...History, culture, and people which were involved in the Chicago World’s fair of 1893 gave an impressive impact in the city of Chicago, its people which gave the culture, and the building that are the part of the history. This is a portion of what the non-fiction book, Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, reflects on. Erik Larson author of the non-fiction book is an American journalist and has also written many bestsellers books. He mainly references to the epoch period of 1893 Chicago world’s fair. As known in are history as the World’s Columbian Exposition. Similar to any situation there is always a good and there is always a bad situation. As used in the book there was a good and a bad, author...
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...revolution in america. America as around a whole was not in the best financial place, as factories were causing deaths and the change of the family dynamic in america. Born January 3, 1954 . Attended University in Pennsylvania. First journalism job for “Bucks County Courier Times.” This job helped to prepare him for when he worked for the “Wall Street Journal.” Setting(s) Symbol(s) Chicago, New York, France, Murder Castle, Jackson park devil- representing holmes, white city-...
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...The Serial Killer and the Skilled Architect “Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes les plus frappantes de notre génie national moderne” according to Gustave Eiffel. Talented architects built the Eiffel Tower for the World’s Fair in 1889. The Eiffel Tower towered over France as an amazing architectural wonder. Although Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel reaped the reward for building the Eiffel tower, the real architect, Maurice Koechlin, received little credit. Likewise, the Ferris Wheel is a well-known ride and holds a special place in many Americans’ hearts throughout the United States. Architects built the Ferris Wheel to rival...
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...The novel, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness in the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. In the books there are two storylines: one about the life of H.H. Holmes, the serial killer, the other about how the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago came to be. By contrasting "white" city of the World Fair, and the dark essence of the serial killer. Erik Larson is able to combine fact and fiction and make a statement that beauty can be an illusion that is able to cover what is hidden under the surface. The World's Fair was built to bring all the best things to Chicago and also for the United States to show off its glory. The contraction of the Worlds fair was done poorly because the intention for the buildings was to only be in...
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...Images questions Chicago Fair- White City midway The white city worked as the ideal city in the United States Architecture and the systems (electricity, sanitation, regulation upper middle class dream of city Architectural hall, amusement zone Control not only civic centre also over the fun zone. Exterior warehouse kind of interior. urban space consumerism department store. Everything is about the show. fasade- architectural building part Industrialization nationalism provide claim Czech Slovakia Finland Nationalism was big theme for Paris Universelle De Paris 1889 Ethnic idea accentual of Frenchness. Americanness The darker side of nationalism in the racism Colonial Empire (Phillippines) ideal of progress civilization get better and better civilized uncivilized Louisiana Purchase 1904 idea of amusement zone in fair control by the same corporation social practice etc. People want to be not just educated but also make it fun Midway was kind of confused area. Music Hall, Saloon, real urban place high aspiration...
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...Depth of Knowledge Questions Fact-Based: Record eight direct quotes with page numbers to answer the following question: In what ways did the Chicago’s World’s Fair change America? What lasting inventions and ideas did it introduce to American culture? What important figures were critically influenced by the Fair? (8 quotes; 8 pts) “Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world” (310). “The fair was so perfect, its grace and beauty like an assurance that for as long as it lasted nothing truly bad could happen to anyone, anywhere” (289). “The Ferris Wheel Quickly became the most popular attraction of the exposition. Thousands rode it everyday” (287). “Another 37,380 visitors had entered using passes, bringing the total admission for the day to 751, 026, more people than had attended any single day of peaceable event in history” (319)....
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...urbanization: education, unemployment rates, access to health, availability of resources, and recreational development. Finally, the consequences of urbanization include increased crime rate, loss of identity, traffic congestion, pollution, poverty, rapid spread of disease, loss of biodiversity, and urban sprawl. Reasons for Sub-urbanization in the United States After the World War Two there was a vast movement of people into the new suburbs. The rapid expansion of the suburbs was necessitated by various historical forces, such as the mass demilitarization after the War, subsequently the “baby boom”, social bequest of the Depression, increased government participation in housing and development projects, the marketing of automobiles, sudden change in demographics, and economic success. The high employment rates lead to an increment in income and subsequently consumer spending. In addition, mortgage financing was readily available in favorable terms. Further, as American families started moving from cities and farms into new...
