World's Columbian Exposition

Between the years 1896 and 1912, many significant events occurred. There were new parties being formed, new ways of thinking being expressed, and multiple attempts on taking of lives. The book, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America, by Eric Rauchway, maps out the twists and turns during this time period. Rauchway creatively and informatively goes into the details of the assassination of President McKinley, the trial of Leon F. Czolgosz, Theodore Roosevelt’s terms, the…

Things change. This inevitable part of life destined to occur even to the most insignificant of souls will never cease to exist. Places change, views change, and as unfortunate as it may sound, people change. Human emotions are fickle, and no matter how much a person tries to fight this change, time will relentlessly march forward. The past will be replaced. The only part of the past one can retain is the memories it takes with it, and even then the most precious moments of one’s life can be…

the Americas before Columbus after finding inaccuracies in his high school textbook. The inaccuracies within prompted him to reexamine contemporary historical beliefs. Mann’s 1491 is a social demonstration, utilizing modern theories to explain pre-Columbian societies. Furthermore, 1491 is a journalistic representation of Mesoamerica and the Aztecs, Inka, Maya, and other Inuit communities of the Americas. Mann’s re-evaluation on the teaching of history is embodied through an overenthusiastic and…

Marketing is a tool to communicate with customers. In an effort to maximize effectiveness of this communication, we should identify the market we are addressing, the mission of the communication, what message we wish to convey, which media vehicles will be used to send the message, how much money will be needed, and how the impact will be measured afterwards. Collectively the market, mission, message, media, money and measurement are referred to as the 6 M’s. Identifying our market is crucial…

that I chose to go was to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which was holding an exhibition that was dedicated to Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time. The piece that stood out to me the most was Pre-Columbian America by Diego Rivera that features indigenous imagery and creates an alternative view of America. The piece itself was made with oil on canvas with bright colors, which features many scenes that depicts the daily lives of the indigenous…

Pirates of the Caribbean is a fictional series based on a captain named Jack Sparrow. Sparrow isn’t your average captain, for he is a pirate and a troublesome one at that of course. The series setting goes back in history when the world was ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company (EITC) and the Spanish Empire, as pirates raid the sea defining any laws that come their way. There is a total of four movies out with a new one to be released this year. Each movie portrays Jack…

consultancy) had also been fined. Geoconsult had failed to ensure public and staff safety and thus were fined £500,000. Both Balfour Beatty and Geoconsult were charged another £100,000 for trial costs. The tunnels were being constructed underneath the world’s busiest international airport so there was a…

Since 2002, Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, is called as the world most livable city and the term livability has become so widely and used differently due to numerous rankings of livability has been studied(ABC.au 2014). However, most of the surveys ( see for instance liveablecity.org 2014) use the livability term to describe the quality of life and characteristics of each city which makes it livable. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s global livability survey, there is a…

When people think of pirates they think often think of the phrases; Avast! Walk the plank! Me hearty! and most famously Aargh! Truthfully though pirates did not often say any of these phrases, well except for maybe aargh, this is just how the media, and pop culture has portrayed pirates. Real pirates are nothing like what we see in most forms of media, that is except for the case of the game; Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag. Black Flag very accurately depicts the lives of pirates during the…

Disney, 2003. DVD. Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest. Dir. Gore Verbinski. Prod. Jerry Bruckheimer. By Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Perf. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley. Buena Vista, 2006. DVD. Pirates of the Caribbean, at World's End. Dir. Gore Verbinski. Prod. Jerry Bruckheimer. By Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Perf. Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, and Orlando Bloom. Buena Vista Pictures, 2007.…