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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…

the mentally ill, or for regular criminals for that matter, it is also very vital that the patients are given air or something to keep their hands busy. Dix later explains that if given the ability to keep their hands busy, and giving them jobs as normal civilians would have, it keeps a balance about them, and a peace that calms them and helps the curing process. “Of one hundred and fifty-eight cases remaining in the Hospital at Staunton in 1845, and in all probability doomed for life to endure…

Dorothea Dix was an inspirational woman and is a great role model for many people. She was a social reformer and an activist for the poverty-stricken and the mentally ill. During the Civil War, she was Superintendent of Army Nurses. She achieved many goals in her life and also accomplished more things in her life than many people. Dorothea Dix came into the world on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. Her parents, Joseph and Mary, had three children, and Dorothea was the firstborn. They lived in…

My Thesis: For soldiers returning from Afghanistan and adapting to a ‘normal’ life can be harder than fighting since there are so many factors that affect individual’s outcomes. Afghanada follows the lives of Canadian soldiers as they survive the war and becomes heroes. Episode 93 of starts off with, “the crowd in the turmoil is clapping and hollering, and then it hits me [Mason]. It is the uniform. They are clapping for me” (Mason episode 93). This shows that the soldiers, no matter…

panicked after one of my adventurous dreams. Though I can say this one was different. It was a spur of mixed emotions and what seemed to be the realest dream i 've yet come to experience. It all started out one night, right before midnight. I was on my normal daily routine binging on Netflix and eating something that I had probably sneaked up into my room to enjoy my show with. I love horror and action films. I can watch them all night, Which I actually ended up doing this one night. After…

The theory was used by researchers to interpret the events of post-9/11 era. Applying the Orientalism theory, Nayak (2006) argues that the ‘Self’/’Other’ dialectic is due to the fear of ‘Self’ from ‘Others’ and also the desperate need of ‘Self’ US to a coded Islamic fundamentalism of threatening ‘Others’. There is also a correlation between the Orientalism aspect of ‘Self’ or ‘West’ as a nation and the theory of ‘Imagined communities’, proposed by Anderson (1996). According to Anderson, nations…