{"id":17028,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/years-after-the-publication-of-his-socialist-novel-the-jungle-upton-sinclair-ironically-noted-the-chiefly-progressive-impact-of-his-book-stating-that-he-had-taken-aim-at-americas-heart-and-hit-ins"},"modified":"2017-06-05T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T17:02:03","slug":"years-after-the-publication-of-his-socialist-novel-the-jungle-upton-sinclair-ironically-noted-the-chiefly-progressive-impact-of-his-book-stating-that-he-had-taken-aim-at-americas-heart-and-hit-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/years-after-the-publication-of-his-socialist-novel-the-jungle-upton-sinclair-ironically-noted-the-chiefly-progressive-impact-of-his-book-stating-that-he-had-taken-aim-at-americas-heart-and-hit-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Years after the publication of his Socialist novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair ironically noted the chiefly Progressive impact of his book, stating that he &#8220;had taken aim at America&#8217;s heart and hit instead its stomach.&#8221; Compare &#038; contrast the two, major, early-20th-century reform-minded ideologies of Progressivism and Socialism.  2. Why was Socialism considered a &#8220;radical&#8221; ideology and why didn&#8217;t it flourish in early 20th century America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Years after the publication of his Socialist novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair ironically noted the chiefly Progressive impact of his book, stating that he &#8220;had taken aim at America&#8217;s heart and hit instead its stomach.&#8221; Compare &amp; contrast the two, major, early-20th-century reform-minded ideologies of Progressivism and Socialism.<\/p>\n<p>2. Why was Socialism considered a &#8220;radical&#8221; ideology and why didn&#8217;t it flourish in early 20th century America?<\/p>\n<p>3. How has Englehardt&#8217;s concept of &#8220;victory culture&#8221; been reflected in war toys, films &amp; TV series since WWII? (Be sure to cite specific examples from the 3 periods discussed in the book: the peak, fall and potential revival of the &#8220;victory culture&#8221; since World War II.)<\/p>\n<p>4- Compare &amp; contrast the U.S. military action in, and U.S. domestic popular support of American intervention in Vietnam (1965-73) &amp; Iraq (2003-11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Years after the publication of his Socialist novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair ironically noted the chiefly Progressive impact of his book, stating that he &#8220;had taken aim at America&#8217;s heart and hit instead its stomach.&#8221; Compare &amp; contrast the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/years-after-the-publication-of-his-socialist-novel-the-jungle-upton-sinclair-ironically-noted-the-chiefly-progressive-impact-of-his-book-stating-that-he-had-taken-aim-at-americas-heart-and-hit-ins\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}