Upton Sinclair

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…

Sinclair began to release his findings as a serial in Appeal to Reason, nearly doubling the newspaper’s circulation in about a year. After rejection by five different publishers, The Jungle was released as a novel in 1906. It was an instant success; meat sales plummeted, it was translated into 17 languages so that immigrants could also read it, and thousands of letters were written to the White House calling for meatpacking reform. President Theodore Roosevelt, not believing what he read,…

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…

Chicago was pride hungry during the 1890s. The urbanization of the city lead to an increase desire to prove itself to the world. The majority of the income from the area came from the meat packing industry, branding Chicago as a dirty city. New York City and Boston both considered themselves a better fit for the occasion. Once the bid for Chicago was approved, many architects stayed loyal to their home cities, refusing to work on the project. Architects like John Root and Frederick Olmsted…

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…

In Vesna Cremona’s Paper Citizen, she discusses the views that white collar immigrants have from the outside looking in on the country supposedly built by immigrants and the hostile views she and other immigrants have had to share since coming to the United States. Vesna begins her story with an example of the fear she must live in when the FBI search through her office while investigating her boss. She then goes back to her childhood as she came over to the states for her father’s work as a…

I wanted to make tapa/kapa, bark cloth that old Polynesians and Hawaiians used to make. This is because I have learned how to make tapa/kapa in my ethnobotany class. I have been amazed how early Polynesians and Hawaiians were closely connected to the nature and how they incorporate with nature to live sustainably. I enjoyed learning how they created clothes in the old days. Therefore, I decided to make tapa/kapa from a scratch. To be honest, a night before this morning, I got some trouble with…

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s ethnography Labor and Legality uses a mixture of narrative, interviews, and observation to educate the reader about the lives of undocumented workers in the United States. Gomberg-Muñoz focuses specifically on a group in Chicago called the Lions and describes how this small group has managed to create their own culture made up of language, social structure, kinship, gender roles, and authority. Often the Lions have to navigate between three different cultures: the one they…

In this section, Schlosser takes perusers into the slaughterhouse. He discovers somebody with access to the plant who is agitated with the working conditions to give him a visit. Schlosser sees the whole horrifying procedure of steers butcher from the staggering of cows to the cutting. Critically, he watches the specialists' conditions inside. Schlosser says meatpacking is most hazardous occupation in America. A standout amongst the most perilous parts of the occupation are the blades…