“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a nine section poem written by Walt Whitman that was originally published in 1856‚ then revised and republished in 1881. The poem seems to be an attempt to address the future to an audience that is composed of people from the future. Whitman’s first section opens with imagery of what the character is seeing in his immediate vicinity. Whitman begins to consider the other people on the ferry with him and those that are on the other ferries on the river. With the words:
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Arthur Miller first heard the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman that would become the basis for his play‚ A View from the Bridge in 1947. He would not write it until 1955‚ when it was produced on Broadway as a simple‚ unadorned one-act. Miller would then develop and expand it into a full-length production with director Peter Brook in London in 1956. The incubation period of A View from the Bridge‚ spanning from 1947 to 1956‚ straddles and absorbs a host of major events both on the national landscape
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America needs a bard whose focus is the common American‚ American landscape‚ and the American spirit. This freedom from Europe opens the door for America to blossom into the political‚ artistic‚ and intellectual model for the world. Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” displays the interconnectedness of him and his fellow passengers with each generation‚ while at the same time transcending time and space. The ferry is a symbol that represents the ebb and flow of time‚ while the speaker and his fellow passengers
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TITLE An Anti-Gentrification Tour Of The South Mission LEAD PARAGRAPH One of San Francisco’s most unique neighborhoods is the Mission District‚ which describes the area surrounding the Spanish Mission of San Francisco in the late 1800s. Prior to Spanish colonization‚ the area was inhabited by Native American people who the Spanish missionaries were meant to "civilize." Since then‚ it has been an immigrant and minority neighborhood‚ first welcoming German and Irish before and after the 1906 earthquake
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I began reading Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror without doing any pre-reading about the subject of the play or the author. When I read over the long list of "characters" for the play‚ I thought I would never be able to keep up with who’s who. Before beginning to read the first scene‚ I was unaware that the play was a succession of verbatim monologues from real people. I thought‚ "Wow‚ this is different." Honestly‚ I have probably read about the Crown Heights riots beforein fact I probably
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I read A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. The story takes place in the summer of 1912 in Brooklyn New York. Johnny and Katie Nolan met very young in 1900. Soon‚ after six months of meeting‚ and getting married they have their first child‚ Francie Nolan who is eleven when the book begins. Later they have their second and last child Neely Nolan. As Francie grows up she begins to lose her innocence through a tree-throwing ritual and an encounter with a sex offender who was shot by Katie. Her father
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The First Seven Years The First Seven Years by Bernard Malamud depicted the story of a shoemaker named Feld desperately attempting to give his daughter Miriam what he thinks is a better life and does not attempt to try and find out what she really needs. The difference between how Sobel and Max appear and how they really are is a significant thematic element to the story‚ for Sobel and Max differ in both physical and sentimental features. Eventually‚ Feld is able to see past the appearances
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internship and presented my charming self at a group interview. The rejection in my inbox reveals that my charm was only charming to me. However‚ a week later‚ my initial confidence came to fruition and I was offered an alternative internship‚ called the Brooklyn Bee Corps. My heart leaped with excitement and surprise that I received an invite. Immediately‚ I obsessively researched the program and reread the invite a couple hundred times. My only
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“11 year old Brooklyn girl feared paralyzed by stray bullet moves arms in sign of hope‚ New York Daily News June 3‚ 2013” by Chelsia Rose Marcius‚ Jennifer Fermino and Barry Paddock 2 Family Conflict The article I chose to discuss is titled “11 year-old Brooklyn girl feared paralyzed by stray bullet moves arms in sign of hope” from the New York Daily News by Chelsia Rose Marcius‚ Jennifer Fermino and Barry Paddock. According to the article ; Tayloni (Tutu) Mazyck; was shot
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to America with this motivation in mind to work hard to achieve their ‘American Dream’. Some common dreams that most immigrants had was to have a place they could call it as their home and have a good job. In Betty Smith’s novel‚ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ she demonstrates how for some people the ‘American Dream’ was a struggle to achieve‚ while it is possible for other people who never gave up hope on achieving the ‘American Dream’. However‚ after immigrants came to America‚ life turned out to be
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