Drexel Burnham Lambert Essays

In “The Way We Lie”, author Stephanie Ericsson gives her readers a list of ten lie we sometime use it for a purpose and sometime we did not realize we did it. She starts out her story with four lie she used in the same morning as she is starting out her day. She explains these lie are intentionally use to minimize the complications and make the day goes much smoother. However, she questions whether these lie can actually make an impact on the person who carry out and the person who receive the lie

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television show, produced by the BBC, that has been running since 1963. The series follows a Time Lord called the Doctor, a space and time-traveling man who explores the universe in his time-traveling space ship. Accompanied by various companions throughout the years, the Doctor works to help all people in need. The series first appeared in 1963, receiving recognition as one of Britain’s finest television programs and continues to reap awards. The show is a

Shakespeare, in his tragedy, “Macbeth,” illustrates an intriguing narrative in which a man named Macbeth receives equivocations from witches telling him that he will become the king, sending him spiraling down a path of madness and bloodshed. Shakespeare's purpose is to relay the ideas that unchecked ambition leads to a person’s downfall and to elaborate on the vanity of human ambition through the actions of the characters. In act 5, scene 5, he assumes a somber tone through the utilization of alliteration

In The Great American Fair: The World’s Columbian Exposition and American Culture, Reid Badger spends a significant amount of time taking the reader on a descriptive tour of how the Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 originated, the planning process and the debates surrounding its purpose, the construction and architectural debates, the financial responsibilities and expectations, before diving into the fair’s relationship with and impact on American culture. Badger strays away discussing

the crushing workload, and his mounting frustration all tore at his spirit until by the end of March he felt himself on the verge of physical and emotional collapse” (Larson 169). John Root died of pneumonia before the fair started construction. Burnham had to continue on without the companionship of his partner. Larson’s readers also realize the positive and negative aspects about the fair. The fair posed as inspiration for people while it also was corrupted by people like

impossible to do. The book Devil in the White City, written by Erik Larson, is about the making of the World’s Fair, and the making of a serial killer, H. H. Holmes. The book talks about how the World’s Fair was planned by architects such as: Daniel Burnham, Frederick Olmstead, and Louis Sullivan. It also talks about how Holmes ended up in Chicago and how he started his businesses and his killings. The theme in Devil in the White City is about persistence paying off in the end. Larson uses solid examples

due to the overwhelming positivity of the Fair. The nonfiction novel, The Devil in the White City, focuses on two significant figures, architect Daniel Burnham and serial killer H. H. Holmes. Erik Larson uses juxtaposition, imagery, and figurative language in order to portray the distinct differences between Burnham’s and Holmes’s worlds,

American journalist and author Erik Larson’s nonfiction novel The Devil In the White City establishes a theme of perception that is prevalent throughout the text. Larson’s use of this theme is intended for the reader to see that the way things are perceived by an audience is not necessarily the way they truly are; many times the characters in this novel will see something that the narrator will later prove inaccurate. He imposes a strong contrast between what is seen and what is there to convey the

The Devil in the White City portrays the Chicago World’s Fair as a significant event that set itself in America’s history books as one of its greatest achievements. Though the Fair itself was a sensation alone, with all its dazzling features and worldwide attention, the Fair was not the only significant even happening in Chicago at the time. This event however involved murders hidden by the shining brilliance of the Fair. The murderer in question, arguably America’s first notable serial killer, was

The Artistic, Moral, and Inventive Progress of America A six month long fair with lights and technology that the world had never seen anything like, a charming, blue eyed killer, and the beautiful city of Chicago; all elements that make up the novel, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. This book is a retelling of the events that transpired in the city of Chicago before, during, and after the building of the Chicago World’s Fair, also called the World’s Columbian Exposition. For the majority of

Chicago is the chosen destination. Two architects, Daniel Burnham and John Root, are awarded the job of setting up the construction of the fair. Their main goal being to surpass the amazement of the building of the Eiffel Tower in Paris a few years before. Burnham faces many problems throughout the construction of the fair, one important one being that his partner, John Root, dies at the beginning of the organization process for the fair. Burnham is left to be the main architect and is faced with a lot

“The City” by Ray Bradbury is a story of revenge. The City itself is an unpopulated city on a planet far away from Earth. It seeks revenge upon Earthians who killed its people long ago. The City’s sole purpose is to wait for people of Earth to come back and exact its revenge. It waits twenty thousand years to do so. Finally, a rocket arrives and The City awakens. It determines that the people visiting are indeed from Earth and reanimates a corpse to do its bidding. It could be asked how something

This play, The Devil & Daniel Webster, was written by playwright Stephen Vincent Benét in 1937 in the United States Of America. Benét was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States on 22nd July 1898. He wrote his published his first book when he was 17 and won a M.A( Master of Arts) award. During his early years, Benét developed a sense of interest in heroic fiction and poetry, he also admired those with patriotic values. Since he was brought up in a military family, Benét lived and applauded

Through the stories of two historical men, Erik Larson uses extensive research to reveal the lives of Daniel Burnham, the lead architect of the fair, and Herman Webster Mudgett, better known under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, who is one of America’s first documented serial killers. The story is broken into four parts with two perspectives that switch between chapters. While Daniel Burnham invests his life into the creation of a World’s fair and tries to rid Chicago of its bad name, H.H Holmes

In Erik Larson’s novel The Devil in the White City takes place during the Gilded Age. During this period of time everything appears good and golden on the outside when in reality everything was full of corruption. In the novel, the author takes the reader to the city of Chicago, where the city is “swelled “in population causing the city to expand in all “available directions” (Larson 44). As Chicago became the “second most populous [city] in the nation after New York” there was an urge that city

Erik Larson's iconic book The Devil in the White City relives the events leading up to the World's Fair of Chicago that occurred in the late 1800s. It is a novel of contrasts, as the title first evidenced. The Fair was known as the “White City”, as it was both literally white and a bright example of the magic America and the world could offer. In contrast with this image is the devil in the personality and nature of Holmes, committing horrible acts only a few blocks from the Fair. The question points

being brutally murdered alongside this brilliant piece of American good fortune. Architect Daniel Burnham and psychotic serial killer H. H. Holmes are the two main characters of this story and embody the light and the dark. Throughout The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson uses structure, diction, and figurative language to demonstrate the delicate balance and inescapable

Chicago was not a concern. “Chicago was nothing more than a greedy, hog-slaughtering backwater.” The most influential people in Chicago during the time of Holmes’ killings were worried about one thing: The World’s Columbian Exchange. Men like Daniel Burnham were working thousands of men, day and night, in order to finish the Fair on time. This too was killing innocent men. Most people in Chicago were preoccupied with their own lives, they rarely noticed when people went missing. The selfishness in Chicago

1895 Philadelphia. Larson recreated two men that would live in Chicago. The two men will have different plots and will each provide a meaning in one another. One plot is by the architect that will build the Chicago World's Fair his name is Daniel Burnham. The other man's name is H.H Holmes and he is trying to acquire work as a pharmacist or a doctor around the same time period, but he isn't a regular man. Daniel Burnham's

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is set in the years 1775 - 1793 in London, England, and Paris, France. Dickens released it in a weekly serial between April 20, 1859 - November 26, 1859. A Tale of Two Cities is a very compelling book that has many different themes, motifs, and symbols. Those include resurrection, duality, sacrifice, darkness, imprisonment, wine flasks, etc. In this essay, I will break down the three themes of resurrection, sacrifice, and darkness. Resurrection, a common