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The Chicago Tribune "examination" of the Chicago public schools is not absent of bias. In the preface. Chicago Tribune editor, James Squires states: "Such schools...are hardly more than daytime warehouses for inferior students, taught by disillusioned teachers, presided over by a bloated, leaderless bureaucracy..." ("Chicago" xi). Yet, this conclusion regarding the evidence within the reporting had a higher purpose for the Tribune, according to Squires. That purpose was to prompt readers to understand what was realistically occurring in the Chicago schools, how the community was reflected in the school system and the implications that these findings had for American society as a whole ("Chicago" xi). It is due to this purpose that the investigative reporting that was accomplished by Tribune journalists in 1988 is an exceptional body of work.

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Chicago Tribune Project The Chicago Tribune "examination" of the Chicago public schools is not absent of bias. In the preface. Chicago Tribune editor, James Squires states: Such schools...are hardly more than daytime warehouses for inferior students, taught by disillusioned teachers, presided over by a bloated, leaderless bureaucracy...("Chicago" xi). Yet, this conclusion regarding the evidence within the reporting had a higher purpose for the Tribune, according to Squires. That purpose was to prompt readers to understand what was realistically occurring in the

Tags:chicago, tribune, reporting

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This paper analyzes the Chicago Tribune's on-line strategy. It discusses the company's efforts to determine what should make up on-line news content. The author explores the differences between the print version of stories in the newspaper and the online version.

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"The Chicago Tribune is one of the nation's most respected newspapers and it has become a respected source of news on the Internet as well. The parent company, the Tribune Company had expanded into television, radio and newspaper ..."

Tags:chicagotribune.com, chicago tribune, case study

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The paper discusses how analyzing the social, economic and political effects of the Chicago World Fair of 1893 reveals the shocking hypocrisy that pervaded American society in the late nineteenth-century. In Gilded Age America, the wealthy and powerful were idealized and worshipped as social, economic and political icons, despite the fact that many of them were ruthless, corrupt, egomaniacs who considered themselves above the law. The paper discusses how the Chicago World Fair was a national monument to hypocrisy, for it was a microcosm of America itself in this era of greed and psychological self-delusion.

Tags:chicago, world's, fair

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The paper compares and contrasts two of the United States' most conspicuously successful community policing initiatives: the New York COMPSTAT program and the Chicago CAPS program. The paper briefly describes both, delineates some of the differences and similarities between the two and ultimately concludes that a rigidly monolithic approach to community policing, at least if the New York and Chicago models are any indication, is not desirable or necessary.

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"In recent years, community policing has become increasingly prominent as police departments find themselves lacking the resources to combat crime in all of its various manifestations. With this in mind, the following paper will examine community policing in two communities - New York and Chicago - and ascertain where each is similar, and where each is different. Specifically, the paper will explicate "CAPS", discuss "COMPSTAT" strategies, compare the two, and - not least of all - delineate the contrasts between the two entities. Ultimately, what should become apparent is that there is not one effective means of combating crime. Peace-Officers.com, a respected web site written for and by police officers, simply defines community policing as "law enforcement that seeks to integrate officers into the local community to reduce crime and (to) gain good community relations" ("Glossary - Community Policing" 2004, para.1)."

Tags:chicago, newyork, policing

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This paper presents a critical review of "The Port Chicago Mutiny" by Robert L. Allen, a mutiny that took place in the ammunition depot of a shipyard in 1944. The paper examines Allen's methodology, thesis and the short- and long-term ramifications of the court martial.

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"The largest mutiny trial in the history of the United States took place because of events not on board a ship but at a shipyard. Fifty men were tried and convicted of mutiny based on their failure to ..."

Tags:Port chicago mutiny, robert allen, navy, desegregation, segregation

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A look at the history and development of the Chicago board of trade over the years.

