One major theme is materialism and merciless competition that made America into a metaphorical jungle. ... (The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 212) This can be shown by the brutal treatment of the people that work in the plant. ... Both of these help to contribute to the jungle-type atmosphere that Sinclair has created through figurative language. ... Due to Sinclair's muckraking, The Jungle instigated many reforms, most notably the immediate pure food reform. ... What `Uncle Toms Cabin' did for the black slaves The Jungle has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today."...

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle gives the reader a great example of exactly this. ... The Jungle portrays a Lithuanian family stuck in a Capitalistic country. ... The Jungle conveys a struggle between Capitalism and Socialism. ... "The Jungle." ... The Jungle. ...

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The Jungle By Upton Sinclair "The Jungle" portrays the lower ranks of the industrial world as the scene of a naked struggle for survival. ... "The Jungle" shows the relationship between the animals that were being slaughtered and the workers who were slaughtering them, from very early in the novel. ... Even among beggars he finds a jungle of savage competition, in which the truly needy are often at a disadvantage. ... Each time only being crushed by the jungle that they lived in. ... Each of them not realizing what they were in for, not knowing what the jungle had up its sleeve. ...

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After reading further into "The Jungle," and completing some research, I have come to make some brief points of how accurate the book is. ... Sinclair has many examples of this in the "The Jungle." ... The living conditions described in "The Jungle" were very similar to those I found in my research. ... Sinclair throughout "The Jungle," stated many of these facts stated in my research. ... Now through this section of my research , Sinclair only met some of these ideas in his book "The Jungle." ...

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The Jungle is a documentary about the unfair treatment of workers and the unsanitary conditions of a meat packing plant. The facilities that are described in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle showed the attitude of the people who lived in Packingtown. Jurgis Rudkus was the main character in The Jungle. ... The facilities play a critical role in the lives of the people in The Jungle. ... The saloon represented hope and peace of mind in The Jungle. ...

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In the novel The Jungle does a well job of telling, along with showing what the meat industries of Chicago actually consist of. ... Social Darwinism help Sinclair pick the title of the novel, because Packingtown was often referred to as "jungle of Darwinism". ... Most people believe that two different experiences throughout Sinclair's life lead him to write The Jungle. ... Most people believe that caused Sinclair to become a socialist and this influenced him to write the novel The Jungle. ... The Jungle consists of a lot of vivid images and detail that portrays the meat packing industry v...

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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. ... The Jungle represents the horrors of life with the immigrates coming to America for a good life and wages. ...

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, who is honest and extremely hardworking. ... Sinclair, however, did not succeed in promoting his thesis in The Jungle about eradicating capitalism and eliminating its social evils. ... The information and studies that Sinclair did prior to writing The Jungle was significant because of how he interpreted the corruption and hardcore labor systems of Packingtown,being that he studied the district of Packingtown for seven weeks, and even formed his own socialist community. ... Jurgis had conformed to becoming a hobo and a ...

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In his novel, "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair reveals the horrors and injustices of industrial Chicago. ... Upton Sinclair uses "The Jungle" as an exploitation of the injustice of capitalism of the day. ... The struggle ("Survival of the fittest") and uncertainty of survival Jurgis and his family had to face everyday led to an exploitation of the corrupt capitalist society that was "The Jungle": a place that is portrayed to outsiders as the future of America under capitalistic rule, but in actuality is the epitome of a living nightmare for those who fought for survival and suc...

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Henry James's "Daisy Miller" and "The Beast in the Jungle" are by far the influential tragedies because they talk about common determinations and wasted lives. ... Daisy Miller would be a plain character against the background of conflicting American and European cultures and "The Beast in the Jungle," a very thorough diary of a completely selfish man who meets his destiny in the end. ... James's method in telling us the tragic qualities in The Beast in the Jungle is a bit different. ...

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But it was a bad one as it indicated to her that they were in the dense tropical jungles of Vietnam. ... Numerous Marines and SEALs have perished in these jungles fighting for their country. ... In the cover of the night, she left Steve to do over watch while she climbed atop to a small clearing in the jungle to see if she could tune in to the Air Force's frequency. ...

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The rugged jungle overpowers all civilization that attempts to penetrate it. The morbid darkness that emanates from the jungle is that of death and savagery. ... The jungle's darkness is raw and unfiltered. ... Entire descriptions of the jungle leave the reader unclear as to what the jungle is truly like. ... The darkness that lies in the jungle is at home. ...

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She refutes the complaints of critics who say that a red couch has no right to be amidst this jungle scenery and justifies its presence as beautiful when contrasting with the delicate elegance of nature. ... In the second stanza, Plath addresses the complaints of critics that Yadwigha must choose between the natural green of the jungle and "the fashionable monde of the red couch " (10). ... From a literal standpoint, a woman on a red sofa in the jungle makes no sense, but from a non-literal view, Yadwigha on her red couch adds her own beauty to the scene, making it much more than a simple jung...

