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?Rubyfruit Jungle?, 2002.
A review of the book ?Rubyfruit Jungle? by Rita Mae Brown and a biography of the author.
1,464 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper analyzes the novel "Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown about a young girl who is open about the fact that she is a lesbian. It concentrates on the character of Molly, the heroine of the novel and how Molly?s parents struggle for a better life for their daughter and how Molly wants the same, but she has her own ways of achieving this goal. It also provides a biography of the life and works of the author and discusses the challenges she had to meet and the obstacles she surmounted in order to achieve something in her life. It shows how the main theme of this book reveals to the audience belonging to all casts, races or sex, that it is completely unfair to criticize or hold a person from achieving anything in life primarily on accounts of him/her being different from the others.
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"Born on November 28, 1944 in a town called Hanover in Pennsylvania, Rita Mae Brown is a many woman in one. She is an accredited novelist, poetess, feminist, humorist, nuclear activist, social activist, screenwriter, animal lover and a farmer. She was one of the anterior members of the National Organization for Women. She later resigned from the organization when the other members tried to subdue her position, the reason being that she was a lesbian."
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Contemporary Interpretations of "Rubyfruit Jungle", 2006.
A discussion on lesbian themed literature in the book "Rubyfruit Jungle", by Rita Mae Brown
873 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper discusses how "Rubyfruit Jungle", by Rita Mae Brown, focuses on the subject of lesbianism through the main character, Molly. The paper examines how the book, published in 1973, was considered controversial during its time. The paper explores the themes of feminism and gender conditioning, with attention to the classic portrayal of Molly as the archetypal lesbian woman. The writer concludes that while Brown's book was groundbreaking and revolutionary at the time, today it serves as a classic piece demonstrating feminism, lesbianism and the power of the archetypal feminist woman.
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"One of the primary themes explored by Molly is that of gender conditioning (Napierkowski 3). From early childhood Molly is encouraged to behave in a manner that is ultimately feminine. This is evident in many places in the work, as when Molly describes Cheryl, a girl her mother would like her to play with. Cheryl is "a girl who likes to wear dresses and engage in typical girl activities" (Brown 19). This coincides with the dominant socially acceptable conscious thought during the 1970s. As a young woman Molly is under pressure to cook, clean and carry on other domestic activities, appropriate for a young woman during her time."
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Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", 2007.
This paper analyzes the working conditions in Late 19th and early 20th century America as exemplified in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."
1,335 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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In this paper, the author argues that Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" has been largely misunderstood for the last one hundred years. Rather than attacking the meat packing industry, Sinclair's ultimate purpose in writing "The Jungle" was to highlight the atrocious conditions that capitalism produced for uneducated workers, especially immigrants. In this, Sinclair sincerely hoped to persuade his readers to convert to socialism and overthrow the wage tyranny of all capitalist industries, not just the meatpacking industry. The paper also considers the historical impact of Sinclair's work, namely the founding of the Food and Drug Administration.
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"Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is an excellent work of fiction. It capably explains the living and working conditions that most European immigrants had to endure upon coming to American in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Sinclair used The Jungle to discuss not only the deplorable way of life that immigrants faced in America, but also to support his belief that socialism was the superior political ideology of the day. Here, the author will discuss the perceived purpose of The Jungle--namely to attack the meatpacking industry--and then demonstrate how this was only a glancing concern of Sinclair's when he wrote the novel. Sinclair's ultimate purpose, even if it was unsuccessful, was to highlight the atrocious conditions that capitalism produces for uneducated workers, especially immigrants. In this, Sinclair sincerely hoped to persuade his readers to convert to socialism and overthrow the wage tyranny of all capitalist industries, not just the meatpacking industry. For the last one hundred years, Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle has been largely misunderstood and misinterpreted."
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"The Jungle", 2001.
This paper analyzes the book by Upton Sinclair "The Jungle" and the effect the book had on food production laws.
884 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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This paper takes a look at "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair and explores the impact that this book had on social and economic laws in early 1900's America. It focuses on food production laws and labor laws which were changed as a result of the "expose" presented in Sinclair's book - harsh factory working conditions, unhygienic meat production etc.
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"Although Upton Sinclair wrote over 80 books, his most famous remains The Jungle, published in 1905. It?s an unforgettable picture of life and death in a turn-of-the-century meat-packing factory in Chicago?where Sinclair had been sent by the socialist weekly Appeal to Reason to investigate working conditions. Though Sinclair?s intent in the novel was to expose horrifying labor conditions the public was outraged by his descriptions of the filth of the processing plants and the contamination of processed meats."
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"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, 2005.
This paper discusses Sinclair's portrait of industrial capitalism, especially the meatpacking industry and European immigrants, in his novel "The Jungle".
