Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ has been a major influence on American History. The novel’s success stems from how it exploited the American meatpacking industry and eventually led to the passing of the Food and Drug act of 1906. Though the novel discusses the American era of Industrialization in Chicago‚ the title refers to this era as a Jungle. Sinclair’s title‚ The Jungle‚ symbolizes the worker’s struggle for a good life in a country where capitalist’s prosperity is defined by their poor
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Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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Recent United States History Class Number 8469 March 2‚ 2005 The Jungle Analysis Paper America‚ by the turn of the twentieth century‚ was regarded as the "Land of Opportunity‚" and lured thousands of immigrants. The foreigners that fled to the United States were in search of new lives; better lives. America was at the age of industrialization‚ and the economy was shifting from agriculture to factories. There were jobs in the factories available to un-skilled workers‚ which were the majority
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Rimbun Jungle somewhere at Pahang is a very famous jungle for those who like to spend their time camping‚ hiking and also jungle tracking. I like to spend my time camping with my best friend forever. Her name is Azizah. Luckily‚ we share a same interest in spending our time to get close with nature. Azizah studied about nature science so that is way she love mother earth. But‚ it is different with me because I like to release my tension with spending my time at jungle because when I get
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Analysis of an excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Rhetorical devices are used to strengthen writing and add dimension. When used properly‚ they add layers of complexity to any prose as well as further evidence for an argument. No one understood this better than Upton Sinclair. Four strong rhetoric devices are periodicity‚ the Rule of Three‚ metaphor and rhetorical questions. Sinclair masterfully demonstrates these in a speech featured in his novel‚ The Jungle. Periodicity‚ also
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the immigrants expected. Many immigrants expected America to be very nice and clean‚ with extremely kind people and exceptional job opportunities. When they arrived‚ they found America to be completely different from what they had envisioned. In The Jungle‚ Lithuanian immigrants One and Jurgis travel to America with their families to havfe their wedding and find work. At their wedding they encounter the first of many unpleasant U.S. citizens. The saloon owner gives them a keg of beer from a different
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Racism is something something we ’ve all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a biological category‚ but an artificial classification of people with no scientifically variable facts. In other words‚ the distinction we make between races has nothing to do with genetic characteristics. Race was created socially‚ primarily by how people perceive ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history‚ the
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The Management Of Theory Jungle It was Harold Koontz who introduced the concept of Management Theory Jungle. ’Management Theory Jungle’ was made in an environment where the development of management theory had escalated over a period of two decades. This has resulted to confusion and conflict which many theories have entangled in it. As such‚ it is seen as a jungle. Koontz defined the management theory jungle by identifying and classifying major management theory. Six schools of thoughts were
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In The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair uses a true to life story to demonstrate the working man’s life during industrialization. Marx depicts in the Communist Manifesto an explanation of why the proletariat is worked so hard for the benefit of the bourgeois‚ and how they will inevitably rise up from it and move to a life of communism. When The Jungle and the Communist Manifesto were written‚ the proletariat‚ or working class‚ was a commodity of commerce. Like their brothers‚ they subjected to competition
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After the PMR examination‚ we were not only sick of studying but also to even look at books. After some discussion‚ Ben‚ Tom and I decided to go for a camping trip. It was supposed to be a pleasant two days camping trip. Nevertheless‚ we had never imagined that it would turn out to be a nightmarish incident. That morning‚ we equipped ourselves with the necessary camping gear and sufficient food which could last us for two days. Then‚ we got onto our motorcycles and made a beeline for our destination
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