Chicago Tribune Essays

  • Chicago Tribune Essay

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    Of The Chicago Tribune Nathan Grissom Kitty King Journalism 105-101 Absract The Chicago Tribune has been around for 168 years during this time they have reported on ten wars, and thirty-three Presidential elections. They have become a journalism giant in the newspaper and media world and highly respected among their peers by winning several Pulitzer Prizes. It has a daily readership of 1.7 million and an astounding 2.7 readership just on Sundays alone. History The Chicago Tribune

  • The Consequences Of Civil Disobedience

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    arms.”. Even though Kaepernick may have been trying to do a positive by making a statement that caught every bodies attention, this has also caused a negative effect. As an example from the Chicago Tribune, “Colin Kaepernick kneels during national anthem, meets Green Beret before 49ers-Chargers game” by Tribune news service, states “When Kaepernick left the field following pregame warmups, he was greeted with profanity and obscene gestures from Leo Uzcategui, a 20-year Navy veteran …"I was in the

  • Causes Of Violence In America

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    Alexander Hamilton. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tupac Shakur. All were extremely influential in their lifetimes and all died much too early at the hand of senseless violence. In the United States alone, about 44 murders happen a day (Reference) and at least 874 people were killed in mass shootings total (Berkowitz). Though the problem is decreasing significantly from the 1990s when it was at its peak, violence continues to be one of the nation’s largest domestic issues. As this issue of violence in

  • Peter Cook

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    “We consider ourselves an alternative culture. It’s like being Spanish in an English society- there’s just a language barrier”, explained Peter Cook to the Chicago Tribune. Cook is a deaf performer, poet, and comedian, to say the least, who tries to defy the language barrier by creating shows that not only deaf can understand but also allow the hearing to interact. Through these shows, he tells stories of miscommunication and the obstacles he has had to overcome since he became deaf. I wonder what

  • Benefits Of Video Games Essay

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    Nowadays video games get nothing but bad reputations from people. You have people in powerful positions saying that video games have nothing but bad effects and that they only promote violence and lead to children acting out on that violence. Who are the people listening to these people in powerful positions? Parents. Some Parents have this misunderstanding that all video games are bad and that all video games have a negative effect on their child and how they develop. Some parents with that understanding

  • Benefit Of Video Games Essay

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    Video Games: More beneficial than you think Nowadays video games get nothing but bad reputations from people. There are people in powerful positions who are saying that video games have nothing but bad effects and they only promote violence which leads to children acting out in violent ways. Who are the ones listening to the people in these powerful positions; Parents. Some Parents have this misunderstanding that video games are bad and that they have a negative effects on their child’s minds and

  • Terri Schiavo Life or Death

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    automatically the decision making fall to a spouse or next in Kin. But in this situation where Mr. Schiavo never mention that Terri wanted to be taken off of the feeding tube until 1998, I can see why the law would be completely fair. In the Chicago Tribune it stated that some supporters of the Schindlers has doubts of Mr. Schiavo ethics and his fitness for guardianship of Terri. They bought forward affidavits from his former girlfriends saying that they swore he confided in them stating he had no

  • Analysis of Argument: Gun Control in America

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    shootings, including the well known Sandy Hook Elementary school, Columbine High School, Aurora movie theater, and Virginia Tech, together totaling 87 deaths, many people are beginning to push for nationwide gun control. An article published in the Chicago Tribune by Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Collins, entitled “Gun Control is Long Overdue” voiced the opinion that in order for America to remain the land of the free, we must take action in the form of stricter gun laws. On the contrary, Kathleen Parker

  • Failure of the Chicago Board of Education in the Civil Rights Movement

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    brought many accusations and complaints towards the Chicago Board of Education. Due to this pressure, the Board allowed three major studies of the Chicago public schools which clearly denoted the segregation problems of the school system, over a decade after the Supreme Court’s decision of the famous Brown v Board of Education case. The Hauser Report and the Havighurst Report, both published in 1964, described the “gross racial imbalance” in Chicago public schools, where “Negro schools” tended to be

  • Our Lady of Angels: Tragedy in Chicago

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    December 1st, 1958 tragedy comes to Chicago, the catholic school Our Lady of Angels is a blase a fire has started in the basement of the north wing of the school at the bottom of the stairwell and is roaring through the north wing in a matter of minuets despite the best efforts of the Chicago fire department the north wing is nearly a total loss resulting in the death of 90 people died in the blaze and 5 more were critically injured resulting in deaths. Through my research I have sought to find

