A time during my life when I was “Street Smart: was when I rode the public bus for the first time. My mom had told me I needed to be extra careful because some a lot of people get in and some might give me a hard time. Throughout my whole ride on the bus I kept what my mom had said in mind. After a few stops a guy got in a set next to me and he started talking to me and I was truing to ignore him as much as I could. It came to a moment where he got a little bit out of hand and started saying stuff
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In the book‚ House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza the main character faces a lot of conflicts throughout the book. However‚ I think the one that caused the greatest change in her was the external conflict of what society and men expect of her and other woman. She found out that love was nothing like she thought it would be‚ and that woman are thought of as objects and not people. In the first part of the book Esperanza was confused about what love was. As the book went on she
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starting point meaning how their adventure begins‚ a midpoint which means what happened while they are on their adventure‚ and an ending point which means their return and how they view themselves now. Luite portrays these characteristics in the book The Street by: Ann Petry‚ Luite tries to help people before she helps herself‚ she meets a new man who she thinks things will get better with‚ but after everything that Lutie had been through things don’t really get better. Over the course of the story Lutie
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is replaced by alienation‚ accompanied by an emotional detachments from ones surroundings. Understanding these connections and surroundings nourishes rather than prevents these feelings. In Peter Skrzynecki’s poem “St.Patricks College” and “10 Mary Street” the connections with his surroundings are explored. They are explored through the environments and culture he grows up in. In the 2007 movie “Bra Boys” directed by Sonny Abberton and Macario De Souza the concepts of the landscape‚ culture and alienation
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life. To love and to be loved." The air is cold but the trees are on fire. The quiet avenue was gilded with red and gold yet the leaves hadn’t yet started to fall. An autumn breeze swept through the air and danced with the scarlet leaves. The streets‚ evenly lined with trees donned with golden hues‚ looked like that out of a picture. Everything was beautiful in this moment in time. Everything was perfect. The golden‚ crisp leaves crunch underneath my high-heeled boots. As I walk through this
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Art to me is an individual’s way of expressing themselves in a very complex or unique way other than writing in simple text. One of my favorite black history pieces of artwork is the painting of “The Street To Mbari”. This masterpiece was painted by Jacob Lawerence‚ a profound African American born in Atlantic City‚ New Jersey in 1917. Lawerence was notorious for his paintings using the tempera method‚ in which he enjoyed the most out of all of his many crafts and talents. This painting in particular
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A nightmare on elm street does a fine job of implementing the use of gruesome violent actions into the horror genre. Particularly the use of violence in many death scenes creates a sense of horror and fright through the use of creative gory bloodshed all over bedrooms and bed sheets. Violence in this movie interprets death scenes through a creative artful yet gruesome bloodshed rooms. Violence used in this film gains the attention of spectators who enjoy experiencing fright and hype up with adrenaline
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1. Who is your audience at your SL site My audience is the members of Lincoln Street. They are children between ages 6 and 12. 2. How does your understanding of the audience impact how you interact with them In my opinion‚ although the audience is children‚ I need to treat them equally like the adults. This idea makes me do not think children are ignorant and childish‚ so I will not ignore their thoughts and order them directly when I interact with them. Indeed‚ sometimes their views are extremely
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The biggest decision people make is deciding who they are. In the story The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ the author creates a conflict of Esperanza’s internal struggle to find her identity‚ reminding us that the decision of who you are can be life or death. We first learn about this conflict when Esperanza is talking about her name‚ and how it doesn’t present her as who she is. Throughout the story‚ Esperanza realizes that people judge her due to the fact that she only shows them the
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Vincennes Street was lined with historic old buildings‚ many with small plaques on the outside brick and stone walls‚ proudly displaying the high water marks of the 1922 flood that destroyed most of the town. Old man Burnbaum owned a flower shop directly across the street from my high school. He made a fortune from proms and school dances that were at the same location since World War II‚ and according to him no flood ain’t gonna run him off. He walked to his shop every day of his life from his
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