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Introduction The case of Blagojevich versus the United States involves Blagojevich being accused of a conspiracy to choose Barack Obama’s choice for senate seat in exchange for a job, giving the seat to Jesse Jackson Jr. in exchange for campaign contributions, trying to extort money from campaign contributions from Patrick Magoon who was the President of Children’s Memorial Hospital, and trying to extort money from campaign contributions from John Johnston, who was a horseracing executive.…

predecessor George W. Bush. In the end Carroll states, “Obama’s record also has to be seen in the context of a couple of larger economic phenomena that provided no help to his score: the need to reduce consumer debt that had soared under George W. Bush (“de-leveraging”) along with excessive real-estate inventory, and the below-average growth in the global economy after the financial crisis. Both proved to be sustained drags on the U.S. economy, but were no fault of…

On October 8th, 1871, a tremendous fire broke out in the city of Chicago. Everyone had been doing their normal daily deeds when an unexpected fire started. The fire killed hundreds and left thousands homeless. This disaster fire grew quickly making it difficult to stop it as it spread north and east to the center of the city. Many people still to this day do not know or have evidence on how this chaos began. Although there are many theories about it, the O’Leary cow theory is the most…

drew him back to Orleans County. He stayed in Orleans County for eight years to help with the family farm. In the year of 1837 he married a young woman by the name of Clarissa Foster, in the city of Clarendon, New York. Then after marriage, moved to Illinois. Clarissa and Glidden had three children together. His children’s names with Clarissa were Virgil Glidden, Homer Glidden, and the third one was not named because it died shortly after birth. There are no specific dates on when his children…

The route to ministry for Billy was through college. One of the South’s leading evangelists, Bob Jones, came to Charlotte to speak at a high school to recruit students to attend Bob Jones College in Cleveland, Tennessee. Billy’s parents believed that this was the place for their son (Bruns, 2004). In the fall of 1936, Graham went off to Cleveland to begin his studies. Graham thought that the college was more strict than a prison (Bruns, 2004). For example, a couple could not hold hands and mail…

Sandburg wrote in different times in his life. Also throughout my realization, I will talk about how he has used countless examples of personification. He uses personification and relates back to his life and home. Carl Sandburg grew up in Galesburg Illinois. His parents emigrated from North Sweden and change their family name from Johnson to Sandburg. His family was very poor which forced him to leave school at the age of 13 and work random unstable jobs to help support his family. At the age…

I still remember the aroma of food as I walked into Dunkin Donuts with my mom and brother on an icy winter night. After paying for food, I had a penny leftover. As soon as we went outside, acting like an idiot, I chucked the penny as far as I could. My mom became infuriated and yelled “You will find the penny or you will not go home!” As her and my brother waited in the warm car, I walked around in the freezing cold looking for a small penny that got lost in the taunting snow (Personification).…

The world is full of many professions which each have their own upsides and downsides. Some require tedious work and long hours, others require short hours with relative laid back work. Another possibility is meeting in the middle of these two polar opposites, such as the field of farming. It requires dedication and long hours of semi laid back work load. My own grandfather chose this as his life long profession and made his own successful lifestyle out of it. In an interview with my grandfather…

Problem and Background The Barack Obama Presidential Center, which will be located on 63rd and Stony Island in Jackson Park, is close in proximity to the Washington Park neighborhood (Kennedy, 2016). Due to open in 2021, this presidential center is the first of its kind, as it is the first presidential library in an urban city and the first presidential library of an African American president. Many community leaders and residents in Washington Park believe it will have the potential to uplift…

The Great Chicago Fire was one of the most horrible disasters in history. The incident was when the city of Chicago experienced a horrible spread of fire from an unknown source. Before the fire, Chicago was a huge city that was mostly made out of a very flammable type of wood, and during the time the city had not gotten any rain, and the winds caused the fire to spread even faster. The fire was said to be started at Catherin O’Leary’s barn, and many people say that it started when she was…