... is better than having to starve and live on the street. In the final chapter, Marija gives up all hope of trying, as evident in the following quote: "No, " she answered, "I'll never stop. What's the use of talking about it? I'll stay here till I die, I guess." (The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 325) Due to the evils of capitalism, characters in the novel show the entire social system to prove that all who come ... , Sinclair uses these themes to illustrate his point. Another theme used by Sinclair is that industrial capitalism is an efficient, impersonal killing machine that has absolutely no r...

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... always been the case. Before the Renaissance, the civilizations of Western Europe were by far the most ignorant, uneducated, and unhygienic in the world, compared to the flourishing societies in India and China. Therefore, it is natural for one to be curious about what factors influenced Europe's fabulous advance in prosperity. How did Europe catch up and eventually surpass the great civilizations in the Middle East and the Orient? Why ... , such as lawyers, bankers, accountants, and notaries. The sudden prevalence of imported goods also encouraged European craftsmen to try to produce th...

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... her imagination, to daydream and to follow her inner motives. The Lesson, a short story written by Bambara, is about a young girl named Silvia that over the course of one afternoon, she is forced to an unpleasant awareness of the unfairness of the social and economic system that prevailed in the 1960s. Sylvia lives in a "slum" neighborhood. Only one person in the neighborhood distinguishes herself - Miss Moore. She is college educated and ... takes it upon herself the "responsibility for the young ones" education" and exposes them to the world outside of their neighborhood and the truth...

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... is a preacher named Jim Casy who Tom knows. The police arrest Jim and kill him. Angered by the death of his friend, Tom murders a police officer and runs away. When the picking season is over a rain storm destroys the Joad's possessions. At the end of the story the Joad's, now fewer in number, have no possessions, no money and no job. The characters in the novel are all farmers with varied beliefs and ... conditions. Similarly California was referred to in the novel as a "place of opportunity." In both circumstances the titles were not always accurate. The "Okies" found no jobs and rece...

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... , "live their own lives" as against the precepts of all conventional morality, being moral anarchists." Benjamin V. Hubbard's view on feminism is certainly an extreme one. He angrily portrays feminists as "agitators" and suggests that their views have no foundation because of their angry unrealistic viewpoints on society. How extreme is this view? Is there any truth in it or is it biased, sexist ... and unfair? With a brief account of liberal feminism, socialist feminism and Marxist feminism it will become apparent whether feminism has a place in todays society and whether or not it is s...

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... by everybody; only they did not show, as in old slavery times, because there was no difference in color between master and slave. (106) Sinclair compares the conditions of the factories to that of slavery. The rich boss is the master and the peasant is the lowly slave. Capitalism rules in the stockyards of Chicago. The higher class people can get ahead in life because they have an in with the system, but the peasants will forever ... here. Through his work in the meat packing plant, he sees how they are able to work around government regulation through bribes and deceit. He also soon lear...

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... this time. Sinclair, however, did not succeed in promoting his thesis in The Jungle about eradicating capitalism and eliminating its social evils. In fact, Sinclair inadvertently struck a chord that lead to a more harsh response from the audience. And from this, Sinclair's statement,"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I had hit it in the stomach."(Sinclair,Viii), proved to be extremely ... clean up the conditions of the work area. Jurgis saw the meatpacking industry he had been hired at as a newfound success, and he was amazed by the economic prosperity and the structure of ...

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... their wastes into other regions who are indirectly involved with the pollution source. The main problem is the disposal of hazardous wastes and the threat posed by radioactive leakages. The second environmental problem is the diffusion impact. What is easily noticeable here are the systematic changes in the natural resources including water, soils, and the air that we breath. Many of the problems that are considered to be "global" fall into this ... all so concerned about doing business and making a profit that the environment has been greatly ignored and this has and will change our wo...

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... were devastating to both the economics and the moral of the American people. The stock market had fluctuated wildly during the year preceding the actual crash. Investors lost and gained in increments never before matched. These extreme profits and losses sometimes occurred within a single day. On October 24, 1929, a day which would forever be remembered as Black Thursday, the market dropped precipitously, taking ... cost began a plummet (Norton, 1997). Policy makers were too concerned about keeping their currencies tied into the price of gold and failed to react in any significant manner ...

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... " process of making steel. Carnegie was an extremely successful businessman, acquiring a controlling interest in other large steel plants. By 1899, when he consolidated his interests in the Carnegie Steel Company, he controlled about 25 percent of the American iron and steel production. In 1901 he sold his company to the United States Steel Corp. for $250 million and retired. Andrew Carnegie was extremely extravagant, and employed around ... systems have been created in the common goal to have a better society for people. The American government has taken parts of both capitalism and soc...

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... ages, that gave joy to the true American. The Marxist can similarly say that those who engage in selfless, active participation in society also enjoyed the fruits of civility. While Locke and Tocqueville may contend that the will of men parallels the will of God, Marx asserts that those who do not recognize the "truth" about history and society are being deluded by their false consciousness, the ideas and attitudes which are ... due to their economic position: the capitalist mode of production naturally prevents those who benefit from it from consciously acknowledging the truth about th...

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... limited government intervention (Roark, 800). They shepherded vociferous anti-New Deal campaigns that articulated resentment and fear of regulations, taxes, and unions (Roark, 800). In the minds of these political leaders and business owners, they were under siege by Socialist reforms that were clamping down on their free will and ideals. Examples of two major business organizations that emerged as leading critics of ... , 803). He, too, was unable to establish an effective program as he planned more than he could accomplish with the "Share Our Wealth Plan" (Roark, 803). While Long was a...

