More police is not enough to stem the flow of street assaults *A trio of thugs beats a stranger in a subway‚ punting his head like a football. An 18 year old looks the wrong way at another outside a party and is punched‚ stomped and beaten with a cane by 10 other party attendees*. A respected doctor takes an evening stroll and has his skull fractured with a baseball bat. A suburban football player is choked unconscious at a fast food joint. Unsuspecting young men are being felled‚ hospitalized
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Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the main character Hester Prynne goes through a moral wilderness during her seven years of suffering‚ during this time she gains insight and knowledge about life and sin. The scarlet letter doesn’t teach her to be atone or it doesn’t make her an example for the community‚ instead it leads her into a “moral wilderness”. Although sin leads Hester into expulsion and suffering‚ it also results into knowledge. Hester was able to change the meaning of the Scarlet Letter
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and Romanticism. Classicism is based upon writing in a traditional tone that involves no emotion‚ while Romanticism is the idea of letting emotion flow through literary outlets‚ such as a novel. This struggle is plainly embodied in the character of Hester Prynne‚ who must contain her passionate personality to the guidelines placed before her in a strict Puritan society. Within a Puritan society‚ committing a sin is viewed as the worst possible thing one could do and one must be punished accordingly
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In the book‚ "Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne has an affair and bears a child. This shocked the Puritan community deeply and she was forced to live alone with her child‚ Pearl‚ in the forest. After seven long years‚ she is incorporating herself back into the community due to her superb sewing skills. Although she is somewhat accepted into the community again‚ she cannot stop her passionate feelings for her lover‚ the Minister Dimmesdale. Her individual beliefs conflict with
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The difficult one: 1. Characterize the following characters: Matt Buckner: Matt is a studied journalism on Harvard‚ in the start he is a bit shy‚ he don’t have the guts to stick up for himself. But that is about to change‚ he is joining the hooligans from West Ham United! He is beginning to defend himself‚ and he learned how to fight. Pete Dunham: He is a violent guy‚ he is the leader of the firm GSE‚ and he took over after his brother‚ the major. He is living for fighting; he is living
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EDFD 121 Children in the Streets: Socialization and Formation of the Self in Rapidly Urbanizing Contexts Filipinos are family-oriented. This seems to be a truth by convention and if this is true‚ it would not be surprising if it would be said that family is one of the primary – if not the most – influential agency that affects one’s socialization‚ especially children’s. Parents or surrogates are the ones that open children’s mind to the socially constructed realms of life. The society at
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uThe South Street Seaport The South Street Seaport is one of New York’s historic areas located where Fulton Street meets the East River‚ and is a designated historic district. The original intent of the Seaport was the preservation of the block buildings known as Schermerhorn Row on the southwest side of Fulton Street‚ which were threatened with future development. The entire Seaport neighborhood is meant to transport the visitor’s back in time to New York’s mid-19th century‚ to demonstrate what
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3.5 Graham Street: A Case Study As stated in the introduction‚ Graham Street is a character street specialized in selling fresh and affordable produce to people all over Hong Kong. One can find meat‚ vegetables‚ dried seafood and even Chinese medicine and incense there. At the age of 172‚ it is Hong Kong’s oldest wet market‚ but it might not survive for much longer because of the URA. During the process of urban renewal‚ the URA has disregarded its “people first” objective and its procedure lacks
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This essay will discuss illegal street vending in Los Angeles and how ethnographic data can shed new light on the reality of street vending and the laws prohibiting it. Los Angeles is the last of the USA’s major cities to still prohibit street vending‚ despite the prevalence of street vending on its streets (Vallianatos 2014). Street vending is prohibited under Los Angeles Municipal Code 42.00(b)‚ and although some street vending is legal‚ such as licensed gourmet food trucks‚ this essay will focus
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proposes. However‚ art seems to be good for all people‚ there is only one type of it which is usually not welcomed in countries - ‘Street art’. According to Johan Slogan‚ ‘Nowadays art’ (2010‚ 13-14)‚ street art known to us as a “graffiti” is a way of representing feelings by people from lower class who were discriminated or have their own opinions for situation in the world. Street art has been declared as vandalism prohibited in most developed countries‚ moreover‚ the number of such criminals are rapidly
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