Learning Experience Through VOLUNTEERISM Linda Burch National Louis University Perspectives on Prior Learning ACL 301-0 49 Instructor: Karen Sadowsky July 11‚ 2012 Learning Experience Through VOLUNTEERISM Linda Burch National Louis University Perspectives on Prior Learning ACL 301-0 49 Instructor: Karen Sadowsky December 11‚ 2013 VOLUNTEERISM LEARNING EXPERIENCE THROUGH VOLUNTEERING I have been a volunteer for the past twenty eight years:
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The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of 1919‚ which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States‚ as a result of race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county. In most instances‚ whites attacked African Americans. Red summer is in summer and early autumn On July 27‚ 1919‚ an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group
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story based on the building of the most important fair in the United States of America‚ the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago. Erik Larson also told the story of the psychopathic murderer; H.H. Holmes used his World’s Fair Hotel as an evil castle to lure in young women who came to see the fair. The story starts off with Larson describing that Chicago won the Congressional vote to host the World’s Fair and beat out its competition New York City. In only two short years‚ the White City
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Devil in the White City Erik Larson’s non- fiction best seller portrays murder‚ magic and madness that occurred at the fair that changed America. The construction of The Columbian exposition began in 1891 and if on time was to be finished by 1893. This gave world famous architect Daniel Burnham a little over two years to achieve the impossible. There were other problems than just building the fair‚ there was corruption and decay in the city which made things more problematic. The
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Leader for a Day Essay The city of Chicago used to be one of the largest city containing high-rise public housings in the nation. The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) owned 43‚000 units with a population in the hundreds thousands of residents. The second wave of project housing was an attempt to construct newer and safer Urbanist-style housing projects “because Chicago can also destroy”. Chicago Housing authority reports.Since the mid-1990sthe city of Chicago had torn down about half of its public-housing
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protect and improve their Chicago communities from the violence they used to be in. The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention was founded in 1995 by Dr. Gary Slutkin. After returning home to Chicago and hearing stories about children murdering children‚ he created Ceasefire‚ operating from the reasonable premise that violence is‚ fundamentally‚ a public health issue. Chicago itself has been for the longest time a symbol for the violence in our cities all across America. Chicago is continuously overwhelmed
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In fact‚ according to recent investigation‚ some elected officials are‚ themselves‚ important crime leaders. A prime example of this is Illinois politician and former mayor of Chicago‚ Richard M. Daley. Daley’s family has great historical significance within the city as his father‚ Richard J. Daley‚ was also mayor of Chicago. His brother William M. Daley served under former U.S. president Bill Clinton as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and their older brother John P. Daley is the finance chairman on the
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is today. In the late 60’s Architect Bruce Graham designed the Sears Tower while working for Skidmore‚ Owings‚ and Merrill architectural firm in Chicago. Work on the Sears Tower began in August of 1970 and was completed in May of 1973. The building incorporated a new engineering concept in construction called “bundled tube” configuration. With Chicago being known as the “windy city” these tubes were created solely to provide stability from the strong winds. Two hundred of these bundled tubes were
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Tara Anderson English 104 Brost 27 September 2013 Jazz‚ Liquor and Sex Appeal‚ Chicago At a time where crimes of passion flood the newspaper’s headlines‚ Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves in Chicago’s own Murderess Row in The Cook County Jail. Broadway fanatics everywhere raved about the 2002 award winner of best picture‚ Chicago‚ starring Renée Zellweger‚ Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The glitz and glamour of jazz‚ liquor and sex shine through in this film‚ but
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near Chicago in the state of Illinois. I moved to Illinois because of my father’s job. My father was an airline pilot for United Airlines‚ and when he first started working for United Airlines that company sent him to Ohare Airport‚ near Chicago to work out of their main place of operations. When my father moved to Illinois he took me and the rest of our family to live with him there. As I grew up I lived together with my mother‚ father and two older brothers in a small town outside of Chicago called
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