People from Chicago, Illinois

president, accepted his nomination for the United States presidential election of 2012 for his second term. Both Romney and Obama mention important issues in their speeches but from opposing points of view. One of the issues they both mention to address and president their main argument was military expense. American people were really concern about the safety and project of the Nation. According…

college, Eggers was still able to establish a successful writing career (Albert). Eggers’ took stylistic ideas, such as a society without privacy, and a story abundant with post modernism traits from his main influences, which were Don Delillo and George Orwell. Overexplaining, trying to differentiate from young adult novels, and shifting between realism and fantasy are also techniques used by Eggers in The Circle. These techniques and characters lack of depth are the main complaints critics…

The Second Amendment Some people in the United States of America feel that the Second Amendment should be removed due to crimes in this country. Others feel that if the amendment was removed, the brutal death rates would increase, creating more harm than good. Although most people believe that guns can be dangerous, we should not amend the Second Amendment because people need guns for home and self defense, guns are a reliable source to help put food on the table, and they are also a way to…

American president in U.S. history. During the election for president, many candidates had promised the people of America that they will make America better. Little did the American people know that the candidates only did this to get people's votes. Instead of making false promises to the people of America, Barack Obama was the only candidate that used the word “change (NPR)” to make the American people interested in what was going to happen. During his presidency, Obama has brought changes to…

individuals suffer from Chronic homelessness. (Define Chronic Home) Astonishingly enough it was determined in 2014 that 48,208,387 families in this country are part of the population that is at risk of living on the streets. Most suffer from what is termed severe housing lost burden and 250,000 live here in Illinois. A survey performed in 2015 by the U. S Conference of Mayors determined that 14% of the homeless population is employed but they don’t have an adequate place to live. Even in Chicago…

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the death penalty? Do you think it’s unjust? Most people cringe at the thought. Even though not all states participate in the death penalty, it’s legal. Should it not? Capital punishment has guidelines and plenty of cases gone astray. Meaning cases end up being found innocent after they just died over misleading evidence. Do we use the death penalty too often and too hastily? The first known death penalty law was in the…

encompasses the spirit of all women when it comes to breaking the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling being a figurative barrier, which restricts some social groups of moving up in the corporate ladder. This is especially taxing for black people as a whole; in the Fortune 500 black people make only up to .8 percent of the companies on the entire list.(Berman) The number goes even further down when the topic goes to black women. Black female CEO’s are a rarity in the United States, so much so that a…

The Oxford dictionary defines a serial killer as a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break, known as a "cooling off period” between them. Many characteristics or signs can be displayed by a serial killer that they do not have any control over. Some of these characteristics and signs being: very antisocial, arson, early childhood abuse, peeing the bed…

lots of people putting their belongings into bins and walking through sensors, but you what you might not notice is that people of color are looked at more carefully by security guards. Their belongings are scoped out completely, this is just one example of racial profiling. Racial profiling happens everywhere by everyone. Racial profiling should be illegal because it lowers self-esteem of people of color, doesn’t always target the right people, and goes along with the stereotype people are…

No longer did people worry about where the money came from, but how much money they had. These socioeconomic shifts can be seen and deeply correlated with the newspaper articles of the fight of 1927 between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. The prosperity of the times was reflected by the amount of people and money at the event in spite of the pouring rain that evening. The fight brought a sellout crowd of around 150,000 men and women packed inside Soldier Field in Chicago,…