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    most American institutions. Today the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection comprises some of the most important and iconic paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Art Institute of Chicago: The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection The Art Institute of Chicago is a Museum and art school located

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    I was born here in Chicago but was raised in a small Illinois town near Iowa. I later returned to my roots as an adult and have raised my own family in the Chicagoland area in (South Suburban) Steger, Illinois. I am a wife, mother and recently became a grandmother. I realized I wanted to pursue the legal profession very early on in life. I believe I was in 4th grade or so when I first got the notion to become a lawyer. My father had gotten injured at work and as a result had a worker’s compensation

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    people from different income, ethnic, and racial living contiguously. She was against city planners tearing down old neighborhoods and constructing tall apartment blocks. Jacobs’ viewpoint was based on middle-class neighborhoods and families. “A metropolitan economy, if it is working well, is constantly transforming many poor people into middle-class people, many illiterates into skilled people, many greenhorns into competent citizens. … Cities don’t lure the middle class. They create it.” (Jacobs

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    women led to the focus of placing responsibility on both men and women for the corruption of sex workers. Both genders had a responsibility for the prevalence of prostitution as well as to finding a solution to a prevalent problem in metropolitan areas such as Chicago. However, rather than providing financial or social resources to help victims of prostitution form relationships and earn a respectable place in society, many progressive and feminists reformers as part of the Feminist Movement argued

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    Despite increased diversity across the country, America’s neighborhoods remain highly segregated along racial and ethnic lines. Residential segregation, particularly between African-Americans and whites, persists in metropolitan areas where minorities make up a large share of the population. This paper will examine residential segregation imposed upon African-Americans and the enormous costs it bears. Furthermore, the role of government will be discussed as having an important role in carrying

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    Nighthawks by Edward Hopper is one of my all-time favorite paintings, and has been a painting I have enjoyed researching throughout my life because of how much I resonate with this painting. This is an astonishing painting, not only in the sense of it being beautiful art, but because this is a piece that is so significant and loved by so many people around the world. I would say that even if you have not ever seen the original painting, you have probably seen it reproduced in different ways in many

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    Malayshia Green Constitutional Law Case Brief #2 Team 2 Facts: The Child Labor Act of 1916, prohibited shipment of goods in interstate commerce factories that employed children; under the age of fourteen. Roland Dagenhart and his two minor sons worked at the mill in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dagenhart brought an injunction against the Act, claiming that it was not a regulation of interstate and that the law was unconstitutional. . (The Oyez Project) Procedural History: The North Carolina district

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    Humans have a very influential relationship with waterfowl, theres two sides to it. On one side humans have completely changed waterfowls natural migrating path. With the modern expansion of cities, certain species have adapted and now use them as refuges, such as the Canada goose. Through climate change humans have disrupted waterfowls natural patterns of migration, and most species are un-able to adapt quickly enough to the rapidly changing temperatures. The other side of humans’ relationship with

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    Introduction All over the world, there are people and businesses that are attempting to find ways in which to improve their environmental conditions. One of the ways this can be done is by "going green" - and that is possible not only in rural and suburban areas, but also in urban environments. The term "going green" is not literally related to a color, but instead refers to the process of finding sustainable and reusable materials and methods. That keeps people and businesses from having to seek out and obtain

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    to achieve the desired goals. And it will continue to do so in future. The article supports the claim that industrial project management has changed over the years and will evolve more and more in the future also. The Chicago Tribune article considers manufacturing industry of Chicago and its future in today’s world of globalization. By nature, manufacturing is heavily attached to process. Each process is followed by another and product is built cumulatively at each step in sequential order and in

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