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In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposes the atrocities of the meat-packing industry. In the excerpt below, what aspect of industry is the focus? > // “There were the wool-pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their fingers off. There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance for blood poisoning. Some worked at the stamping machines, and it was very seldom that one could work long there at the pace that was set, and not give out and forget himself and have a part of his hand chopped off. There were the "hoisters," as they were called, whose task it was to press the lever which lifted the dead cattle off the floor. They ran along upon a rafter, peering down through the damp and the steam; and as old Durham's architects had not built the killing room for the convenience of the hoisters, at every few feet they would have to stoop under a beam, say four feet above the one they ran on; which got them into the habit of stooping, so that in a few years they would be walking like chimpanzees.” //
 * As the Bell Rings...**

Worked to complete the 6.3 Worksheet. These should be complete by the end of the hour Thursday.
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Please take note of the 6.3.2 Need to Reed. There will be no 6.3.1 Need to Reed. Notice the shortened time frame and close due date surrounding the 6.3.2 Need to Reed.

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