5 -Comments
- In July 1890, nearly six months since Congress had voted to give the world’s Columbian Exposition to Chicago. The forty-five men on the Exposition’s board of directors still had not decided where the city pride will be at stake, which all Chicago had sung with one voice. Also the emissaries had boosted the congress the city that could deliver a grander and more appropriate setting than the location in New York. Now the Chicago would be insisting on a location within its own boundaries and the squabbling stymied of the boarder.
- Olmsted believed that the city protects it civic honor by producing the greatest such events in the world history, a goal that seemed to be slipping from Chicago grasp with each sweep of the clock’s hand. He offered a fee of one thousand dollars.
- Ellsworth insisted that Chicago had in mind been something far grander than even Paris exposition, and ha also describe the vision of the dream city designed by America’s greatest architects and covering an expanse at least one-third larger than Paris fair. Ellsworth assured Olmsted that by agreeing to help, that he would be joining his name to one of the greatest artistic undertaking of the century.
- Through out Olmsted career, he had struggle with problems in his business. But, he had success in some of his career. He was dispelling the perception that the landscape architecture was simply an ambitious sort of the fine arts, and full sister to the painting, sculpture, and brick-and-mortar architecture.
- In a letter that Ellsworth wrote to Olmsted, he wrote that “My position is this: the reputation of America is at stake in this matter, and the reputation of Chicago is also at stake in this matter, and the reputation if Chicago is also at stake.”
4 -Question
- What does the letter that Ellsworth wrote to Olmsted about the reputation of Chicago?
- Why does Olmsted believed that the city of Chicago is protecting the civic honor by production?
- What was the problem, the struggle that Olmsted had in his position/ his job? What did him success?
- What are the forty-five men have to do with the congress and Chicago? Does Ellsworth and Olmsted is one of the Forty-five people in the group?
3 -Vocabulary
- ambitious = having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc
- Dispel = to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- architecture = the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selection of furnishings and decorations, supervision of construction work, and the examination, restoration, or remodeling of existing buildings
2 -Literary Terms
- Simile = Chicago is like a big dump.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
This part of the book is about the goals that Olmsted and Ellsworth are reaching for.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Devil in the White city
5 -comments
- Mudgett lived in Gilmanton that was a small farming village in New Hampshire’s lake country. His fathers name was Levi and he was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister. His parents were devout Methodists whose response to even routines misbehavior. Mudgett was like a mama’s boy (“mothers boy”) because he stays alone in his room reading Jules Verne and invents things. His best friend was an older child named Tom who was killed in the fall while the boys were playing a game.
-When Mudgett was 16 years old he graduated school (doesn’t tell if he went to a high school, or what school he was in) and despite his age to get a job. Mudgett felt in love with a woman named Clara A. Lovering. They loved each other so much. They got married in July 4, 1878 before a justice of peace. At nineteen, he went to collage. He enrolled a medical program in the University of Vermont in Burlington. He found the school too small so, he transfer to the university of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- Mudgett graduated from the university of Vermont in Ann Arbor. He graduated with a lackluster record. He took out to find some “ favorable location”. Then he went to New York and the Chicago tribune hired him as a school principle.
- Mudgett needed more money because the money that he is earning of his teaching salary wasn’t enough. He said “starvation was staring me in the face”. He and his Canadian friend was making some sort of plan of buying a life insurance and fake death. His friend and him was going to do there plan of faking death with a family of three. The three people body would turn up later and Mudgett and his friend would divide the $40,000 dollars (that is more than one million dollars in our present day).
- When Mudgett found out about the consequences about there scheme, they would get in big trouble. That the doctor would know what was happening and Mudgett was afraid. He took a train to Chicago and renamed himself as Holmes.
4 - Question
- why didn’t Mudgett another job and not do a stupid thing like faking death?
- How much was the teacher salary?
- What happened to Mudgett wife when they did there plan?
-Did the situation got any better?
3 -Vocabulary
Mortgaging = a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Dwindled = to become smaller and smaller
Convenient = Suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs
2 - Literary Terms
Characterization = Word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried young doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing of woman (single) come and buy what they don’t need just to talk to him.
Simile = Chicago was like a big dump.
1 -Overview
This part of the book is about when a young men do something illegal and he is trying to do something about it.
- Mudgett lived in Gilmanton that was a small farming village in New Hampshire’s lake country. His fathers name was Levi and he was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister. His parents were devout Methodists whose response to even routines misbehavior. Mudgett was like a mama’s boy (“mothers boy”) because he stays alone in his room reading Jules Verne and invents things. His best friend was an older child named Tom who was killed in the fall while the boys were playing a game.
