Muckrakers
Fee, Rhiannon
1.) Define the term "Muckraker." Give me some examples of modern-day muckrakers. Be sure to include the name of the person who created it.
A modern-day Muckraker is like a man named James O’Keefe. ACORN is an advocacy organization for people of low and moderate income. Well in 2009 his assistant posed as a prostitute and James was acting as her boyfriend. The hidden videos they took showed low-level ACORN employees in six cities giving advice to Giles and O’Keefe on how to avoid detection by authorities of tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution. Congress then voted to freeze federal funding to ACORN and the Census Bureau and the IRS terminated their contract with ACORN. http://jkmccarthy.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/james-okeefe-a-modern-day-muckraker/ 2.) What was the main focus of the Naturalistic writer? Be sure to tell me how this relates to Natural Law, Social Darwinism, and "survival of the fittest."
Naturalism writers show the world in a negative way. Naturalist writers aren't interested in individuality the way the realists are. They don't think it's the individual's place to change the world. They want to show people how and what big corporations’ are doing to the people to manipulate us. http://faculty.bucks.edu/docarmos/RealismNaturalism.html 3.) Why would post Civil War, newly industrialized America be attracted to the Realistic movement? (hint: they wanted to CHANGE things for the better, so first they had to...?]
During this time because things needed to change, the realist would express everything exactly the way it was no beating around the bush or sugar coating things. This caused people to start talking about what was going on and it would result in things finally being corrected.
4.) What is meant by the term "local color"? Choose any region of the country, and tell me about the "local color" I would experience if I visited that region.
Local color describes a person nature, like the way they
1.) Define the term "Muckraker." Give me some examples of modern-day muckrakers. Be sure to include the name of the person who created it.
A modern-day Muckraker is like a man named James O’Keefe. ACORN is an advocacy organization for people of low and moderate income. Well in 2009 his assistant posed as a prostitute and James was acting as her boyfriend. The hidden videos they took showed low-level ACORN employees in six cities giving advice to Giles and O’Keefe on how to avoid detection by authorities of tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution. Congress then voted to freeze federal funding to ACORN and the Census Bureau and the IRS terminated their contract with ACORN. http://jkmccarthy.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/james-okeefe-a-modern-day-muckraker/ 2.) What was the main focus of the Naturalistic writer? Be sure to tell me how this relates to Natural Law, Social Darwinism, and "survival of the fittest."
Naturalism writers show the world in a negative way. Naturalist writers aren't interested in individuality the way the realists are. They don't think it's the individual's place to change the world. They want to show people how and what big corporations’ are doing to the people to manipulate us. http://faculty.bucks.edu/docarmos/RealismNaturalism.html 3.) Why would post Civil War, newly industrialized America be attracted to the Realistic movement? (hint: they wanted to CHANGE things for the better, so first they had to...?]
During this time because things needed to change, the realist would express everything exactly the way it was no beating around the bush or sugar coating things. This caused people to start talking about what was going on and it would result in things finally being corrected.
4.) What is meant by the term "local color"? Choose any region of the country, and tell me about the "local color" I would experience if I visited that region.
Local color describes a person nature, like the way they