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III. Racial Struggle after Integration James Meredith was met with much hostility during his attempt to enroll. Meredith was halted by Mississippi’s governor, Ross Barnett, who issued a statement denying his admission to the University (Sansing, 1999). Despite the United States Supreme Court’s order to admit Meredith to the university and several attempts by U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy to sway Barnett, the governor refused to abide by legal orders. Finally, Robert Kennedy and Barnett…

The book is set in 1928 Green Town, Illinois. The time period in which this book is set is very important because of the view on machines at the time. In 1928, machines were a very new concept, and many people did not know whether or not to trust them. Bradbury had a very cautious view on machines…

I have chosen to write about the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. The place in question is a large, modern building. Its exterior has a looming presence, as though it were a stadium or a shopping mall rather than a church. The abundance of entrances and sections make the church a difficult place to navigate. Each entrance has its own parking lot, leading to a separate wing of the structure. Surrounding the building is a beautiful landscape, with lawns, pathways, and…

THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 Chicago was a booming community with some of the finest and most modern building in the country, 59,500 buildings to be exact. Although some of those building were built from stone or brick and proclaimed fireproof. “Chicago was, in fact, a city of wood… The nearby forests of Michigan and Wisconsin made that material both inexpensive and easily obtainable.” Around two- thirds of Chicago’s building and houses were made of flammable wood. On October 8, 1871 a…

INTRODUCTION The Mississippian rocks of Kansas are regarded as the largest oil producing unit in the Midcontinent. These rocks have produced oil both at the top and within the sequence unit. The name “Chat” is given to these rocks because their high porosity and low resistivity characteristics (Rogers, 2001). Over 6000 well-logs such as neutron, density and resistivity have been studied in Kansas and result shows that the chat is everywhere but lack uniformity. Depositional and diagenetic…

Boating down the Wabash River near Lafayette on July 16, I witnessed firsthand the broad, winding river’s scenic beauty, but also got a lesson in the environmental challenges the river faces when two Asian carp hurled themselves out of the water and landed in our boat. The Wabash is Indiana’s iconic river and inspiration for our state song, yet in recent years two species of invasive Asian carp have infested portions of it. These voracious non-native fish consume nutrients in the water,…

“A City Ready to Burn” By:Talyn Houghton On October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois was a city ready to burn. In the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871. At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it…

From the timeline, you can tell that Dorothea Dix was responsible from a very young age. Her parents both sufferend and were therefore unable to be good parents due to depression and alcohol. This led Dix to have to care for herself. She became a school teacher at 14 and ended up publishing a textbook few years after that. A quote from it reads, “Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful…

Through this statement President Barack Obama is calling for action. He is telling people to go out into their communities and be the difference that they want to see rather than waiting on others to make that difference. This is a very easy statement to agree with. That change could be something as simple as voting for a politician that truly represents the community or going into a local park with the intention of picking up trash. These actions can contribute towards making the community…

When he was a boy, his family was very poor. He had a brother and a sister, but his brother died in childhood. They grew up in a small log cabin house, with just one room inside. When Lincoln was 7 years old, his family moved to Indiana and later to Illinois. So, Lincoln didn’t get much formal education. In his early years, he was influenced by his father who refused to own slaves even though it was legal at the time. Even though he didn’t go to school much as a child, he started working as a…