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If he didn't complete, then the Vietnam jungle would have conquered him. ... Heart of Darkness was written in the late nineteenth century and was set in a wild African jungle frontier. ... Army lieutenant sent into the jungle on a mission to locate and kill Kurtz. ... Marlow on the other hand, just had to explore what was going on deep in the jungle. ... Kurtz was the victim to the jungle he was in.   ...

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Kurtz was drawn to the jungle for the ivory, but once there was given a taste of power and craved it in excess. ... Kurtz began his quest for power almost immediately after arriving in the jungle. ... Kurtz has a strong sense of mental fortitude when he enters the African jungle, but as time progresses he slowly shifts his process of thinking. ... Marlow can appreciate the fact that Kurtz went into the jungle in the same position he did, but does not understand what a pivotal factor Kurtz plays in Marlow's journey down the river and into the jungle. ... Once Kurtz felt the lure of power ...

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Here he witnesses his first account of the jungle. ... The more Marlow studies the Natives the greater his chances are of the jungle consuming him whole. The jungle entices the Europeans for they yearn to learn more of what they are unaware of. ... Kurtz lost his sense of self in the jungle and his views changed. ... The jungle had not changed an...

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The novel ' The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair took place in the 1900's the main character in this book is Jurgis Rudkis and his dynamic change to Socialism. He started out as a young and strong man looking for the "american dream." He left Lithuania in hope of starting a family and a cordial Life. The b...

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Made with 94% cotton these outfits quickly disintegrated in the hot and humid jungle climates. ... Much of the standard-issue equipment of US Army infantrymen proved poorly adapted to jungle and counter-insurgency warfare (Bernard 96). ... A general workhorse in wars that suited perfectly with jungle warfare, it could fly at low altitudes and speeds for small clearings or high and fast for safe soldier transportation. ... (Raskin& Fall 191) American forces in Southeast Asia operated under some strict restraints such as no being allowed to invade enemy territory in North Vietnam and for many ye...

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Fear from death in the jungle, fear for the ones at home, and fear that the ones at home might forget them. ... The problem however is, that even though the soldiers have the illusion of being in power with the superior American firepower, they are still very much at the mercy of the jungle. ... All of the soldiers have to deal with the pressure and the fear that is al around them in the jungle. ... This was the only way they could cope with the stress of the war and death lurking behind every tree in the dark jungle. ... Twenty years had gone by, but it seems as though all of his thoughts...

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One of the main reasons the Burma Campaign was formed was to grant independence back into Burma and hold back the Japanese intruders that had thought overtaking Burma would be a big step in winning WW2, but it wasn't easy for the Jap's as they weren't used to this jungle war, one of the most breath taking jungle fights ever that had a big step and taught a huge lesson to jungle fights after the Burma war. ... "This Japanese seemed unstoppable", said General Vinegar Joe Stilwell with his troops as they walked through the jungles of Burma for a long 29 days of long exhausting tre...

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They are the craftsman, the jungle fighter, the company man, and the gamesman. ... "The jungle fighter. The jungle fighter's goal is power. He experiences life and work as a jungle (not a game), where it is eat or be eaten, and the winners destroy the losers .Jungle fighters tend to see their peers in terms of accomplices or enemies and their subordinates as objects to be utilized. There are two types of jungle fighters, lions and foxes. ...

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For instance, The Jungle Book by Walt Dinsey compared to the The Jungle Book by the Disney company are two different films with almost the same amount of awe in them. ... The Jungle Book can not be remade in the way Walt Disney intended it to be told. ... When someone watches the new The Jungle Book they will say they remember what happens next because they saw the one made by Walt; yet, they will still keep watching because they enjoy how the new effects bring out the reality in the film. Think of it this way: If Walt Disney never made The Jungle Book, we wouldn't even have an old f...

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In the movie Platoon, The Viet Kong operated from secret bases in the jungle or marshes near the boarder of Cambodia. ... Although, we as the audience did not get a good sense of how the Vietnamese Soldiers communicated, Stone, demonstrated how ingenious they really were and how they moved throughout the jungle of Cambodia. 5. ... The enemy were North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong but you rarely viewed them except as shadowy figures in the jungle or momentarily illuminated by the light of a flare. ... Although, in the war itself the jungle was much thicker and diseases were transpirin...

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Captain Willard finds himself on a patrol boat with four other men who are escorting him deep into the jungles of Cambodia without any knowledge of the mission they are aiding. ... As the fog and smoke begins to lift, the boat is blasted with wooden arrows fired from soldiers hidden amongst the Cambodian Jungle. ... The scene is almost completely silent aside from the slow and steady, almost cardiac thumping of a bass guitar and distant jungle noises. ... As Captain Willard and his crew move deeper into the Cambodian jungle in pursuit of General Kurtz, they are forced to revert from modern tec...

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By understanding the need to provide the brain with such things as oxygen, glucose, amino acids, and rest, the student is likely to understand subjects better, become motivated, feel more competent as a learner, and be able to apply their learning in other areas. (1996) According to Jensen (1996) the brain is like a rain forest jungle. ... The law of the jungle is survival and it only learns what it needs to survive socially, economically, emotionally, and physically. Just as a jungle is different depending on the time of day, so is the human brain. ... Educators can easily begin b...

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