The jungle

1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
The qualities Sinclair thought where needed to succeed in Packingtown was dishonesty. you had to be a cheat your way to the top in order to get to the top of business.

2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
The plant owner's goal is to squeeze every last bit of energy and effort out of his workers then toss them out and replace them.

 3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
money meant more then loyalty of your workers in packingtown.


In 1937 a drug killed 103 people before quickly being recalled, drugs then weren't tested as much as they are now-a-days because now all drugs are being tested until chemists are almost 100% sure it works effectively.

Sinking of the Maine

Sinking of the Maine.

The Maine was a second-class battleship built between 1888 and 1898. This large ship was sent to Havana in January 1898 to protect American interests during the Cuban revolution against the Spanish government. The evening of 15 February 1989 the Maine was destroyed when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded killing nearly three-quarters of her crew.

The sinking of the Maine led to out-cry among citizens of the U.S for war and to popular belief Spain was to blame.Within a few month America went against Spain and we basically kicked the Spaniards out of the western hemisphere and the Cubans got Cuba back as there own place with no one else in control. The Maine's wreck was raised in 1912 to clear the harbor in Havana and to investigate the cause of her sinking. The remains are scattered in the ocean north of Havana.

  

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was born in April 27, 1820 and died December 8, 1903. He was an English philosopher, a biologists, an anthropologists, a sociologists, and a political theorist all wrapped up in one man. Herbert Spencer was an enthusiast of human evolution in every way, mind, biology, and even human cultures and societies. Spencer is best known for the expression "survival of the fittest'' which he did in principles of biology a book he wrote in 1864.

   Although Spencer had many great accomplishment he did have a life of his own as well, as a young man Spencer worked as a civil engineer during the railroad construction in the late 1830's. He also took his free time to write journals. From 1848 to 1853 he serves as sub-editor on the free-trade journal ''the economists.''

    

Life in the railroad camps.

                                   Life in the Railroad Camps

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life in the camps where hard sometimes you would finish setting  up a temporary bar only to take it down then set it up 20 miles west or north from there only to set it up and take it down again. Entrepreneurs followed these railroads to make money off the idle railroad workers from a bar to a barber to a brothel. tons of money was made and these entrepreneurs made it easier for workers building the railroads. Boom towns as they called it where towns set up by entrepreneurs and when the railroad stop bringing in money the town went broke and people moved to the next boom town to make more money. In 1869 true chaos broke out when a large group of shopkeepers and railroad workers declare war to form there own group and hung a vigilante called "the kid" they later started to hang almost all criminals in the area of the railroad construction getting criminal after criminal until the kids gang retaliated and broke out into an all out battle in the streets of a boom town, it was criminals versus shopkeeper and railroad workers, the criminals lost and many where hung and the rest where chased from towns and hunted down.

By: Sean Marbell

Life in the camps

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