Wright Flyer

The 1920’s were not the time to piss off a beautiful, wealthy, white female in Chicago (unless you had a death wish). As seen in The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry, the press encouraged women to murder by glorifying crimes to fabricate sales. Perry’s book focuses on the achievements of an inexperienced news reporter, who faces sexism in her field of work. What seems like an enticing story about murder turns into a monotonous history textbook. During Maurine Watkins’ fight to reveal the…

If one is to understand contemporary social life, then one has to study the history of social theory in order to make sense of today’s world. Gramsci and Habermas are both sociologists, and they both help to explain how society works and functions through power. Gramsci’s power relations of civil/ political societies and hegemony and Habermas’ model of system and lifeworld both affect social change. I will be examining how the power of civil and political societies create active consent and…

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both” (Mills, 1959) - This is what C. Wright Mills mentioned in The Sociological Imagination. It is true that if we would like to understand our own life, we have to obtain sociological imagination which enable us to understand how history and institutions shapes our own biography and personal choice. Therefore, I would like to discuss how my own biography and history within society intersects…

Modernism, a revolution movement started in the 20th century, is a style when “form follows function”, as quoted from Louis Sullivan, the famous Frank Llyod Wright’s mentor. Wright was one of the pioneers of Modern Architecture and his masterpiece, the Fallingwater, was perhaps his best interpretation of Modernism. Located in rural Southwestern of Pennsylvania, the Fallingwater is so popular that it is often mentioned in many architecture books regarding its application to the site. B.B.…

“The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.”- Frank Lloyd Wright. An architect is a person who is trained and experienced in the design of buildings and in the coordination and supervision of all aspects of the construction of buildings. Architects are artists whose art are sometimes overlooked, but will be viewed until the end of time. Their creations are ageless and helps define the history…

mystery of John Wright. An investigation is started to discover the perpetrator of the crime. Mr. Hale originally went to the Wright house to ask Mr. Wright if they could share the cost of a phone, only to discover that he had been hanged. After upsetting the women in the room by stating “Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?” (Glaspell 1156), the county attorney takes the men upstairs to look for more evidence. The women are all together now. Keep in mind that Mrs. Wright is never…

The book I read for the second quarter is John Muir Father of our National Parks by Charles Norman. John Muir was originally from Scotland and he moved to America in 1849 with his father Daniel and his brother David, his mother and sisters to follow shortly after. Conservation is highly valued by John however this book also shows another theme, value education because it often leads to a better future. John and his brother David are constantly learning throughout their childhood on the…

and Mrs. Peters discover evidence that could put or keep Minnie Foster out of jail. A bird with its neck snapped, hidden away. The death of it was very similar to how John Wright was killed, with a rope around his neck in bed. Their husbands search through out the Wright household to figure out more about the death of Mr. Wright. The trifle, an object with very little value, held all the evidence that the males needed for conviction, but they never expected their housewives to be the ones to…

Best and Worst In the novel, “The Lovely Bones”, there are many events that occurred. My favorite part of the novel was when Jack Salmon, the main character’s father, began to suspect his daughter’s murderer and sought to find evidence to put him behind jail. Even when everyone else had lost hope in finding the suspect, Jack did not. He pestered the police again and again in hopes of catching the person who killed his daughter. It was interesting for me since Susie’s mother didn’t show as much…

Frank Lloyd Wright is a world renowned architect, designer, writer, teacher, leader, and visionary. Wright was an inspiration to many, paving the way for all architects and designers to come. Wright’s unique mind conceptualized new principles of architectural design that would become the new modern style. From coining the term “organic architecture” to designing one of America’s most famous homes, Frank Lloyd Wright was truly deserving of his acknowledgement as “the greatest American architect…