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... that haunts New Zealand are also contributed to the persistent "nagging" by the infamous New Zealand Business Round Table such as their recommended policies for New Zealand to push for a "free market" economy regulated through "competition" published in Moving into the fastlane, 1996. Somewhere over the last 150 years of New Zealand's written history we have moved away from our community and collective identity towards a hard ... years with a wave of layoffs that saw 26,000 fulltime positions lost in the three months to June (New Zealand Herald, Jobless quarter worst in 13 years, August...

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... of mind in which trust is placed in some person or thing- and more to the point "conviction of the truth or reality of a thing based on grounds insufficient for positive knowledge" (31). One of the most successful and popular religious programs and organizations is Pat Robertson's "700 Club" which you can belong to by paying fifteen dollars a month (Postman, 114). In one of the episodes aired ... method of communication - it is based on visualization. Religion is meant to be practiced in the mind and soul. This connection, nevertheless, cannot be properly made through television. On the "...

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... our economy has become this way, he supplies us with this information: Gap in income after federal taxes and transfer payments have more than tripled in the top 1 percent, the after-tax-transfer income of the top 1 percent has increased by 275 percent and only 40 percent for the middle class and 18 percent for the lowest class. These numbers are incredibly staggering. When put into this perspective ... here, in the article Oxfam: World's Richest 1 Percent Control Half Of Global Wealth by Scott Neuman, it is pointed out that the 1 percent as a whole captured 95 percent of all our post-re...

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... and Polanyi, believe in government intervention and the empowerment of a sovereign power, while Smith, and Mill share a more neo-liberal perspective on the governments role in the economy. However, the ideal role of the government and in economy is to have both regulatory practices and democratic foundations. In "The Prince," Machiavelli opens his prescription by explaining two kinds of states. He furthers his writing by explaining the expected functionality of the state and how ... sovereigns of that state should rule in order to acquire and remain in power. Machiavelli doesn't specifi...

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... approach, utilizing efficiency as a way of improving the workplace. Karl Marx believed that the people who do the work in a capitalistic society own none of the means of production, which they use in their work. These are owned by the capitalists, to whom the workers must sell their 'labor power', or ability to do work, in return for a wage. The capitalists, owning the factories, automatically have ownership rights to everything produced ... . Karl Marx and Fredrick Winslow Taylor took it upon themselves to describe why this had come about. Even thou they had different view points it all ...

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... know it today. His thoughts have shaped modern ideas about the market economy and the role of the state in relation to it. Smith laid the intellectual framework that explained the free market (which still holds true today) and laissez-faire. Both are connected with the underlying theme of economic growth. Smith's analysis is not confined to showing the interrelation between the different elements of a continually maintained system. It also ... argued that there would be unemployment and depression from time to time in the absence of corrective government policies. In his view, governmen...

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... most important contribution of western science is that it linked science and technology by way of the scientific method, requiring systematic experimentation. Technology until the industrial revolution was largely the result of craftsmen developing their own technologies within their own fields of endeavor. Scientists, required to test their theories in the real world, became linked to that world. As a result, technology ... water communication upstream, and, via the open sea, along the coast and with Europe. There was a good waterway system in the country long before rivers came to be i...

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The Jungle By: Upton Sinclair The Jungle is a story about immigrates and the American dream of good wages and a good life. Yet, the immigrates were met with poor working conditions and low wages for the benefit of the capitalists. The corrupt capitalists value wealth more than the workers and the consumers. The story is about a man named Jurgis and his family coming to America. Instead of good wages and a ... good life, they find a world of devastation, deplorable working conditions, corruption and crime in order to survive. Twelve of them ... finds a job as a porter in a hotel that is owne...

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... by the government. Communist countries are more prone to inefficiency and corruption. For example China because of its size, immense population, and abundance of natural resources should make it a world superpower. Instead the average income is less than $850 per person a year while the United State's average income is $39,271 per person a year. China is thousands of years older than the United States yet in about ... 235 years the United States has managed to become the world super power both militarily and economically. This demonstrates the inefficiency of the communist government. I...

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... other than the master feeds the slave or the driver waters the mule. The ideology of the new proletarian movement - summed up as the unity of the poor regardless of color or nationality united around distribution according to need - breaks the chains of intellectual bondage and re-forms people's thinking around their real place in the world and their real interests - the program of the new class. This program is inspired by a vision of ... created to carry out just this task. Organizations of revolutionaries have taken as their mission to teach about the significance of the struggle und...

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... what is actually happening behind closed doors. He was implying that the meat being packaged was not of good quality and probably expired. These actions by the meat packers revealed the corruption done by workers whose only motive was probably the will to live to the next day and keep an income. Even the government inspector passes over spoiled carcasses and rotten meat. Sinclair ... was trying to portray the idea that everyone was for himself or herself. Everyone does ... sent out to the public's breakfast" (p.167-168). The lack of cleanliness and respect for the quality of food in the...

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... Karl Marx is considered as the father of "communism." He has contributed so much in understanding the labor in relation to capitalism and the alienation of man. The negation of productivity according to Marx is alienation. For him, alienation means that man does not experience himself as the superior of objects that is around him but instead he becomes passive about the world and also to his own ... self which separates man from the object that could lead to man becoming foreign to the world. The process of alienation is the root of work and the division of labor. Work is the process o...

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... more efficient, larger scale production, and the medieval guild system was replaced by new methods of manufacturing. As industrialization occurred it was the Bourgeoisie (Capitalists) who were leaders in economic revolutions. As the Bourgeoisie gained economic power they also gained political power. In the middle of the 19th century they had come to control the representative states of Europe. In the book Marx proclaims the "the executive of the modern State is but a committee ... and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable" (21). At the time the Communist Manifesto was fi...

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