Upton Sinclair

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson based the movie There will be blood, that he wrote and directed in 2007, in the book Oil, by Upton Sinclair. This movie focus his attention on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) ; a simple miner who happens to find gold in an excavation that ends up in a broken leg. What you can expect to see from this film is ambitiousness, lies, remorse, hard feelings, sadness, and anger. There Will be Blood is a movie that intrigues you, make you think and realize some…

Despite hating progressive “muckrakers”, exposés by public overseers like Upton Sinclair educated Roosevelt and pushed the congress to enact the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, Meat Inspection Act of 1906, and to form the Food and Drug Administration in an attempt to enforce the regulations. His work as a “trustbuster” furthered Roosevelt’s…

valiantly that the nation filled with people must change for a better tomorrow, must change for the safety of our people. With reform rocking the nation, authors began trying to help the reform and show where it needed the most work, authors like Upton Sinclair who wrote Rise of the Jungle to help reform the meat packing industry, and others like Ken Kesey wrote about the needed reform in the asylum industry in his book One who flew over the cuckoo’s nest. People were on the rave for reform and…

The progressive movement in the United States was one of the most successful political movements in the country’s history, starting reform movements throughout the nation. Beginning in the 19th century, the Progressive movement looked to make changes to some of the issues within the country, such as monopolies and the issues within the urban movement, like poverty and drunkenness. The progressive movement was typically made up of intellectuals, muckrakers, and middle class women. The movement…

Following the end of the Gilded Age, various ample corporations would Through the various events in the novel, The Jungle starts en medias res, during the ceremony of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite’s wedding. As immigrants from Lithuania, their culture invites the people to a veselija, where one could come in, eating and drinking as much as one would like, leaving money so one could cover the cost. Due to the fact that the ceremony was in Packingtown, Chicago, several guests left no money at…

Wells provided shocking statistics on the lynching of African Americans in her novel A Red Record. Shortly after, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People joined the fight for federal anti-lynching legislation (Caswell). Upton Sinclair…

through racially biased judges and juries. Ida B. Wells attempted to change this unfair system through her journalism, which brought awareness to the horrors of lynching and humanizing its victims; it was in a way similar to the journalism of Upton Sinclair, a muckraker during the Progressive Era who we learned about. He used his writing to document the appalling conditions of…

were treating everyone. The world back then was not very good and will never be like that again. In conclusion the book the jungle was a very good and outstanding book the things that were said and showed in the book had a lot of meaning to it. Upton sinclair did a really good job with this book, it showed me that life back then was not good at all and a lot of people suffered from it . social darwinism took a really big place in this book and is showed on how the people were treated. I highly…

While reading “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, I could relate to the struggles that Jurgis and his family endured even though this book was published 110 years ago. The guilt felt by missing work, not getting enough work in the slow months, being overworked with little compensation or just…

Progressive Presidents The progressive presidents Taft, Wilson, and Roosevelt were all successful Presidents who changed the U.S. for the improvement of the future of the U.S. Though the most successful president in reforming the U.S. was President Theodore Roosevelt because of the many reforms he had signed to improve the United States for the better. Roosevelt was the first president protect small businesses and trust busting monopolies, he also protected consumers, that made meat companies…