The Jungle vs. Today

        Back in 1900s, and how The Jungle depicts, there were no laws or regulations of how to be an honorable person in business. In fact, the best and most consistent way to become a successful person in life was to be sly and deceiving and dishonorable. Now a days, there is a massive amount of rules. You have to be certain ages, strengths, educational backgrounds, and much more.
        In California, there are regulations on the environment, for one example. As of now, the government is making new piping and water system to help the changing earth and prevent global warming. However, because of this, there are many negatives. A lot of people cannot afford this new expensive system and it is making California's recession even more bad than it already is.
        There are many positives and negatives to having these regulations. Some positives is there is integrity and just in the things people do now because of it. And, as far as the environment goes, the water system they are having is very eco-friendly. The negatives, therefore, are different people not being able to afford certain things and many people will not agree and/or get to do what they want to because of them.

Progressive Era - The Jungle Questions

1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
```If there were a successful person in Packingtown, they'd have to be knave. Being honest and trying hard was not the way to get to the top. The fastest and most triumphant way to be successful is through stealth and lying.

2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
``` The plant owner's goal is to squeeze out every last ounce of effort and hard work from a person, then get rid of them and find a new worker. He is not caring of the people he hires, only the work that is produced. 

3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
``` Essentially he is meaning that it does not matter how you work or what you speak of, it is all about the money. Money is the prize possession and the motivation.

Imperialist Nation

            Whenever I think of imperialism, I think of how we imperialized onto the American grounds and how American then developed so well becasue of the bold move the colonials made. According to Dictonary.com, imperialism means, "the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies."  In the 1900s, American imperialised upon Hawaii, for one example, by annexing them. American is imperialist, at least in it's history, so yes American should remain an imperiaist country.
           William Jennings Bryan was not a supporter of imperialism. He believed it made America look weaker rather than stronger, and was almost an embarrassment upon the nation. He prompted anti-imperialism and encouraged other Americans to not support it as well. Platt, as well, was in the same boat as Bryan, for the fact that he very much disagreed with imperialism. He thought it the wrong way to get alliances with other nations. Teddy Rooselvelt, on the other hand, supported it. He once said, "we do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort." He was a supporter of imperialism because he believed in striving for whatever you wanted and accomplishing it. During his time in office, Roosevelt made America a major figure of imperiaism.





http://www.arcaneknowledge.org/histpoli/roosevelt.htm
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imperialism
http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/william-jennings-bryan-imperialism-speech-text/

Andrew Carnegie

                                       

             Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland on November 25, 1835. He was brought in a very poor family, but raised to treasure reading and learning. In effect, he became one of the wealthiest men in business during his time. When he moved to America as a 13 year old, he got a job working on the railroad, in Pennsylvania, earning $1.20 a week. After many different positions with the railroad construction, he finally got promoted as superintendent. After about ten years, Carnegie discovered the steel industry and how financially good that business was. Soon enough, he had his own company, Carnegie Steel Company, that was very popular in America. It had strategies that made manufacturing steel much easier and transferring it the fastest. Andrew Carnegie, though raised in poverty, ended up one of the most successful men in America. Andrew Carnegie is an important role in American history because of his incredibly well prospering steel company. With his young life, full of poverty, then growing up to be one of the most successful men in America is a substancial importance and inspiration to many across the developing United States. On a side note, he created over 4,000 libraries and wrote a book, "The Gospel of Wealth" as well.

               
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html
http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756

Transcontinental Railroad

Camille Stillwell, Henry Colvin, Casey Shannon and Caitlin Nichols

Life in the Camp

Railroad Workers

Dealing With Workers

Impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad

Lets Look at an Owner

Life in the Camp

 By: Caitlin Nichols





            

           The life on the side lines of the railroad constructers was no safe place. Their life style was improper and the men were always ready to move to their next temporary homes. The buildings were built of feeble wood, and were the opposite of luxurious. When the men weren't working on the railroad, they were gambling, drinking and playing games, such as russian roulette. There were modified dance halls, saloons and brothels. Unfortunately, the men were paid very little money and the authorities treated them with little respect or worth. Julesburg, a dead town in Colorado, was brought back to life, in 1867, for the brief time the men were constructing the railroad. Regrettably, once they finished and packed up their stuff, the town expired forever. The nickname these manufacturers received, after progressing through many towns, was Hell on Wheels, for always causing mayhem in the town, during their short stops.                                                                         

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-hell/

           Louisa May Alcott, a survivor of the Civil War, was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Amos Bronson Alcott, Bronson for short, and Abigail May Alcott. She was raised with three sisters: Anna, Elizabeth, and Abigail Alcott. She is famous for her thirty plus novels she wrote. Her most known book is Little Women, about four young sisters, is now a major motion-picture event. Hospital Sketchers, a book full of the letters she wrote when she was a nurse in the Civil War in Washintgton D. C., is still timeless ever since it was published in 1863.
          When Louisa was just around the corner of being thirty years old, she decided she wanted to something adventurous and brave to happen in her life. To be a nurse in the war, you had to be under thirty, but after the Battle of the Bull Run in 1862, the hospitals were so desperate for nurses that they accepted Louisa's petition to help. “I love nursing and must let out my pent-up energy in some new way.” At first, she was just doing minor things, such as bandaging cuts and cooling foreheads with rags. But soon enough, she was assisting surgeons as they amputated legs, hands, etc., witnessing very gory, vivid wounds. 
          In her book, Hospital Sketches, based on her experiences in the hospital during the Civil War, Louisa May Alcott expresses how after working in the hospital over the months, her view of war had changed. She believed that the actual effect of war was not taking place on the battlefield, but rather in the rooms of the wounded people. That is where the essence of war happened. For many months, Louisa was suffering from nervous prostration, and on May 6, 1888, she died. If was a very big time of remorse for the Alcott family, because her father had just passed within weeks before her death.