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    History of Chicago Midterm March 16‚ 2012 Why was Chicago chosen to become the center of the 19th century growth? Experts have determined that 19th-century Chicago was the fastest-growing city in U.S. history. Census data show the population went from about 5‚000 in the early 1800s to more than 2 million by 1900. (Census) The population more than doubled every decade during the 19th century. This massive rate of growth was much faster than that seen in other large U.S. cities such as Boston

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    Wax Museum Experience

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    As I walked through the Blacks in Wax Museum I was both upset and happy by what I saw. Going into the slave ship and seeing the slaves being branded like livestock and shackled one on top of the other really brought to life the struggle that the slaves had to endure. I don’t understand how the white people can think of the slaves as less than human‚ and at the same time want to rape the women. The Lynching Exhibit opened my eyes to how cruel people can really be. What hit home was the story of pregnant

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    Olympic Museum Shop

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    Question 1 The directors of the Olympic Museum would like to know how to increase the shop performance since the shop should be an important source of income. What do you suggest? In particular‚ consider the product assortment‚ space allocation and point of sale information. Now we are in the role of the product manager for this company. We will try to give appropriate recommendations for improving performance. For the product assortment‚ we are considering both the quantitative data

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    Virtual Florida Museum

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    At the Virtual Florida Museum‚ there are many exhibits that correlate with and give more insight into the information learned in this course. The exhibits include information about World War 1‚ World War 2 and other various topics. The “Significant Documents” exhibit‚ which is what I will focus on‚ includes photographs‚ letters and other historical records. Of the many Significant Documents in the exhibit‚ the “World War 1 ‘National Crisis Day’ Proclamation‚ 1917” Document stood out to me the most

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    CDC Museum Observation

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    During the CDC museum visit‚ the two exhibits I found the most interesting were "Where Children Sleep: Photographs by James Mollison" and the Iron Lung. Both of these exhibits caught my attention and I learned a lot from the tour guide‚ especially about the iron lung and polio. The “Where Children Sleep” exhibit was very enlightening and it was fascinating to see how different children live across the united states and the world. In the photos that I took pictures of‚ there was a young boy form Italy

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    Denver Art Museum

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    just art it is much more than that and has a powerful meaning all which not only has my teacher shown me but my fellow peers as well. When first entering the art museum I can say I entered a completely different world. Art is said to be work that is made of skill and imagination and that is what I got as I explored the entire museum. I got the chance to explore each cultural theme from an art perspective some very similar but with different meanings. This made me eager to know who the face was

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    understand the final impression left on the average mind...as to the inward meaning of this dream of beauty. Of course‚ I don’t understand it‚ but then I don’t understand anything...”‚ Henry Adams‚ in a letter to Lucy Baxter‚ October 18‚ 1893 The Chicago worlds fair was a bustling whirlwind that swept the country’s grittiest city in 1893. A race was run by the nation’s top architects and landscapers to beat the clock and Paris’s previous display. The streets were dirty‚ the numerous train tracks dangerous

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    got rescheduled the next day through Chicago‚ so I went home to spend the night at my aunt’s house. The next morning‚ I got on a flight to Chicago‚ but when I got there‚ it turned out my flight home to NYC had been cancelled. Fortunately‚ my sister lives in Chicago‚ so I spent the night with her. The next morning I got up in the dark and got in a cab to go to the airport and sit on the waitlist for a flight home. It’s snowing‚ but nothing unusual for Chicago. As the cab speeded on the highway‚ it

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    Art Museum Report

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    During a recent visit to the San Antonio Museum of Art‚ I was able to view many pieces and types of artwork. This particular museum exhibits pieces that come from the period of the Ancient Egyptians all the way up to modern art. It was a very interesting experience and one that I would definitely like to repeat in the future. The piece that was most interesting to me was a Roman floor mosaic that depicts The Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs. A mosaic is a picture or pattern created by fixing together

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    Museum Observation Report

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    A few months ago I visited the History Colorado Center museum in Denver. One of the exhibits is about the internment camp Amache-Granada that is located in southeastern Colorado. It was a very nice exhibit‚ during the exhibit a video played that went over the history of Amache and the internment of the Japanese Americans. During the video there was a picture of little girl with her hand over her heart. The voice on the video said “When I went to school on December 8th‚ kids came up to me and shouted

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