Money. It is the American Dream, but losing land to deforestation, unsafe working conditions, battle for women's rights, child labor, and unhealthy food production is not. It is the 1900’s, America has just recently won it’s war with Spain and is feeling pretty good but, underneath it all, a reform movement called Progressivism is rising within the United States. (Background Essay). Progressivism is calling for the reformation of problems, like the ones previously mentioned. They believe in social equality, and they want it done without major economic downfalls. I have been gratefully gifted with $1,000,000 and given a question: where will I put my million dollars between the many progressivism causes? The three causes I would like to help and reform would be: conversation and deforestation, food safety, and women’s rights. I will give $600,00 to the deforestation and conservation cause. Just like John Muir, I believe in nature as being our save all and that we should preserve the wilderness still left in our world. The trees chopped down for logging from 16250 to 1920, cut the amount of primary forests down more than fifty percent. (Document A). Protecting these forests will have an impact on our …show more content…
country from both a landscaping standpoint and an economical standpoint. Yes, protecting these trees and such will most likely have a negative impact on logging companies but, it will keep our country beautiful. Nevertheless, if we practice preservation now, the more likely we are to do it in the future. The next cause, I will be giving away $300,00.
And that cause is food safety, especially in meat-packing plants. Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, has brought to light how disgusting the meat-packing industry is. (Document D). I would like to further these findings by either shutting down these companies completely or reforming them to be healthier, safer. Food is literally scraped off the floor, covered in rat dung and dirt, and placed through a processing machine where from there it is packaged and shipped out to people nationwide. (Document D). Fixing this problem will first and foremost, keep people from getting sick and possibly dying. It will also fix the health of the workers because working in those conditions cannot be healthy, for anyone
involved. Last but not least, I will be giving $100,00 to the fight for women’s rights. Since the beginning of time, women have also been known as the lesser sex. Tending to the house, taking care of the children, living without education, are just a few examples of what women are expected to do. Consequently, this is all we women know to do but, times are changing and it is time for women to have a chance to be equal like all of mankind is supposed to be. If women “use the ballot”, our country will shift as a whole into a new age. (Document C). Not only will they be more independent, in the fact that they won’t have to rely on a man or a tenement house to live, they will also be able to have say in decisions that affect the country they live in. As Jane Addams has said, “American woman need this… to preserve the home” (Document C). In answer to the question: where will you put your million dollars in progressivism causes, I have put my money forward to three causes. Although there are other ideals I can put my money in, these three, in my opinion, are the most important causes in progressivism. Fixing deforestation, women’s rights, and food health/safety will lead to a better America, for a better future. In the long run, problems like these will be obsolete and our country should run a whole lot smoother, and in the right direction.
Cities and industry grew in growth on the first of January in 1900 which created an influx of the high classes. Andrew Carnegie is a factory owner who was about to sell his steel company, but ended up becoming one of the richest man in the world. However, there was an underside of this whole excitement to earn money and the hope of the American dream. Average earnings were less than $500 a year, but in the unskilled southern workers earned an average of $300 a year. The work hours were 60 hours a week, wages were strained, and horrible child labor. The question is what was the most important problems in America during the early 1900s that needed to be addressed by The Progressive Movement. There are three main reasons: the struggling child labor, women’s voting rights, and
Meatpacking pertains to the raising, slaughtering, packaging and processing of livestock such as pigs, cows, and chickens. Prior to slaughter, animals are grown and fed. Food borne illness and pathogens still plague the meatpacking industry since the creation of meatpacking. The government plays a huge role in providing legislation and ensuring the safety of meat products and business. Although the government is meant to inspect and guarantee safety, many unlawful practices appear overlooked pertaining to the safety of meat for consumers. Meatpacking commenced thousands of years ago, and the safety of the meatpacking industry has been evaluated greatly since the industrial revolution in America. The history of the meatpacking industry in America, the impact of literature such as the novel of the jungle written by Upton Sinclair, the rendering and irradiation of meat, and current worker issues contribute to the horrible safety precautions as well as the awful environment involving the meatpacking industry.
At the turn of the twentieth century “Muckraking” had become a very popular practice. This was where “muckrakers” would bring major problems to the publics attention. One of the most powerful pieces done by a muckraker was the book “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair. The book was written to show the horrible working and living conditions in the packing towns of Chicago, but what caused a major controversy was the filth that was going into Americas meat. As Sinclair later said in an interview about the book “I aimed at the publics heart and by accident hit them in the stomach.”# The meat packing industry took no responsibility for producing safe and sanitary meat.
Theodore Roosevelt, the founder of the Progressive party, once stated, “A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy”
Factory farm animal harm negatively impacts farming and consumer health; by offering government incentives to factory farmers to open graze and bring awareness to consumers of the health risks of consuming factory farm meat, animal abuse could significantly
During the Progressive era, consumer safety was a hot issue. In Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle, there were many disturbing things the American people learned about the meat packing industry. After people saw that their meat had dead rats and tuberculosis many did not want to buy any meat. People were disgusted by the things that they could buy without knowing what it was. This brought about stricter health codes and made the consumers have a little more peace of mind.
After the civil war, America was rapidly growing socially and economically. Because of the rapid industrial growth, many businesses were abusing their workers and therefor gave them very low wages. Workers and many other people began to unite and fight for their rights and for the well-being in society. This time period, known as the Progressive era, brought very important social changes and reforms. The Progressive era was very successful because the majority of the changes were to improve the lives of all American workers and to make a beneficial change. The Progressive Era had four main goals; Protecting Social Welfare, Promoting Moral Improvement, Creating Economic Reform, and Fostering Efficiency. The changes took a long period of time to implement and it was not easy making people aware that there was need for change.
