Pullman

The films Primary Colors (1998), Election (1999), and The Ides of March (2011) focus around political campaigning, all having one major theme in common: political campaigns reveal one’s true character as well as shape it. Primary Colors and The Ides of March both focus on candidates and campaign teams who are running for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination. Although Election is instead about high school students running for student body president and the teacher who oversees the…

g” (49). Race is societal and cultural in America, so is gender. And interweaving with them is the issue of class. The ideology about race, gender and class in American society indicates hierarchies that values white over black, males over females. Deriving from this hierarchy are oppression and revolt that keep shaping America till today. Movie is one of the lens for examining this hierarchy in America, both reflecting the ideology of societies and influencing it—the 1934 and 1959 versions of…

The Purple Gang in Detroit History During the liquor prohibition in Detroit which happened from 1920-1933. As a result of Michigan passing a law and adopting the Damon Act that banned liquor from being sold and consumed in the town, organized crime began taking shape during this era as Jewish gangsters controlled the underworld of the American society (Kavieff, 20). The Purple Gang was led by one of four brothers by the name of Abe Bernstein and it was formed by young Jewish immigrants as a…

In the mid to late 1800’s, there were many issues surrounding human equality, both in and out of the educational system. The struggles over social class, social status, race, and gender equality helped shape the educational system between 1850 and 1900. Through external factors, foreign influences, educational movements, progressive leaders, and legislative acts, vocational education began putting its roots deeply into American soil. Several external factors led to the need for new ways of…

opened right into her own living room. Now though it looked like her real living room, everything was brighter and had a more welcoming atmosphere. Coraline was lured by the smell of real home cooking when she discovered her mother in the kitchen. Pullman said, “When she discovers a sinister woman there, who looks a little like her mother but has eyes that are big black buttons, the matter-of-factness of the woman's response when Coraline says "Who are you?" is both disarming and terrifying.…

at that time was still Key West. It wasn’t until a fire that destroyed the factory in Key West in the spring of 1886 that Ybor moved his operation completely to the Tampa Bay Area. In the construction of Ybor’s plot would join the likes of George Pullman and other business industries at that time to create a company town. Even though the settlement would turn out on a smaller scale than Pullman’s, the creation of Ybor City was purposely meant to be palatial. Ybor’s hope was that the amount of…

government's economy. In the letter from the Governor’s Office to J. Elmore Martin, on October 3, 1918, it shows how the government responded to violations of the law by stating, "There seems to be a well organized traffic in liquor, not only so far as the Pullman porters are concerned, but among the negroes of the town as well...it might be well for Mr. Eichelberger to look into the whole matter before making any arrests" (Governor’s Office). The travels taken by those that helped ensure the…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…