Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities. "My purpose was . . . to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride."

According to Steffens, what was the purpose of muckraking journalism?
to encourage people to buy fewer newspapers
to encourage people to become muckraking journalists themselves
to encourage people to rise up against their government
to encourage people to take action against widespread corruption

idk it I just need points sorryy

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

compensation; complaints

explanation:

some employers provide "severance compensation" to employees whose employment has been terminated due to no fault of the employee

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