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The paper first examines a news article from the Chicago Tribune, "FSSA expands Medicaid coverage to children leaving foster care" by Kusmer (2006). The second article is a more scholarly article (Cunningham, McKenzie, & Taylor, 2006) entitled "The struggle to provide community-based care to low-income people with serious mental illness." The paper looks at how both articles address the growing concern among public policy analysts and the public over how to address the seemingly growing number of serious cases of mental illness among impoverished groups that are unable to provide for their own care.

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"The purpose of this essay is to critique two recent articles on social policy as it relates to extreme cases of mental illness. The first is a news article from the Chicago Tribune, "FSSA expands Medicaid coverage to children leaving foster care" by Kusmer (2006). The second is a more scholarly article (Cunningham, McKenzie, and Taylor, 2006) entitled "The struggle to provide community-based care to low-income people with serious mental illness." Both articles address the growing concern among public policy analysts and the public over how to address the seemingly growing number of serious cases of mental illness among impoverished groups that..."

Tags:social, policy, articles

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According to an article in the Chicago Tribune in August of 2002, at the end of the summer of 2001, one of the Bush administration's major initiatives was amnesty for Mexican illegal immigrants in the United States. This paper examines how the immigration policy has changed since September 11 but the immigration numbers have increased. The paper examines statistics which show how bad Mexican immigrants are faring educationally, socially and financially and that the figures are only getting worse, not improving over time. The paper focuses on Los Angeles as a popular destination for Mexican immigrants and shows how the city has become 'addicted' to this cheap type of labor. The paper also uses as an example, Luis Rodriguez's true account of a poverty stricken life in America as a Mexican immigrant, in his book "Always Running".

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"As the nation's largest destination for immigrants in general and Mexican nationals in particular, Los Angeles needs to prepare quickly to play the piper for the economic benefits of low-income labor, according to two UCLA sociologists. Is this the answer to the poverty stricken Mexican immigrants? Is Los Angeles able to absorb and employ even the least skilled immigrants at a truly impressive rate? It appears just as incapable of offering them a living wage. New immigrants in Urban America indicate serious trouble unless the United State is able to develop the social infrastructure to ensure that the children of today's unskilled immigrants do considerably better than their parents."

Tags:unskilled, graduation

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This paper explains that Lynch Laws and lynching activities lead to the death of tens of hundreds of black men, most of whom were completely innocent. The author points out that Wells used data published by the "Chicago Tribune" showing how many innocent people were lynched each year as a means to make authorities take notice of the atrocities that were being committed under the shelter of Lynch Law. The paper states that the anti-lynching campaign of Ida Wells occupies a very important place in our history because this crusade made people understand the issues connected with racial segregation and discrimination.

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"She maintained that not all white women were raped; there had been cases in which white women actually had consensual sex with black men, as they liked their company. This was probably the most outrageous comment that anyone had ever made in favor of black men but Wells probably believed in attacking the attackers instead of defending the victims. This attacking approach did work as people started taking notice of the problems associated with Lynch Law. The greatest favor she did to the black race was that she brought forth some ugly incidents of lynching, which most newspapers never published. She presented many such cases in her famous pamphlets now available in book-form titled "Southern Horrors and other writings: The anti-lynching campaign"."

Tags:crusadw, segregation, data, innocent, atrocities

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This paper presents three case studies that were taken from the advice column in the Chicago Tribune with the aim of analyzing them using the framework of consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness of the person's reactions.

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''The actor in this situation is behaving in such manner because the 19-year old who's in a relationship with her father breaks the equilibrium (as she has already mentioned that her father has never been in a relationship since her parents' divorced). This is the distinctive component of the problem. On the other hand, we can see that the advice of the observer lacks consistency on the part of the social actor. As a matter of fact, Phillips' advice contradicts the reader's behavior, i.e. by saying that instead of discouraging the relationship, she should give her father and his girl a chance. Lastly, the advice has not reached any sort of consensus because of the pertinent inconsistency between the advice and the reader's feelings. Understand that the behavior of the reader was not, in any way, reinforced by Phillips.''

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