... to sew covers on jarred hams, and almost all of the other family members struggled with their jobs as well. Even Stanislovas got a job operating a lard machine. There would be stories of people falling into vats and their bones not being found until months after they had accidentally been added into the mixtures of lard, and these ... stories would be an example of the barbaric state in which these people were forced to work. These shocking revelations made it easy to overlook the fact that a young boy was ... isn't that way today. Because of those struggles, however, it was and still...

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... . [1873 Comstock Law prevented conception education], middle-class Americans had limited family size due to abstinence, withdrawal, abortion, primitive birth control devices. Still ignorance widespread. She was persecuted to separating sex from procreation in her magazine The Woman Rebel and Family Limitation Jacob Ris- How the Other Half Lives (1890) horrified reformers. Documented what overcrowded, dirty housing was really like. Wanted ... ...

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... worked alongside "muckracking" journalists, which was a first for a president, to inform the public of the corruption in the meat packing industry. Together they were able to gather multiple stories to show the public that though the main problem stems from those companies in the "Beef Trust" in Chicago, the issue spread across the nation, but they never ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... was best known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. In the novel, Sinclair uncovered unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and rallied American against the horror stories and demanded change. Directly after the publishing of The Jungle, the Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration, which tested and approved drugs before they went ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for literature and school to enter New York City College at the age of fourteen, and used his writing skills to fund his college education. He did this by writing stories for newspapers and magazines, and by the age of seventeen Sinclair had earned enough money to live on his own while supplying his parents with a regular income. Sinclair soon married ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... throughout the story. Both books are similar in that they emphasize that in this country, one simply cannot win unless they play by nature's rules. The economic problems of both stories were great. Jurgis (The Jungle) wishes to go to America to get rich. Buying a house stresses the whole idea of animals to have something that is theirs. This is also ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... going to be the ones who defeated the odds that were up against them. They were going to rise on top of this whole mess and live to tell the stories of the way it used to be. Each of them not realizing what they were in for, not knowing what the jungle had up its sleeve. "Now suddenly it had ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School