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    Jane Addams Contributions

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    “She died on May 21, 1935, at the age of 74, in Chicago Illinois” (Biography.com Editors 2014). Addams was successful that “she was the first American women to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace” (Deegan 1988). She has brought a lot of change and attitude toward helping women, improving working conditions…

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    for the day. Chicago is a city of many skyscrapers, traffic, and the odd smell of chocolate coming from the Boomer’s Chocolate Company. It is a city of shadows that casts a never-ending gloom, only to have it broken up into tiny fragments by the narrow gaps in-between buildings. The buildings have floor-to-ceiling windows, making the towers a true curtain of iridescent glass. I’ve been to Chicago many times as an adolescent, far too many for someone who’s still in elementary school progressing…

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    Carl Sandburg’s Chicago may be widely interpreted as one man’s visualization of his city. The author’s use of a sort of ordered free verse reflects the controlled chaos within the city itself. One must be well familiarized with Chicago and all of its parts and citizens to truly understand the order of the city’s work, play, and crime. Sandburg also uses numerous adjectives and similes, which applies a sort of personal, human-like aura to this city. In the first half of the poem, Sandburg…

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    Chicago River Analysis

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    Everybody loves the big city of Chicago, and knows that our drinking water comes from Lake Michigan. Well, imagine that water being filled with sewage and chemicals. That's the way that Lake Michigan used to be, and thanks to reversing the river, we will never have that problem again. A closer study of this historical event will illustrate how the workers completed this impossible sounding task, what impact this had on the Chicago people, and how reversing the river may have created more…

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    1.San Francisco, California Is there a valid argument to this? With San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate bridge, innovative Silicon Valley, and notable cable cars it is the zenith of American culture and spirit. It is also important to note that STANFORD hasn’t even been pointed out. Everything about the city screams: Improve! Improve! Improve! Another interesting fact about San Francisco is that during the Great Depression not a single bank failed. San Francisco is truly the epicenter of world…

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    skip school for the day, and explore the city of Chicago. Each one of them had a very different experience. There was Cameron, who always tried to avoid trouble at any cost. He spent the day being worried and nervous because he was out of his comfort zone. Sloane, who always went with the flow, enjoyed her day and was calm no matter what happened. Then there was Ferris, who took all of the risks he could, and was always positive and outgoing. Throughout my three years at Springman Middle School,…

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    There are many fires around Chicago, but one of the most popular fire is THE CHICAGO FIRE is the biggest fire in Chicago. They say that the fire started at the o'Learys barn but who did it actually . Luis M Cohn was a heavy drinker and gambler. He gambled with the o learys sons. He turned over $35,000 to a school to say that the O'Learys was a fake. The O'learys had a son that was a part of the cause of the fire. To this day scientists don't know what cause the fire but they know that it happen…

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    A couple members of the Wooster Emblem Club presented the Wayne County commissioners with a new flag for the newly renovated downtown courthouse Wednesday. President Carole Norris and her husband, Russ Norris, a marshal in the club, delivered the flag folded because its 15 feet by 25 feet size was too big to have open in the commissioners’ meeting room. The flag flow in the summer months is a bigger one, Commissioner Scott Wiggam said. A smaller flag is used in the winter because of the winds.…

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    Short Essay On Chicago

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    about Chicago. Chicago is the third largest city in the United states. The only cities that are bigger than chicago are Los Angeles and New York City. In perspective Chicago has 237 square miles of land.Chicago has approximately 2,695,598 residents with at least 40 million people visiting it every year. Speaking of people visiting Chicago, it is one of United states greatest attraction. Chicago is home to many famous buildings such as one of the Trump towers, Willis tower, and Aqua. Chicago…

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    Wal-Mart In Chicago

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    build two stores in the Chicago city area. Although Wal-Mart was currently in the Chicago Metropolitan area, it had no foothold in the city of Chicago itself (Baron 2010). However, Wal-Mart had previously experienced labor issues in the past with other states in the U.S. With those labor issues looming, Wal-Mart had a negative stigma when it tried to break into new markets. This was the case in Chicago in 2004 when Wal-Mart…

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