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...by side with her sister in social services. Edith was a well-rounded child, helping her mother in the woman’s suffrage movement even meeting and helping Susan B. Anthony in the fight for woman’s rights (cite here). During Edith’s childhood Abbott and her sister were able to take a trip to visit the Columbian World’s Fair in Chicago. While in Chicago for the fair they visited the University of...
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...Modern America (1890’s) >Civil war (1861-1865) Fredrick Jackson Turner >Speech at the Chicago world’s tour fair (1893) “And new, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.” Modern Corporation (Began in 1850’s) Charter from a state Capital- Sale of stocks Limited personal liability Civil war Swift Meats Borden Dairy and groceries Carnegie – R.R’s and Steel Andrew Carnegie wrote in 1886 “if I asked what important law I should change, I would say none the laws are perfect” 1860 | 1900 Number of Americans 31 mill | 70 Mill Manufactured Goods 2 bill | 11 bill Miles of Rail Roads 30,000 | 200,00 Iron and Steel Production 0 | World’s largest Number of Industrial workers2.7Mill (40% of entire U.S. Population )|13 mill (65% of U.S. Population) America As A world Power ( the 1890’s) >European “imperialism” v American Imperialism (trade economic advantage) >from 1870-1900 America’s New Empire {18 Million square miles (1/5 of the earth’s land)~ 150 million people} >The 1875 Economic Depression Overseas markets for American goods (unemployment) >Need to sell a broad 70 % U.S. cotton / 40% U.S. wheat /50% U.S. copper /15% U.S. iron steel / 16% U.S. agricultural equipment to find overseas buyers – U.S. State...
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...INTRODUCTION The United States Steel Corporation more commonly known as U.S. Steel is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. The company was the world's 13th largest steel producer in 2010. It was renamed USX Corporation in 1986 and back to United States Steel Corporation in 2001 when the shareholders of USX spun off the oil & gas business of Marathon Oil and the steel business of U. S. Steel to shareholders. In 2001 it was still the largest domestically owned integrated steel producer in the United States, although it produced only slightly more steel than it did in 1902, after significant downsizing in the 1980s. U.S. Steel is a former Dow Jones Industrial Average component, listed from April 1, 1901 to May 3, 1991. It was removed under its USX Corporation name with Navistar International and Primerica. Formation J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel in 1901 (incorporated on February 25) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company for $492 million ($13.58 billion today). It was capitalized at $1.4 billion ($38.63 billion today), making it the world's first billion-dollar corporation. At one time, U.S. Steel was the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world. In 1907 it bought its largest competitor, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, which...
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...HOLMES | AMERICAS FIRST SERIAL KILLER | | Kevin Hutter | 10/20/2011 | H.H HOLMES, THE FIRST AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER, IN THE FOLLOW RESEARCH PAPER WE WILL BE LOOKING AT PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HIS CRIMES TROUGH HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD TILL HIS EXECUTION IN THE LATE 1800’S | Herman Webster Mudgett, better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire [4] to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodore Page Price, both of whom were descended from the first non-native settlers in the area. According to the 2007 Most Evil profile on Holmes, his father was a violent alcoholic, and his mother was a devout Methodist who read the Bible to Herman. He claimed that, as a child, schoolmates forced him to view and touch a human skeleton after discovering his fear of the local doctor. The bullies initially brought him there to scare him, but instead he was utterly fascinated, and he soon became obsessed with death. Born to an affluent family, Holmes had a privileged childhood. It has been said that he appeared to be unusually intelligent at an early age. Still there were haunting signs of what was to come. He expressed an interest in medicine, which reportedly led him to practice surgery on animals. Some accounts indicate that he may have been responsible for the death of a friend. [2] Holmes also talked about his childhood lies and pranks and how his father...
