The Devil in the White City attempts to contrast the glorious achievements of Burnham and Root transforming windswept swampland on the shores of Lake Michigan with the despicable activities of one of America’s most vile serial killers. Both entities constructed edifices to exacting specifications: A fair to delight the public and establish Chicago as a world class city and a "murder palace" to satisfy murderous desires. The book shows the loss of America’s innocence in both a good and bad w
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Objective: In this paper I will discuss the text Things Fall Apart while analyzing the characters‚ events‚ and the historical relevance of the story. Also‚ I will summarize the story while expanding on the major themes of the book. Chinua Achebe’s novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ is a tragic story about the rise and fall of Okonkwo. The story takes place in Umuofia‚ a cluster of villages in Niger during the 1890’s. the Umuofians are known for being a notorious war clan with many members‚ advanced social
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Analysis of Romeo (3rd Edition) Author: Campbell 08/11/2011 The play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in which Romeo is a tragic hero‚ who is the son of Montague and falls in love with Juliet from his feud family‚ Capulet‚ at their first glance of each other. Shakespeare uses several rhetoric devices in Romeo’s lines to suggest that Romeo is a romantic yet rash figure. As Russ McDonald mentions in his essay “Shakespeare’s tragic characters are visionaries‚ purists‚
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some way‚ shape‚ or form‚ affect one another. In the Devil in the White City the author‚ Erik Larson‚ not only informs the audience about a colossal architectural turning point for our nation‚ but he entices the reader into a state of jittery tension that is enforced by continuous amounts of alarming duality. The presentation of Duality begins from the very start. Larson’s decision to call the book “The Devil in the White City” was a distinct
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Character Analysis: Odysseus Smart‚ yet Arrogant In books 9-12 of Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus shows three prominent character traits: quick-wittedness‚ hubris‚ and self control. Odysseus has gone down in stories and history books for his life-saving quick-wittedness. An example of his quick thinking is in the scene where Odysseus and a few of his men are trapped in Polyphemus’‚ a cyclopes‚ cave and Odysseus devises a cunning plan to help them escape. He gives Polyphemus all the liquor he
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intellectual climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly imagistic‚ insistently urbane & ironic‚ characteristically observational. Eliot’s modernity(or should it be called ’Modernism’?) can be understood with reference to the following: a) His theory of impersonality; b) His observations on the monotony‚ aridity‚ squalor of the big cities: the boredom and the horror; c) The revival of the Metaphysical tradition of
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Stephan Attilus English 2 Honors Ms. Gaddis Character Analysis Essay In past times‚ many African tribes and regions have been colonized by European countries. England‚ France‚ Portugal‚ and Spain were all looking to spread their influences and find good to trade. At first the Africans were curious when they saw these white men because the only white person they had seen was Albinos. There were many different reactions to these foreigners. Some African welcomed them into their villages while
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American poet Henry David Thoreau once said‚ “Men are born to succeed‚ not to fail.” These words perfectly describe the mindset and values of Okonkwo‚ the main character in Chinua Achebe’s novel‚ Things Fall Apart. To Okonkwo‚ in order to be a man he must always show strength and never reveal his true emotions. In Things Fall Apart‚ yams symbolize the ideals of masculinity and power‚ as well as the pain and sorrow that can accompany denying one’s limitations and weaknesses. In Igbo culture‚ men
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Literary text‚ usually a poem or short story‚ allows the author to pursue a more emotional relationship with the audience. It would therefore‚ be able to affect the more emotional aspect of any event in history. One such example is the poem‚ "The Fall of Fort Sumter". It described the Confederate point of view and the feelings they harbored against the North. "The fleet turned slowly southward; we saw the last ship go‚ We had saved old Carolina from the insults of the foe‚" is a part of the stanza
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the blueprint for a City in the Garden. When executing the blueprint‚ this central planning approach also created green spaces and brought back biodiversity in the island which could otherwise become a concrete city with rapid urbanisation and industrialisation taking place to meet the needs of her dense population. Innovation could thus be inferred from the careful selection of trees to plant in midst concrete structures to created pockets of nature within the built up city. The inference of these
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