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Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii. He moved to United States where he graduated from Harvard Law school. He worked as a community organizer, lawyer, and lecturer at University of Chicago Law School before starting his political career. Obama’s main cause was to promote peace among nations. He spoke a lot about a just war, and coming to agreed upon decisions without violence between nations. Being the President of the United States, it is easy to get drunk off power,…

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Transmuted America is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. Mr. Larson relishes to embroider the past. So he relentlessly fuses history and regalement to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel, consummate with abundant cross-cutting and foreshadowing. Mundanely these might be alarming tactics, but in the case of this material they do the artifice. Mr. Larson has indicted a dynamic, enveloping book filled…

Judy Garland was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on June, 10 1922. Her mother’s name was Ethel Marion and her father’s name was Francis Gumm. Judy was the youngest in her family. Judy’s two older sisters were Suzanne Gumm and the other sister was Mary Jane Gumm. Garland began performing at age of two. She performed dance acts with her sisters.They were known as the Gumm sisters. In 1936 at age of thirteen, Judy signed a contract to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Later that year, Garland appeared in…

George E. Merrick • General purpose: to inform • Special purpose: to inform my audience about George Merrick and his great design of the City of Coral Gables A. Introduction I) Attention getter: according to George (2011), 80 years ago, a city that covered 10,000 acres, had total of $150 million in sales and over $100 million spent on construction (para. 10) II) Credibility statement: I had been living at Coral Gables since 2011, where I visited the Merrick House, Coral Gables Museum, and…

The Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that is divided into four different parts. The last part takes the reader into two perspectives. One perspective is of Daniel Burnham who was the architect that built the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair. The book describes of the obstacles that Daniel and his partner John Root had to overcome. These obstacles include the two of them having to figure out an attraction more spectacular than the Eiffel Tower. Also, Daniel was left building the fair by…

the 1900’s, Chicago was not highly thought of and had a bad reputation. Common phrases that Chicago was known by was “Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads, and the Nation’s Freight Handler, Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.” (lines 1-5). During this era, Chicago was widely known as a city that was perfect for crime, or was otherwise known as the “The Corrupt City’’. Carl Sandburg was conscious of this reputation that Chicago had created…

Have you wondered where the first cupcake was made? The first cupcake was made in Beverly Hills, California. The first cupcake bakery name was Sprinkles. In 2012, was when cupcakes were getting really popular and a lot of people were coming and buying 4 cupcakes at a time. Candace Nelson was the first to open the first cupcake bakery in the world. Amelia Simmons helped out while making the first batch of cupcakes in the world. When Candace Nelson customers were aggressive to taste the…

Momah Hugh A00018500 Essay 22nd February, 2016 Life and Times of Robert Capa. Robert Capa whose real name was Endre Ernõ Friedman was born on the 22nd of October, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary and died on the 25th of May 1954. Robert was a Jewish combat photographer and a photojournalist who photographed mostly wars. He photographed many popular war like the Spanish civil war, the second Sino-Japanese war, the World War II across Europe and many other popular wars which shuck the world. Capa had…

On Monday, September 21, the themes that stood out for me was segregation and racism in Chicago. For example, the neighborhoods are segregated in such a way that minorities are kept out from prosperous neighborhoods and have fewer resources available to them. This means that Latino and African American minorities have less wealth and prosperity to excel in school or in the job market. For that reason, this reminds me of my own experience of how my high school was neglected, due to the majority…

The definition of language is a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition but for me language has another meaning. For me language is the key to obtain my success. I have taken me four years to learn English and it has been worth it. Being capable to read and write in English has opened many doors into professional and personal opportunities. In Fields of Reading there are…