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transported alcohol from the Bahamas to the eastern seaboard, he bought it cheap in the bahamas and sold it for huge profits across the ocean in America Many other rum runners were transporting alcohol across the great lakes into Detroit and Chicago up the mississippi river to new orleans and many other places. Another way of obtaining alcohol was called moonshine or locally made alcohol but at the first days of prohibition much of the moonshine became toxic due to the materials they were made in. But as

Wisconsin is a state located in America between the Great Lake and the Mississippi river which was first explored for France by Jean Nicolet in 1634 and landed at green Bay. In 1660, a French trading post and Roman Catholic mission were established near present day Ashland. “Generally, we think of Wisconsin as a pioneer in American mining frontier which include copper, iron ore, lead, and zinc and also have so many developments even though farming is their basic source of leaving” (Nesbit 1989).

From Tragedy, To Triumph America is no stranger to tragedy, yet through tragedy comes America's greatest strengths. The Great Chicago Fire of October 1817, is one such tragedy that burned many wooden buildings, sidewalks, commercial buildings, and homes. A tragedy so severe that it lasted for three days that resulted in the death of three-hundred people, and put tens of thousands of Chicagoans on the streets (Volume 2 From Reconstruction, 2015, p. 484). After the fire, America experienced a depression

Name: Course: Date: My Home Town Although USA has many different cities, in this discussion, we will be limited to three Cities i.e. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In the 3 cities we shall broadly discuss the growing up experience in each of the 3 states, strategic features and their staple foods. Finally, the New South Wales in Australia and London in UK would also be looked at. Lenape, an Algonquin who were hunters, fishers and farmers were the first natives of New York. As a result when

Introduction Gwendolyn Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, and moved to Chicago at a young age. She attended a junior college in Chicago, then started working for the NAACP, all before publishing “A Street in Booneville”, her first book of poems, in 1945. The Mother (her most famous poem) was also published in 1945. In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to ever win the Pulitzer Prize and in 1968, Brooks was appointed the Poet Laureate of Illinois. The themes of

career as a designer. He later dropped out of college to work for Silsbee in Chicago and then went on to work under Louis Sullivan, “the father of skyscrapers”. At the age of 22, Wright married a woman named Catherine Tobin. Wright was the designer of their home in Chicago and even now it is considered to be Wright’s first “architectural masterpiece” (Frank Lloyd Wright Biography). His next project, the Winslow House in River Forest, paved the way for a new style known as “organic architecture”. This

Rivers constitute a major natural phenomena found on the surface of the earth. They have unique patterns and systems that perfectly fit in the geographical grid. One can establish the facts behind the formation of rivers and the important part they play in the ecosystem by carefully studying their features. However, the topic needs more research to know the reasons behind the uniqueness portrayed by each river. As the river flows, it cuts rocks which it carries them down its course and grinds them

Life, liberty, freedom, equality, opportunity, and so many other words have been used to describe the United States of America. Every American child grows up with the words “the land of the free” pounded into their heads, and every morning schools declare America as a place of “liberty and justice for all.” Such inflated rhetoric presents America with large shoes to fill. Thus, America’s shortcomings should not be surprising. Langston Hughes and Upton Sinclair were two 20th Century writers, who

Redlining is a red line that are drawn on maps to designate neighborhoods too risky for loans; regardless of their credit says. White flight is when the white people would moved out of their neighborhood because blacks were moving in their suburbs which causes riots. Many of the realtors would not do businesses with blacks and many would have to pay a fee for it. FHA and VA made programs for the banks to follow making sure they don 't change or mixed racially neighborhoods. The FHA and VA only insured

Joliet city is located near the Des Plaines River, which it makes divide the township into two parts. It is the capital city of Will County (Liebe et al., 850). The Hickory creek enters the city from the east uniting with the Plaines which makes the town well watered. The city is mainly covered with limestone and other stone quarries that have made excellent building stones. From the time when Illinois and the Michigan canals were opened in 1848 and the building of the Rock Island as well as