-When Mudgett was 16 years old he graduated school (doesn’t tell if he went to a high school, or what school he was in) and despite his age to get a job. Mudgett felt in love with a woman named Clara A. Lovering. They loved each other so much. They got married in July 4, 1878 before a justice of peace. At nineteen, he went to collage. He enrolled a medical program in the University of Vermont in Burlington. He found the school too small so, he transfer to the university of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- Mudgett graduated from the university of Vermont in Ann Arbor. He graduated with a lackluster record. He took out to find some “ favorable location”. Then he went to New York and the Chicago tribune hired him as a school principle.
- Mudgett needed more money because the money that he is earning of his teaching salary wasn’t enough. He said “starvation was staring me in the face”. He and his Canadian friend was making some sort of plan of buying a life insurance and fake death. His friend and him was going to do there plan of faking death with a family of three. The three people body would turn up later and Mudgett and his friend would divide the $40,000 dollars (that is more than one million dollars in our present day).
- When Mudgett found out about the consequences about there scheme, they would get in big trouble. That the doctor would know what was happening and Mudgett was afraid. He took a train to Chicago and renamed himself as Holmes.
4 - Question
- why didn’t Mudgett another job and not do a stupid thing like faking death?
- How much was the teacher salary?
- What happened to Mudgett wife when they did there plan?
-Did the situation got any better?
3 -Vocabulary
Mortgaging = a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Dwindled = to become smaller and smaller
Convenient = Suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs
2 - Literary Terms
Characterization = Word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried young doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing of woman (single) come and buy what they don’t need just to talk to him.
Simile = Chicago was like a big dump.
1 -Overview
This part of the book is about when a young men do something illegal and he is trying to do something about it.
The Devil in the White City
5- Comments
- The black City was known for Chicago. In Chicago, people get lost really quickly that when a person get lost, the people says that that person is never seen again. Around 1800s, Chicago use to be a dangerous place to live especially for young girls/woman. James Addams, the reformer who founded Chicago’s Hull House wrote “ Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from protection of the homes and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs”.
- On March 30, 1890, an officer of the first National Bank placed a warning in the help-wanted section of the Chicago Tribune, to inform female stenographers of there growing conviction that no thoroughly honorable business-man…… So the females were more in danger in Chicago than men’s.
- In Chicago, many people are died in there young age, that death came early and often in Chicago. Approximate, two people died in a horrified way or a common death. There are men killing woman and woman killing men (at one another) and children’s killing each other or themselves by accident. This time of year was around 1892. Some of the polices didn’t had gun power to keep the balance of criminals and murders in a low balance. The police didn’t had enough equipment to do there job.
- In February 24, 1890, two thousand people gathered on the sidewalk and streets outside the office of the Chicago Tribune, as similar crowds collected at each of the city’s twenty-eight other daily newspapers and in hotels lobbies….. The people that was in the gathering were business men’s, clerks, traveling salesmen, polices, stenographers and maybe one barber.
-Chicago’s population had topped one million people, making them the second most popular in the nation (New York is on top, that has the most people).
4 -Question
- Why Chicago is also known for the black city?
- Why don’t the people of Chicago wont help the situation of Chicago?
- What was the meaning of going and gathering people on the sidewalk outside of the Chicago office?
- How did Chicago became the second most popular in the nation if people are died?
3-Vocabulary
Lackluster = a lack of brilliance or vitality.
Grotesque = odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd.
Prosaic = commonplace or dull.
2 - Literary Terms
Imagery = moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of root’s design, they saw views of the lake and the city that no one but constructive workers had seen before.
Characterization = Soon a different men appear in the tribune window. He was tall, thin and young and wore a black beard.
1 -Overview
This section is about the time in Chicago, the construction of the skyscraper, the situation that happened in Chicago.
- The black City was known for Chicago. In Chicago, people get lost really quickly that when a person get lost, the people says that that person is never seen again. Around 1800s, Chicago use to be a dangerous place to live especially for young girls/woman. James Addams, the reformer who founded Chicago’s Hull House wrote “ Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from protection of the homes and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs”.
- On March 30, 1890, an officer of the first National Bank placed a warning in the help-wanted section of the Chicago Tribune, to inform female stenographers of there growing conviction that no thoroughly honorable business-man…… So the females were more in danger in Chicago than men’s.
- In Chicago, many people are died in there young age, that death came early and often in Chicago. Approximate, two people died in a horrified way or a common death. There are men killing woman and woman killing men (at one another) and children’s killing each other or themselves by accident. This time of year was around 1892. Some of the polices didn’t had gun power to keep the balance of criminals and murders in a low balance. The police didn’t had enough equipment to do there job.
- In February 24, 1890, two thousand people gathered on the sidewalk and streets outside the office of the Chicago Tribune, as similar crowds collected at each of the city’s twenty-eight other daily newspapers and in hotels lobbies….. The people that was in the gathering were business men’s, clerks, traveling salesmen, polices, stenographers and maybe one barber.
-Chicago’s population had topped one million people, making them the second most popular in the nation (New York is on top, that has the most people).
