Southern Illinois

up near Springfield, I have spent a great deal of time on the ISU campus. My grandma is an alum; my aunt played volleyball for ISU in the 80s and now works in the athletic department; and my cousin is a current presidential scholar. I have visited Illinois State University numerous times. I have even cheered on my high school Rockets in Redbird Arena at state tournaments and attended graduation ceremonies and athletics camps several summers. Being so familiar with the campus makes me excited to…

Barack Obama President Barack Obama was one of the most talked president. He was being talked a lot because he was our first black president. A lot of people didn’t believe in him during the first months of him winning the debate. They thought that he wasn’t going to get anything accomplished or wouldn’t helped the citizens of the U.S. In discussion of Barack Obama. I believe this point in time was important because, he was able to turn the country to a better place by creating laws and…

“Taking a break from social media for a week should be an easy task,” I thought to myself. Oh boy, was I wrong! When I sat down and thought about how much time a day I spend on social media, mindlessly scrolling through posts I don’t really care about, I was surprised. I didn’t think I spent that much time on social media. On a daily basis, I spend about 2-4 hours on Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, and other forms of social media collectively. A Digital Diet was just what I needed in order to cut…

Dorothea Lynde Dix: A Defender And Protector Dorothea Dix advanced the world of assisting the mentally ill in giant leaps and strides. Some may feud over how important Dorothea is, but those who know her story know the truth. Not only did she nurture the mentally ill, she also felt responsible for the blind and deaf, and she cared for those who could not care for themselves. Dorothea was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. Her father was a puritan pastor, and her mother stayed home and…

The Chicago Fire Chicago, 1871 it was a day like no other. It was a day where everything went to flames. It was the time where sacrifices were made. It is a day of the great chicago fire. It was a city ready to burn. It was like any other day in chicago, it was sunday the wind was blowing very hard, it had been like this for a while now, the people of chicago pretty much got used to it, but that is not all to the story. In the windy city mostly everything was ready to burn. One of the…

Pre-War A. The Company Cain & Abel Weapons Manufactory, initially located in Antarctica, was founded in the year 3014, by a man by the name of Edelman Francis. When asked why he decided to start a company whose sole purpose was to thrive off the death and destruction of war he said, "I am simply a business man. Nothing more". In the first 50 years after the company began dealing military grade weapons to the highest paying governments, Cain and Abel Manufacturing became one of the top grossing…

Mr. Crawford English II 6 March 2018 Final Draft The Great Chicago Fire was fire that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. This fire killed up to 300 people, it also destroyed about 3.3 miles square miles of Chicago Illinois and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event, but there were some benefits that came after the deadliest fire in the history of the United States of America. Many people are only told about the…

In his 2009 Inaugural Address, former President Barack Obama analyzes the crises the United States was going through at the time and defines what he intends to do to fix them. Obama’s purpose is to build faith in his people and encourage them to take action. He adopts a confident tone in order to empower the citizens of the United States. Obama effectively evokes feelings of pride and determination in his audience through use of parallelism, metaphor, and anaphora. Obama begins his speech by…

The Bad Boys The Detroit Pistons is one of the NBA’s most iconic organizations. It was not always sunshine and rainbows in Detroit though. The 1976-77 ended the season with the record 44-38, and lost in the first round of the playoffs. This would be their last winning season for the next seven years. The Pistons in the late seventies had picked up a reputation of being soft and lackadaisical, which resulted in end of season records like 16-66 and 21-61. This was a very fragile time for the…

The film Bulworth follows the campaign of a senator that is running for elections in the State of California. As soon as the film starts we are introduced to the high level of corruption that occurs in a political campaign or as politicians refer to it as simply campaign. By the end of the movie it is clear that the film portrays current American politics. The film makes interesting references to how race, gender and class matter when it comes to our political system. However it is also very…