865 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper explains that Upton Sinclair wrote his expose of the meatpacking industry, "The Jungle", partly as a way of demonstrating the rapacious and inhuman nature of capitalism when it was not curtailed by some government controls regarding worker and consumer safety and partly to demonstrate to the consumers of meat products themselves the dangers posed to their health when they ate such tainted foods. The author points out that the metaphors of meat in this book provided Sinclair with many potent metaphors for human life under capitalism.The paper relates that "The Jungle" is not simply a literary text but also a book that changed the world because it led to the implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 and created more human conditions for workers.
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"The production of food and meat does not have to be like it is depicted in "The Jungle", however, in the author's view. Sinclair was no vegetarian. Sinclair focused on European immigrants in his work, partly as a reflection of the reality that such immigrants were usually chosen first and foremost for the low wages that accompanied the horrific task of working in the meatpacking plants. But these immigrants also represented a tie with an earlier and more wholesome relationship with the land. Despite their desperation working in the factories, the European immigrants of Sinclair could remember a time, from their childhood in other nations, where food production was health and agriculturally focused, rather than something that was done purely for profit, without concern for worker's health."
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"The Jungle", 2002.
An analysis of the themes of protest and socialism in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper examines Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle", as a protest novel of great political import as not only one of the first examples of popular anti-industrial sentiment, but as a tribute to socialism.
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Stephen Crane's "Maggie" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", 2005.
Presents an argument in favor of including Stephen Crane's "Maggie" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in education curricula.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper uses Elizabeth Ammons' "Expanding the Canon of American Realism" to examine why Stephen Crane's "Maggie" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" should both be included in the education curricula. The paper suggests that the inclusion of these two works will help teach a multicultural point of view.
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"In "Expanding the Canon of American Realism", Elizabeth Ammons argues that the canon of American realism needs to reflect its social context of multiculturalism. The canon of realism is defined by teachers who choose what texts they want to teach about, therefore the canon has been composed of works that are considered highly teachable. In that respect, it is subjective and can just as easily be changed according to one teacher's idea of teachability as another's. Elizabeth Ammons takes the..."
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The Jungle, 2007.
This paper analyzes the novel "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
1,003 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper critically analyzes the structure of Upton Sinclair's novel, "The Jungle", including cultural illusions, narrative point of view, time structures, themes and motifs and irony. The paper shows how Upton Sinclair used these devices to help make the story more believable, to bring it alive for the reader. The paper relates that the main themes of the novel are survival, the ability to choose and live decently in a free society and the value of Socialism. The paper describes how the immigrants and their families were robbed of their free will and dignity when they worked in the packinghouses. The paper reveals that the book was so influential that it created a national scandal and created the national Pure Food and Drug Act, which began government inspection of all aspects of the meatpacking and other food industries.
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"Perhaps the most ironic situation in the book is the situation of the Lukoszaite family, who emigrate to American from Lithuania to create a better life for themselves. Instead, they found horrible working and living conditions, an increasing inability to make ends meet, and one by one, the family falls to misfortune and death. This leads to bitterness and unhappiness in the extended family and creates a sense of incongruity and disbelief in Jurgis, the hero of the tale. Early in the book Jurgis is cocky and full of life and hope for the future, but it does not take him long to see the true situation in the stockyard plants."
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"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, 2002.
A review of the novel "The Jungle" by Sinclair shows the terrible working conditions forced upon the immigrant workforce in America.
1,617 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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The author of the novel "The Jungle" uses his medium to describe the terrible working conditions he saw facing those working in the meat-packing industry at the turn of the century. Through the character Jurgis, who follows the American dream but finds the working conditions inhumane, the novel shows the work ethic to be strong in this society, causing many of the workers to accept their lot as if this were just the way things had to be. The paper concludes that Sinclair was lobbying for unions to improve the plight of the workers.
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"In the beginning, Jurgis accepts the work and has a view of the packing plant in Packingtown as a wondrous place he describes as "a wonderful poem" (67). He is energized by the many workers, the different processes, and the sense of many people working hard in one place that he finds in the plant. This is all quite new to him. He is hired in the first place because he is large and strong. How people are hired suggests the corruption that marks much of the workplace. Antanas is offered a job, but he must pay one-third of his wages in order to get it."
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"The Jungle", 2007.
An analysis of Upton Sinclair's indictment of wage slavery in "The Jungle".
1,407 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses how, in his evocative expose detailing the evils of the Chicago meat packing industry appositely titled "The Jungle", Upton Sinclair launches a searing indictment of wage slavery. It examines how according to Sinclair, the Beef Trust ruthlessly exploited workers, subjecting them to a grueling fate worse than chattel slaves. It looks at how he constructs his indictment of wage labor through his protagonist's rude awakening of the cruel system, his frequent analogy of workers to animals and the packing district to a grand machine, as well as by providing a litany of the unfair labor practices that kept the trusts in business.
