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order to support these arguments, Erik Larson describes in detail the lives of those who impacted society while in Chicago, as well as using direct quotes from these characters who ranged in different ages, backgrounds, and careers. Throughout this nonfiction book, there was one prevalent argument being asserted, that the construction of the World's Fair distracted the residents of Chicago from dealing with the many common problems taking place at that time, More specifically, the traumatic…

it to create greatness; others used it to take advantage of the darkness that overpowered their darkness. Consequently, this causes the reader to understand the characteristics of both the goodness and evil that coexisted during the events of the Chicago World’s Fair. Larson characterizes Holmes’s, the embodiment of evil in the novel, as breaking societal rules; thus, he repeats the word “too” as a means of describing each of Holmes’s actions used during his manipulation (36). This repetition…

Freeman Wachholder Mrs. Scarbrough/Mr. Hunter Social Studies/Language Arts 16 December 2016 The Chicago Flood of 1992 April thirteenth, 1992. Busy, just like any other day in the Loop. But a series of highly unlikely mishaps would cause billions in damage that day. The events can be traced all the way back to 1899, when the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph company had permission to build tunnels for cables from city hall, but instead built seven-foot-wide railroad tunnels. These tunnels were…

A raisin in the sun a Historical Fiction based in southside Chicago , Between World War ll and the present day ( first produced in 1959. Book by Lorraine Hansberry came from the root inspiration from Langston Hughes “ What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat Or crust and sugar--- Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags . Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? A amazing fester of words from a…

“She died on May 21, 1935, at the age of 74, in Chicago Illinois” (Biography.com Editors 2014). Addams was successful that “she was the first American women to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace” (Deegan 1988). She has brought a lot of change and attitude toward helping women, improving working conditions…

above the streets in their offices preparing for the day. Chicago is a city of many skyscrapers, traffic, and the odd smell of chocolate coming from the Boomer’s Chocolate Company. It is a city of shadows that casts a never-ending gloom, only to have it broken up into tiny fragments by the narrow gaps in-between buildings. The buildings have floor-to-ceiling windows, making the towers a true curtain of iridescent glass. I’ve been to Chicago many times as an adolescent, far too many for someone…

city of Chicago. Jane Addams was more focused on individual neighborhoods, while Burnham and Daley were focused on the city as a whole. However, both Burnham and Daley seemed to compromise and favor certain areas of the city. For Burnham, the downtown area and lake front is where he focused his designs, and Daley always favored his home, Bridgeport. Jane Addams focused more on the individual neighborhoods, particularly the West Side. She was a part of the social reformers and women on Chicago…

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago may be widely interpreted as one man’s visualization of his city. The author’s use of a sort of ordered free verse reflects the controlled chaos within the city itself. One must be well familiarized with Chicago and all of its parts and citizens to truly understand the order of the city’s work, play, and crime. Sandburg also uses numerous adjectives and similes, which applies a sort of personal, human-like aura to this city. In the first half of the poem, Sandburg…

Everybody loves the big city of Chicago, and knows that our drinking water comes from Lake Michigan. Well, imagine that water being filled with sewage and chemicals. That's the way that Lake Michigan used to be, and thanks to reversing the river, we will never have that problem again. A closer study of this historical event will illustrate how the workers completed this impossible sounding task, what impact this had on the Chicago people, and how reversing the river may have created more…

1.San Francisco, California Is there a valid argument to this? With San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate bridge, innovative Silicon Valley, and notable cable cars it is the zenith of American culture and spirit. It is also important to note that STANFORD hasn’t even been pointed out. Everything about the city screams: Improve! Improve! Improve! Another interesting fact about San Francisco is that during the Great Depression not a single bank failed. San Francisco is truly the epicenter of world…