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analyze the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the life of serial killer H.H. Holmes to contextualize the many contradictions of United States culture in the 1890s. In 1890, a majority voted that Chicago be the home for the World Columbian Exposition of 1893. The architects and city planners of Chicago envisioned a city that would “surpass the brilliance of the Paris…

I have had the great opportunity to have lived in several different locations around the United States. Branching off into three states and then subcategorized into cities based on the location of each. I have traveled the United States for many years, traveling from one city to another. Staring from birth I have moved and lived in many different homes, classifying each location into states and from there branching off into cities. I have had the great fortune of living in Texas first. Texas…

In the global city of Washington, DC, gentrification related to affordable housing and social/racial tensions is becoming more and more prevalent. This, in turn, is affecting the future of the community and having adverse implications for the city’s old and new inhabitants. Gentrification is the practice of revitalizing or reforming a community to appeal to higher-class tastes, most often the tastes of the white middle-class. While gentrification is sometimes associated with increases in…

Force of Change by Alexis Rockman created in 2017 depicts the junction of the Niagara River, the Erie Canal, and Lake Erie particularly near Buffalo, New York. The painting displays the utter beauty of the Great Lakes, all the while exploring the dangerous forces that threaten them. The piece is one of a series done by Alexis Rockman called “Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle” currently displayed in the Grand Rapids Art Museum from January 27 to April 29. Through the use of several different…

became convinced that it would be a good thing to rent a house in a part of the city where many primitive and actual needs are found” (Addams, 48). Addams then went on to buy a 43,560 ft^2, later known as the Hull House, in a poor neighborhood of Chicago, with her friend Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House remained her home until her death in 1935. These early experiences, all before the age of 30, helped mold Jane Addams into the reformer she became. Addams didn’t have any financial backing or…

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…

The well known and respected activist Jane Addams wrote and delivered a speech in honor of George Washington’s birthday to Chicago’s Union League Club on February 23, 1903. Within the course of her speech she affirms her views on the significance of George Washington’s legacy. In addition, she uses George Washington’s legacy to make a point about the then-modern day society that she and the audience lived in. In order to effectively communicate her point, Jane Addams uses lots of rhetorical…

lifestyle by the age of 30. Living that lifestyle, always comes with a price; especially if it’s not legal at all. Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone rose in the 1930s to become one of the most notorious mob bosses in history. His actions not only affected the Chicago area, but had a major impact on the gangster himself. Prohibition, Gambling Dens, Whorehouses, and Gang Murders all made him the popular mob boss that everyone knows about today. Capone was born on January 17th, 1899 in Brooklyn, New…

of the black experience in Chicago through segregation and the hidden or blatant racism Black people like me experience. The play is written by Lorraine Hansberry a black female writer that wrote A Raisin in the Sun for Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry is from Chicago and understands what it is like to live in segregated housing in the city. A Raisin in the Sun revolves…

to a 2016 audience in Chicago. And in saying so, there are plenty of parallels to draw within the setting of the show and the Chicago area itself. Washington Heights, the small, urban neighborhood in which In the Heights takes place, compares to many of Chicago’s smaller neighborhoods. In being similar to Washington Heights (along with holding the mutual relationship of just being a part of a large urban city in the United States of America), various neighborhoods in Chicago have a vibrant…