The Jungle

The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to work in the meatpacking plants of Chicago. Their story is a story of hardship. They face enormous difficulties: harsh and dangerous working conditions, poverty and starvation, unjust businessmen who take their money, and corrupt politicians who create laws that allow all of this to happen. The story follows the hardships of Jurgis and his family and the transformation that Jurgis undergoes when he accepts the new political and economic revolution of socialism.He begs on the streets, gets into rows in saloons and is in and out of jail. During one of his visits to jail, he meets a con man named Jack Duane who initiates Jurgis into a life of crime. As a criminal, Jurgis learns about the corruption in city politics, in various industries such as steel and horseracing, in the packing-plants and even in the Chicago police force. Everyone, it seems, is crooked. The elections are fixed and Democratic and Republican Party members pay men for votes. Jurgis even helps out a candidate by bribing fellow workers at themeatpacking plant and offering them money for their votes. After another scrape and some more jail time, Jurgis wanders the streets of Chicago, begging and trying not to starve. He stumbles into a Socialist party meeting and is instantly transfixed by the speaker. He is introduced to a party member named Ostrinski who teaches him the tenets of Socialism. Jurgis is transformed by what he learns: finally there is an explanation for his suffering, and even a way to change it! Capitalism, he learns, is the bane of society, constantly keeping the common worker in poverty while enriching the wealthy. Jurgis finds a job at a hotel run by a Socialist and finds himself obsessed with Socialism. He runs into an old friend who tells him Ona's cousin Marija is living in a whorehouse, working as a prostitute. He finds her addicted to morphine and quite sick and cannot convince her to leave. She tells him to find the rest of the family and he does, supporting them with the money he makes at the hotel. The novel ends with a Socialist polemic supporting the movement and promising that the party will become stronger as time passes and, in the end, will "take Chicago."

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My modest proposal

Starvation is defined as noun suffering or death caused by hunger."thousands died of starvation". I don't think anyone will ever understand starvation expect the people literally going through it. I have volunteered at homeless shelters and seen what it's like to me them, it breaks me heart to hear that some of these people wouldn't eat for days. It s so many of us that waste food throw it always and don't look twice, but we never think about if the tables were turned what would we do. I've seen on TV dumpster drives,  I would laugh never truly understanding that these people have absolutely no other choice. It like they have to eat so what do you do? We were told to come up with solutions for starvation and I'm trying to figure out what I really think could work. Here's what I came up with. Since there are people starving I think every single persons household should be given a homeless person and they feed them every week. It may should crazy I know, but think about it, if everyone had a specific staving person to help they would soon be able to soon help someone else. It would be like a circle you help me, I help you...or someone else who needs it. The program would be a called solve starvation and people can also write it off on their taxes.  It's perfect for the people starving and 

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Loaves & Fish

So before this trip was planned I wouldn't have went to this place. To be honest I knew nothing of it so I went to their website and checked it out. I clicked on history and here's what it said: Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes was organized in 1982 by several downtown churches concerned about increasing requests from people for food assistance. The congregations joined together to share resources and create an organized response to local hunger and formed Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes. I didn't know that they started from churches, I absolutely love that!! I reviewed their vision, mission & values and it shows that they really care about the community. I can't wait to go visit tomorrow, I was wondering if they need volunteers to come help out because that's something I would love to participate in!!!!! Here's the history of their logo "We began implementing our current logo in 2011, around the time of our 30th anniversary of service for this wonderful community. The current logo still connects us to our past - to our roots in the faith community.  The changes are subtle, and yet incorporate a fresh, clean look to move us into the future. It includes a new “tagline,” which now reads: “Promoting a Hunger-Free Community Since 1982,” something that also reflects our new vision and mission."

dinner with trimalchio

I can be honest and say this wasn't my favorite read, however it did keep me wanting to know more. Its really weird because before this class I never really paid attention to the history in food. The had enough food to feed a village, just to impress guest. I cannot believe that actually a temped to eat it all, as if they didn't know when they would eat again. It was really selfish to me and a waste. I don't think they know that over eating is a sin, or maybe they did and didn't care. I couldn't understand why he was being so rude to the servants. I know he was drinking, but something tells me that wouldn't have mattered. Violently treating them after they have done everything you ask is unbelievable. When they gave details about the food that they were eating I had to stop reading. It sounds absolutely disgusting. I feel like when your wealthy you don't have to show off it will show for its self! I don't understand how self centered he was and how everything revolved around only him.

