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Book report; The jungle and business

Setting of the novel “The Jungle” published by Upton Sinclair in 1900s is in Chicago and revolves around the industry of meat production in the town. The industry seemed to represent the social difficulties of all the Americans living in poverty. Upton was only twenty-six years old when he moved to Chicago in his bid to participate in exposing the evils in the meat industry (Sparknotes.com).
Upton's book The Jungle was initially published in early 1900s and turned into a real sensation for American book readers. From one viewpoint, it depicted the incredible practices of meatpacking industry overwhelming at ...

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The actor used the words to refer to the reaction that the public had after he published his novel. The nation reacted in horror. The president at the time ordered an immediate investigation in the meat industry. However, he privately informed the author that he had no love for the socialist polemic, at the end of the novel. The words used by the author describe the activities that took place after the publishing of the book. Two months after publication of the book, the country created two legislations. These include the pure food and drug act and the meat ...

Jonathan Safran Foer has entertained enormous significant approval and international awareness for his writing approach in novels for example Everything Is Illuminated: a Novel. The most recent book, however, is a factual and on edge. Eating Animals is a comprehensive Foer’s individual description of disagreements with the principles of eating animals subsequent to the delivery of his son. The book is sectioned into eight chapters, each one containing a title that is not completely obvious but more reminiscent and figurative. For “All or Nothing or Something Else” for the second chapter plunging into the predicament of the quantity and type of animal ...

“The Jungle” is a novel by Upton Sinclair, an American Socialist with the intention to address the plight of meat packers in the hands of the beef trust. The setting of the novel is in Chicago; a town where Upton traveled while he was just twenty-six years old with the grand vision to help in sensitizing and pushing for better working conditions of the meat workers. The meat industry seemed to weave together all the misfortunes experienced by all other workers in the American society in the early 1900s.
Upton's novel The Jungle was first published in 1906 and became a ...

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The jungle was written in the year 1906 by an American journalist and novelist by the name Upton Sinclair. The author wrote this novel to be able to portray the lives that immigrants lived in the United States especially Chicago and other similar industrialized cities .Most of his readers were mainly concerned with his exposure to especially health violations and unsanitary practices that had for a long time been in the American meat packing industry. This was during the 20th century when he did this investigation for a socialist newspaper. The book also tries to depict about the working ...

Before the establishment of the food safety agencies the food industry was largely self regulated. This led to problems where some manufacturers did not provide the minimum safety leading to cases of food borne illness. After dealing with these problems, laws were enacted which led to the establishment of the food safety agencies. After the establishment of the agencies that monitor food safety, the situation on the ground has improved dramatically. The United States has one of the strictest food safety policies, which has resulted in very high standards of food safety. The United States is a global leader in ...

The book, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is a combination of memoir and an investigative report, born from the author’s undercover investigation of the meat industry practices. It combines knowledge from different fields; literature, science and philosophy, blended into his own personal experience to bring out the bad side of the meat industry. It looks at the inhumane handling of animals in the animal industry. The industry is characterized by poor conditions of raising farm animals, the downing of animals, slaughter before they reach maturity, and the human condition and treatment of animals in slaughterhouses.
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BOOK REVIEW: HUNTERS AT THE MARGIN

Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories by John Sandlos open my eyes to what conservation means to developers. I never will take for granted again that conservations are not wolves in sheep’s clothing. While reading the book I wanted the hunters to win so they would survive because the officials of parks and other government pieces of land were wearing the black hats. Government officials are definitely the bad guys forcing the natives to go without food in the 1950s (xvi) when food was hard to find without going on government ...

Analysis of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

When reading about human history, there are patterns surrounding certain parts of the world, while other places don’t fit into these patterns; hunters and gatherers became farmers, spoken words became written language, villages became cities, etc. Most history books published in past decades contain a perspective that focuses on Europe when talking about the development of human societies. In the very same history books, it becomes obvious that the people of Europe and Asia were some of the first in the development of technology and their economy, but sometimes they were invaders and attacked others. This makes a person question ...

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“The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a non-fiction English book published by Anchor in 1995. It contains 420 pages and based on Richard Preston article “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” It is a thriller that deals with the source and occurrences relating to viral hemorrhagic fever especially Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The filo viruses, Ebola Virus called EBOV, Sudan Virus called SUDV, Marburg Virus called MARV and Ravn Virus called RAVV are the agents of level four of Biosafety. They are enormously hazardous to humans due to being very contagious and with an extraordinary casualty rate. There is ...

Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he opted ...

The book’s title gives a summary of the concepts explored in the book. Pollan creatively writes about nutrition to make the society acknowledge the need of assuming a habit of healthy living. In natural foods, the author means unprocessed food unlike the commonly consumed by the current generation that are highly processed. The author refers to modern day food as food- like substances. People eat these substances because they are edible and food-like (Pollan, 51). Pollan presents the modern day worry of food nutrition, regarding it as the American Paradox. He observes that the more people worry themselves about nutrition ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a fictional story illustrating the lives of immigrants in the United States. It depicts the struggle between the rich and the poor which was ever growing in the industrial town of Chicago. It showed the plight of immigrant workers that were desperately trying to achieve the American dream which they had heard before leaving their native countries. “The Jungle” acts as a social political documentary of the American industrial growth by offering a peak Chicago meatpacking industry that was linked to corruption and dishonest practices in the early 20th century.
The key character of this ...

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The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

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In the recent past, fast food industry has infiltrated into the lives of many American people. The fast food industry has spread all through the US following the customers to wherever they are. Fast foods are now served almost everywhere: in schools, universities, airports zoos, stadiums and many other places. In a book by Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, it is explained how the fast food industry is ruling the lives of many American people. It further points that the industry has turned the American heterogeneous society into a homogeneous one headed to disaster. Eric Schlosser’s compelling evidence explores the ...