The city of Chicago built with no regards to fire safety, such as still growing skyscrapers with no exterior forms of access leads only to pandemonium in the event of trying to escape a fire with only one exit as the only viable option. Lastly, Chicago sits on soggy marshlands and to combat this problem Chicago covers the city with fifty-miles of pine block streets and six hundred miles of wooden sidewalk over twenty-three thousand acres of the city, an estimated 2/3 of the city stands on the foundation of wood (Murphy…
You may think that mrs. O'Leary’s cow started the great Chicago fire. You may think it was pegleg Sullivan, but have you ever considered natural causes. Take a moment and think about it— ok that's enough thinking. There was a drought fires started nearly every day. Interested then keep reading for facts about the cause of the Chicago fire.…
CLAIM: we still don't know who started the great Chicago fire started Reason 1: the great Chicago fire did not start by Mrs. O’leary’s cow. It all started with chon and Mrs O'leary's son because the kids were supposed to be in bed but they got out in bed and they started playing with craps and if they were in bed the fire would have never even happened. Evidence: Mrs O'leary's cow did not start the fire.…
There was only a few fireproof buildings in Chicago. Also if they had furniture most of it was wood, mostly everything was wood. If you think that’s bad to make it worse the wood was dry from the drought. Only the rich could afford a brick or fireproof house. Then if the poors house burnt down most of them didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford it.…
The Atmosphere on chicago was a very sorrow and vulgar and well it wasnt overall the best atosphere as before do to the electoral problems and overall the difficult for the cubs over 208 years. The reaction at the authors Cub's hat at hersigning book pl;ace well people really gave thumbs up do because it was a cubs hat and well in chicago people really love the cubs. The effect that the book sales might had been a big impact because she signed section she signed her name and putted "GO Cubs" and that pursuit people to be attracted to the book and well she was overall it made it very clear that people should be more attaracted and see how much of a big impacts the cubs have in chicago. Ebullience to me it would be the concern about how overall…
The Great Chicago Fire The Great Chicago Fire devastated an area of the city that was about 4 miles long and nearly a mile wide. The fire burned from October 8 to October 10 in 1871. That October had been dry and the fact that The Windy City was made entirely of wood made it especially vulnerable to fire. Legend has it that the blaze was started in the O’Leary’s barn, where a cow kicked over a lantern while being milked by Mrs. O’Leary.…
"Death on the Prairies:The Murderous Blizzard of 1888" This story is also known as The Schoolhouse Blizzard due to the blizzard that hit on January 12,1888 in the Dakota and Nebraska area. There were more than 100 million people of all races moving to Dakota and Nebraska. Because of the Homestead Act of 1862 had promised 160 acres of free land to any citizen who lived on and improved the land for five years. The blizzard killed 250-500 people.…
Throughout the short story “The Weather” by Deborah Willis there are many present themes, perhaps the most common and recurring one is how people can affect each other and their relationships, and how fast they can change between “passion and sweetness and sadness.” The ever changing relationships between the three main characters Edith, Braden, Rae and even Nina, the non-existent mother, are a constant drama throughout the story. The changes between Edith and her father is ever-changing, in the beginning her hostility towards her father is increasingly present when Braden, her father recalls how she said to her mother after the storm “Even then, she used that cold tone. “He’s here, mom.…
Rough Copy Aumio Islam The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial”. Inherit the Wind was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and premiered in 1955. In the play, Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney, has three characteristics that negatively influence his conduct during the play.…
Chicago in 1871 was a city ready to burn and the author Jim Murphy showed all the reasons why Chicago suffered the death rays of heat. First of all, most of the buildings were made up of wood. Wood is flammable and can make fire spread very easily. Almost every sidewalk in Chicago was made of wood as well, which would help out the fire.…
The beautiful streets in Chicago were once burning buildings and smoke, the waters were once bridges leading on the flames, but what does Chicago look like now? The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event. The fire left many areas in ashes, but now they have rebuilt their city into a modern town with many skyscrapers and monuments. Chicago's architecture has transformed the town because they have fixed the construction issues flaws of 1871, Chicago was built from ashes and now plays an important role in our society, and Chicago hs put in years of effort to prevent another fire like “The Great Chicago Fire” The construction of Chicago had a large impact on the Great Chicago Fire.…
The Grate Chicago Fire The Great Chicago Fire started on October 10 1871 around a barn at 137 Dekoven street. “The Chicago water tower and plumbing station at Michigan and Chicago avenues are among the few buildings to have survived the fire”. everything burned down because the city was mostly built of wood.…
As the powerful Colorado River churned beneath me, as it has for centuries, and the relentless sun peaked over the top of the North Rim, I could not help but feel astounded. I was in a timeless place: a place disconnected from the society I had left behind miles ago. Down here, in the lowest section of the Grand Canyon, it was just me, my friends, and the heat. Always the heat. We had started our journey, a run from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim to the South Rim, at 4 AM in a futile attempt to avoid the skyrocketing temperature and finish before the sun became the determining factor in the success of our venture.…
“I’ve always had a knack for school... It was as if school were a vast machine and I a cog perfectly formed to fit it… not that my education was always easy. There's a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives from every angle, urging us along the paths of time. Those who are strong-willed may fight the storm and possibly choose their own road, while the weak must go where they are blown. I say I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.”…
A lot of people travel to New York and Florida personally; I travel to New York a lot because that's where I am originally from. I love traveling back and forward to New York and Florida and seeing the difference between the states. The weather, the fashion and the lifestyle are totally different when going from Florida to New York. I love the difference that we have from New York, I learn something new every time. People ask me all the time would I move back to New York and my answer will remain, no not if I don't have to…