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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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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The City of Torqres Prologue Two families‚ full of hate and different beliefs living in the same city of Torqres. Both used to care for one another‚ but the way both families thought the city should be ran was too different‚ and hatred built up. The hatred and disparity was too large to be broken causing both to split the city into two parts; Torq and Res. Story Young Mic and Pen were out fetching water for their poor and unhealthy family. They know if not enough water is brought back
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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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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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Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 12‚ Number 2—Spring 1998—Pages 139-160 Are Cities Dying? Edward L. Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers‚ such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler‚ have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired
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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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“Describtion Of A City Shower”by Jonathan Swift (Tone) In the poem “Describtion Of A City Shower‚” Jonathan Swift expresses the tone in a angered and disgusted way. The tone of this poem is shown when: “Meanwhile the South‚ rising with dabbled wings‚ A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings.” This expresses his anger and disgust while the rich is waking up to happiness‚ they are waking up to filth and poverty. I too have expressed this tone as Jonathan Swift did. I used this tone
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The City of Punta del Este‚ which is part of the Department of Maldonado‚ is located on the Southeast end of Uruguay on a long peninsula of sand‚ woodlands and rocks from which it has taken its name. This is one of the most important and popular tourist destinations in the country‚ chosen by thousands of visitors of all ages and nationalities. It is a synonym for international jet set‚ good life and good taste. Punta del Este is one of those places in the world where everybody wants to return‚ maybe
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