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    Chicago World's Fair

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    The Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 was a huge event! Not only because the World’s fair is a big deal‚ but this particular World’s fair was a hard one for Chicago to get. Many other big cities put in their bids to host the event‚ including New York and Washington D.C. On May 1‚ 1893‚ the gates opened at the World’s Columbian Exposition. This fair which was meant to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage also served as a showcase for a fully rebuilt Chicago. ”At the

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    Chicago Play Critique

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    Natalie Flowers Jv theatre 6th 31 October 2014 Chicago Play Critique The show takes place in Chicago‚ Illinois in the 1920s. It starts with Roxie Hart’s cold-blooded murder of Fred Casely. Roxie convinces her husband Amos that the man was a burglar‚ but then the police inform him that she knew the man and Amos gives her up to the cops. She is sent to the Cook County Jail where she meets Velma Kelly‚ Mama‚ and other murders. Mama gets her talking to the best lawyer in town‚ Billy Flinn‚ and with

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    A man stands before a crowd of two million‚ as he looks out over a podium on the steps of the capitol building. American flags adorn his stage. This man is Barack Hussein Obama‚ and he is about to be the 44th president of the United States. The two cities‚ Chicago‚ and Honolulu‚ Obama lived in show how different kinds of racism can affect the lives of black Americans. In Hawaii Obama attended Punahou High School where he made up a large majority of his school’s black population. In Hawaii‚ Obama

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    The Port Chicago Disaster

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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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    Organized Crime In Chicago

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    Chicago Organized Crime and Political Figures Organized crime in Chicago has existed for over a century‚ with its magnitude being extremely pronounced before the year of prohibition i.e. 1919. The gangsters took advantage of lucrative markets for illegal activities such as gambling‚ prostitution‚ robbery‚ hijacking and contract killing to extort. The popularity of the gang activities such as gambling was amplified by the hardships caused by depression; the poor citizens had high hopes of being released

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    The ‘Chicago School’ of criminology was emerged during the 1920s and 1930s. It sometimes described as the ‘Ecological School’ or theory of ‘Social Disorganization’ and it is the body of works in urban sociology. The Chicago School evolved there because the city of Chicago in late 19th and early 20th centuries desperately needed answers for its exponentially growing problem of delinquency and crime. This became a primary focus in the city of Chicago but now it is applied elsewhere. The Chicago School

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    Ruby Went Into The Subway

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    Ruby held onto her hat as the wind blew it back and forth‚ as she walked down the steps leading to the subway. She was heading to an art convention downtown‚ but Ruby had an eerie feeling about taking the subway a extremely creepy eerie feeling‚ because she always took a taxi. Rumors said that the subway was full of creepy bugs‚ blood‚ mask people all types of things‚ but she didn’t believe it soon Ruby finally made her way onto the subway‚ her stomach rumbled as if a lion and drum were in her stomach

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    However‚ a majority of the Mexico American population in Chicago originate from eight specific states in Mexico: 1. Michoacan 2. Guanajato 3. Jalisco 4. Guierro 5. Mexico City 6. Durango 7. State of Mexico 8. Zacatecas (Rodolfo and Quiroz). Mexican Americans have a significant presence and influence within Chicago ’s political‚ educational‚ economic‚ and religious structures. There are predominantly Mexican American communities in Chicago: "1. Pilsen 2. Little Village 3. Berwyn and

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    Sam Shepard's Chicago

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    Sam Shepherd’s Chicago: The Drama of Absurd The term “absurd” is no stranger to the contemporary man. It seems as if for the last seventy years since the beginning of its popularization we haven’t moved away from the same existential philosophy it stems from. Therefore‚ it could be said that the notion of absurdity is a prevailing element of postmodern art and of postmodern way of thinking in general. Ever since the term “absurd” was used by Alber Camus in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”

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    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: By Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks wrote a collection of narratives titled‚ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat‚ we see the suffering of those with neurological diseases‚ their attempts to cope with these diseases and the conclusions that Sacks makes on their conditions. Sacks is the physician in these narrative stories that tell about his studies of the person behind neurological deficits. Sacks’ interests are not only in the disease itself but also in the

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