Super Size Me

I choose the movie Super Size Me. I already seen it once in high school but I thought it would be interesting to analyze it and really see the harm that he's putting on his body. See when I first say the movie I was younger and hearing how someone could only eat McDonalds for a time period sounded wonderful to me. Let me back up, see I was raised by my grandmother and my mom who only believed in home cooked meals daily. I remember when getting a piece of gum was a treat for me. So can you even imagine how I felt to eat fast food. Okay so let's get back to the film, it was basically about a man going days only eating McDonalds food. The title comes from when they asked him if he wanted to "super size" he would have to say yes! It was interesting to see how he went from absolutely loving it to completely not wanting to see the McDonalds sign. He had to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner and only that. We seen on camera how he got sick off of it and literally see his health decrease. In the beginning he went to 3 different doctors just to make sure he was in good shape before he began this process and all of them agreed he was fine. Unfortunately the food and his body did not mix very well. On camera we see him throwing up as he continues to have to consume the processed food day after day. We began to literally see the toll that McDonalds food places on people and how it isn't good for them at all.

I think of mcdonalds as a treat kinda like something you know your not suppose to eat but yet you find yourself in the drive thur-line. If you think about it, all the really good things to eat aren't really that good for you. People should treat fast food like a treat not depend on it for nourishment. I understand it's quick, fast and cheap but you have to think of how your body will react to it.

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Now that I have gotten further into the book I cannot stop reading. I must say its a real page turner, I often find myself not wanting to stop reading! Now that I'm deeper into it, I've gotten pass all of the heart break from the animals and now I'm more focused on the issue at hand. After reading the beginning which didn't sugar coat a single word I've now come to the conclusion that this is how this book is! Let me be clear when I say I would never ever work at a slaughter house, so it bothers me how the workers did. They say the job was terrible, dangerous and stressful but I'm confused as to why they took the job in the first place. Obviously when your applying for a job you have a background on what the job entitles, with that being said why did they even applying? One of the employees even went to the major to complain, yet still worked there. The money that's what keeps them there is tells them that their job isn't so bad and that they can get through it. I get it, I know it's hard times and if it's paying you'll do it. However if your going to work there, why go to the major and complain about something that can get changed?

Slaughterhouse.

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So I am an animal lover and of course reading this book broke my heart. I can believe how miss treated animals are just so humans can be satisfied. I make me wonder if the tables were turned would we all be so much against it. As horrible as it was to hear these things happening to the animals, I couldn’t stop reading. It opened my eyes to see that not only were the animals in dangerous situations, but also the workers. They were forced to put their lives out on the line each day. Please don’t get me wrong, I am a meat eater, maybe even a meat lover, but i will admit reading this has changed my views. Reading about all the injections that they put into the animals that we also intake as well makes you think if it’s really worth it. Let’s take a second to think. If the animals are being injection then killed, were eating their injected meat only to die later? This is sad. We see meat as nourishment so we kill animals to nourish ourselves when in reality buy killing them we are killing ourselves.

 

Down the street from my house I have a meat market; you can smell it from the parking lot. I remember going into one for the first time with my grandmother. I couldn’t believe how you just go in there get some meat and go home. It wasn’t real to me; i couldn’t understand how the workers wanted to touch it and couldn’t possibly understand why they wanted to sell it at that age. In the book Slaughterhouse people constantly complained, they even went to the major. Nobody wouldn’t do anything i couldn’t believe that. Even with the people dying.

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