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    The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest consumer protection agency in United States (FDA 2). From recalls on food products to the monitoring of the safety of our medicine sources, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ensures that they are both safe and wholesome (FDA 1). The Food and Drug Administration also ensures that the cosmetics we use won’t harm consumers, and that radiation-emitting product such as microwaves are secure and effective (FDA 1). The FDA is authorized by Congress to

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    Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, is based over the guilds ages in history . The novel has many fifteenth themes . The story started off with two immigrants just married . Move to the United States the live the American dreamland have a better life . They go through a hard time such as not getting treated fairly ,being lied to, put in jail , losing loved ones , going through poverty, government issues and many more. Majority of the people in the novel are very dishonest because they are trying

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    Two forces of history mentioned in Volume C of Robert S. Levine’s text, “Norton Anthology American Literature,”are realism and naturalism. These forces relate to the literature of that time period in different ways. Realism relates because it portrays life according to how it was at that time, and naturalism relates because it exaggerates realism. Both of these forces of history are important to understand life at that time through a literary standpoint. Realism “was used to refer to literary fiction

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    Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” is a gritty peer into the hopelessly empty heart of capitalism and the true dark nature of the consumer life style. The gruesome food facts and quality issues may have gotten most of the public’s attention but the stories heart is in the exposed untold truths about life in America and the plan evil nature of capitalism. Despite Mr. Sinclair’s efforts most of capitalisms short falls still exist and are more detrimental to the survival of the world and humane race then

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    Ki’ara Fortune The Jungle Ap Lang There are various examples of different political issues throughout The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. One political issue is that political officials don’t have any worries especially when it comes to maintaining a stable job while the working class people are at risk of losing their job at any moment. In the passage Sinclair writes “Before the carcass was admitted here, however, it had to pass a government inspector, who sat in the doorway

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    conditions that could be considered unsafe. One muckraker is Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair wrote about the hazardous conditions of the meat packing industries. He exposed how unclean the factories would be, describing how there were so many rats that you can see the rat droppings on the meat. After he wrote The Jungle, the Meat Inspection Act was passed because he portrayed the new industrial economy as inhumane, destructive, and uncaring. Sinclair wasn’t the only muckraker, there were many others who

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    access to news and media, and the middle class had the power to make change. Like many muckrakers like Sinclaire, they processed their research into the news and media to spark reform and call out the disastrous truth under the seemingly great era. Sinclair explains how the meat packaging process was like at the Chicago Packing House, illustrating the unsanitary conditions as well as the “tricks” workers were told to do in order to sell old meat. Consumers were being sold disease ridden product without

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    the law and providing the basic elements of protection that consumers of that era had never heard of before (FDA, 2009a). Wiley’s was not the only force behind the law, in 1906 a journalist by the name of Upton Sinclair wrote and published a novel called The Jungle (Cheney, 2009). Although Sinclair had hoped for a different reaction, his novel evoked an immediate response from Americans and on federal policies about health concerns (Cheney, 2009). In his book, he exposed in vivid details the inner

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    Teddy Roosevelt used the term “muckraker” as an insult for journalist who went too far with their stories. Jessica Mitford believed that she earned the title, and was honored by it. As long as a journalist story was made up of factual information, there was no harm done in the pursuit of their stories. Mitford deserved the praise of being called a “muckraker” because it helped to expose the harsh elements of the early 1900s in order to get the government’s attention to make the appropriate changes

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    Sinclair Lewis and Babbitt

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    Sinclair Lewis and Babbitt       The book under analysis herein is Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt.  The copy I am using in this research is published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York, 1950.  The original version was published in 1922, but there is no information in this book regarding what printing or edition it may be.  This edition encompasses thirty four chapters which span 401 pages in length as they are printed here.  One interesting note is that the novel is dedicated to Edith Wharton

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