King Street Essays

  • Hop-Frog Descriptive Writing

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    It was a dark and sinister night at Paris. I stroll down the street of Paris, knowing not the horror that lies in front of me. The street is empty and clouds hung oppressively low. At length, I came about an insufferably gloomy castle. I have come to this house to entertain my master, due to the banquet that will occur tonight. Although I am a professional jester, my master often times maltreated me and called me a fool. I believe the name “hop-frog” is what he calls me, because I am dwarf and crippled

  • Do the right thing

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    Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The Blacks and the Hispanics own the streets the Koreans own the corner store and of course the Italians own the pizzeria, the Cops who happen to be all Caucasian, prowl the streets inside out, looking for anyone to harass. Toes are then stepped on and apologies are not made. Spike Lee creates the perfect set-up for a modern day in Bed-Stuyvesant. Without fail

  • Diary Entry of Child Workers During the Industrial Revolution

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    started to work immediately. Then someone stared at me. It was the man in the uniform. He yelled at me just because I whispered to the other person sitting next to me then I saw some kids playing in the street and I felt very disappointed and jealous. Why I can’t go out side and play in the street like these kids but I guess that’s part of life. We usually get two breaks during the day, Lunch and dinner. But today I didn’t get any break. And I have to work straight though it. I’m starving and my hands

  • Special Agent Mission Story

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    Mickey-mouse African Republic. He had taken the car across to Andrews Air Force Base the previous morning to prepare his airplane, which meant that she would have to take either a cab, or catch the Langley shuttle bus which picked up over on Tenth Street N; a few blocks to the north. Getting out of bed, she hit the bathroom, showered, and put on her make-up. She dressed in a sensible business suit and double-checked her briefcase to make sure she had everything she was likely to need for the day.

  • Halloween Night

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    A dark and dismal place like a ghost town not a soul stirring in the dead of night. You look around and see a shadow moving through the darkness of the streets. You turn but they're gone, an eerie feeling washes over you like a cloak. You feel coldness seeping through your bones chilling you to the core. This is what you feel like in Hallo Town, the skeletons hanging in the trees, the wind whispering through the town. Pumpkins burning and grinning at you with eyes and a mouth made of fire at every

  • Roman Roads

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    Roads Horace Bushnell said, “All creative action, whether in government, industry, thought, or religion, creates roads” (Hulbert). Mobility has played a significant part in the evolution of humanity and civilizations. It continues to shape the direction of development by facilitating the transfer of ideas from one place to another. Roads are central to the existence of this mobility, and they play a significant in the rate of socioeconomic development experienced by a community, nation, or civilization

  • Chapter Twenty-Four

    1830 Words  | 4 Pages

    tree and walked down Weisr’s main street, the one that led straight to the Tower, and etched glyphs into the cobblestones and the supports of some of the scaffolding. Most soldiers on guard in the streets ignored him, some cast a wary eye his direction. Each glyph appeared in his mind’s eye as a sort of map of the streets. They would act as conduits, allowing the Emissary an arm into the surrounding area through which he could send spells. As he walked the streets, he noticed he hadn’t been the only

  • Captain Thomas Preston's Account Of The Bloody Massacre In King Street

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    The Bloody Massacre in King Street was what we know today as the Boston Massacre of 1770 on March 5th. It was a nightmarish night for the American mob who opposed the British Army. Five colonist died that night sadly and 4 were critically wounded. This event was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Some say this was just a collection of anger released by both sides as a result of the Townshend Act. Three documents analyzed is one from the British Captain Thomas Preston’s account of what happened

  • Original Writing

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    thin. One end of the city is filled with people, lights, clubs and pubs. The other side of the city is quite and dark. The fog seems to linger over the street, clutching the buildings, the streetlamps, the entire city, in a damp, icy grip. You can tell that winter is on its way. The buildings are camouflaged by the dark sky, shadowing the streets. The dark alleys, the big shops, the traffic jams, are all part of the jungle called St Johns Wood. The naked trees move, fiercely, with the strong wind

  • Problems In Todays Society

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    is becoming a problem. Low income people are starting to get lower wages and higher income people are starting to get higher wages. Another problem in the society is violence. Today, there are many violence in the streets, some schools, and also in the media. These violence in the streets can cause the neighbourhood to become a bad place to live. This will cause people not to go there or move in there because of these violence. There are also many violence and gangs in some school, causing some of

