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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BANGKOK: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF A HYPERURBANIZED PRIMATE CITY Gerald W. Fry "The rapid expansion of a deteriorated environment and high social costs are the most obvious and immediate results of this overconcentration process. Eventually‚ the public investment on the expansion of urban infrastructure will reach a point of diminishing returns. Urban problems can bring national development to the edge of failure. This would be an appalling situation indeed!" Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura1 "Hyperurbanization
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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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Chinese Culture The Forbidden City Introduction The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing‚ and now houses the Palace Museum. It was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third Ming emperor Yongle‚ who upon usurping the throne‚ determined to move his capital north from Nanjing to Beijing. In 1911 the Qing dynasty fell to the republican revolutionaries. The last emperor‚ Puyi溥儀‚ continued to live
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My American Dream For many years people have always been living in America but do not really know what the American Dream really is. I feel that the American Dream can vary on what it means because most people think very differently. To me though the American Dream means what I have accomplished in life‚ how I make my life decisions‚ and the way I am able to live life to the fullest. I have read and seen many different scenes in life that have made me to make the definition
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Alberto Nunez ID#: 2744829 George Washington ’s America 10/14/12 Tension City In this book‚ Tension City‚ Jim Lehrer is the interpreter for all the debates of the presidents‚ governors‚ and the nominees for the campaigns. I want to talk about the debate between George H.W. Bush and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. Ferraro had reasons for not looking forward for the Vice President debate. Ferraro went to the Vice Presidential debate with her knowledge of world affairs. In fact‚ her talk about world
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11 AP Unit 3:The American Dream 11 AP English Unit Essential Questions: “What is the American Dream?” “What contrast is there between the American dream and American reality?” “To what extent has the American Dream been realized?” Overarching Question: “How do authors use the resources of language to impact an audience?” Essential Question: “How is our understanding of culture and society constructed through and by language?” Culminating
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