Life in the city is full of activity. Early in the morning hundreds of people rush out of their homes in the manner ants do when their nest is broken. Soon the streets are full of traffic. Shops and offices open‚ students flock to their schools and the day’s work begins. The city now throb with activity‚ and it is full of noise. Hundreds of sight-seers‚ tourist and others visit many places of interest in the city while businessmen from various parts of the world arrives to transact business. Then
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Topic: City life is too stressful. Do you agree or disagree? The past 50 years have seen a dramatic increase in densely populated metropolitan areas. This raises a certain issue as to whether city life makes man too stressed. While there are valid arguments to the contrary‚ in my opinion‚ city-dwellers are bored because of its rapid pace of life. This essay will provide reasons for justifying this opinion. Firstly‚ there is a noticeable rise in the volume of traffic in the city. It is not avoidable
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THE CITY PLANNERS By Margaret Atwood Background Born in Canada in 1939‚ Margaret Atwood is an author‚ poet‚ critic‚ and essayist‚ feminist and social campaigner. Best known as a novelist‚ she is also an award-winning poetess. "The City-Planners” is critical of the monotony and false beauty of modern cities‚ suburbs and its architecture. The poem views modern life as empty‚ artificial‚ and its inhabitants as robotic and lacking in spirit. Analysis i. Main Subject The main theme is the poet’s
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"Children of the City" is a short story written by the Filipino contemporary author‚ Amadis Ma. Guerrero. The story is about the life of Victor‚ an eight year old boy whose father was involved in a company menace because of unjust salaries and compensations. His father joined the employee’s strike and there he met his death when he was shot by the police officers managing the chaos in the strike. Victor was shocked to know the sudden death of his father on a newspaper. He and his mother were
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CORRECTION OF THE ESSAY : “Imagine the Ideal City” The city of my dreams is neither too big nor too small. (Jenna) It is clean‚ there aren’t any cigarette butts‚ chewing gums‚ papers or dog dirt on the floor.( Angélique /Marjorie) It is Green‚ ecological (Stéphanie): there are less traffic and pollution because people use alternative means of transport (Gamzé/ Maria) and the cars run with solar energy. The houses are equipped with solar panels too to protect the Earth (Fanny/Stephanie) People recycle
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If you want a fun and tense story of a kid named Maks‚ a news boy that keeps getting beat up well you need to read City of Orphans. In the story City of Orphans‚ Maks is selling papers and he finds a girl laying in an ally‚ when she wakes up she is wondering what happened. After Maks tells her‚ Bruno comes in the ally. As they are trapped in the ally‚ Willa pulls out a stick and starts to protect her and Maks. They get out of the ally and run to Maks’ house‚ and go inside to get away from Bruno.
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LOST IN THE CITY Edward P. Jones’s namesake story “Lost in the City‚” in his collection of short stories‚ Lost in the City‚ is set in USA’s capital‚ Washington‚ D. C. and it is based on the story of a woman who has received word that her mother has died. Lydia Walsh is a successful attorney. She is also lonely and desperate. When the hospital calls in the middle of the night stating her mother has died “…twenty minutes ago…” Lydia instructs them to not to “…put that sheet over her face until
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Freya DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES FACING MEGACITIES AND EVALUATE THE RESPONSES TO THESE CHALLENGES Mega Cities are cities that have a population of more than 8 million and are characterised by the challenges they face‚ including issues involving the informal economy‚ unemployment‚ poor sanitation and shelter. These issues are largely prominent in these cities due to rapid urban growth and a lack of resources. In many cases action has been taken by national governments and non-governmental organisations
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Your city council is considering a proposal that would ban the use of cell phones in privately owned businesses such as restaurants‚ movie theaters‚ and retail stores. Violators would be subject to a fine. What is your position on this issue? Write a letter in which you convince the city council to support your position‚ giving strong evidence for your reasons. Some of the cons about city council to ban cell phones in public areas such as restaurants‚ movie theatres‚ retail stores‚ or small private
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WALKING IN THE CITY N TH I S R E M A R K A B LE E S S AY‚ carefully poised between poetry and semiotics‚ Michel de Certeau analyses an aspect of daily urban life. He presents a theory of the city‚ or rather an ideal for the city‚ against the theories and ideals of urban planners and managers‚ and to do so he does not look down at the city as if from a high-rise building – he walks in it. Walking in the city turns out to have its own logic – or‚ as de Certeau puts it‚ its own “rhetoric.” The walker
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