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My Summer in Chicago I couldn’t help but to feel anxious and excited. It was my first time being in such a vast city and I couldn’t wait to explore it. The time was near the end of July, this is when my dad usually enjoys taking our summer vacations, primarily outside of our state to somewhere else new and exciting. That summer my dad decided to take a week long road trip and visit, Wisconsin Dells, Chicago, St. Louis, and Madison. My dad said he wanted to show my sisters and I all the adventures

Music Theatre 1. What is the background of this art form? (where does it originate from? What important political, cultural and/or environmental things were occurring in this part of the world that would affected the creation of this art form?) Musical Theatre is a form of theater combing music, songs, and spoken dialog, which can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece. The music and dance were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. However, the music is

The never ending days of summer were quickly winding down. It was that time of year again. That time where every kid dreads waking up early every day. Where we have to sit on hard as rock chairs for hours. Eat foods that look and taste like a mixture of foreign cuisines together in a bowl. My fulfilled summer adventures were now just a mere distant memory like that old shirt tucked away at the bottom of a drawer to be never seen again. Now I have to face reality; it was my final year as a high schooler

States. Rosa is from northern Italy and is coming to America to join her husband Santino who works in Missouri as an iron miner. She reluctantly leaves behind her young son, but is curious about American life. Her journey to America, her move to Chicago, and her job at the settlement all revealed changes that occurred in Rosa. Her story was successful, not based on the amount of money she made, but in being able to establish a good life for herself in America where she had her freedom. When Rosa

Gentrification in Chicago is kicking thousands of low income people out of their homes, but can it be a good thing? “Gentrification is the process of renewing and renovating urban, low-income neighborhoods, usually to help accommodate middle and upper class citizens causing an increase in property values. This often leads to many lower class residents abandoning the community and the foot print they may have left there. The nice part of this act is that it can put a good impact on the city and its

House Exhibit Analysis Hull House was a settlement house, founded in 1889, by Jane Addams. The purpose of Hull House was to aid a community of impoverished immigrants. Today, Hull House is a museum on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, which was the settlement house’s original home before the university transplanted itself to the area. Hull House is a permanent fixture on campus, although some exhibits within Hull House are temporary. Hull House successfully displays it’s tenacious

Chicago, Illinois is home of the Cubs, Oprah and most notably it has a skyline filled with amazing skyscrapers. It was in this city that stone masonry, due to its tendency to be very heavy and needing a strong foundation and also its low tensile strength, was enthusiastically replaced by the steel skeleton of the world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building. This American city currently boasts of another feat, the world’s tallest building designed by a woman. Jeanne Gang designed the mixed-use

In the novel The Devil in the White City written by Erik Larson, he entails there is a constant war between good and evil in Chicago 1893, each battle won is a life being made, or slaughtered “There are two wolves battling us all right now…. One’s good, the other is evil. If you’re wondering which wolf inside will succeed, simple, it’s the one that you feed…” by Ronnie Radke. Larson paints the white city’s atmosphere as preppy, educated, society that consists of architects like Daniel Burnham, while

The Chicago World Fair of 1893, or “The World Columbian Exposition”, was a watershed event in American history and influenced many of the technological and cultural changes of the early 20th century. When establishing whether the Fair was a turning point in American society, one must assess the extent to which society was changed by the event. Industrially, The World Fair added 200 new buildings to the city’s skyline, including the famous Ferris Wheel. Economically, the fair brought in an over 1

Devil in the White City Rhetorical Analysis Essay How can two people be so different, yet so similar? The World’s Columbian Exposition was a major event in the 19th century. The fair was something that’s never been done before in history triumphing the famous Eiffel Tower. As spectacular as the fair was there were murders being committed without any signs of slowing down. The Devil in the White City tells a story between the architect Daniel Burnham and the infamous serial killer H.H. Holmes. Erik