7. "American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. PBS. Web. 2011. .…
The Colorado River is now being over utilized and if there were some unseen disaster this would put millions of people out of fresh water. They use the River as a plumbing system meaning that they channel the water and divert it all over the south west providing fresh water to thousands of farming acres. California how now over exceeded there its share of the allotment of fresh water taking in 800,00 acre-feet . With Utah and Nevada growing there becomes an ever increasing problem…
Have you ever read a book, then watched the movie on it and wanted to throw the book at the director’s face and tell them to actually read the book? This is what happened when I read a novel titled Where The Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher, and then watched the movie on it. In 1927, in Kingdom County, Vermont, a large dam is to be built; however, Noel Lord, a logger and cedar-oil harvester, won't give up his lifetime lease on the land. The dam company increases its offer of cash, but Noel refuses time after time. He asks for a trade; the white pines for his lease. Noel, meanwhile, talks with his wife, Bangor, about them moving to Oregon and buying a saw mill. She wants him to take the company's money; but he’s stubborn. His stubbornness is what ultimately leads them to their death, causing them both to be victims. Yet in the movie, only one of them meets with their untimely death. Between the book and the movie, three major differences were Noel’s death scene, Bangor’s death, the showing of the panther and Noel becoming a legend and story to tell just like his ancestors. I’m not satisfied with these differences because they don’t portray the book accurately. These key differences can really impact ones thoughts on both the book and the movie and the way one feels about how the director and producers of the movie chose to represent the book.…
The I&M Canal began Chicago's popularity and growth. It created the opportunity to bring more commerce into Illinois. The I&M Canal was very good for the Illinois community. But it did not just help Chicago, it helped other cities in Illinois and and states across the country. The I&M Canal also attracted many workers and visitors from everywhere around the world. Even though the I&M Canal is no longer in use today, we can still enjoy and appreciate the canal era and what it brought to our…
Living so near to the city of Chicago makes it very easy for me to know about the population issues. First hand, I know that the issue with overpopulations in small northern suburbs is slightly ridiculous because of how the class sizes has grown in size making some classes harder to be in. Another issue is on the south of Chicago, though it’s better now. It is considered a mostly African American and ‘rough’ area of the city. Because of the overpopulation there are many homeless people, and a lot of crime in that area. The government has started to put up low-income only apartments for these areas to help the poverty, and have also put in cameras to help keep bi-passers safe.…
On the confluence of the White Salmon and Columbia Rivers, there is a village that is central to some of our oral traditions. The mouth of the White Salmon is also a traditional trading area that our elders refer to as namnit. At the end of the fall salmon run, houses and drying sheds would have been visible along both banks of the White Salmon River.…
River of Names, Tiny, Smiling Daddy and Girl proved to be three very powerful stories and a whirlwind of emotions for the authors and myself. We are approached with the same theme in different settings and at different points of the authors’ lives. Yet one characteristic seems to prevail: emotional abandonment, a subject most women can relate to in one form or another at some point in their lives.…
‘By establishing Terry Malloy as the hero, On the Waterfront values individual conscience above community loyalty.’ Discuss.…
“Anybody who sits around and lets it happen and keeps silent about something that knows that happened, shares the guilt.” On the Waterfront demonstrates that evil prospers when good men do nothing. Do you agree?…
The novel River Of Earth by James Still is a story about life in e Appalachia just before The Great Depression. The story provides a very clear description of the problems and challenges the mountain people faced after the settlement of their land. Even though the novel is shadowed by other writings of the time period dealing with poor southern life, it is still considered a great neglected masterpiece.…
Chicago was rebuilt and continued to grow as one of the most populous and economically important American cities.If you woke up and your…
Chicago has become one of the largest cities in the United States, ranking the third largest in 2012. Housing nearly 2.7 million civilians, it has shown exponential growth throughout the century and is now an icon for metropolitan cities (Largest). However, modern day Chicago is drastically different from its past. This topic has been widely researched to discover what molded Chicago into the city is it today. Numerous books, articles, and other publications discuss several possibilities of this question, ranging from religious backgrounds to widespread violence and the “Great Migration.” To understand modern day Chicago, it is essential to know the history of the city and the wide range of influences that helped shape it.…
All situations and topics have multiple views and perspectives to them. A paradox exhibits contradictory aspects in which there is not either a single good or a bad, positive or negative. In The Artificial River The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862, written by Carol Sheriff, there are many different examples of paradoxes. Towns initially saw the Canal having a negative impact on them, but realized it could help. The Canal provided for faster transportation, but in the case of a crash would take a long time to recover from. Also businessmen benefitted from the Canal, but other lost a lot of money because of it. The Canal provided dramatic change to the upstate New York area. In some cases this change resulted in prosperity and in others it resulted in failure and loss.…
Chicago - a land of opportunity. Today one might chuckle at the thought, but during the nineteenth century it was very much the case. William Cronan’s Nature’s Metropolis was published in 1991 and still remains one of the greatest books ever written about the city of Chicago. Cronan uses the book to describe the rise of Chicago and how it played a role in the flourishing of economics in the country as a whole; thus, using Chicago as an example of the interconnectedness between city and country. Beyond that however, Cronan’s oxymoron title is descriptive to how Chicago, and our country as a whole, was built from nature.…
Located in north-central North America, the Great Lakes are five large fresh-water lakes interconnected by natural and artificial waterways: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. Carved by ancient glaciers, these lakes contain approximately 20 percent of the world's surface fresh-water supply and 95 percent of the surface fresh water in the United States. The Great Lakes waterbody is so large that its natural features can be seen from the…