Christine Sinclair born June 12‚ 1983 in Burnaby‚ British Columbia‚ Canada is a Canadian soccer player. For Christine Sinclair‚ January 6‚ 2006‚ was a day to remember. First‚ the Canadian Soccer Association named her the 2005 female player of the year. Then‚ later in the day‚ came the announcement that the British Columbia native had won the 2005 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy as the top female Division 1 college soccer player in the United States. The MAC Hermann Trophy is U.S. soccer’s
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Lit Analysis The Jungle Workers and citizens today have Upton Sinclair to thank for the improved working conditions and higher regulations in the food industry. In The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair uses vivid imagery and figurative language to expose the extremely unpleasant working conditions of immigrants and the Capitalist ideology of early 1900’s Chicago . A large Lithuanian family comes to Chicago in hopes for better life and work. The main character Jurgis is eager to work after a new marriage
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the afroed painter Bob Ross. It was from that moment I became completely infatuated with art‚ I would sit and watch him paint for hours and just imagine my 5 year old self being able to create these fantastical‚ beautiful scene with the stroke of a paint brush. I had always shown advanced art skills from the beginning‚ surpassing other children my age. For me‚ it was something I had always done‚ I was born with a pencil in my hand. But‚ it was in those hours of watching Bob Ross that
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prepared in conditions that were unthinkable to the common citizen. How did we go from a system that had so little oversight to one of almost unthinkable supervision by the government? The answer came via an enterprising young writer named Upton Sinclair. Sinclair’s publication‚ The Jungle‚ shined a light into the dark and dreary life of a meat packer in Chicago. The Jungle horrified and disgusted readers. The book even had implications on the federal level. President Theodore Roosevelt‚
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conditions for foreigners and natural born citizens were unacceptable. The meat was packaged in factories crawling with disease. Upton Sinclair recognized the issues surrounding these conditions. Sinclair wrote The Jungle to inform the world about how not only the meat packing industry was flawed‚ but also how the working conditions of that time were flawed. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ on September 20‚ 1878. His father was an alcoholic liquor salesman and his mother did not have
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Rhetoric 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.
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how much we pay for goods. Consumer Goods may seem like an irrational reason to have a reform‚ but during the 1900’s‚ people realized that the meat that most people ate came from places that were very unsanitary. This was discovered after Upton Sinclair published
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Sinclair’s The Jungle‚ published in 1906‚ a sense of injustice towards the working class and need for socialism is present. Sinclair intended to illustrate the vast majority of immigrants in Chicago at the turn of the century; providing details and examples of abuses in the meatpacking industry merely as a means of demonstrating their troubles. After the publication of The Jungle‚ Sinclair stated‚ "I aimed for the public’s heart‚ and by accident I hit it in the stomach." He used those words to describe the
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Upton Sinclair wrote this book for a couple of reasons. First and foremost‚ he tries to awaken the reader to the terrible living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of the century. Chicago has the most potent examples of these conditions. Secondly‚ he attempts to show the advantages of socialism in helping to remedy the problems of a society such as the one that exists in Chicago at this time. Sinclair accomplishes his objectives with an extremely powerful story. Jurgis
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journalism that affected the masses and catalyzed the reform movements of the Progressive Era. The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair was a story that not only focused on the unfortunate life of a Lithuanian family headed by a man named Jurgis‚ searching for the American dream‚ but also the corruption and reform attempts of the Chicago government and Packingtown. Even though Sinclair discusses the corruption‚ bribery‚ and union system that control the working class‚ it is left to the reader to decide whether
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