The West Side Community Collaborative The west side of Buffalo‚ NY has had a bad reputation for a long time now‚ but it hasn’t always been that way. Many years ago the area known as the west side was a popular and extravagant place to live. Through years of economic hardships however‚ the west side took a wrong turn somewhere. It is now viewed by many people as “a lost cause.” The crime rates have skyrocketed and the standard of living has plummeted. Gangs are a huge issue in the west side of
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Before I entered the Laguna National Country Club‚ I had the idea that people who frequent country clubs were rich people. They were people who had lots of money and lots of time to enjoy such facilities. I associated those people with the high society of Singapore and it was a league of citizens that I may never enter. The first thing I think of whenever I think of a country club is golf. I guess that is why I had the general impression that people visit clubs just to play golf. For example‚ I have a
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The Classical and Medieval West The Medieval period ‚ this is a period beginning at about 5th century to the 15 century. The 5th century would put it in the era the last Emperor of the West Roman Empire abdicated in favor of the Emperor of the East Roman Emperor‚ but it is also referred to as the date of the "fall of Rome." From the 5th century East Roman Empire would lasted nearly another thousand years‚ and finally fell in 1453. bringing rise to the Byzantine Empire. But the important thing
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itself‚ comes with a price. Mike‚ a hardworking father of two‚ and the main character of Hanif Kureishi’s short story “The Decline of the West” from 2010‚ is an example of one who suddenly finds himself in a very precautious situation when he loses his job after both he and his family have been used to his rather substantial pay. In The Decline of the West‚ Hanif Kureishi employs a limited third-person narrator‚ which is bound to the main character‚ Mike. As a result of this choice‚ the reader
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Texts such as Journey to the West and Tales of the Marvelous all possess a majestic element and aspect to them. Thus‚ the Taoist representation of the human body’s alchemic potential can be derived through the supernatural portrayal of martial arts described these texts. In many stories
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The novel‚ The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan takes place in a couple of different places. All of Suyuan Woo’s childhood memories take place in China. After coming to America the setting takes place in San Francisco California in 1949. Also there are few different time frames. The time frames consist of the 1920’s to 1980’s. I have to give this timeframes because of the flashbacks that are given in the book. The characters that I believed are most fully developed are Jing-ming “June” Woo‚ Suyuan Woo‚
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Comparison and Contrast of Characterization in Silvia Plath’s‚ Initiation and Rona Maynard’s‚ The Fan Club Every reader has a favorite author; one who creates literature in a way that strikes them emotionally or catches their attention. Each author writes in a unique form‚ or an author’s style‚ to introduce literary elements to their writing. A key piece of an author’s overall writing style is how they introduce and develop characters. An author utilizes characterization to describe personal
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official in a club‚ it may be intimidating to bring up issues within the club‚ especially if it is against a high-ranking official. In this situation Erica found a problem in the Spirit Club’s financials at the end of the year that could easily be fixed. To make matters more difficult‚ the problem was directly related to Matt‚ the president of the club and Erica’s close friend. As the treasurer of the Spirit Club‚ Erica knew that “anywhere from $70 to $350” was missing from the sale of club t-shirts that
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power‚ this caliphate survived for a long period of time. The rise to power was taken place because of a great military leader named Sonni Ali. This person was known to have “magic powers” and expanded the Songhay territory across the Niger Valley‚ west to Senegal and east to
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they make and who they want to be. Fight Club‚ an american classic‚ is all about choices and being unhappy with oneself. The main character isn’t out of the norm for where he is in life and is definitely not in a rough place but is still miserably unhappy. Existentialism states that happiness is not achieved through material items or possessions‚ but comparatively through authenticity and freedom (Allaboutphilosophy.org). Jack‚ the main character of Fight Club‚ realizes this after years of misery and
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