In a country full of limitless opportunities and advanced technology‚ there is a city named Philadelphia. Throughout the United States‚ there have been rapid technological advancements occurring. For example Chicago‚ Illinois and Dallas‚ Texas are some of the greatest high tech cities in the US and have a higher standard of living compared to Philadelphia. In order for a city to be fully productive‚ it needs to keep up with the technological growth‚ but we has not yet done so. As I walked down 31st
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The Philadelphia museum of art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located along the west side of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The museum was established in 1876 and stocks more than 227‚000 objects. There are over 200 galleries that span over 2000 years. Each year the Museum puts on 25 or more exhibitions‚ an example being Salvador Dali. The main building of the museum is visited by more than 800‚000 people annually. This museum was not always an art museum. It began
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In chapters 1-4 of The Philadelphia Negro‚ W.E.B. Du Bois provides historical context about African Americans in Philadelphia from the early 1600s to the mid 1800s. Before he shifts to the sociological study‚ he covers the trajectory of blacks in Philadelphia from the arrival of the first slaves to the growing free community as a result of the mass exodus of African Americans from the South. He concentrates on the socioeconomic status of numerous pecuniary classes as well as changes in the division
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“Law and Order in Philadelphia” is a documentary based on the policing. We see that the area is bad and that there is violence‚ crime‚ and drugs on the streets. There is a lot of crime in Philadelphia and they use the due process model which “stresses the criminal justice system to protect suspects from honest mistakes or deliberate deception and bias by police…”(Barkan 400). A reporter goes undercover with the police so see the everyday occurrences with crime in Philadelphia. We witnessed in the
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Miracle at Philadelphia By: Catherine Drinker Bowen Joseph Winker 3/5/05 Miracle at Philadelphia is a book about the Constitutional Convention in the United States. The chapters are arranged in the order that the events happened during the convention. Mrs. Bowen‚ the author‚ made the events and the people of the convention seem more interesting than I thought they would be. There are many things that I really enjoyed reading in my book. Some of those things would have to be just how
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The summer of 1793 would be unforgettable for the people living in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. Their population of more than 40‚000 people would decline rapidly over the next few months‚ due to a deadly epidemic. As the summer came to an end the Yellow Fever would plague the city due to a filthy environment‚ lack of effective treatments‚ and misinformation. As August began‚ the citizens of Philadelphia became violently ill with multiple symptoms including: chills‚ high fevers‚ nausea‚ vomiting
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an opportunity to gain further insight with the city of Philadelphia while enhancing my writing abilities to perform at the collegiate level. Prior to this course I considered myself a fairly decent writer‚ but going through the writing process during this course I was able to identify certain issues with my writing and eventually reform them. I had no idea how urban environments interacted with their varied demographics‚ and how Philadelphia functioned as a city. Reading the course texts gave me
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pop art research Andy Warhol: Warhol was an US painter‚ film-maker and author‚ and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. Andrew Warhola was born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. His parents had emigrated to the USA from Ruthenia‚ a region now in the Slovak Republic. Between 1945 and 1949 Warhol studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1949‚ he moved to New York and changed his name to Warhol. He worked as a commercial artist for magazines and also designed advertising and window displays
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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He often changed his date of birth to « add mystery » but most people believe that he was born on August 6‚ 1928 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. {Andy Warhol Pop art painter‚ Susan Goldman Rubin} His art reflected the rapidly changing American culture. When he was young‚ he was obsessed with fame‚ glamour‚ Hollywood stars‚ movies and painting. As he grew older‚ he transformed his obsessions into art and started his
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Happy Days by Samuel Beckett The play ’Happy Days’ is a humorously dark and ambiguous play. The play is primarily a one-woman show. It is an interesting play that wrestles with themes of loneliness and extreme optimism in the face of utter hopelessness. The play unfolds rather loosely as we are introduced to Winnie‚ a middle-aged‚ happy-go-lucky woman buried up to her waist in sand. Behind her and hidden from view sleeps Willie‚ her husband. Winnie goes about her normal routine rituals. She
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