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The Jungle
Title: The Jungle
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1122 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair was the most famous of the American “muckraker” journalists. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878. Although his family was poor, Sinclair was able to earn money as a writer from a very early age, and was able to save enough money to go to college. He attended the city college of New York and graduated from there with a B.A. degree. Soon after he went to Columbia University to graduate …showed first 75 words of 1122 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1122 total…Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle.” For the people of the stockyards they were living in a great depression, a life of depression.
This book impacted history in a great way. The power of meat inspectors greatly improved, and Americans finally had confidence in the meat that they ate. This book impacted American meat and Americans eating habits more than it did working conditions, which were what I believe Upton Sinclair was really trying to change.
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