In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World; the 1893 Chicago World’s Exposition was a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of his ‘discovery’ of the New World (the Americas). After winning hosting rights‚ Chicago used the fair to show the world that it had risen from the ashes of the devastating 1871 Great Chicago Fire. Jackson Park served as the six-month exposition’s venue and Daniel Burnham was the lead architect that supervised the design and planning of the exposition’s major
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Devil in the White City “The wait was electric.” pg. 12 Electricity flows through bodies. People‚ humans‚ are conductors of electricity‚ and the wait spread through the crowd. The excitement was spreading. “Felt the electricity more keen than most.” pg. 14 The men working on the project are waiting and are more sensitive to the excitement than the crowd. “Both passed easily‚ and I flunked‚ having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.” pg. 19
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Breaking Down "The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka’s beginning of his novel‚ "The Metamorphosis‚" begins with what would seem a climactic moment: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." From this point on‚ the reader is determined to make sense of this transformation. However‚ the reader later comes to realize that Gregor is actually not an insect‚ but this metamorphosis into a vermin was purely symbolic. It symbolizes
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"The Devil in The White City" is a book written about the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair but simultaneously tells the true story of Americas first serial killer‚ H.H. Holmes. The story begins in 1890 when the bidding of the location for the first World Fair in honor of Columbus discovering the Americas is released. The author‚ Eric Larson‚ introduces the stories mood by describing Chicago as a morally declining city making it the perfect target for someone like H.H. Holmes. Larson tells that in this
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The Ups and Downs of the NYSE Abstract This paper uses an online dataset provided by our Econometrics class that shows the fluctuation in price as well as the return on investments found in the New York Stock Exchange over a certain period of time. In this paper I will demonstrate through the use of Gretl how the return on investment affects the future price of the investment. As well as why fluctuations in price are directly affected by the returns of the investment. Keywords: Price‚ Returns
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The Devil in the White City attempts to contrast the glorious achievements of Burnham and Root transforming windswept swampland on the shores of Lake Michigan with the despicable activities of one of America’s most vile serial killers. Both entities constructed edifices to exacting specifications: A fair to delight the public and establish Chicago as a world class city and a "murder palace" to satisfy murderous desires. The book shows the loss of America’s innocence in both a good and bad w
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A day when nothing went right Oh my god! I’m late! I awake when I heard my mother knock out my door and shouted “why are you still sleeping? You aren’t have a date with your friends? Now already 11 o’clock! “ . Actually I have to reach the railway at 9 o’clock‚ I have late for two hours! I faster dress up myself and rush to the kitchen went for food as breakfast. However I can’t found any food in the kitchen my mother said that she thought I had go to my dating so she didn’t prepare my breakfast
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Activation of Top-Down Processing in Speech Comprehension Speech comprehension is how we interpret messages that we hear. This is often presented to us in dialogue where we can see and interact with the other party‚ but we must also be able to understand speech in other mediums such as over the telephone‚ through the media‚ or over a tannoy announcement in a supermarket or on public transport for example. Top down processing describes how we infer meaning when information
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NEWS FLAVOR http://newsflavor.com/opinions/airbus-a380-what-went-wrong/ Airbus A380: What Went Wrong? [pic]Published by Miqdad Sibtain on March 12‚ 2009 in Opinions “In most airline programmes of this size – including those of our competitors – things can run a little later than originally planned.” – Airbus spokesman. “I am extremely sorry vis-à-vis investors that have placed their confidence in EADS. This announcement came as a big blow. But we will create recovery.” - Noel Forgeard
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such as a miner‚ can seem like a dystopia. In the text “Klondike Gold Rush” ‚ the author describes a plot of ambitious miners baring treacherous conditions only for a chance to strike fortune. From a conflicting viewpoint ‚ the passage “A Woman Who Went to Alaska” by May Kellogg Sullivan shares a slightly different view‚ considering the miners got the pleasure of coming across a property of riches but only to have their riches stolen from their grasp by the government. Going over these excerpts I
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