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    Airbnb Regulation

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    The online marketing today has become an integral part of people’s lives. There people can buy digital products or services from a seller through companies such as Uber, Lyft, Amazon, E-bay, or Airbnb, This development in the online environment calls for new laws to regulate them. The laws reflect the needs, represent solutions to problems that people have noticed in their daily activities, and influence the society. They created within a society will work to develop it, to bring order in it, and

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    Police Department has gained national recognition since the release of the video footage that revealed the brutal shooting of 17-year old Laquan McDonald. Since the release of the footage, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has faced major backlash caused by his halfhearted attempt to seek justice for McDonald. Recently, Emanuel chose Eddie Johnson to serve as the interim police superintendent. In 2016, Chicago has seen its third highest level of violence since 2004. In the first four months of 2016, the number of shooting

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    “the man with the snow job” here implies a group of government official. The following metaphor is made when she introduces the email sent from Rahm Emanuel who is in the race for Chicago mayor. The author says that Rahm “wasted no time in sending off a storm-related e-mail, offering “a few helpful tips” on how to weather the weather.” (Collins). Rahm Emanuel is giving some snowstorm survival tips that every citizen already knows. Is it difficult for Chicagoans to survive a snowstorm without Rahm’s

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    Teacher Strike

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    principals, teachers, parents and children all voice their frustrations and positions regarding the teacher strike. The strike was positioned as Emanuel vs. Lewis, but Lewis was contending with a union that installed her in order to take a more active stance and Emanuel’s plan, at least from publicly, was similarly aggressive. Inevitably, Emanuel and Lewis would meet. Consensus is that the CTU won, but Lewis admits that the actual contractual gains are unsatisfactory to her and the union.

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    Emanuel and the prosecutor, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez allegedly battled for months in court to keep the dashboard camera video under wraps. (Lah, K. (2015, December 1). Laquan McDonald shooting: Why did it take 13 months to release video

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    road during the march. They then stood alongside the officers who lined the protesters' path, keeping everyone on the sidewalk and out of traffic. "We respect their rights. They respect the job that we have to do,” said Officer Guerrieri. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has kept a watch on the police department's handling of the protests, talking with Chicago police Superintendent. About 300 people were arrested in recent weekends after for trying to remain in Grant Park after the park closed. Those incidents

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    On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the presidential election; Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009. Originally, Obama 's health care plan did not include a mandate and was criticized. In the Jan. 2008 presidential primary debate, his response to the criticism was, "A mandate means that in some fashion, everybody will be forced to buy health insurance. Instead of going that route, his plan, he said, "emphasizes lowering costs." … the government will

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    Eric Lefkofsky is Fighting Cancer with Each Investment to Tempus Lab Tempus is one of the most successful startups in Chicago receiving a round of investments throughout the year from financial institutions and prominent individuals. This company is putting physicians in a better position to fight cancer in every kind of way helping patients improve their health situations. Tempus focuses on providing the proper cancer care to patients who feel like no hope is there and Eric Lefkofsky ensures the

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    The purpose of this paper is to shed light on my experience in downtown Chicago and relate what I encountered with key concepts from cultural communications class. I will be talking about social class, self-surveillance, privilege, marginalization, hegemony, meritocracy, and double consciousness. By comparing all of these terms with my first -hand experience downtown will give a better view on just how important and relevant cultural sociological structures are. Social Class When I first arrived

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    As of late, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has shown great improvements in its high school s. Over the past 16 years the high school graduation rates has steadily increase. Students were more likely to drop of school as they were to graduate; now students are three times likely to graduate as to dropping out. For the CPS high scholars, graduation is a strong indicator of a host of very important life outcomes, including post-secondary and employment outcomes, health, incarceration, and life expectancy

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