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Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and Multiculturalism

of exhibits, and millions of visitors would produce very different conclusions" (Rose, 1996). As such many people ask "How was the...

Refocusing Housing Public Policy: An Environmental Impact Study

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

CHICAGO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Though the Fair itself was definitely a source of economic growth for Chicago, turning it from its vision as a "frontier town" int...

ZIP Code 60614 and Demographic Characteristics

The median age within the zip code is 31 and average household size is 1.7. As more than 90 percent of the population of zip code...

Lessons from the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

In five pages this paper considers these catastrophes within the context of contemporary fire code applications. Six sources are ...

Chicago's Greek American Community

certain amount of time, as their primary goal was to take their earnings back home and live the life of luxury. Indeed, there was...

Fire Prevention, Private and Governmental Interactions

In four pages this paper examines the fire prevention role of state and federal agencies and the private companies' responsibility...

Media and Chicago's Highway Construction During the 1950s

This paper examines the media's portrayal of Chigago's highway construction and other industrial projects during the 1950s. This ...

Chicago's Metropolitan Revitalization and the Effects of Gentrification

In five pages this paper examines older urban section revitalization and the gentrification impacts of revitalization efforts. Se...

Business Ethics and Chicago's Ameritech

In five pages this report considers the company's business ethics as they influence corporate performance. There are four sources...

Fire Inquiry Design Regarding an Offshore Platform Fire Investigation

In five pages this report presents the inquiry and process of a fire investigation regarding an offshore oil platform's design fla...

Station KYW and Chicago's Radio History

In six pages this paper examines the Westinghouse owned KYW, the first radio station in Chicago, with premier broadcast highlights...

Fire Safety Issues

This paper examines various fire prevention and fire safety issues with an emphasis on institutional buildings. The author cites ...

Chicago's Mexican Culture

the construction of a vast network of railroads (Robinson, 1998). Even more arrived after World War II to work in Chicagos many s...

Reviewing Gas Plants in Terms of Fire Safety

need to consider the causes and how to deal with these potential events. There are three basic types of explosion, the first ids...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

Fire as a Theme in Virgil's Aeneid

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

Emergency Evacuation Plans and Chicago's Workplace

that this study is designed to address: 1. Chicago city requirements for emergency evacuation are more effective now than before t...

Asia, Forest Fires, and Air Pollution

burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires,...

Chicago's Sears Tower Structural Analysis

of this size and weight), one can assume from the sheer size and weight of the building that a special concrete mixture would have...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Chicago Heat Wave in Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

other words, events such as the many deaths as a result of the Chicago heat wave would not occur if society was more aware of the ...

Chicago's Soldier Field Renovations

recent years. Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that it should be local governments responsibility to provide public stru...

Lane v. Franks 2014

In 2006, Lane fired an employee because she never came to work and refused to do so. She sued. Lane was fired and filed a lawsuit....

Why Should a Trailer Mounted Fire Unit be Replaced?

with an understanding of how to deal with five in the environment, and their ability to think quickly and react in the appropriate...

Fire and the Development of the Fire Service

mean firefighting in all its permutations, from urban areas to forest fires; it includes training and equipment as well. This pape...

2003 Fire at Rhode Island's Station Fire Nightclub

they tried to go out the same way they came in...the other three exits had signs with battery-powered lights, but people couldnt s...

Fire's Effects on the Evolution of Plant Species

This paper examines the effects of fire on various metabolic and evolutionary aspects of plant life. The author focuses on the Po...

Middle East Imperialism

non Egyptians, known as the Semitic Kings, named Hyksos, meaning princes of the foreign lands (Thornton, 2003). They had come down...