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"In order to illustrate the miserable condition of labor in the stockyards, Sinclair often constructs parallels equating workers with animals. He addresses those who challenged the plight of workers and the cause of the unions claiming workers were trying to "restrict the productive capacity of the factories." Sinclair responds in saying that no one really understood the message of the unions; the "editors of newspapers, and statesmen, and presidents of employers' associations and universities" didn't understand that "what the unions were trying to do was to put a stop to murder." "
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"The Jungle" and Business Ethics, 2002.
A review of the business ethics of the packing company described in "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair under a capitalist system through the philosophy of Martin Friedman.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper focuses on the business ethics of a packing company described in the famous novel titled "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. The paper applies the philosophy and theory of Martin Friedman to this company to see what justifications can be given for the deplorable work conditions present in the meatpacking company. In capitalist system, Friedman maintains that the primary responsibility of the employer is to the owner of the corporations and therefore he cannot work for the society or sever any social causes.
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Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", 2006.
A historical analysis of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", published in 1906.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses "Upton Sinclair's" scathing social commentary novel, "The Jungle", and how it triggered a nationwide storm of indignation and conservative criticism. The paper explains that Sinclair's intention had been to emulate Harriet Beecher Stowe's condemnation of human slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin by condemning the injustice inflicted upon millions of meat packinghouse workers, whom he considered to be little more than wage slaves of the Beef Trust and its powerful supporters in the federal government. Ironically, many readers missed the entire thematic point of Sinclair's novel, for instead of being outraged by the political and economic establishments' criminal abuse of working Americans, they found Sinclair's graphic descriptions of what was added to the meat to be much more pertinent and interesting.
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Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", 2001.
A review of the main concepts and themes in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
710 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 25.95
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A review of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". The author describes Sinclair's account of the misery, pain and poverty of working class Lithuanian immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1890s and analyzes the theme of class inequality and to what extent it has changed today.
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"Sinclair shows how during that period, the gap was wide between the working class and the few rich. Although the only rich character in the story is introduced very briefly, the striking contrast of his lifestyle is sufficient to paint a very grim picture. Even without that contrast, however, Sinclair?s description of the life of the poor working class is very powerful. Starving and cold children, women digging their way through snow to get to work, children eating scraps found in dumpsters, man who are so driven at work they have to eat their food mixed with blood from the butchered animals -- all these are images that show the pain and the misery of the working class."
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"Jungle Pilot", 2004.
A review of the biographical book by Russell T. Hitt, "Jungle Pilot".
2,672 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses the book written by Russell Hitt, "Jungle Pilot", a detailed biography of a man who spent most of his life attempting to spread the word of God to the remotest regions of the globe. The paper describes Nate Saint's life, as portrayed in the book, as the embodiment of Christian values and virtues. The paper explains that the book is a rather unique fusion of Saint's many personal writings and the interpretations composed by Hitt.
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"Jungle Pilot opens with the one chapter that is left out of chronological order. The first chapter, entitled "Tacasta," is one of the few chapters that rely almost entirely upon Hitt's portrayal of events, leaving fairly little room for Saint's recorded reflections. This is a useful approach for the author, because it sets a clear emotional tone for the remainder of the book; it establishes the most important setting of Saint's life, as well as a feeling for the individual problems that faced Saint in his missionary work. Ecuador is the center of Saint's actions in his work, with his family, and defines his unique relationship with God. This first chapter illustrates the character of the book and the character of the person who the book is about. Although many of the events of Saint's life took place outside of Ecuador and outside of his missionary work, Hitt makes it clear that the way he should be remembered is as the vein through which Christianity could reach the native peoples of South America."
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Processes in "The Jungle", 2008.
A review of the social systems and process that are evident in Upton Sinclair's novel, "The Jungle."
1,525 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper reviews the fictional story, "The Jungle," written by Upton Sinclair. The paper describes the plot of the story and focuses on the processes, or systems, that lead to the dissolution of the immigrant family in the story. More specifically, the paper shows how the social system within the main character, Jurgis's family, and the technological system of the assembly line used by Anderson and Company, both follow similar processes.
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"In conclusion, the fatalism of the story shows how little regard these technological systems had for human well-being. The desires of an energetic young man led him through a dark sojourn to the end of his ignorance and naivety. The changing of seasons beat down on the immigrant family the same way the strikes and labor unions of workers affected the industries at the time. Even though malaise afflicted it, most of the family persevered through seemingly impossible hardship and even though it was crippled, not all was lost. The same way the strung-up pigs and the penned cows suffered their fate, the unreasonable mortgage contract financially defeated Jurgis's family, forcing them to return to their prior abode. This shows the certainty with which the animals were killed the same way the previous owners of Jurgis's home succumbed to their own mortgage payments. All in all, the story continues and appears to end with more hopefulness than other, worse instances in the story. Surely the hardships continue for the immigrants that arrive in Packingtown and the assembly lines do not rest for the livestock, but like everything else in the world, the systems continue and the subjects are either bolstered or broken."
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