from the jungle questions

1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown? 
- hardwork     - fast work    " that man who had been sent to jurgis's fathers by the boss, he would rise; The man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business would and did his work would " speed him up" till they had worn him out ,  then they would throw him in the gutter" This just showed that they would be cruel to the people who came just to get things done. and the people who  were sent to  the boss were successful.
2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
The plant owners goal was to make the highest amount of money he could but for cheep. Doing anything to get the money, but he over worked his workers for putting them through extreme working conditions.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
He would not trust any of because there was no honesty throughout the working environment. Alot of jealously and hating one another also went on.

Environment:

The government enforces the environment by having the services Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or any of their variations at the federal, state, and local levels. They protect the environment so nothing can ruin the land that was here before us. Having those enforcements help keep our environment clean and protected in case of emergency. 

Sinking of the maine

                                                      Sierra Watson

                                                                                  

The sinking     

 The beginning of the spanish american war, was mostly resolved around the sinking of the U.S maine. Tensions between the spanish and americans was very tense. There are many pros and cons to "sinking the U.S maine".  One con of the sinking is the americans lost a fabulous ship. When riots broke out in Havana, it alerted Washington's out look on Americans safety.Washington then sent out the second class battle ship,the U.S Maine. In Washington's case it was a good call to try and protect out people, and it was a good call.The powder that caused the explosion was unseen until the explosion causing the bottom of the harbor to be filled with water. Most of Washington's men were sleeping in the bottom of the ship. 266 soilders died from these events. Shortly after the sinking , the "yellow press" instantly started blaming spain. SPain got inferiors with the rumors soon later the conflict started an outbreak.

sources : http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq71-1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)

Lynching

Lynching

            Lynching in the U.S has been happening since the 19^th century to the Blacks in America. Lynching was the threating the whites did to the African Americans in the U.S.  They were threatened with lynching through out the 19^th and 20^th century. No matter what gender, age, or reason the whites would lynch any black they felt the need to.  Whites used lynching to cause fear to the blacks, whites thought they were much more superior to the blacks so they used Lynching as a threat. Lynching started before slavery. Lynching was known as the “violent drop back into the south”

            Whites felt very pressured with the prominence of the blacks. Most whites had the thought that black men were sexual predators towards the women of America. They also thought the blacks were using white women to become part of the U.S citizen ship. The fear between races in this century was the biggest fear for most Americans. 

Sources:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_lynch.html

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