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The Paradox of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper argues that Upton Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle was to argue on behalf of the benefits of socialism, ...

British Columbia's Customer Protection and Bank Merger

In seven pages Scott Sinclair's article 'Bank Mergers and Customer Protection in British Columbia' is discussed in a two part summ...

Overview of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the story and characters featured in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. There are no o...

American Literature and the Issue of Class

leaned left. While it is true that the early part of the twentieth century provided an impetus on which authors could expound th...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Past and Present

into food. Meat packers typically used borax and glycerin to hide the smell of spoiled beef and candy manufacturers mixed shredded...

Considering the Title: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

seasons, and be worked till she trembled in every nerve and lost her grip on her slimy knife, and gave herself a poisoned wound - ...

Communism and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

American Dream Represented in Literature by Homes and Houses

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

American Dream and the Writings of John Steinbeck

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

Comparision of 'Tar Baby' by Toni Morrison and 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

Comparative Analysis of The Great Gatsby and Six Degrees of Separation

In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...

Faulty American Dream in House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...

American Dream's Differing Conceptual Views

In five pages this paper examines how the American Dream is viewed from differing perspectives. Seven sources are cited in the bi...

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In eight pages this paper compares these works in a discussion of collective community's importance over the individual and the ho...

The Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama

examines the values that Americans hold dear to them, as well as illustrating his own values. It is perhaps somewhat difficult to ...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

Interview: Public Health Official

political outcry might exist from the opposition. In the delivery of health care, the awareness of the bioethical "good" sets the...

Social Conditions as a Backdrop to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

This 4 page paper discusses the relationship of the text of the book The Jungle to the actual conditions of the Chicago packinghou...

The Lure of Being a Commercial Pilot

Many dream of flying the open skies. Commercial pilots do just that. They get paid for pursuing their dream. This eight page pa...

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

reality, however, although The Jungle certainly had a commendable socio-political impact on American society, it was not in the co...

Upton Sinclair's Expose, The Jungle

would become incredibly active in the socialist movement and clearly a man who fought for the rights of many different people in r...

Dreams and Sigmund Freud

of dreams" (pp. 50). The Shadows of Dreams What appears to have often been forgotten in the debate over the validity of Freuds ...

Relationship Between Sacajawea and Lewis and Clark

follows the expedition of these men, going in sequential order to the actual places the "real" Lewis and Clark had many years befo...

Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis

In other words, the terrorist attacks and the anti-American sentiment that is exhibited by Islamic extremists is only partly roote...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

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...

Fantasy Literature for Children and Spiritual and Christian Symbolism

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 ...

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

(45). Ambrose also paints a picture of what the country was like at the dawn of the nineteenth century. When Thomas Jefferson ...

Critical Biography King by David Lewis

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...