The State of Maryland concentrated its efforts on completing the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, designed to link the Potomac and Ohio River valleys, but the city of Baltimore supported an overland link in the form of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Although the two competed for routes and freight, to the eventual ruin of the canal and the financial embarrassment of the state, Baltimore's railroad reached Cumberland in 1842 and, by 1874, stretched to Chicago...
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Although the two competed for routes and freight, to the eventual ruin of the canal and the financial embarrassment of the state, Baltimore's railroad reached Cumberland in 1842 and, by 1874, stretched to Chicago. The canning industry was also an important economic engine for Baltimore's future. Canning became key as the riches of the Chesapeake Bay began (for the first time) to be preserved and shipped to other parts of the country...
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Compare and contrast the part that the city or state (polis) plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King. The fact that he has decreed that the stoning will take place within the city walls is significant, has this will show the citizens of Thebes the consequences of disobeying his laws...	6 / 1418
Foil And Parallel Characters In Oedipus The King And Antigone Creon's intelligent son warns Creon that the people of Thebes sympathize Antigone, but Creon accuses Haemon of being a "woman's slave" (line 756). This clearly shows the uses and the purpose of the foil character of Antigone, who is living during an era when women are considered merely vassals, and the parallel characteristics of Creon, who is the king of Thebes, and a well respected man...	3 / 595
Creon: Accused and Accuser Antigone does not feel she has broken the law because she is obeying laws passed down from the gods and not Creon's man-made law. Creon is so angry that someone would disobey his edict that he orders Antigone to be buried alive and that Ismene be put to death also...	3 / 754
Creon's Hubris in the play Antigone With this error in judgment, he is blinded and cannot see the true harm in his actions until it is too late. The play closes with the suicides of Antigone, Haimon Creon’s son, and Eurydice his wife...	2 / 402