  • Exploration of Saltaire

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    Exploration of Saltaire 1 Why was Saltaire built? (10) Living conditions in industrial towns at this time were really outrageous for many, and disease was able to spread swiftly in the unsanitary, unhealthy conditions which were a common characteristic of many of the industrial towns of this era. Cholera outbreaks in 1832 and 1844 killed many and reflected a disregard for the laws of health and cleanliness. Work conditions at this time were also poor. Thousands of children from seven

  • A Day In The Life Of A Gnome

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    After the short snack, Knob and his snark went back to his teepee where they hibernated until the next morning. The next day Knob met up with his friend Door. Door was a runaway gnome who lived on the streets of Gnomania. They met one day by accident. Since Door lived on the streets, he had to steal food to survive. One day when Door was running away from a gardener he ran full speed into Knob.

  • Homeless Youth in Canada

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    leave home, their lives on the street and steps they are trying to take to be able to leave the streets. An important finding from this research suggests, “the street youth population is diverse, complex, and heterogeneous”. According to Karabanow, made up of a number of subcultures including hardcore street-entrenched young people, squatters, group home kids, child welfare kids, soft-core twinkles, runaways, throwaways, refugees and immigrants is the generic term ‘street youth’. According to the Enhanced

  • The Symbolic Use of Light and Dark in James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues

    2223 Words  | 5 Pages

    Dark in James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" a pair of brothers try to make sense of the urban decay that surrounds and fills them. This quest to puzzle out the truth of the shadows within their hearts and on the streets takes on a great importance. Baldwin meets his audience at a halfway mark: Sonny has already fallen into drug use, and is now trying to return to a clean life with his brother's aid. The narrator must first attempt to understand and make peace with

  • Away with the Canon -- Onward with Street-Smarts

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    Away with the Canon, Onward with Street-Smarts When you think of education, the thing that probably comes to mind first, is the institution of formal education, i.e., primary, secondary and then higher education. We have this closed perception that education has to be formal, and nothing else. Often times we, as human beings, tend to weigh things too heavily on formal education. We frown upon the fact that if a person doesnt choose to go and become educated in the traditional way, they wont

  • Creation of a Sense of Place in 12 Edmondstone Street

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    Creation of a Sense of Place in 12 Edmondstone Street Malouf is very skilled in creating a sense of place in 12 Edmondstone Street. This essay examines the different techniques he uses in describing 12 Edmondstone Street and Tuscany. The section set in Brisbane is seen through the eyes of a young boy, giving the reader a very clear impression of his views about and feelings towards the house. Malouf has conveyed this by basing 12 Edmondstone Street on the idea of coming back into ordinary

  • The Horror of Poverty Exposed in There Are No Children Here

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    The Horror of Poverty Exposed in There Are No Children Here When one thinks of poverty often the mental picture that comes to mind is of single parent welfare, dependent, women and unemployed, drug-addicted, alcoholic lackadaisical men. The children are often forgotten. The impact of poverty, the destruction of crime and stigmatization of the violence on the children is more devastating and irreversible than the miseducation and illiteracy that most often companies poverty. The implication is

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Takin' it to the Streets as Drug-influenced Literature

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    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Takin' it to the Streets as Drug-influenced Literature Art influenced by drugs faces a unique challenge from the mainstream: prove its legitimacy despite its "tainted" origins. The established judges of culture tend to look down upon drug-related art and artists, as though it is the drug and not the artist that is doing the creating. This conflict, less intense but still with us today, has its foundations in the 1960s. As the Beatnik, Hippie, and psychedelic

  • A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams

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    Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. After being exiled from her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche explains her unexpected appearance on Stanley and Stella's (Blanche's sister) doorstep as nervous exhaustion. This

  • A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams

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    Street Car Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams in 1947, has been called the best play ever written by an American. The geological setting of the play, New Orleans, creates a remarkably blended mood of decadence, nostalgia, and sensuality. The plot of the play comes about through the conflict between a man and his sister-in-law who comes to live at his house with he and his wife. Stanley Kowalski immediately captures the attention of the audience through Williams'