Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Cool and interesting websites

1  damninteresting.com/

2  History.com

3  timesearch.info/timesearch/

4  havefunwithhistory.com/
http://www.notevenpast.org/

http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm#lib

http://tudorhistory.org/

http://www.bestiary.ca/index.html

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/

http://wolfgangcapito.wordpress.com/

http://www.pepysdiary.com/

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/medicine_in_americas.html

http://www.museogalileo.it/en/index.html

cool historical web sites

Monday, December 2, 2013

The Jungle

The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair


1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
  You need to be hardworking and a good person

2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal?
   The plants owerners main goal was to make a much money as possible.

3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
  He meant that the workers got what they got and shouldn't complane and they the tried to get as much as they could.

From The Jungle

                                                                     From The Jungle


Questions:
1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
2) According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"

Answers:
1. He thought that you wouldn't have to be hard working and smart also you need to love being able to work.
if you loved to work it would been that you wold be a good person to hire.You would also need to be very fit.

2. The plants owners main goal is to be able to make money and to succeed.They would also work men to the point where the couldn't go any further then fire them.

3. The workers would not complain about working and wouldn't complain about what they got paid.