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Everyone knows the famous scarred face of the Italian Al Capone that earned him the name Scarface. Following is a brief detail of his life. Life Al Capone belonged to a relatively poor immigrant Italian family. The only way he found possible to turn the poor lifestyle of his family to a rich one was through crime. Though he belonged to a rather respectable and professional family, h turned to crime to earn his income. Early in the year 1894, Al Capone’s father came to New York amongst many…

In ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Lorraine Hansberry, dreams serve purpose of believing for a better life that can benefit everyone involved. While the entire screenplay has various prominent visions mentioned, the Youngers eventually strive for not only a realistic goal, but something they rightfully deserve. A few were sacrificed, albeit it took character growth and maturity to realize what was truly important to keep their family united. Nevertheless, getting towards fulfilling this one life-long…

In the heart of downtown Seattle is Pike Place Market. It is one of the most well-known farmer’s market that sits on about nine acres of land from Pike Street north to Virginia Street and from 1st Avenue west to Western Avenue. While it encompasses a large area in between Downtown Seattle and Elliot Bay, it maintains only one address which is 1st Ave and Pike St., Seattle, WA. The “main arcade” is the top of a seven-story structure that houses over 225 independent shops. The main arcade houses…

When most people think about the Chicago suburbs they tend to think of it as a better environment for their children to be raised in. Some parents even up root their entire lives to move their kids to the suburbs. All done in hopes of providing a better life for their children. By getting them away from the dangers of the inner city life style. In their minds they are leaving behind street gangs, a run-down school system, and drugs. There has always been a certain set of higher expectations of…

suburban communities was Riverside, Illinois, located along a railway nine miles west of the Chicago Loop. It was designed by landscape architect Frederick Las Olmstead and became what one Olmstead biographer called an “agreeable” community, “knit in upon itself by curving streets, a place apart but in the convenient reach of a great city.” (Mitchell) Then, at the end of World War II, the U.S. was faced a critical housing shortfall as young G.I.’s sought a place to start a family, and quickly…

returned to Chicago in the summer for an internship at Sidley and Austin law firm where he met his wife Michelle Patterson, a Chicago native and Princeton and Harvard graduate. Michelle was his supervisor at the firm and after a four-year of dating, they married in 1992. Obama implemented Illinois project vote, a voter registration drive aimed to increase black turnout in the 1992 election. He then took a position as an attorney at civil rights firm and a professor at the University of Chicago…

In 1994, the administrators of the Milwaukee Art Museum set out to create a " majestic new entrance, a point of orientation for visitors and a redefinition of the Museum's identity through the creation of a powerful image." Up to that time, there were two buildings that made up the Milwaukee Art Museum, one, the main building that had been designed by Eeron Saarinen in 1957 in homage to the victims of the war, also another addition that was projected by the architect David Kahler in 1975 by…

something new rather than the alternative athlete that I’ve done biographies on in the past. The novel shows the stories of two different people during the time of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, one man being Daniel Burnham, and the other was Holmes. For my project I focused more on H.H. Holmes due to myself having more interest in using him for my project. Burnham was…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes place in a few different places. It’s based in a suburban town in the USA. The plot is taking place in Greg’s home, school, his neighborhood, and his grandma’s house. It takes place in present times. Greg is in school during the book as well. The main character is Greg Heffley, he narrates the book. Greg has trouble with his friends, friends, and at his new middle school. Somehow and someway, Greg always finds a way to get through his problems. Although, he handles…

segregation, integration, sexism, and dreams, to portray the cultural, economic, and social hardships a lower class African American family; the Younger’s. Hansberry uses the Younger family to symbolize the oppressive society, in the Southside of Chicago, during the late 1950’s. In the play, the Youngers are faced with racial discrimination and segregation between blacks and whites in society, as well as their own personal conflicts, and conflicts among their family. Throughout the play, these…