Wise County

In 1836, Bridgeport was born with the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. This alone “guaranteed Bridgeport's position as an industrial center,” as it encouraged the creation of lumberyards, manufacturing plants, and packing houses (Bridgeport, Encyclopedia of Chicago, 1). Due to the steady access to employment during this time, many immigrants began to settle and search for work in the neighborhood. This translated into a growing foreign ‘white’ population, as it “stood as a bastion of white ethnic communities” (1). Page 7 This population included mostly those of Irish, German, Norwegian, and Polish descent. Though those living in this area had primarily resigned to working within local industry, many individuals, or mostly the Irish, began to see an opportunity for upward mobility through work in municipal government (1). This turned Bridgeport into a political hub, producing many individuals that “dominated city government” and most notoriously gave birth to Mayor Richard J. Daley, “[who] controlled one of the most powerful machines in urban America [from 1955] until his death in 1976 (1). However, it was not until the 1960’s that Bridgeport experienced a small influx, or .02 percent of the population, of Black families moving into the neighborhood (1), as by this time “the Supreme Court of the United States declared restrictive covenants unenforceable in the courts…[and] change in Chicago race relations ha[d] been hastened by the national trend toward…

Republic by Plato are clearly parallel to one another. There are three classes in the state and three parts of the mind in the ruler. The three classes of the state are the rulers, the soldiers, and the craftsmen. The three parts of the mind are the rational or reason part, the irrational appetitive part, and the spirited part. The rational corresponds to the rulers, the appetitive corresponds to the craftsmen, and the spirited corresponds to the soldiers. Socrates then…

light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” This quote, said by Patrick Rothfuss, explains why the words and language in Wise Blood are so important. In this novel by Flannery O’Connor, a man finds himself caught in a war of faith, destiny, and false prophets. It is set in the imaginary southern town of Taulkinham, Tennessee in the 1950s. The book accurately represents the way southerners lived at the time and how their environments affected their speech.…

“Home is where the heart is” is the old famous quote that many people have said. But in some cases this is farthest from the truth. Tate’s statement suggests that “home” is a place, or even a state of mind. In the novel Wise Blood, the character Hazel Motes is far from home. A returning war veteran, Motes comes home to find his house in Tennessee abandoned and his family gone. Confused, Motes boards a train to Taulkinham and from there his journey begins, becoming farther and farther away from…

He was never raised to see the differences the people around him, but as he grew older he began to see many of the injustices against his friends because they were different. Wise made a film titled “White Like Me” and says that “The answer is to be color conscious, not color blind.” This statement does not exclusively apply to racial issues. It can be interpreted for any situation, because we will never come in contact with someone exactly like ourselves. We need to be aware of the differences…

Scales(The Unexpected Guest) all illustrate the common themes of valuing people over possessions and selflessness throughout their literary works. Furthermore, they use literary devices such as allusion and irony to communicate these life lessons. The theme of selflessness is shown through the use of allusion in the short story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. On page 5 it states, “The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger... Being…

modern world. American director Robert Wise retells Romeo and Juliet with his film production, West Side Story. Wise creates an adaptation to the film that better fits the modern world by showcasing the sociological issues of racism and feminism. American film directors had to adapt the details of older works because the demographics of our country continue to adapt as decades pass by. Robert Zeffirelli set the film Romeo and Juliet (1968) in the 1500s and under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.…

Corrigan we find arguments for sub-facets of authorial figures in cinema, but ultimately note that the auteur theory can only be applied to cinema directors. Matthew Bernstein states that rarely is there such a case when a producer can exist as an auteur, but nonetheless it is possible. Bernstein’s work actually hypocritical in this sense, that he can state the rare existence of producer auteur, yet in the same piece openly admit, “collaborators make contributions, but only a director can make…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…