4 -Question
- Why Chicago is also known for the black city?
- Why don’t the people of Chicago wont help the situation of Chicago?
- What was the meaning of going and gathering people on the sidewalk outside of the Chicago office?
- How did Chicago became the second most popular in the nation if people are died?
3-Vocabulary
Lackluster = a lack of brilliance or vitality.
Grotesque = odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd.
Prosaic = commonplace or dull.
2 - Literary Terms
Imagery = moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of root’s design, they saw views of the lake and the city that no one but constructive workers had seen before.
Characterization = Soon a different men appear in the tribune window. He was tall, thin and young and wore a black beard.
1 -Overview
This section is about the time in Chicago, the construction of the skyscraper, the situation that happened in Chicago.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Touch the top of the world
5 - Comments
- The police knows Erik. The police was asking Erik about the whole lots of smoke pouring out the cracks on Erik garage. Erik said that there was nothing wrong in the garage but, the police don’t trust him. The police would want to check the garage but, Erik tells the police “do you need a warrant for this situation”.
- Chris dared Erik to moon the car and in that car was a van full of high school seniors. Erik was scared that if the seniors caught him mooning there car, that they will beat him up. That he imagine the high school seniors, twice the size of him wanted to get him
-The teacher gave Erik a tape record so he could hear the reading from the book. When he heard the section about sex, he was interested in that section. He couldn’t wait to read about “sex” (he use a special kind of tools that people that are almost blind, that cant see very well use to read). He took a tape recorder to detention and heard the section about “sex”.
- The people around Erik wanted to help Erik a of his problem. Some of the people wanted to help him to be more successful and some of them just wanted to help him. Erik was flatter but, he didn’t wanted this kind of things happening now, he just want a person like him to be a friend of him. A person like Erik would make Erik fell more better.
- Erik is worried that his friend would laugh at him because he is going on a handicap car. The driver told Erik that you cant see how the car looks like, that you don’t now what you are riding on. The next day, you would wave your friends goodbye and go in the car.
4 - Question
- Why did Erik didn’t wanted to be seen that he is taking the handicap car?
- Did Erik wanted the police man to know what was happening in the garage?
- Why did Erik said that the smoke smells like burning rubber?
- Does Erik really needs a friend that is like him?
3 - Vocabulary
- pursuers = To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase
- darted = To thrust or throw suddenly and rapidly.
- shuddered = To shiver convulsively, as from fear or revulsion
2 - Literary Terms
- simile = I imagined her huge legs squeezed into combustible green tights, steaming and groaning under the building pressure until, finally, fat and gristle explode through the hallway like shrapnel.
- simile = I had been standing on the side of the road, my pale butt glowing in the dark like a second moon.
1 - Overview
- This part of the book is about Erik learning to do things and experience things that he never though of by his blindness.
- The police knows Erik. The police was asking Erik about the whole lots of smoke pouring out the cracks on Erik garage. Erik said that there was nothing wrong in the garage but, the police don’t trust him. The police would want to check the garage but, Erik tells the police “do you need a warrant for this situation”.
- Chris dared Erik to moon the car and in that car was a van full of high school seniors. Erik was scared that if the seniors caught him mooning there car, that they will beat him up. That he imagine the high school seniors, twice the size of him wanted to get him
-The teacher gave Erik a tape record so he could hear the reading from the book. When he heard the section about sex, he was interested in that section. He couldn’t wait to read about “sex” (he use a special kind of tools that people that are almost blind, that cant see very well use to read). He took a tape recorder to detention and heard the section about “sex”.
- The people around Erik wanted to help Erik a of his problem. Some of the people wanted to help him to be more successful and some of them just wanted to help him. Erik was flatter but, he didn’t wanted this kind of things happening now, he just want a person like him to be a friend of him. A person like Erik would make Erik fell more better.
- Erik is worried that his friend would laugh at him because he is going on a handicap car. The driver told Erik that you cant see how the car looks like, that you don’t now what you are riding on. The next day, you would wave your friends goodbye and go in the car.
4 - Question
- Why did Erik didn’t wanted to be seen that he is taking the handicap car?
- Did Erik wanted the police man to know what was happening in the garage?
- Why did Erik said that the smoke smells like burning rubber?
- Does Erik really needs a friend that is like him?
3 - Vocabulary
- pursuers = To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase
- darted = To thrust or throw suddenly and rapidly.
- shuddered = To shiver convulsively, as from fear or revulsion
2 - Literary Terms
- simile = I imagined her huge legs squeezed into combustible green tights, steaming and groaning under the building pressure until, finally, fat and gristle explode through the hallway like shrapnel.
- simile = I had been standing on the side of the road, my pale butt glowing in the dark like a second moon.
1 - Overview
- This part of the book is about Erik learning to do things and experience things that he never though of by his blindness.
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