Birmingham City Council

magazine influence. First we should talk about one of the main methods of influence that people have been using for centuries. Brainwashing is the act of systematically changing someone’s beliefs or attitude. This method is also shown in Anthem by the council keeping everyone in a “we” mindset and changing them over originally. One way of brainwashing…

Toronto is a very large and diverse place, we need somewhere to connect with the people around us that is why I’d like to stress the importance of increasing the amount of community centers and city parks in Toronto. Parks and community centers allow Torontonians a common place to meet for recreation and exercise. People that live in communities with parks and recreation centers tend to feel a stronger sense of community than those that don’t…

My Wonderful Education in Skitzland “The Fairy tale teaches the spiritual essentials, which facts alone cannot communicate.” (Ostry) Is “My wonderful Adventure in Skitzland” simply a fairy tale or a lesson on social reform filled to the brim with satire? Henry Morley wrote the story to be published in Household Words on January 6, 1850 not only for the fanciful enjoyment of the reader but also for the education of the middle classes. Henry Morley not only was a lecturer, writer and a…

During the Victorian Era, it was a time of prosperity for the rich, and it was a desperate time for the lower class; the poor only got poorer. It was the Industrial Revolution, but as all revolutions there were side effects. “It was a tremendously exciting period when many artistic styles, literary schools, as well as, social, political and religious movements flourished. It was a time of prosperity, broad imperial expansion, and great political reform. It was also a time, which today we…

In the poem “Ballard of Birmingham,” Dudley Randall is very interesting. Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to attend a Freedom March in Birmingham, Alabama with the other children and a mother who are trying to protect her child from the racism that is going on at the march. He uses repetition and tone to show the reader how racism and a mother love played affected this child’s life. Randall use repetition to demonstrate how the mother is trying to protect her…

J.R. McWane was the founder the Birmingham Company that bears his family name in 1921. It is today called McWane Inc. It is one of the biggest producer of water and sewer pipes. Over the years, it has made a name as one of the 500 privately owned companies in the United States. Its iron foundries spread across 10 states in the United States and Canada. McWane has aggressively expanded since the 1970s by buying up antiquated plants and increasing their profitability through their management…

The Victorian era was a time of great cultural upheaval in Britain. There were new clothes, new music, new breeds of dogs, and most importantly, new forms of punishment for crimes. This cultural metamorphosis was mostly harmless, but it also gave birth to some horrific crimes as well. This fact is what makes those punishments so important. As evils both great and small were rising up, there had to be punishments to meet them at the pass. The Victorian era implemented punishments that not only…

personal creativity causing him to repent towards the law behind the councils backs. Knowing he could be caught and stoned to death in the square didn’t stop him from going to accomplish his dream,to create an invention, and while he knew he probably wouldn’t be accepted into the house of scholars didn’t change his mind at all and he really didn’t seem to care. On page 19, he denied that International 4-8818 take his discovery to the council, because he did not want to be lashed. I believe that…

2 Based on the Bowman reading, what are the relative pluses and minuses of a city government with a strong elected mayor versus an appointed city manager? Mayors tend to be the most prominent figures in the city government primarily because their position automatically makes them the center of attention. A strong mayor structure establishes the mayor as the sole chief executive who exercises substantive policy responsible. The more of these powers a mayor has the stronger her or his position is…

Your groove: perhaps how music makes you feel, how it stimulates your body with the beat of a drum or the riff of a guitar. My groove: on the same level as your groove, only it goes just a bit further than just the feel. A machinist’s groove: the point at which a tool does work. We all see groove differently, figuratively and technically. We’ll be focusing on grooves that match up, your’s and mine, and how we’ll see that groove is more than just feelings. We’ll be exploring groove’s historically…