Taylor Braman Mr. Gross English 11 (A) November 17, 2010 Characters C. Gordon Gregg: The main antagonist of the novel, Gordon is a well known pharmacist and citizen in Chicago. Unknown to many though, his castle estate was built by checks received through shady business deals and one large check from a life insurance claim. A pale character which an odd appeal to most, Dr. Gregg is based upon the murder H. H. Holmes. Jim Frazer: A worker for Dearborn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Jim is the unlucky one to deliver the check to Dr. Gregg and become one of his target.
Upon his visit to Chicago to do research for a book that was meant to show the nation how the labor of men and women are exploited for profit, Sinclair stumbled on the disgusting conditions in meatpacking factories. There were no regulations on food preparation and distribution at the time, and Sinclair wanted to change that. He wrote The Jungle and it was very successful. His readers ranged from normal citizens to President Theodore Roosevelt. After Roosevelt read the graphic novel, he pushed for passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
The Devil in the White City by Eric Lawson In The Devil in the White City, readers are exposed to a mysterious, thrilling, and an astounding world at the same time. Author Eric Lawson introduces the setting in the city of Chicago, Illinois, during its highest, industrial peak in the late 1800’s. It is during this era that Chicago attracted two of the highlighted, historical figures—famous architect Daniel Hudson Burnham and young doctor Henry H. Holmes, who soon became America’s first and most feared serial killer. Chicago had been a competitive city not only in technological advances but in architectural attractions. Daniel Burnham had created some of America’s most famous structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in D.C.; his next task was to recreate a desolate Chicago to a revolutionized city of hope, by creating the famous Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 (also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition).
Two decades later, in 1904, Upton Sinclair, a young socialist, commissioned to write a serial novel about the meatpacking districts of Chicago, discovered the ugly truth behind the immigrant’s pursuit of the “American Dream.” He saw that the hordes of previously deprived and persecuted immigrants did not find the land of freedom in their destination; instead, they entered a world of wildness, a “jungle”. In January 1905, in the interview with the journal “Appeal to Reason,” Sinclair predicted that his book will "…shake the popular heart…and blow the top off of the industrial tea-kettle" . Although Sinclair’s novel is best known for describing the conditions of the meatpacking industry, his objectives were much wider. Titling his work “The Jungle,”
Allan Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency became a well-known and famous organization ("Allan Pinkerton ", 2013). Allan Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency had a few successes under his guidance. One of the most famous cases that Allan had was the assassination attempt President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. There was another case five years later for the capture of $700,000 in the Adams Express Company theft of 1866. Allan Pinkerton received his greatest honor when he was asked by six different Midwestern railroad companies to form an agency for railroad protection.
The politics during reconstruction were a sad joke. After Abraham Lincoln took huge steps for the country, his death set it back many years. Politicians focused on rebuilding the country as a whole, and in turn the South felt the repercussions and was not able to get on its feet the way America had planned it to. Technologically, America was making giant advances. The Railroad which was starting to become popular, was arguably the most influential invention of the 19th century.
Summary: 1) Dr. Jekyll’s servant, who is named Poole, shows up at Mr. Utterson’s door, convinced that something terrible has befallen his master. 2)He convinces Mr. Utterson to accompany him back to Dr. Jekyll’s house. 3)They arrive at the house, where all the servants are very worried about what is going on. 4)Poole announces Mr. Utterson’s presence. Dr. Jekyll refuses to see his old friend.
Hannah Clarke Analyse the methods used by Hitler to obtain power Adolf Hitler was born in Branau in Austria on the 20th April 1889. He did not have a very good relationship with his parents as they did not agree with his ambitions to become a painter. Ironically, he was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna due to his “unfitness of painting”. However, even though he was Austrian he became obsessed with German nationalism at a very young age as a way to rebel against his father, who proudly served the Austrian government. At the age of twenty six Hitler served as a runner on the Western Front in France and Belgium and was decorated for bravery, receiving the Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1914.
There was “an immediate product recall from the entire country which amounted to about 31 million bottles and a loss of more than $100 million dollars.” (Lazare, Chicago Sun-Times 2002) The company started this recall in Chicago, where the product was contaminated. They waited for the facts of the police report, and this allowed them to form trust between their costumers and themselves. They also offered to exchange already sold bottles. They offered a $100,000 reward for finding the person who poisoned the bottles. Johnson & Johnson focused on finding out who was responsible for causing the deaths.
No matter where the student is, or what he is listening to, he cannot escape the commercialism. After initially discounting the validity of what the student is saying, the speaker recalls a dream he had the night before, “And then I remember that when I stabbed my father in a dream last night” (13). The speaker uses “father” as a metaphor for America, and “stabbed” as a metaphor for exposing the truth about commercialism in America. The speaker recalls that “It was not blood but money / That gushed out of him, bright green hundred-dollar bills” (14-15). This is a metaphor how America has become infected with the greed of big corporations.