The Devil in the White City

moral, religious and societal reforms. They highly believed in the black and white lines of good and evil and they populated Salem. In exceedingly pious Puritan New England, a collection of girls fell indisposed. Extraordinary or daunting events were often imputed to the devil or his corps. The obscure indisposition propel fears of witchcraft and the local of Salem began to accuse other villagers of associating with the devils and are held responsible for casting spells onto the girls.…

Influenced by the rise of romantic nationalism, the Grimm brothers published a collection of German fairy tales in the 1812 as an effort to preserve German folk tradition. Hidden within the text of each fairy tales were attitudes toward society. This included religion, which was a fundamental aspect of German culture. The Catholic Church gained power through their large membership throughout Germany and Europe. It became so powerful that the Catholic clergy were wealthy and corrupt. Eventually,…

Attraction How have significant people, places, and/or events made the city of Chicago what it is today? Chicago Literature had a major focus on the good and evil of Chicago. It started off by concentrating on what represents Chicago; The Cubs, deep-dish pizza, and the Art Museum were all brought up quite frequently. Later, the course got into the World’s Fair and the serial killer, H.H.Holmes, in the book “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson, and eventually to the topic of vice…

The Great Migration The great migration was when african americans were free from slavery. It started in the late 1800’s and lasted until the 1970’s. It started in the south and moved on to the coasts and the north. The cause of The Great migration was the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation releasing all of the African Americans from slavery. What is the Great migration? The Great Migration was when African americans moved from the south to urban areas such as Chicago, Illinois,…

Have you ever seen something so beautiful that gives you chills all over your body? Or feeling safe when little bit of sun can protect us from the evil darkness that lies around us? For example stepping into a church with such great lighting coming through the inside, while the sun hits the windows from the outside. During Gothic period and the Renaissance the stained glass windows was one of the best technique in Gothic Cathedrals. It has the most beautiful and inspiring stained glass windows…

opposes God and God 's people. Webster Dictionary defines evil as having poor natural qualities; harmful; unpleasant; vicious; corrupt; wicked; hopeless. In religion, evil is an entity that hovers over the dark side of the battle between black and white, while the definition of Webster humanizes evil leading to the gray area of human nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Young Goodman Brown, addresses the definition of evil. He shows us the conflict between how young Goodman Brown sees evil as an…

light skin, but was rape by a white man that cause his skin. His father was a preacher and either anyone knows or not, but during Malcolm age of 6 or 7, his house was burn down and gunfire by the KKK, A.K.A the Ku Klux Klan, because the KKK don’t like colored people. His life turned worse because he and his family had been treated like they were trash since they move from city to city. His father, however, changed, or as MX stated brainwash, by KKK to treated only whites and since MX has a light…

us a lot about the cover. The cover distinctively illustrates a white beheaded pig with a brown bloody stick or rod of some sort, most likely a branch, viciously stuck up the head from the neck area. Additionally, the head is expelling lavish red blood from the right eye, and furious or miserable tears from the left eye, along with more blood from the mouth and neck section. Since the phrase “Lord of the Flies” represents the devil, the pig’s head on the stick exorcising blood symbolizes the…

only did I grow as a person but I also gained many new experiences. I went to Disney for the first time in my life, and I made new memories. In addition, it was my first time away from my family overnight. I was like the women portrayed in Devil in the White City who were excited to experience freedom and enjoy their lives while simultaneously being the 4-year-old girl who got the Barbie doll she wanted for her birthday. This year, however stressful, has been a great year. And Ultimately, I've…

After thinking about a topic to write about and watching a short film called AmeriCAN, I decided to discuss police brutality; since it has been a major topic over the past few months or maybe years. AmeriCAN is a short film and a public service announcement that comes in response to several events that have divided the country to do racial profiling. The cause of this film would be all of the senseless crimes that have taken place over the past few years, such as Travon Martin, Mike Brown, Erick…