Rahm Emanuel

Do public subsidies for professional athletic organizations benefit their local community? Sports teams, or professional athletic organization, are extremely important institutions within a city or region. They can help connect people with places, and through this loyalty, a sense of civic pride can be seen. Furthermore, the multi-billion dollar industry sports produces effects that can impact individuals and communities. In recent years dozens of new sports stadiums have been built throughout

Robert Frost captures universal elements of human life within simple poetry. The fourth stanza of his poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, curiously mirrored the journey of Christine J. Walley, the author of the ethno-biography Exit Zero. “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep,” Frost writes (Frost, 1923). He presents a lone traveler trekking through the woods in search of answers. These woods display a level of complexity that may

I. Deliberation v. Decisiveness: Comparing Management Styles The course of a presidency is shaped by decisions made before inauguration day. The choices a president-elect makes when staffing their White House determines how they will use the precious time they will spend in the Oval Office. The management style of a president is a function of the president’s personality with consequences for the future of the country. George W. Bush and Barack Obama are different men who constructed for themselves

We’re taught to believe that we left europe due to religious persecution, many people don’t realize that religious oppression was only toward the end of the decision to flee. There are many other factors that led to our decision to flee that system. Why aren’t we taught these in school? Because, if we were, we would have a drastically different outlook on what our country has been going through for the past few decades. What we aren’t taught, at least not to the degree of importance that most

Georgis, Donnell, Mike, Moose For the second time in almost 4 years, over 350,000 Chicago Public School Students may not be able to go to school because of the CTU Strike that is currently in progress today (The Washington Post). The issue between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools has not been solved yet due to disagreements about the income received. The Chicago Teachers Union has made offers to school administrations; however, the responses were not in their favor. The union

PART ONE Compare/Contrast: 3 paragraphs (Choose ONE): 20% 1. Compare and contrast the Edict of Milan (313) with the Edict of Nantes (1598). In what ways are they similar and in what ways are they different? Explain the similarities and/or differences between the two edicts, paying close attention to the texts as well as the specific historical circumstances in which they were composed. The Edict of Milan in 313 was declared by Emperor Constantine and Licinius. This declaration called for toleration

The Debate After the United States endures any firearm’s related tragedy an increase in gun control is always a very heated debate. Violent crimes committed with firearms have kept gun control in the spotlight for last several decades. Mass shootings at several educational institutions have led the way for an increase in gun control, most recently the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 children and six adults dead. Certain individuals see an increase of laws

English 3 When I was seven years old, my aunt and I were walking to the corner store. A man walked up to us. He pulled out a knife and held it to my aunt’s throat and yelled, “Give me the money.” She pulled out her gun from her back pocket and shot him in the toe. She didn’t kill him, but she prevented herself from getting killed. That gun saved her life and my life. You never know when something bad might happen. It could come out at any time, any day, anywhere. If my aunt hadn’t been allowed to

Englewood neighborhoods because that is where the most concurrent crime occurs, but that does not stop the rampant crime from occurring week after week here in Chicago. There are currently “12,656 officers on duty” with an active plan by our mayor Rahm Emanuel which proposes an “increase number of officers from 12,656 to 13,535” (John

In 1896, the Olympic Games were officially reborn into the modern era thanks to a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin (Lewis, 1992). In 1904, the Games of the III Olympiad arrived in the United States, marking itself as the first Olympics to be held in said country as well as the first hosted outside of Europe. Often forgotten, this specific Olympics also signifies the beginning of the horrible luck Chicago, Illinois, has had regarding the hosting rights. With four losses under its belt and