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Ellen L

Reading the Food Social Movement - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation the jungle

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  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    "These books catapulted food into the mainstream of modern culture and advocacy for social change, and opened doors for scholars as well as journalists to write about the political, commercial, and health aspects of food in modern society."
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Food professor Marion Nestle discusses the social effects of FFN, as well as two other modern books, and the way they change how Americans view food. This topic is also related back to The Jungle, and it's seemingly ancient, yet undeniably relatable effects on the American food process.
Connor P

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#1 grapes wrath poor treatment workers

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  • working conditions
  • Living conditions are also difficult for migrant farmworkers. Wages for farmwork have not kept up with inflation; consequently, it is difficult for families to afford basic necessities like housing, food, health care, and education for their children.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the tangent between the poor working conditions of the farmers in the 30s and of now. The workers are treated horrible and no one can help them because they are independent workers or their buyers stiff them. Due to the oppression they receive, the theme of helping others is again ignored
Connor P

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#5 jungle poor treatment workers helping others

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  • He witnesses the greed and corruption in the industry and the deterioration of the lives of many workers. He is also shocked by the unhealthy handling of the meat. The novel presents graphic descriptions of diseased animals and rotting meat being sold to the American public.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the images of the poor treatment of the workers and the consumers during the early 20th century. Not only were the workers repressed, but the bosses did not care about their consumers. As long as they bought the product the bosses did not worry and the lack of the universal theme of helping others is left out
Emily S

Facts On File Online Databases fast food industry - 0 views

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    The author of this article describes the power that the fast food industry has on the general public. Their empire is so powerful that it is almost impossible to stop even by the executives of these companies. This industry has changed every aspect of human life.
Sarah Sch

Eugene V. Debs and American Socialism [ushistory.org] - 0 views

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article gives historical information about the socialist party in the eary 1900's. Sinclair introduces the concept of socialism in the American public in "The Jungle". Socialism influences the events and how they occur in "The Jungle", therefore historical background of socialism at the time period is important.
Ben R

1906: Upton Sinclair - 0 views

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the jungle

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "He told how dead rats were shoveled into sausage-grinding machines; how bribed inspectors looked the other way when diseased cows were slaughtered for beef, and how filth and guts were swept off the floor and packaged as "potted ham."
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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source also shows how Sinclair wrote this book only to highlight the horrors of the meatpacking industry and how the world reacted to it.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    gives more information about how unsanitary the meat the consumer was eating.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    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
Emily S

Sociology of the treatment of the worker - 0 views

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the jungle treatment of the worker

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    This passage reflects the psychology between the manager and the worker. The worker responds to the manager and to the company based on how well they are treated.
Emily S

Exploitation of fast food addiction - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    The powerful fast food industry takes advantage of their obese and addicted clinetel. Fast food has proven to be an addiction. Fast food manipulate their customers like a drug-dealer to a drug add it.
Emily S

American income statistics - 0 views

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nickel and dimed

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  • Emily S on 03 Oct 11
     
    Americans working in the food and hospitality industry make about a third of what real estate agents make per week. This is the reason for the extreme class division and the low-wage workers having very limited political power.
Emily S

What's in your beef? - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    There a so many hormones in the cattle produced by lae companies. It is unnatural and cnan lead to side effects in the consumers.
Emily S

Historical Newspapers - 0 views

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ethics america workers

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article talks about the inspection that will happen in the meat-packing industries. This is the first time that inspection is occurring after workers have already been suffering in the factories for years.
Willie C

Meatpacking - 0 views

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the jungle ethics workers jungle poor history

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    " Pork packers such as Philip Armour built large plants west of the stockyards, developed ice-cooled rooms so they could pack year round, and introduced steam hoists to elevate carcasses and an overhead assembly line to move them"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source does not go in debth one way or another on the issues of our paper but it provides an extensive background of the rise of the meatpacking industry and how it became a giant industry, which can be used in examining the rise of the meatpackers and how they built up their power.
Willie C

Fast Food Nation - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    " fast-food restaurants rely heavily on the services of the billion-dollar flavor industry, which manufactures and sells the complex chemicals that give distinctive flavors to processed foods such as "smoky" chicken, "strawberry" shakes and even 'flame-broiled' burgers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source examines the important points that Schlosser brings up in his book Fast Food Nation.
Willie C

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america poor

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli ... or it's more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald's than to cook a healthy meal for them at home"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is an interesting article proving that eating real food can actually be cheaper than fast food. This works well to explain how fast food has become a staple ingredient in many Americans weekly and even daily diet.
Sarah Sch

Themes and Construction: The Grapes of Wrath - 0 views

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grapes of wrath theme

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article describes the themes of "The Grapes of Wrath". For example, the article discusses the themes of class conflict and hope. The article is also a good source for examining the allusions and symbols which bolster the themes in the novel. The article will give support to a paper discussing the class struggle over time.
Sarah Sch

The Rhetoric of American Protest: Thomas Paine and the Education of Tom Joad - 0 views

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grapes of wrath

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "By turning his anger outward to benefit a larger community, Tom makes a final commitment to his society. As readers, we sense that Tom Joad's greatest actions are yet to come. These future actions, we sense from Tom's rhetoric, will become an intentional protest against established authority."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Tom's transition from the private to the public, from an inner, intuitive sense of morality to an outward expression of that morality, parallels the exemplary American man embedded in the rhetoric of one of America's first social rebels, Thomas Paine. As an augmentation of Paine's rhetoric, Tom further mythologizes rebellion and protest as the natural right of all Americans."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article tells of Tom's transformation from a private man into a public one. The article discusses the similarities between the audacious Tomas Paine of the American Revolution to Tom Joad. Although Paine has nothing to do with business ethics or treatment of the workers, it is interesting to see the parallels between Paine and Joad. The article also brings to light how America's morals change over time.
Emily S

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the jungle ethics

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    This passage describes the fight that workers had to put up with in order to have a reasonable work day. Before the push for an 8-hour workday, workers were manipulated into working for 12 hours or more with few or none breaks
Emily S

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grapes of wrath

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    Steinbeck portrays the reealism in the struggles of the migrants. He showed the horrors of the dust bowl the way no on else saw it. He helped to bring help and attention to the migrants.
Sydney C

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the jungle working conditions

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  • The progressives revealed how these companies eliminated competition, set high prices, and treated workers as "wage slaves."
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article reveals this lack of business ethics during this time period through the cooperation of large industries in order to reduce competition. As a result, they are able to drive prices up, which depicts their cruelty towards customers as well as the treatment of workers as "wage slaves" in order to gain more profits.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article gives historical information on the meat packing industry of the early 1900's. The article tells of the progressive movement of the age which supported reforms. The article tells of the response to "The Jungle" and the innovative aspects of the new processing regulations. The article also gives a short biography about Sinclair's childhood to his death.
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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    speaks to alot of the conditions Jurgis and his family went though
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "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
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The ethical issues addressed in The Jungle and how they relate to the bills passed after the publication. It talks about how Roosevelt responded to the book and passed many new restrictions on the Chicago meatpacking district, as well as businesses all over the country.
Sarah Sch

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grapes of wrath america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This website gives historical information on the Great Depression, and its effect on the American people and other countries of the world. The website produces facts and figures from the time period. For example, unemployment during the Great Depression went from less than 3 million in 1929 to 12.5 million in 1932. This source could be used to put "The Grapes of Wrath" into perspective with actually figures.
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