Progressivism is a time of change, a time for reform, that has helped shape America to be the nation it is today. Progressivism is defined as “the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society (WordNet Search).” Between this era, and World War One, a lot of time and effort when into what the influences the country went under between the power of Woodrow Wilson and the society along with Europe, Russia, France, and everyone else involved in this war. The progressive era was a thirty year span from 1890s until the 1920s. People saw that there was many horrible things occurring in society and the government and they wanted these things to be fixed. Some examples of these things are living conditions, work conditions, and the wrong that the government was doing. Reformers wanted to solve issues with efficiency, nonpartisanship, morality, democratization, education, and expertise. People do not know exactly where these progressives came from, but it was more or less a group effort that grew and grew with the ideas of bettering the country as a whole, even if some of these choices and solutions were not that great. Yes, the motives for the reform were good but sometimes included horrible actions which excluded people or discriminated others.
Imagine having a big juicy hamburger or some fried chicken in front of you, of course you cannot wait to eat it. Now a days we want to eat the cheapest, fastest thing we can find without realizing where it came from or how the animal was treated before being killed. The production of food has changed drastically over the course of the years. There is more food being produced, but at the cost of becoming unhealthy. In the documentary Food Inc. released in 2008, it goes through and provides the real facts of what goes on in the food we eat. The documentary provides an American family’s view, a farmer’s view, and an expert’s view towards the modern day food production system. The movie makes you aware of the how dangerous food has become over
The Meat Packing Industry has progressed in a positive manner ever since the early 20th Century. In 1906 Upton Sinclaire’s novel “The Jungle” revealed the truth about the meat packing industry. When the book “The Jungle” out it revealed the truth about the poor working conditions and the unsanitary slaughtering of animals. For the past century, American works have been impacted by the new laws. Most workers gave their undying loyalty to keep their jobs, sometimes even lives. Bad slaughtering practice lead to spoiled meat and even contamination, the meat would be doctored and still sold. The public doesn’t know that meat packing business haven’t really envovled, they have impacted Americans and many changes have been made.
This book book described, in detail, the horrendous conditions of the meatpacking industry of Chicago. The public looked to Roosevelt for guidance during this time. Roosevelt came to the peoples aid when he signed the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. The meatpacking industry certainly needed to be reformed for reasons displayed by “The Jungle”. Before reading this book many people who consumed this very meat did not understand how unsanitary the industry as a whole was. The accounts of working conditions are disgusting, walls were covered with slime and manure, dead rats being mixed into meat, equipment covered with blood and filth. Despite these awful working conditions, the meatpackers could be applauded for their innovativeness in recycling, through the people who consumed the meat did not necessarily agree. They unintentionally created a lot of new products that we use on a
The Progressive movement in Tennessee focused on Tennesseans preparing to make progress happen. The Tennesseans tried taking actions against the state government and its political systems which was still controlled by the Democrats. Since they were unhappy with politics they decided to join others from different nations to organize the political movement. Tennessean begin to participate in the campaigns to limit the authority that big businesses had. On the other hand, they wanted to improve highways, cities, end women’s suffrage, and reconstruct the education systems. During the progressive movement Tennesseans believed that alcohol was causing social problems, so they decided to have a prohibition movement. After the unsuccessful plan to obtain a statewide vote that would ban alcohol, Tennesseans began working towards the Four Mile Law. Which prohibited any saloon to sale alcohol within four miles of a school district. In 1907, the people of Knoxville won a vote to
Progressives were people who wanted to apply their forward thinking concepts to the American government. One of their biggest beliefs was that government should be actively involved in large corporations. They thought that it was the government's responsibility to regulate the actions of large corporations. Warren Harding’s administration went against this belief and many other beliefs that progressives had. These differences of ideals is what caused progressivism to inevitably die at the beginning of the 20th century. “We therefore demand a strong National regulation of inter-state corporations...the existing concentration of vast wealth under a corporate system, unguarded and uncontrolled by the nation…”(Document A). This document describes
A good education has always been drilled into my head ever since I was a little girl. Boy did I hate that, all I wanted to do was goof off and have fun with my friends. But as the years went on I started to realize how important it was to have a good education. Not that that made me like school anymore than I did; but I was realizing the different ways I was learning and how different people taught. I remember saying one day, when I was a freshman in high school, that if I was teaching this class I would have never taught it that way. Unfortunately, my teacher overheard me and I was forced to go to the front of the room and explain to the class the way it should be taught since I knew so much about teaching. Needless to say I did an awful job of it. That is when I started thinking about becoming a teacher. I know that does not make sense because I did such an awful job and was humiliated doing it. I did not like the way that man taught and I was determined to take his job. However, the reason I am here today is not that I want to take a teacher’s job; it is because I have the desire to make a difference in the lives of many students. I hope I will be a good teacher so that I will never have to hear a student say something bad about my teaching.
“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.” John Dewey describes and supports progressivism, an education philosophy that I professionally identify with. Progressivism is a student centered philosophy that focuses on experiences, opportunities, and values that enhance a student 's learning and life. The role of the teacher is to act primarily as a facilitator of learning, they encourage and guide students to explore and promote individual development. As a future educator I believe it is important to involve students and allow them to take responsibility for their own learning and achieving their goals. The role of the student is to discover, engage, and express themselves.