Saint Louis Union Station The Saint Louis Union Station (Figure 1)‚ located on Market Street between the 18th Street and the 20th Street in downtown Saint Louis‚ was built in 1894 to be used as a train shed and transportation for travelers. This enabled the travelers to get around whether it is around St. Louis‚ around the United States‚ and even into Canada. The architect of the St. Louis Union Station is a German-American man named Theodore C. Link after he had won the design competition for
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Louis Vuitton‚ as one of the leading luxury brands in the world‚ it is also one of the most well-known and the most legendary fashion houses in the world with one of the richest history. It began over 150 years ago‚ where the Louis Vuitton started his career as a trunk maker in France. When he was an intern‚ he has extraordinary skill to the craft box for packing clothes made for the royalty. His skill in making the boxes and‚ of course‚ originality was the reason why he was able to build a strong
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bad luck or can really lead you to believe in a curse from generations ago from your no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather. Louis Sachar has contributed to American literature by writing children’s books‚ in which his greatest strength as a writer is his creation of imagery that produces imagery in the reader’s head. In the novel Holes‚ by Louis Sachar one of Sachar’s themes of the novel is that obstructing promises can be a crucial characteristic depicting the way one will live the
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Louis Kahn‚ born in 1901‚ was an American vastly known for his works as an architect. Alongside being an architect‚ he was an artist‚ teacher and to a certain extent a philosopher‚ some might label him as poet and one of the great thinkers of his time. Charles E. Dagit‚ Jr says ‘His was a genius that profoundly changed the course of architecture worldwide’. (Louis I. Kahn: Architect‚ 2013‚ page xi). Louis Kahn’s legacy began from an early age where in high school his teachers immediately noticed
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On December 25‚ 1878 Louis Chevrolet was born in the Bernese Jura region of La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland. When he was growing up he learned to repair and race bicycles. As a teenager he worked for a wine cellar‚ he invented a wine pump that made the process of making it even faster‚ it was used in that region for many decades. Louis went on to build his own bikes called Frontenac. That’s we’re he got the name for the car he made later own in his life. Louis eventually met William K. Vanderbilt a
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Plot:The story Holes is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. His whole family (except forhis mother) believes that the Yelnats family is under a curse. They always have bad luck. One day after Stanley is walking home from school‚ a pair of shoes fell from an overpassand hit him on the head. They were the shoes of a famous baseball player‚ ClydeLivingston. Stanley did not know‚ so he kept them and got arrested because hesupposedly stole them. He ends up going to a juvenile camp‚ Camp Green Lake. Hispunishment
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St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith and St. Louis Blues are two legends in the blues world‚ separately as well as together. When placed together one could not find a better example of classical blues from the 1920’s. St. Louis Blues is one of the most popular blues songs ever written. William Christopher Hardy wrote this song over 80 years ago. While on a trip to St. Louis‚ Hardy met a tormented black woman. She spoke to him in her deep southern broken English about the loss of her husband to another
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“ He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong they would always blame it on Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-great-great- grandfather.” In Louis Sachar’s book Holes‚ a boy named Stanley is falsely arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake accused of stealing a pair of sneakers.While at Camp‚ Stanley went through a lot of changes. Three of which caught my eye. Stanley has experienced lots of changes‚ but the most obvious one was his external strength. Text evidence from page7 says
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Louis Zamperini was the son of Italian immigrants‚ was born in Olean‚ New York on January 26‚ 1917. By the time Louis could walk‚ he was already hurdling over fauna and furniture. After the age of 2 they moved to California for his father’s job. Anytime he was sat down in a chair he would bolt. Louis could not sit still to save his life‚ always getting into trouble‚ then ran away. When he got older he went off into the Olympics and was one of the fastest runners there. He never gave up on what
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Introduction In the fall of 2014‚ Ferguson Missouri‚ a suburb 10 miles north of downtown St. Louis‚ became the sight of a full-blown riot‚ after the police killing of Michael Brown. Once the global media caught wind of the killing‚ the news spread like wildfire throughout America‚ as well as foreign nations. The purpose of this paper is to show how decades of corrupt politics‚ segregation‚ and deceptive real estate practices helped fuel the tension and fire of‚ not only Ferguson residents‚ but
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