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The Jungle By: Upton Sinclair Chapter 9: Jurgis starts learning English and is taken by a man to become a U.S. Citizen

and to register to vote. He learns about the American political system of "Democracy," in which different parties vie for power and buy votes from poor people. He learns about Mike Scully, an Irish Democrat who owns the dump and brickyard in Packingtown and who leads the "War Whoop League," a clubhouse full of supporters and policemen. Jurgis heard stories of rampant corruption. Scully siphons city money and labor for his own enterprises and helps the packers to get away with unsanitary practices, such as making lard out of "bubbly creek," a fetid sewer of drainage from the meatpacking plants. -America once again fails to live up to its mythical image as a land of opportunity where one needs only to work hard in order to succeed, and where every citizen has an equal vote. The corrupt reality of democracy that Jurgis experiences differs markedly from the democratic ideal the U.S. supposedly represents. Jurgis also learns about how the packers bypass inspection requirements, which only apply to meat sold in other countries, making it fine to sell diseased meat within the country. Marija tells Jurgis about the grisly practices in the canning plant, in which diseased animals, covered in boils, are used to make canned meat which is shipped to American soldiers. Durham's other canned products are made of waste materials and doctored with chemicals and dyes to deceive customers. -This is a glimpse into the greedy, unscrupulous practices of the packing industry that the Rudkus family has no choice but to work in. These descriptions were particularly horrifying to contemporary readers of "The Jungle" when it was published—they were eating foods produced from Chicago stockyards!—and resulted in laws regulating this and other food industries. The narrator recounts an appalling list of maladies that afflict workers in the various industries and visibly impair their bodies. They suffer sores, cuts and blood poisoning, lose fingers, and have their hands corroded by acid. The worst of these are the fertilizer men, whose stench can be smelled for yards, and the men who work in cooking rooms with huge vats of boiling water and sometimes fall into these vats and are made into lard. -Not only do Chicago's industries disregard the quality of the products they purvey, the companies also seem indifferent to the well-being of their workforces. This selfish, cold-hearted focus on the bottom line paints a discouraging picture of the work the family will have to endure.

A Deal In What By: Frank Norris What’s a bull? Bull market? buyer in stock; more people buying What’s a bear? Bear market? seller in stock; more people selling What’s selling short? borrowing a product to sell, and returning the same amount on a certain date Who was Sam lewiston? Kansas wheat farmer What was the same dilemma? It costs him $1 for a bushel but hell only get 62 cents Who was bridges? wheat buyer Why did bridges only want to buy wheat for 62 cents? Chicago wheat buyers waited until it hit rock bottom price What ends up happening to sam? He moves to chicago to his brother in law to work at a factory but then that shuts down. What did horning do to truslow? he sold him 100k bushels for 1.10 per What was horning’s one rule to truslow? you can't sell in the usa What is the pit? where the wheat is sold What did the surprise seller do to horning? He sold him 25k bushels Who is the mysterious seller? Hornung got a detective to find out What did detective ryder find out? the train the bushels came from How did truslow trick hornung and what was the result? -he changed the number on the train so it'll look like it's going somewhere else -truslow sells hornung wheat back for 1.50

What does horning raise his price to? $2 a bushel What is the breadline in chicago? gives free bread to poor What happened to Sam's career? Hat factory closes, breadline closes because wheat is too expensive, he ends up being a street cleaner. What are the themes of Deal in wheat? Hope and Despair, Power Authority and Leadership...