Not so artful dodger

speakin cant payin rent bein law-abidin lad

[nickifortunati-warren]

I recently purchased Procreate Dreams, so I decided to animate this illustration I made while I was in Italy ✨

Enjoy

[thoughtportal]

The Jungle is a novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair, who was known for his efforts to depict corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.[1] In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published his novel in serial form in 1905. In 1906, the novel was published in book format by Doubleday.[2]

The book portrays working-class poverty, immigrant struggle, lack of social support or welfare, harsh living and dangerous working conditions, generating hopelessness or cynicism and cruelty among the powerless. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by Sinclair's contemporary, writer Jack London, compared The Jungle to America's most famous novel written to expose a cruel system, by calling it "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."[3]

While Sinclair in describing the meat industry and its working conditions wanted to advance socialism,[4] the novel's most immediate impact was to provoke public outcry over passages exposing health issues and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century. This led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act and other product safety legislation.

get a free ebook copy on Project Gutenberg

[moonlightsdream]

FILMS in 2025: 67 | Shoeshine Sciuscià  (1946) — dir. Vittorio De Sica     

[notsoartfuldodger]

View of the equestrian statue of Peter the Great on Senate Square in St. Petersburg, 1870

by Vasily Surikov

This is one of my fav paintings...

[notsoartfuldodger]

I'd like to share my immense love for this silliest promising entrepreneur ever known (and look at his eyelashes) ((we don't talk about his "Biggering" side here...))

[kriemhilde-in-the-castle]

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