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    My Street

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    My Street The sharp yapping invades my slumber‚ waking me abruptly from the sanctuary of a deep sleep. I reluctantly raise a heavy eyelid to admit a splinter of brilliant light. My gaze is drawn toward the light where the sky bleeds red as the sun creeps over the horizon‚ like a silent explosion. Stuck between dreams and reality‚ the heavenly white creatures ignite in colours of carmine and crimson as the elongated shadows hide beneath the shops and houses below. At last the comforting feeling

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    Street Furniture

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    Context I was commissioned to create a piece of street furniture for the Kelvin Grove Urban Village. My fountain design‚ called ‘My Cup Spilleth Over’‚ represents East meeting West‚ which reflects the Brisbane’s social demographic and cultural fusion. The fountain features a ‘U’ shaped arc which cascades water down a series of large assembled Chinese teacups. These cups are hand painted in red and green‚ as these colours traditionally symbolise good luck in Asian culture. Planning 1.1

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    Rhetorical Devices

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    Zitlaly Hernandez Honors English 4 Ms. Howe Period 1 27 February 2013 Rhetorical Devices Seven score and ten years ago‚ Abraham Lincoln used his powerful words to persuade his audience to take the first step in their obligation of taking action. Uniting the people is the only way to start uniting the country for the people during the hard times of the Civil War. In Abraham Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address”‚ Lincoln uses rhetoric to convince his audience to come together. To effectively

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    Code of the Street

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    Code of the Street INTRODUCTION The introduction chapter first explains the different types of neighborhoods that the city of Philadelphia has and each of the risks that go along with each neighborhood. Some of the neighborhoods are predominantly white‚ some are racially mixed‚ and some are predominately black. In the white-middle class neighborhoods‚ the neighborhood farthest away from the core downtown area‚ there is little crime and upscale restaurants and stores. In the racially mixed neighborhood

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    street food

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    Street food is ready-to-eat food or drink sold in a street or other public place‚ such as a market or fair‚ by a hawker or vendor‚ often from a portable stall.[1] While some street foods are regional‚ many are not‚ having spread beyond their region of origin. Most street foods are also classed as both finger food and fast food‚ and are cheaper on average than restaurant meals. According to a 2007 study from the Food and Agriculture Organization‚ 2.5 billion people eat street food every day.[2] Today

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    Street Hawking

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    TOPIC A STUDY ON STREET HAWKING IN ACCRA: AN EVALUATION OF ITS POLICIES INTRODUCTION “A hawker is a person who offers goods for sale to the public without making a permanent built-up structure from which to sell” (Aseidu‚ et al 2008). For a very long time the activities of street hawkers have become a major phenomenon in developing countries and this seems to be very much acute in African countries from which the capital of Ghana is no exception. It has been realized that‚ most of the populace

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    Street Racing

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    Brotherhood of Street Racers-A True Story Created by the Los Angele Police Dept to curb the ever growing street racing problem using street racers to do it. Fight fire with fire. Now the Los Angeles Sheriffs Dept is in charge of opening up Brotherhood Raceway. The Los Angeles Police Deptartment realized that at the street races all genders and ethnic background got along‚ racism was eleminated through wheels‚ hence the brotherhood... IMO:My Two Cents- I am a street racer‚ and have been

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    Mary Ann Vs. Gilbert

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    about three friends and their “journey” and their friendship and relationships. Two boys and a girl is particularly a romance story‚ Mary Ann is with Rafe but she kind of also likes Gilbert and Gilbert likes Mary Ann to so theirs the romance triangle going on. Body paragraph #1 (you can have more or less than 3 body paragraphs): Mary Ann “scared” Mary Ann in the story wasn’t sure about herself she doubted herself she didn’t believe in herself which could have a connection to being scared‚ she’s

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    The Code of the Streets

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    The code of the streets By Elijah Anderson The code of the streets sets its settings in the inner city black communities‚ and describe the people in those communities-what type of situations they are under‚ and how that affects their lives by forming a particular way of thinking and behaving. In the ghetto inner city‚ people with physical strength run the streets. In these streets‚ police are often not provided‚ and in fact are avoided by them. This causes an increase in violence and

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    Painted Door”- Analysis of Ann Throughout the short story “The Painted Door” the main character‚ Ann‚ resembles a selfish‚ frustrated‚ unhappy and insecure character with a weak personality. She faces some problems with both herself and John‚ her husband. They do not have a very healthy relationship which leads to John’s suicidal death in the end. John is a simple farmer who thinks the only way he can please Ann is by working all day to earn money for her. However Ann would prefer him to spend

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