National History Day Documentary - Upton Sinclair

This documentary, entitled "One Novel's Power to Change a Nation - Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: Conflict and Compromise," placed third at the New York State History Day competition in 2008. It examines how Upton Sinclair exposed the corrupted meat-packing industry of the early 20th century through his famous book, "The Jungle," and ultimately brought about change.

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Film & Animation

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• sinclair
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• york
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• progressive
• era
• meat-packing
• industry

[Logicel]

Those darn liberals, always making life better for us.

[beaelliott]

Go Vegan!

[Deltrix4762]

hate national history day. that ruined middle school social studies for me.

[socialisteducation]

@Logicel Socialists, not liberals. There is a difference.

[IronicKismet]

@AnnoyingFlamingo That's a disingenuous and false manipulation of hitsory and you know it. There's a big idealogiocal difference between T. Rosevelt and R. Raegan, just like there is a big difference between between A. Lincoln and G. Bush II. Next thing you'll do is compare W. Wilson to J. Kennedy because they are both democrats. Just like a typical conservative to make these very sweeping gneralizations. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

[AnnoyingFlamingo]

@Logicel Actually, Theodore Roosevelt (A Republican), was the one who passed the meat inspection act, as well as the pure food & drug act. He also was known for his love of nature, and his desire to create national parks and conversations. Roosevelt was also known for being at the head of the progressive movement for civil rights, trustbusting and federal arbitration. Sorry to ruin your "Liberals are for the advancement of mankind," and Conservatives are for "War, hate and Christianity," idea.

[OCCUPYLostAngeles]

This pre-cursor to Michael Moore had a point, but, as his life showed, once this 'so called' socialist' got into HIS 1%, he lived it up instead of spreading his wealth like Hussein Obama would have wanted him to. I don't blame him - he worked hard, and through creativity, he made his way - NOT easy. However, I am not a socialist, and I believe in Capitalism. Upton was playing the part of Hypocrite a la Michael Moore and any other Hollywood elite!!

[thegmanofEAP]

@beaelliott If you haven't seen Scott Pilgrim, you

A. Are not cool.

B. Will not get it.

And bacon is very rational. I ration it all the time.

Boyeeeee!

[beaelliott]

@thegmanofEAP What does being psychic have to do with killing without cause? Except that both are irrational...

[thegmanofEAP]

@beaelliott Unless I get psychic powers, I'll stick with ma bacon.

Lulz

[ScottBrenner1]

The content of this project war really good. Too bad the sound quality is poor, as I think this is something that could be passed around to others for use as a lesson or other type of tool for learning.

[Lrpesme48]

mmmm.....hamburger....