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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…

The Art Institute of Chicago is a Museum and art school located in the Michigan Avenue near Grant Park, across Lake Michigan in Chicago. It is one of the most important art museums of the United States, along with the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It has one of the most important permanent collections of paintings of Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the world. Was founded in 1879 and was George Armour its first president. In 1893, the museum was…

B efore this disaster happened, Chicago was a big town. There was a huge population. Everyone was there cause there were lots of resources. All the buildings were connected and made of wood. There was no fire protection in between buildings. The fire’s start is still unknown, however some belief it was started in a barn. They believe the night of October 8th, 1817, that Mrs. O’Leary was milking her cow. Then her cow knocked over a lantern and started a small fire. Then the people called the…

Dr. Resnick’s own conclusion was that Yates was severely mentally ill because she reported having delusions and hallucinations. The first explanation of this was that Yates didn’t want her children to burn in hell so she drowned them because she couldn’t bear to do nothing about it. The second explanation was that Yates kept her psychosis to herself because she was under the delusion that Satan could hear what she said and force her own children. The third reason was that Yates believed it would…

Helping those in need usually does not take a second glance from most people. In 1848, the state of North Carolina seemed to turn a blind eye on those who were mentally incapable of taking care of themselves. Dorothea Dix, an advocate for a rights movement stepped forward. Dorothea Lynde Dix uses her voice as an advocate to appeal to the State to speak out against treatment and negligence of the mentally ill and insane. She uses representation, shows examples of democracy in her explanations, as…