World's Columbian Exposition

A Finnish architect, became a Phenomenologist in 1957 when he was inspired by one of his mentor, Professor Aulis Blomstedt. A quote from the man, Juhani Pallasmaa, Buildings are not abstract, meaningless construction, or aesthetic compositions, they are extensions and shelters of our bodies, memories, identities and minds. Consequently, architecture arises from existentially true confrontations, experiences, recollections and aspirations (The Thinking Hand. Existential and embodied wisdom in…

George Westinghouse’s first venture into the area of incandescent lamps was with the Westinghouse two-piece, all-glass stopper lamp that was used to illuminate the Chicago World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in the year 1893. Thomas Edison sued George Westinghouse and other manufacturers of incandescent lamps for patent infringement but his sheer genius and resolve urge him to modify design [10]. He then started working on stopper lamp…

Frances Harper write this story explaining why she feels that women should have the right to vote she also had the opportunity to speak at an event. Harper was one of the four African American women to speak at the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the Columbian Exposition in 1893, where she shared the importance of women and the importance in their right to vote. Frances was one of the many women that stood up for what they believed in and because of their strength to fight and…

Zea Family Lineage Essay Before you begin to read what I have written I would like to thank the most caring and kind grandparents anyone could ask for. Giving me this opportunity to earn your support and at the same time learn about the lineage of the Zea family. I am extremely grateful for the chance to delve into a history I am most certainly unaware of. A long time before my Great Grandfather, Lawrence Dale Zea, and his sisters Louise and Lucille, and brother Kenny lived in Illinois the Zea…

Varma from Kerala was amongst these native professional artists but he was a self taught artist and had never attended a colonial art school. He submitted a consignment of ten Indian portraits titled “The Life of Native Peoples” to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892 to portray the beauty of the Indian people on a national and international level. However, not only were these portraits relegated to the ethnographic section of the exhibition instead of the pavilion of fine arts…

When people think of an entrepreneur they think of someone who works hard and creates a business and career for themselves. What people see is the failures, the bad things. Not the failures that lead to successful things. Sometimes you have people who you would never think, that turn on you because you failed. But failure was a good thing for Milton Hershey, because it drove him to be the successful man we know today. He didn't give up when failed the first time or even the second. For a man…