... capitalism and promoting Socialism, forcing the reader to attend them, and learn even more about the evils of the former and virtues of the later. Sinclair consistently compares capitalism to a machine, which grinds up workers in the pursuit of profits. When he first arrives in America, Jurgis falls in love with the beautiful efficiency of the ... machine as he watches the slaying of hogs. Jurgis eventually comes to realize "that a hog was just what he had been - one of the packer's hogs. What they wanted from a hog ... they wanted from the workingman" (347). Finally, he sees how Soci...

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... says: "It was all highly specialized labor, each man having his task to do;"(p.43). He is only a part of a machine and is losing his autonomy by doing this. While working on the railroad, Jurgis became self-destructive, like a senseless machine. "he became reckless and indifferent, like all the rest of the men, who took but little thought of themselves in the ... ever day lead her to alienation. Finally she just goes numb and stops feeling all together. Jurgis, Ona, and Marija are alienated workers; the cogs of the great unthinking, unfeeling machine. They are less than human; they are ...

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... ; it left her no time to think, no strength for anything. She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence"(137). Like men, women were attached to the machine and are force by the economic necessity to sell their labor because the income men earn is ... ...

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... says: "It was all highly specialized labor, each man having his task to do;"(p.43). He is only a part of a machine and is losing his autonomy by doing this. While working on the railroad, Jurgis became self-destructive, like a senseless machine. "he became reckless and indifferent, like all the rest of the men, who took but little thought of themselves in the ... ever day lead her to alienation. Finally she just goes numb and stops feeling all together. Jurgis, Ona, and Marija are alienated workers; the cogs of the great unthinking, unfeeling machine. They are less than human; they are ...

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... be resolved. H. G. Wells and Karl Marx challenged these sanguinely views of the advancement of human society and identify the faults that would lead to our destruction. Wells, through the Time Machine, illustrates how the increasing wealth gap and the industrial revolution diminish our capabilities as humans. Though Marx is confident about the future, through The Communist Manifesto and dialectical materialism, he ... became unskilled laborers when they were once blacksmiths, tailors, etc. They worked for factories and lead repetitive lives. They were enslaved to a life of repetitivenes...

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... cause of WWI, but indirectly WWII, and thus aiding to the collapse of the "Old Order". Overview of WWI - Two symbols One of the symbols of World War I was the machine gun. Being the most common weapon of the war, it was key to creating the stalemate type warfare that occurred. The other symbol of the World War I was the shovel ... weapons and transportation would make it a war of defense. Effective use of airplanes, submarines, trucks and railroads would aid defense more than offense. With weapons such as poisonous gas and machine guns in the hands of both sides, neither side could get ...

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... to oppress others. How hard is it to be open minded and to not express our emotions? Yes, Anarchy is a good idea for our utopia if you wish to be a machine. Second, Communism, good or bad idea? It is very well thought of and goes along with the phrase "If you can't beat' em, join' em." Communism is answer to are ... ...

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... only a rifle, but also a status symbol. Only the best sharpshooters were allowed the Benchrest rifle. Any soldier with one of these rifles were highly respected as a trusted soldier. The first machine-gun type weapon ever used in combat was built for the Confederate War Dept in Sept 1861 by Confederate Captain R.S. Williams. The Williams rapid-fire gun was first used in ... ...

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... their orders were carried out by the Military and the KGB, men trained to obey orders, supposed to run a country which involved directing the lives of millions of civilians? The machine had come to a full stop. Its design was hopelessly flawed-(McCauley xvii). Glasnost allowed the public to get what they want and they got it. Glasnost exposed the downfalls of ... ...

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... much he produces and he has no control over what he produces. Marx writes, "The work of the proletarians has lost all individual character He becomes an appendage of the machine."22 Marx also writes about the proletariat class. He discusses the stages of development the class goes through.23 They are a connected class because of the misery they all share ... ...

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... the people that he was going to give them some thing Trotsky would deliver it to the people. With the both of them working together the Bolshevik were a well oiled machine. Now that Lenin had the help of Trotsky he brought out the three words that would seal the control of Russia. He told the people that he would promise them ... ...

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... were sometimes hurt or disfigured from a part of thier body on the job. Coal miners ruined their lungs from dust of mines. Factory workers lost fingers or limbs by a factory machine. The social class were people that benefited most from the Industrial Revolution those who invested factories, inventors, or skilled artisans used talents that made marketable goods. Social class enjoyed greater ... ...

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... how the labor theory of value works: A worker in a factory is given $30 worth of material, and after working 3 hours producing a good, and using $10 worth of fuel to run a machine, he creates a product which is sold for $100. According the Marx, the labor and only the labor of the worker increased the value of the natural materials to $100. The ... ...

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... World War broke out and drained most of what was left of the already impoverished state. Yet after the war national unity was strengthened as well is the Soviet military machine. The Soviet Union became a super power, the U.S. being the only country more powerful than it. After the death of Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist ... ...

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... . While West Germans can claim that they are innocent by virtue of geography, East Germans are never able to escape the suspicions that they may have been part of the machine. Government jobs are denied to those who were affiliated with the Stasi, and private businesses also may deny employment to these citizens. While unification has occurred theoretically, in reality the ... ...

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... he produces. By doing the same mundane task day in and day out the laborer gradually losses their humanity in their work because they are becoming like an animal or a machine that mindlessly produces. Their conscious mind is numbed and their relationships can become severed. When they are at work the worker feels nothing and thinks of nothing because they are ... ...

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... were sometimes hurt or disfigured from a part of thier body on the job. Coal miners ruined their lungs from dust of mines. Factory workers lost fingers or limbs by a factory machine. The social class were people that benefited most from the Industrial Revolution those who invested factories, inventors, or skilled artisans used talents that made marketable goods. Social class enjoyed greater ... ...

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... U.S. knowing that the military of El Salvador was not strong enough decided on December of 1981 to train Salvadoran troops. The U.S. provided the Salvadoran Army with helicopters, armored vehicles and machine guns. Due to the lack of support of the U.S. citizens towards the war, President Reagan decides to "rule it out- the sending of troops over to El Salvador. El Salvador ... ...

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... . While West Germans can claim that they are innocent by virtue of geography, East Germans are never able to escape the suspicions that they may have been part of the machine. Government jobs are denied to those who were affiliated with the Stasi, and private businesses also may deny employment to these citizens. While unification has occurred theoretically, in reality the ... ...

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... build new weapons and create a better way of life. These countries that industrialized early were world powers when it came to wars because of their new inventions such as the machine gun. Russia did not participate in the Industrialization phase. As a result of this, their military was under prepared and this contributed to their losing several wars and sustaining over 3 million ... ...

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... hardship. Such a system led Heng to ask these questions, "Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other? Why should Liang Fang (his sister) raise a machine gun against her fellow teenagers? Why did the peasants fear the cadres so terribly if they were representatives of our great Communist Party? Why were people so determined to make ... ...

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... within half a kilometer of it. It is impossible to go into unless you have official business, and then only by going through a maze of barbed wire, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun. In 1984 Winston tells us that, "Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons (Orwell ... ...

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... finally made it to the moon. The invention of the trasistor. Companies were able to do billing and inventory quicker. This led to the development of the computer to a smaller machine. It also increased economic growth. For once the white collar workers out numbered the blue collar workers for the first time. It signaled the passage from industrial to post industrial ... ...

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... to do the work is lessened. Marx says "Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine" (Marx 43). Marx's major point is that the proletariat has various development stages. The birth of the proletariat marks the starting point. The bourgeoisie will continue to get richer as ... ...

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