PENGUIN BOOKS FAST FOOD NATION ‘What makes Fast Food Nation different is that it is not the predictable anti-meat‚ anti-fat‚ anti-additives‚ anti-non-dairy creamer‚ anti-have-any-fun rant against McDonald’s… it is meticulously researched and powerfully argued’ Observer ‘Schlosser could do for the fast food industry what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for producers of pesticides’ The Times ‘Eric Schlosser may be the Upton Sinclair for this age of mad cow disease… [He has] a flair for dazzling
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many things that we don’t know about behind the scenes. III. Supporting Paragraph 2 1.Meatpacking is now the most dangerous job in the United States. 2.Lacerations are the most common injuries suffered by meatpackers‚ who often stab themselves or stab someone working nearby. Tendinitis and cumulative trauma disorders are also quite common. 3.The rate of these cumulative trauma injuries in the meatpacking industry is far higher than the rate in any other American industry. It is roughly thirty-three
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A brief glance at United States history will provide miniscule details of the reality of the American society‚ and will instead present the United States as a utopia of sorts. Upon through examination‚ one will find an America that nearly fits the dictionary definition of a dystopia: "an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly." ("Dystopia") The one difference being‚ it is actually a reality‚ not a fantasy‚ for the majority of the populace.
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Turn-of-the century Chicago Immigrants . Most immigrants worked in dangerous jobs such as “slaughterhouses” as the James R. Barrett stated in his article Life and work for Turn-of-the century Chicago Immigrants. The immigrants working in the meatpacking industry earned 15-20 cents an hour which in present dollars will be $3.00 an hour. However their wages wasn’t enough to support their families
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Force The Jungle Critical Analysis The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful piece of classical literature. Indeed‚ it is arguably Sinclair’s most famous of all prior and latter works of art due to the simple fact it had such an impact on the meatpacking industry. Oddly enough‚ Sinclair didn’t achieve his underlying goal in stressing the importance of a socialistic society‚ but rather society focused on the atrocities of the how their food was being prepared in factories. The Jungle is a fictional
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called the right passengers (immigrants). The story takes place on Manhattan’s so called ‘Meatpacking District’‚ where mostly wealthy people live. The whole story takes place in Nadeem Riaz’s taxi‚ and lasts for a couple of hours - starting of past midnight. Nadeem Riaz’s occupation indicates that he is from the lower social class – hence‚ he is out of his comfort zone‚ by driving around the Meatpacking District. Manhattan symbolises the outside world‚ which Nadeem Riaz has been cut off from and
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. Progressives believed that the solution to the nation’s problems was government intervention. The progressive platform aimed to prioritize public welfare and actively fight against injustice. These points were illustrated when their platform claimed that "This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Its resources‚ its business‚ its institutions and its laws should be utilized‚ maintained or altered in whatever manner will best promote the general interest." 2. The progressives focused on
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References: Blackwell‚ Jon. 1906: Rumble over ‘The Jungle’‚ retrieved 15 Jun 2011 from: http://www.capitalcentury.com/1906.html Meatpacking in the U.S.: Still a "Jungle" Out There? (2006)‚ retrieved 15 Jun 2007‚ from: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/250/meat-packing.html Parker‚ Laura‚ USA just wouldn’t work without immigrant labor‚ (July 2001)‚ retrieved 15 Jun 2011‚ from: http://www
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war industries of northern cities such as African American workers eagerly left their low-paying jobs as agricultural laborers and domestic servants in the rural South and headed north in massive numbers. African Americans found major jobs such meatpacking plants‚ shipyards‚ and steel Mills in Chicago‚ Cleveland‚ Detroit‚ New York‚ Philadelphia‚ St. Louis‚ Pittsburgh‚ and Cincinnati.
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concept is not always true through a worst-case-scenario‚ that the reader learns is all too true for many other families immigrating to America at the same time. Practically every single aspect of the family’s experience in Packingtown‚ Chicago’s meatpacking district which is riddled with crime and poverty‚ runs completely the opposite of what most believe to be the American Dream.
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