The Devil in the White City by Eric Lawson In The Devil in the White City, readers are exposed to a mysterious, thrilling, and an astounding world at the same time. Author Eric Lawson introduces the setting in the city of Chicago, Illinois, during its highest, industrial peak in the late 1800’s. It is during this era that Chicago attracted two of the highlighted, historical figures—famous architect Daniel Hudson Burnham and young doctor Henry H. Holmes, who soon became America’s first and most feared serial killer. Chicago had been a competitive city not only in technological advances but in architectural attractions. Daniel Burnham had created some of America’s most famous structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in D.C.; his next task was to recreate a desolate Chicago to a revolutionized city of hope, by creating the famous Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 (also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition).
Two decades later, in 1904, Upton Sinclair, a young socialist, commissioned to write a serial novel about the meatpacking districts of Chicago, discovered the ugly truth behind the immigrant’s pursuit of the “American Dream.” He saw that the hordes of previously deprived and persecuted immigrants did not find the land of freedom in their destination; instead, they entered a world of wildness, a “jungle”. In January 1905, in the interview with the journal “Appeal to Reason,” Sinclair predicted that his book will "…shake the popular heart…and blow the top off of the industrial tea-kettle" . Although Sinclair’s novel is best known for describing the conditions of the meatpacking industry, his objectives were much wider. Titling his work “The Jungle,”
In March 1900, he began working for the local post office. Law enforcement[edit] In 1904, he won fame as a local hero after he leapt onto a runaway railroad freight car on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley and applied its brakes, preventing a disastrous collision with a passenger coach loaded with commuters at the Berkeley Station. This event led to his election as town marshal on April 10, 1905. In 1907, Vollmer was re-elected town marshal. He was also elected president of the California Association of Police Chiefs, even though, by title, he was not yet a police chief himself.
Biography of Allan Pinkerton Sheryl Howard CJS/250 Jerry Maloon Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born on August 25, 1819, in Glasgow, Scotland. Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton was an established author and detective during his time. Pinkerton’s detective agency stopped a plot aimed at President Abraham Lincoln while working for the Union during the Civil War. (Pinkerton, 2012) At the age of thirty-five Pinkerton was deputy to the Cook County, Chicago sheriff.
The earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 caused devastation to the city. This lead to the U.S. receiving gold from all over the world in an attempt to rebuild, which created “the” liquidity crisis. Two greedy New York City men, Otto Heinze and Charles Morse, attempted a “squeeze play” on the copper market. Copper was at high demand during this time, and Heinze believed because of the large amount of short selling occurring on the stock, and because he had a strong position in the company, that he’d be able to control the market and benefit significantly from it. Heinze’s
Watching the documentary, you find out that the Venice, Santa Monica, and Ocean Park area was the dream of wealthy land developer Albert Kinney - he envisioned a European jewel of a city in the Americas - and the dream turns into a nightmare. As Skip Engblom succinctly says it in the film, it becomes “… a dead wonderland.” You see that this is the environment that the “seeds” of Dogtown have to grow in, and realize that it all could have been completely different if Mr.
The years leading up to the war the German people were dreading it, there were protests in Berlin in July 1914. The proletariat knew that they would have to bear the brunt of the war. However once the war broke out, the government played on the German’s people nationalism as he presented the war as defensive one against Slav aggression. The Enabling Act known as Burgfrieden was passed. The Act promoted national unity.
Research Paper President Obama's New Deal vs. President Roosevelt's New Deal The original new deal that was proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930's during the great depression many columnists believe that it has been revamped into something that President Barack Obama believes can jumpstart the American economy. Since both of these men are from the Democratic Party and were voted into office by the American people under the promise that they would and could help jumpstart the economy that would lead to a decrease in unemployment. They both had a huge responsibility to the American people to hit the ground running. And although the similarities of the deals are almost to uncanny to be coincidence they each had key ideas on how to get the American people back into the workforce. I will be focusing on just a few key areas that have been struck due to the recession for President Obama and the Great Depression for President Roosevelt and how each man either fixed the problem or is attempting to.
When Paris fell to the Nazi regime on June 14, 1940, the world lost more than just an important source of music, literature, and art. With the coup d’état of the global authority in fashion, the world was missing a source of inspiration for the next movement in fashion, but Stanley H. Marcus saw this as less of a loss of inspiration and more of a new opportunity for American fashion. As vice president of Neiman Marcus, Stanley Marcus used his own authority in fashion to push his view towards the American public through his article in Fortune magazine, “America is in Fashion.”1 The careful selection of words and images in Marcus’s article, along with the relationship between them, show how Marcus aimed to empower American designers and American
They traveled to the West and he settled on 160 acres in Howard County, Nebraska as a homestead farmer. This venture failed miserably and after holding several jobs in Chicago as a stenographer, he was forced to return to England. It was in England that the first idea of his idea for new city planning came to him. He surmised that all parties, no matter what social class or area were to be affected by the onslaught of continuous migration from the countries to the cities. Howard felt that the background to the problem was the growth of the Victorian industrial cities.