  • The Life and Role of Wacs During WWII

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    Serve at 270 Posts in U.S.” Chicago Daily Tribune. “How to Get More Girls to Become WACs.” Chicago Daily Tribune. 8 October 1943. “Keeping Posted.” The Saturday Evening Post. Korman, Seymour. “WACs Display Kitchen Magic In Africa, Too.” Chicago Daily Tribune. 17 July 1943. Nangle, Eleanor. “WACs Help Win Air Raid.” Chicago Daily Tribune. 19 March, 1944. Noderer, E.R. “WACs Will Be In Second Front Says Col. Hobby: ‘Just Like Any Part of the Army.’” Chicago Daily Tribune. 11 January 1944. O Hauser,

  • Sulla and the Downfall of the Roman Republic

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    Lucius Cornelius Sulla was born in 138 B.C.E, into a prominent Roman patrician family but not a wealthy one. He received a good education, as Sallust, a reliable unbiased Roman plebeian historian and politician, suggests, “…and was fluent in both Roman and Greek” (Sallust, 43 AD. Histories), which was a sign of high education in Rome (Cavazzi, F. 2014). Sulla was a general and lieutenant of the Roman Army, was elected twice for consulship before he became dictator in 81 B.C.E. His background in the

  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus

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    Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was the son of a Roman aristocrat whose family had regularly held the highest offices of state for the past century. Tiberius achieved much in his life and was a man of high distinction in political circles. He was a man with a prominent background- coming from very powerful families. It seemed also, that many had high expectations of him, and his potential was not seen to its full extent. To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion. Today

  • The Rise and Fall of Gaius Gracchus

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    long as for in the latter half of the second century growth in the cities occurred and meant change for the patrician nobility. Tribunes, such as Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus used this change to enforce social policies that were in favor of the plebeians, but also their eventual downfall. Gaius Gracchus’s political career began before he received his office as a tribune. He was born to a powerful family under his parents, Tiberius Gracchus major and Cornelia Africana. Tiberius gained fame during

  • Chicago Press Treatment Of The Gangster Analysis

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    McDonough, Daniel. “Chicago Press Treatment of the Gangster, 1924-1931”. Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 82, No.1, (Spring, 1989) p. 17-32. In Daniel McDonough’s, Chicago Press Treatment of the Gangster, 1924-1931, the newspapers views and actions towards the gangsters crimes and punishments are analyzed. The gangster related crime began to increase during the time period between 1924 and 1931 and the newspapers covered every story. There were four main newspapers during the time putting their

  • Why Are Gasoline Prices Going Up So High?

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    up by a lot in the last few months, but is that unfair? Prices still are a lot higher in Canada, Europe and just about any other developed nation, according to Mike Royko in the May 2, 1996 issue of the Chicago Tribune. Ted Z. Manuel in a letter entitled "Voice of the People" of the Chicago Tribune, said "Most anywhere in Europe, gas costs are from $3.00 to $5.00 per gallon. We scream when it hits a $1.35 to $1.75 a gallon, which if adjusted for inflation actually is cheaper than 25 years ago." It

  • The Great Chicago Fire

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    On Sunday, October 18, 1871 the largest fire Chicago has ever seen broke out. Hundreds died and thousands of homes were annihilated. Devistation towered over the city, ashes floated gracefully through the air as bodies, houses and cherished items burned. People ran in fear, holding their young, crying for the gone, searching for saftey. Searching for life. Searching for hope. The past few weeks had been hot, dry, and rainless. A drought. Rain had not fallen for three months. Though, despite

  • The Great Chicago Fire Essay

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    that beautiful city is completely destroyed. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was one of the largest disasters in American history (“The Great Chicago”). After many failed attempts to put out the fire, people were left homeless and helpless to rebuild their city. Thankfully, after every tragedy there is always a recovery. To begin with, during the year of 1870 and 1871 Chicago was facing extreme drought. During that time period the city of Chicago was built mostly from wood, making everything extremely

  • Chicago’s Tribunes Server Consolidation A Success

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    Chicago’s Tribunes Server Consolidation a Success Summary This case study is an analysis of the Chicago Tribunes Server consolidation in which the Chicago Tribune moved its critical applications from several mainframes and older Sun servers to new, dual-site data-center infrastructure based on Sun 15K servers. The Tribune clustered the Sun servers over a 2-mile distance, lighting up a dark-fiber, 1-Gbps link between two data centers. This configuration let the newspaper spread the processing

  • Are We Desensitized Analysis

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    Bureau agent David Colson, that only 20% of firearms incidents are reported in eastern Chicago. Davich also cites from the Chicago Tribune that gunfire violence rose 66% in Chicago this year and claims the fault, in the rising gunfire violence in Chicago, is in northwestern Indiana. The argument is supported by agent Coulson who notes “many of those guns purchased in Indiana are used by criminals in Chicago”. Davich then concludes by warning readers of how much people have become desensitized to