A somewhat history of F. Scotts Fitzgeralds life along with how he worked his life into alot of his works. He was a typicfal jaxx age man who wanted to live above his pay grade, and was contstanly in debt.

Talks about how modern day baby boomers are just as disillisuioned as people in the generatiosn before them. Gatsby who is someone that believes that the american dream is going to fall into his lap is dreadfully disillusioned just as mayn of the baby boomers who thought that they were going to eat the fruits of the american dream.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald's given names indicate his parents' pride in his father's ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values.

An intresting summery of Fitzgeralds life, while reading I could not help but notice all the similarties between his person life and the characters in The Great Gatsby, for example his dropping out of a prestigious school such as princeton and joining the army, where seems very similiar to what Gatsby did or his family living off of inharitance such as he family did, much like Tom and Daisy.

This article is how one women breaks down the three periods in which women have written in, and even in the most modern one she describes how they only face "some freedom" and that true freedom may never come.

talks about how women today are still payed less, discriminated against still oppressed in modern society.

talks to how women are still oppressed in the workplace today.

MORGANTOWN - McDonald's denies any intentional wrongdoing in the now famous $10 million dollar cheese lawsuit and seeks to have the case dismissed.On Aug. 31, the McDonald's Corporation answered a lawsuit filed by a man who seeks $10 million from the company after he has a severe allergic reaction when he bit into a sandwich that had cheese on it.

The executives of the large corporations such as McDonalds do many things to avoid getting into these kind of situations, but when they finally do arise they address them differently than any small company would. If you were injured because of something you ate at a mom and pop restaurant they would cover your medical expenses and likely settle out of court, but since McDonalds is concerned not with the well being of the consumer but the fact that they do not lose money not only have the not covered the mans medical expenses they are moving for immediate dismissal of the charges.

interview with a fed up chicago cook.

"Although the restaurant industry is one of the region's leading employers, it is dominated by low-wage, unhealthy and dangerous jobs" Due to the economic hardships many people are forced to work in this perpetual cycle of abuse, and forced to work in filthy conditions.

speaks to the unethical practices of many restaurant workers

The article is mostly statistics but, but it shows how widespread unethical business practices are. The fact that nearly a third of every statistic published is someone being underpaid and or forced to work unpaid overtime speaks to badly these workers are taken advantage of.

History of meat packing, how it ended up in chicago and the effects of it

The article gives information in nearly everything mentioned in FFN, the treatment of the worker, meat inspection, and food safety, or lack there of.

This article supports the claims that were made in FFN, stating that little has changed since the publication of The Jungle. The immigrants are still abused and treated unfairly, though from different parts of the worlds. Unions are still far from an existent factor, and the worker is still treated unjustly.

Gives general information about the meatpacking industry from the early 1900s to know, as long as some things about how disgusting the working conditions of the meat packing workers are

it gives many examples of of things that were said in FFN. Shows that the things he said were true though disputed by companies like IBP

The article speaks to how little the conditions have changed since The Jungle and how the industry still employs the cheapest and least educated work force they can get their hands on. In the early 1900s this the immigrants from places like Poland many like Jurgis and now it is the spanish immigrants most of who are illegal. They don not complain and are constantly at risk of injury for which largely goes unreported.

Shows how hard the Meat Trusts tried to keep under wraps what was actually going on

The article describes the difficulties that Sincalir had publishing the novel due to the Meat Packing industry trying to hide what was actually going on. They were so powerful that they were able to keep the first four companies Sincalir approached to deny publishing of the novel. They did this because they too knew the effects that it would have for the conditions they put their workers through would be scolded by anyone who read the book.

Shows how little things have changed

Schlosser says in his book how he feels that little has changed since the times of the chicago meat packing trusts, and this pbs article speaks in support of that claim. It gives examples of how conditions in 2005 are "that the working conditions in America's meat packing plants were so bad they violated basic human and worker rights"

gives more information about how unsanitary the meat the consumer was eating.

The article tells how Sinclair intended to help bring down the meat packing trusts. "It seemed to me that the walls of the mighty fortress of greed were on the point of cracking," he later wrote. "It needed only one rush, and then another, and another." He tried to do his part, and eventually helped lead to the formation of the FDA

speaks to alot of the conditions Jurgis and his family went though

"Unskilled immigrant men did the backbreaking and often dangerous work, laboring in dark and unventilated rooms, hot in summer and unheated in winter." The article shows how cruel the conditions of the factory worker were. And since the work force was unskilled and immigrants, they were often taken advantage of because they knew no better

"Most camps and subdivisions were located close to towns or small cities and Okies encountered much discrimination and bigotry when dealing with local Californians" This speaks to the hardships that not only the Joads suffered from but that all the migrant workers had to deal with. They were good people that were for the large part hardworking, honest, and the backbone of the picking community. Though without these people many of the plantations would have failed they were not treated like the crucial aspect of the farms that they were, they were treated unethically and inhumanely.