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...The Jungle The story begins with the traditional Lithuanian wedding of Jurgis and his sixteen year old bride, Ona. The wedding is one that they can barely afford, and sets the backdrop for the changes that they are just beginning to encounter in their new country. Immigrants with peasant backgrounds had begun to arrive in the United States during the late 1890's from places such as Ireland, Poland, Italy, and Lithuania . These people were ill equipped to deal with the harsh realities of urban living in America at the time. In his book Sinclair shows how capitalism creates pressures that undermine the traditional family life, cultural ties, and moral values that these immigrants had brought with them. With "literally not a month's wages between them and starvation" workingmen are under pressure to abandon their families, woman must sometimes choose between starvation and prostitution. Children are forced to work rather then attend school, just to keep starvation away for one more day. The Socialist Party of America was founded in 1901, and for over a decade after that saw enormous growth, by 1912 they had over 1,200 elected public officials in the country, and during the election of that year had very good election results by their candidate Eugene Debs for President (Dickstein). The growth of the Socialist movement primarily took place in the vast heartland of the United States, as it was undergoing the strains of industrialization. The roots of this movement were based...
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...1985, Tom Stemberg, a supermarket chain executive turned entrepreneur, struck upon the idea when his typewriter ribbon broke as he was preparing a business plan and he was unable to find a store that stocked the ribbon. That was when he realized that the business plan he should be pitching was for a supermarket for office supplies. This was in the early days of the personal computer revolution, and ten years before the dot-com boom, but Stemberg correctly foresaw the growth potential for a superstore that catered as much to the demands of a homebased business as Fortune®500 corporations. Two decades later, Staples is the world's largest office products company and number-one in sales and profits in the United States. Staples serves customers and businesses ranging from homebased businesses to Fortune®500 companies in 27 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company operates more than 2,000 office superstores and also serves its customers through mail order catalog, e-commerce, and contract businesses. Its strategy of making it easy for customers to buy the products they need has fueled Staples’ highly successful expansion around the globe. But for this high-performance business, leading the market wasn't good enough. Business Challenge Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the office superstore market exploded, with growth in the United States between a remarkable 20 to 40 percent. Staples...
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...Year 10 Revision Timelines: The Roaring Twenties Women Before First World War * Women could not vote. * Middle/upper class women did not work but had the role of mothers and housewives. Working class women had low paid jobs such as factory work and cleaning. * Women usually wore full length dresses, wore no make up and had their hair tied back in buns. * Divorce was very rare and so was sex before marriage. * Women did not smoke or drink in public. * They had to go out with a chaperone (a family member) when they met their boyfriend. How did the First World War change the lives of women? * During the war, women began to work in areas like heavy industry. They proved they could work as well as men. By 1929, there were 10 million women workers; a rise of 24% since 1920. * Working gave women independence and they began smoking and drinking in public. * Women were given the vote in August 1920 but few were chosen to be actual politicians. * Production of consumer goods such as vacuum cleaners and washing machines meant women had more time for leisure activities. * Flappers emerged in the 1920’s = women from middle and upper class families from the Northern States. They cut their hair in short bobs, wore make up, short skirts and bright clothes. They also smoked and drank in public, went to speakeasies, danced the Charleston with men and listened to Jazz and drove cars and motorbikes. * BUT many groups, particularly...
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...Houdini’s life and how passionate he was about is magic, but it also provides pictures of Harry Houdini himself performing tricks and outside of his life as a magician. This Library source provides me information on before Mr. Houdini’s career had taken off into worldwide fame all the way into his death. This source provides so much information with great detail about the specific illusions and tricks that he first started preforming and what tricks he is famous for doing. This library source will help me answer the question, who was Harry Houdini? It helps me identify that question by walking me through his life from the day he was born until the day he died. It gives me insight on who his parents and wife were and how passionate he was about magic from an early age. This source gives Houdini a more human aspect than a magician because of how detailed it goes into his background. Cook, James W. "Magic and Magicians." Encyclopedia of American Studies. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Credo Reference. Web. 23 February 2014 In this reference, they talk about what attracted Ehrich Weiss who came to be known as Harry Houdini to the magic scene and what made him great. Even though he was the son of a first-generation Hungarian American immigrant, the modernism initially attracted him to the magic scene. They talked about a magician named Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin who was Houdini’s idol. This man influenced Weiss to change his name to Harry Houdini...
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