Chicago as well as The Great Gatsby‚ shows the renowned lifestyles found in the Roaring 20 ’s beyond the glamour of lavish parties. Both the novel and the musical create an ambience where drinking is plentiful‚ sex is a fixation‚ and corruption is abundant‚ yet they both capture how exquisite and outrageous these worlds seem to audiences in the modern era. In these worlds‚ everything is ostentatious‚ whether it ’s the glitz found in the jazz club performers or the party-goers. Since The Great Gatsby discusses
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My final choice of topic will be my home town Chicago. I selected Chicago because it has been categorized for so long‚ I would like to try to open many people eyes that it is more to Chicago than violence. I strongly feel that Chicago is one of the most unpopular city by those who have never been and those who has visited as well. This paper is for the general audience anyone who has stereotyped and/or have a negative vibe of Chicago should listen up. I know most of you already are up to date
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America is often looked at in grand admiration as the home for a mighty melting pot of different people and their cultures. It is historically famous for being refuge for any type of people looking for a better life for themselves. It is a nation built from the ground up by hard-working immigrant hands‚ who came simply in the pursuit of life‚ liberty‚ happiness‚ and the American Dream. Every few generations‚ clusters of immigrants would flock to the country for that same simple reason; the dream
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Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy Kristen Torres AJS/502 May 6‚ 2013 Joseph Richard Gutheinz‚ Jr. J.D. Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy “Community policing is‚ in essence‚ a collaboration between the police and the community that identifies and solves community problems” (U.S. Department of Justice‚ 1994‚ p. vii). Throughout the years‚ community policing has become a more popular strategy to help law enforcement officials control and deter crime; however‚ some areas across the United
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verse‚ including Chicago Poems from 1916‚ Cornhuskers from 1918‚ and Smoke and Steel from 1920. He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day‚ perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life"‚ and at his death in 1967‚ many people observed that Sandburg was more than the voice of America‚ more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America (Carl Sandburg). 3) The modernist era was alive
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Chicago by Carl Sandburg Sociological Analysis From the respective viewpoints from and within the Jungle by Upton Sinclair and the poem Chicago by Carl Sandburg‚ we can evaluate the differences between the externally affecting thoughts of the ignorant‚ the oppressed‚ the oppressors‚ and how the caused behaviors affect conditions in societies. The fictional facets of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 depiction of Chicago and the same of Carl Sandburg’s 1914 depiction catalyze
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Chicago: The Legacy of Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg may be one of our most influential poets in American history‚ he knew the American working man and his necessities. Sandburg used his poetry to explicate to the economy how life is‚ can‚ and could be. Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg‚ Illinois January 6‚ 1878 to Swedish immigrant parents with the names of August and Clara Johnson. His family was extremely poor. Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs from bricklaying to
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NFC North Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are the professional football team from Chicago‚ Illinois‚ and forms part of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division of the NFL. The Bears was founded in 1919 and have since won nine NFL Championships and one Super Bowl. The team also hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the most retired jersey numbers. The Bears have also recorded more regular seasons and overall victories than any other NFL team
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Neighborhoods on the west side are similar to any other in Chicago. The area always seem gloomy to me‚ but the sun always seems to shine brightest on Sundays. Playing in the backyard of my grandmother’s house while waiting for dinner was something to look forward to. Sunday dinner were always packed with people I barely knew from the neighborhood. There were days during the week that strangers would come to my grandmother’s house to eat and hangout. The block that I grew up on was very welcoming
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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
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