother, step-uncle,…

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair recounted one immigrant family’s failure to live the American Dream. Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite immigrated to Chicago from Lithuania in hopes of beginning a new and better life together. They “had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child grow up to be strong” (Sinclair 143). In actuality, the novel highlighted the difficulties they faced living in filth while struggling to rise up in…

height by measuring the water tension from leaves at the top against leaves from the bottom of Acer Platanoides (Norway Maple) trees. We hypothesized that water tension would be higher at the top of trees than at the bottom. The secondary focus was to determine if varying water tension would affect the structural composition of leaves. In order to identify a relationship, we compared leaf traits including mass, thickness, and area, from leaves collected at the treetop and at the bottom of the…

One of the first things that you notice in our group’s poster would be the CN Tower. We chose this building because it is not only the iconic symbol of Urban Toronto, but also because it is a popular hotspot for tourists. This would benefit the tourism industry, as approximately 1.5 million people visit from around the world each year. Also the CN Tower is one of the 7 wonders of the modern world, making the CN tower an interesting place to visit. The second thing your eyes might have been drawn…