YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Honesty in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Essays 31 - 60
This 5 page paper argues that Upton Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle was to argue on behalf of the benefits of socialism, ...
put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...
Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...
leaned left. While it is true that the early part of the twentieth century provided an impetus on which authors could expound th...
them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...
nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...
"There are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in ice-cold cellars with a quarter of an inch of ...
- a small fortune at the time - for the party. They are starting their marriage already deeply in debt. Jurgis and his family are ...
again, through characterization, the subtle nature of the differential is conveyed. There is a clear connection made between indus...
seasons, and be worked till she trembled in every nerve and lost her grip on her slimy knife, and gave herself a poisoned wound - ...
into food. Meat packers typically used borax and glycerin to hide the smell of spoiled beef and candy manufacturers mixed shredded...
Introduction Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle was a novel he wrote in the hopes of making people aware of the evil nature of capi...
United States will prove to be a land of great opportunity. He believes that through hard work he will assimilate and find success...
They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...
reality, however, although The Jungle certainly had a commendable socio-political impact on American society, it was not in the co...
would become incredibly active in the socialist movement and clearly a man who fought for the rights of many different people in r...
This 4 page paper discusses the relationship of the text of the book The Jungle to the actual conditions of the Chicago packinghou...
In four pages Lewis's text is examined in terms of its religious purpose with the argument presented that the Garden of Eden serve...
In five pages three actions pertaining to affirmative action Brent Staples' 'The Quota Bashers Come in From the Cold,' Thomas Sowe...
In five pages Augustine's influence and the significance of the heaven and hell bus ride iare considered in this overview of Lewis...
how a previously made poor decision reached by the Supreme Court was ultimately corrected with the Gideon case. Contents : Chapt...
In six pages a work of Plato is compared with the Christian writer C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Two sources are cited in t...
In five pages this essay examines Lewis's use of humor and satire in his depiction of how people can be led away from a godly path...
In seven pages George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are compared ...
(45). Ambrose also paints a picture of what the country was like at the dawn of the nineteenth century. When Thomas Jefferson ...
and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...
follows the expedition of these men, going in sequential order to the actual places the "real" Lewis and Clark had many years befo...
In other words, the terrorist attacks and the anti-American sentiment that is exhibited by Islamic extremists is only partly roote...
the help of a lion that he rescues from a serpent (Braswell). As this illustrates, the story leaves plenty of room for Ywain to p...
itself is in part" (Meilaender). For instance, one facet of Gods love can be found "in the undiscriminating character of affection...