Take a half an hour walk through the city I live in and you will realise that it isn’t designed for you as a pedestrian; it has undoubtedly lost its human element. You feel like an alien in your own world‚ trying to make your way through an entanglement of spaghetti-like highways. Your thoughts are drowned by the sounds of the fast paced spaceships soaring past you. You are in a non-place. A place of nowhere. A black hole. A place we humans once called a street. As an architect in this extraterrestrial
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345 Prof. Nava 5/2/12 Race in Down These Mean Streets “Éste es un mundo brillante‚ éstas son mis calles‚ mi barrio de noche‚ con sus miles de luces‚ cientos de millones de colores mezclados con los ruidos‚ un sonido vibrante de carros‚ maldiciones‚ murmullos de alegría y de llantos‚ formando un gran concierto musical (Thomas‚ Down These Mean Streets‚ 1998‚ p. 3)”‚ is how Piri Thomas describes his birthplace‚ East Harlem. The diversity of cultures‚ the vibrant street life‚ the passion and conflicts
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always starts off the same way. I’m driving down this dirt road by myself. There’s a streetlight somewhere that follows me‚ but I don’t know where it’s coming from. The road is endless‚ and I can’t really see anything besides the road and the trees. Then after what feels like an hour of driving‚ I see someone on the side of the road. I drive past them‚ because you know‚ picking up hitch hikers is bad‚ even in dreams. Then the next thing I know‚ they’re on my windshield‚ screaming at me and shit. The
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women‚ where Clare is able to pass as a white woman‚ while Irene sometimes passes as a white woman when it’s convenient for her. Larson shows how easy it is for one to lose one’s identity through Irene’s and Clare’s life struggles. While‚ in Down These Mean Streets‚ Piri Thomas Focuses on the inner and outer conflict of Piri Thomas has around his identity. Thomas is a dark-skinned Latino American who struggles with his identity. Piri struggles though is childhood trying to fit in with the rest of his
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In the poem A bird came down the walk explore how Dickinson presents her responses to natural phenomena‚ including discussion of other relevant poems. A Bird came down the Walk— He did not know I saw— He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow‚ raw‚ And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass— And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass— He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all around— They looked like frightened Beads‚ I thought— He stirred his Velvet Head Like one
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A bird c ame down the walk----" by Emily Dickinson The first two stanzas of the poem are a simple description of the bird‚ not knowing it is being watched by the poet‚ being a bird. The third stanza is where Dickinson really hits her stride. The bird’s "rapid eyes...hurried all abroad" is a darn good description of a bird on alert for predators. And while comparing the bird’s eyes to "Beads" seems to make the bird less alive the fact that the beads are "frightened‚" while perhaps overly humanizing
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Douglass’s Walk Down Literacy Road to Freedom What would it be like if you did not know how to read or write in today’s world? You would be looked down upon‚ tormented‚ treated as if you were far less than the peers around you that know how to read. In the days of slavery‚ the slaves were illiterate and the slave owners wanted to keep it that way. In Frederick Douglass’ autobiographical slave narrative the “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave‚” Douglass explains that
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accompanied by an Eskimo woman named Konala when his plane fails him and they crash land. Charlie deciding that he could walk to the nearest civilization ditches Konala and begins the long hike. Days later Konala finds him dying‚ and during the process of being nursed back to health learns many important things and changes himself. Throughout the progression of Mowat’s short story “Walk Well‚ My Brother”‚ the protagonist Charlie Lavery undergoes several major changes. Charlie learns to understand and appreciate
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Spend a day in my shoes: Spend a day in my shoes‚ the daughter of an abusive father. The night before my first day of high school I lay on my bed watching the clock. With every breath I took‚ my heart sank deeper. New friends‚ new teachers and a whole new beginning. Firm footsteps interrupted my train of thought. They carried an unpleasant feeling. Dense‚ accelerated and increasingly emphatic‚ they were approaching my room. My father busted into my room murmuring to himself. He reeked of smoke
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When Henry Constable attempts to describe his “lady”‚ he paints the reader an image of love‚ pureness‚ and of natural beauty. In his sonnet‚ “[My lady’s presence makes the roses red]”‚ Constable talks to the various body parts of his “lady”‚ claiming that they inspire envy into flowers and that his “lady” is in fact the source of the power for the flowers. Using this personification of the flowers‚ Constable shapes his sonnet as one that is complementing and treasuring his “lady”‚ however‚ a deeper
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