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As a metaphor, Its stupid >:OOOO ome to the Jungle]]" by [[Guns 'n' Roses]], which depicts a dark side of Los Angeles where people live "like animals". [[Upton Sinclair]] gave the title ''[[The Jungle]]'' (1906) to his famous book about the life of workers at the Chicago Stockyards portraying the workers as being mercilessly exploited with no legal or other lawful recourse.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dark Eden: the swamp in nineteenth-century American culture. Volume 43 of Cambridge studies in American literature and culture Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences|author=Miller, David Cameron |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year=1988| isbn=0521375533 }}</ref> |
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The term "[[The Law of the Jungle]]" is also used in a similar context, drawn from [[Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling's]] ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' (1894) - though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos. |
The term "[[The Law of the Jungle]]" is also used in a similar context, drawn from [[Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling's]] ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' (1894) - though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos. |
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A jungle is an area of land in the tropics overgrown with dense vegetation.
The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jangala (जंगल) which referred to uncultivated land. Although the Sanskrit word refers to "dry land", it has been suggested that an Anglo-Indian interpretation led to its connotation as a dense "tangled thicket".[1] while others have argued that a cognate word in Urdu did refer to forests.[2] The term is prevalent in many languages of South Asia, and Iranian plateau, particularly in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Persian.[3]
Biome
- See also Rainforest
The undergrowth in a rainforest is restricted in many areas by the poor penetration of sunlight to ground level. If the leaf canopy is destroyed or thinned, the ground beneath is soon colonized by a dense, tangled growth of vines, shrubs, and small trees; this is called a jungle. There are two types of rainforest: Tropical rainforest and temperate rainforest.
About 10% of the Earth's land mass consists of the ecosystems that could qualify as jungle under the common usage of the word. 57% of all known terrestrial species live in jungle environments.[4] In common usage, forests of northern Thailand or southern Guangdong in China would qualify as tropical rainforest, but scientifically, these are "monsoon forests" or "tropical deciduous forests" but not rain forests.[citation needed]
Metaphor
As a metaphor, Its stupid >:OOOO ome to the Jungle]]" by Guns 'n' Roses, which depicts a dark side of Los Angeles where people live "like animals". Upton Sinclair gave the title The Jungle (1906) to his famous book about the life of workers at the Chicago Stockyards portraying the workers as being mercilessly exploited with no legal or other lawful recourse.[5]
The term "The Law of the Jungle" is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894) - though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.
See also
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References
- ^ Francis Zimmermann (1999). The jungle and the aroma of meats: an ecological theme in Hindu medicine. Volume 4. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 8120816188.
- ^ Dove, Michael R. (1992). "The Dialectical History of "Jungle" in Pakistan: An Examination of the Relationship between Nature and Culture". Journal of Anthropological Research. 48 (3): 231–253.
- ^ Yule, Henry, Sir (1903). Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by William Crooke, B.A. J. Murray, London.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/jungle/
- ^ Miller, David Cameron (1988). Dark Eden: the swamp in nineteenth-century American culture. Volume 43 of Cambridge studies in American literature and culture Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521375533.