William H. Seward

The internship I embarked on this past semester was at my place of employment, Central Grocers, Inc., located in Joliet, Illinois. Central Grocers is structured as a retail cooperative, owned by the independent supermarket retailers that Central Grocers supplies. It is the seventh largest grocery cooperative in America and supplies over 20,000 products to more than 500 independent supermarket stores in the Midwest, meaning they have the second largest market share in the Chicago area market. In…

Though humans have been attempting to achieve the utopian ideal, they have been failing miserably. Today’s world does not resemble a utopia because humans are still subject to inevitable negative aspects of life. Furthermore, increases in dangerous weaponry and technology have allowed the rise of institutions that hinder the progress towards utopia. These groups have put society in a vulnerable position that ends in pain and suffering; effects that are not seen in utopian societies. Possibly…

What You Don’t See In a utopian society, citizens can think freely also citizens embrace the world. But most utopian worlds turn into a dystopian world because in most utopian worlds become too perfect and people become to greedy and don't want to be like everybody else. One key piece of a utopia is equality and in both Pedestrian Ray Bradbury and in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. equality has created a dystopian world. In the pedestrian they tried to make it a Utopian society by…

QP Rough Draft Many authors wrote because they want to express themselves, but H.G Wells wrote to expose something greater than himself. H.G. Wells was an 18th-19th century novelist, best known for the novels The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man. From an early age, H.G. Wells, would read everything that came his way, such as the works of Jonathan Swift and Voltaire. His first novel, The Time Machine was an almost instant success and Wells would go on to create a multitude…

The astonishing level of agony present in a person once they have lost a loved one is described in the poem, “Stop All of the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden. In this poem, the poet describes the pain of ending an intense sensation of love when one of the partners has passed away. The inability to cope once one’s love has ended provokes the feeling that life has ended due to the thought of the inability to live alone. This is found in the poem when Auden states, “For nothing now can…

Game Plan • Problem There are many problems people assume are caused from video games. In addition multiple studies over several topics have been researched due to these assumptions. Three problems I found commonly in question were increased physical fighting, bullying, and shootings. Physical fights happen although many of us wish they didn’t. Children and adults all ages play video games. Most of the video games that have a violent rating contain increased physical fighting. Sometimes while…

Historians and International Relations scholars have long had a relationship that allows for interworking, while distinct differences still remain separating the two. In studying the past, a historian and an international relations scholar would take into account the past as a force that generates the questions and theories of both parties. On the other hand, there lies a difference in the way that the historian would place more emphasis on recounting history and international events for their…

Prof.C. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 8.4(c). FACTS Fast Horse has provided information regarding nine separate complaints, a synopsis of each complaint is as follows: Complaint #1 On March 7, 2016, Myung Ah Kang and her employer hired Shane to assist in filing a H-1B visa petition. On April 15, 2016, Shane emailed Kang asking her to sign documents, and send scanned copies back. A scanned copy of the H1-B visa petition was filed on April 16, 2016, with the Vermont Service Center On May 6, 2016, Kang…

Video games hold a high place in American culture. In the youth of America, video games are often looked at as more important than most things we do day to day. My generation is the first group to have been around the type of video games we have today. I imagine that my generation will be playing video games far into their lives. To get back to the topic of the youth and video games, the personalities and habits of younger kids in today’s world are far more different than kids who were growing…

Chase Gibbs Sociology 101-12 Professor Moore 10-22-16 Jane Addams September 6, 1860 Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois. “Her parents are Sarah Weber Addams and John Huy Addams” (Daniels 2016). Jane Addams was the eighth of nine children and fifth living child at the time of her birth. When she was two years old her mother died giving birth to an early baby. After Jane’s mother died her father would remarry to Anna Haldeman with two sons. “Jane’s father ran a successful mill business…