Chicago’s Polania Polish American Immigrants In Chicago I will be writing my final paper on Polish American Immigrants who settle in Chicago Illinois. I will be referring to Polish American Immigrants in this essay as (Poles) periodically. The majority of Polish immigrants emigrating to the United States of America was in the 1800’s. This period was considered the first out of three waves of Polish immigrants to settle in America. The first major wave was between 1800 and 1860‚ many of the emigrating
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The Changes of Chicago Today‚ there are many large and prodigious cities located in the United States. The city of Chicago‚ also known as the windy city‚ is one of the bigger cities in the states.. In the years 1857-1874‚ The city of Chicago developed in its transportation‚ construction of buildings‚ and in methods of transportation. Within the map of 1857‚ Chicago was beginning to show signs of growth in the population and also in the methods of transportation. At the time‚ transportation
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The Port Chicago Disaster On the 24 of July 1944‚ a memorandum was written from Captain W. S. Parsons‚ USN to Rear Admiral W. R. Purnell‚ USN. It was a report on the most destructive explosion on United States soil at that time. It was known as the Port Chicago Explosion. Captain Parsons worked in the Bureau of Ordnance as their Liaison Officer. So he was a prime candidate for the job. Rear Admiral Purnell was the head of the Military Policy Committee. This memorandum was not intended to
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Chicago theory of crime was founded in 1920‚ and has been referred to as “Social disorganization theory” (Bohm‚ 2011). The Department of Sociology attempted to identify __Environmental factor associated with crime __How a specific neighborhood’s crime related to that neighborhood’s characteristics (Bohm‚ 2011). This was the United States 1st large-scale study done to explain why crime occurs and became the platform for many future studies (Bohm‚ 2011). Chicago School earned a reputation as the
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Document 22-5 page 138‚ “An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot.” This document describes how race riots exploded in the summer of 1919 in almost two dozen American cities. White mobs were attacking African Americans by beating‚ shooting‚ and lynching them. After a gory riot in Chicago‚ Stanley B. Norvell‚ an African American man from Chicago wrote to the editor of the Chicago Daily News‚ Victor F. Lawson. In the letter Norvell described the whites’ ignorance of blacks‚ pointing
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express their feelings and thoughts in their poems. Each writer has his own style. To give a poem their style they use a unique way of treating theme‚ structure and tone. Thanks to these elements‚ readers can compare and contrast similar poems. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg and “My city” by James Weldon Johnson are two poems that are similar‚ but in their own way different. These poems are similar in the fact that they both talk about the proud the feeling for their cities; their theme and tone are
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In Chicago people must carry a permit to have a concealed weapon and must have background checks before any purchase has been made. Unfortunately‚ it has the third highest murder rate within the US. Some argue that Chicago’s gun policy may be weak but it’s actually quite the opposite. The main problem for the people in the Chicago is the gangs that plague the city with violence. In an article from the New York Times by Monica Davey‚ she referred to a raid that the Chicago Police department
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CHICAGO — Next year is here. At exactly 11:47 local time‚ the Chicago Cubs won the World Series that has eluded them for 108 years. Fans who packed bars to watch the games on television near Wrigley Field — neither of which existed back in 1908 — erupted in cheers before swarming onto the streets just before midnight Wednesday to celebrate in the shadows of the statues of Cubs greats Ernie Banks‚ Billy Williams‚ Ron Santo and legendary announcer Harry Caray. As the game ended‚ the roar from inside
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Gang violence affects about 60 percent of most households. Gang violence have affected many lives over the years. In the cities of Chicago‚ violence is emerging a lot as the years go on. Gangs in the city of Chicago first started about the 1970’s‚ with 970 murders in one year. Gang violence occurred within and across racial and ethnic lines throughout Chicago. In the late 1960’s powerful black and Puerto Rican gangs joined forces with political groups. According to a report by the office of juvenile
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Chicago Gangs‚ Then and Now with Solutions Nick Crot Marist High School Abstract This paper deals with gang violence in the city of Chicago since the beginning of time. It takes a deep look into the history of Chicago gangs and how they interact today. Also the past problems the City of Chicago made when dealing with gangs and the problems that gangs today have and how Chicago has the worst gang problem in the country. Also how gangs have turned themselves into big‚ and lucrative enterprises
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