Bush House

Sammy is loyal to her friend Marissa, her grandmother and her new friend Chauncey. Marissa took a sweater from her mother’s closet, without asking, to help make Sammy’s costume better. When the sweater is damaged in the fire, she could have turned her back on her or said “I didn’t ask you to do it.” Instead Sammy went back to try and find it at the “Bush House” and when she found it ruined there she offered to tell her friend’s mom to save her from having to do it. Sammy’s grandmother took her in, even though her building doesn’t allow kids, while her mother was off in LA pursuing stardom. Sammy’s loyalty to her Grandmother is obvious with the care she takes when coming and going from her apartment. Using the fire escape to come and go to avoid her nosy neighbors, and sleeping out at friend’s houses when she needs to so that she didn’t get her grandmother in trouble. She even quickly develops a loyalty to Chauncey not letting his case get thrown aside and watching out for him. She immediately wants to protect her new friend and help him get the items that were taken from him. Throughout the story we see Sammy’s bravery, loyalty and compassion many times and in different ways. What I found most interesting though is seeing how each trait enhances the other. Her bravery lets her show compassion to Chauncey.…

Site Apartment unit four’s existing site sits in the inner depths of a Manchester, Connecticut condominium complex. The entire residential area lacks a sense of uniformity among the plants. Some apartments have a bush that adorns their lawns, each a different variety, while others simply have a grassy yard. However, this absence of standardization in plants presents a welcome sight when contrasted against the buildings themselves. These buildings all possess identical architecture. For…

changed to make the lots larger in size. As the land has many sellable features, including the water, this property would be a very successful investment. Having bush area surrounding one side of the land, this would provide us with an opportunity to expand in the future if required. As the surrounding communities are residential estates that would suggest to us that this area is definitely suitable for residential…

the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our eyes. Finally, we would need to settle into this strange new world. My husband’s family…

Growing up in my childhood, I never really made a lot of friends. In my early years of education, I was very sociable, but to my dismay, people just didn’t seem the friendly type. I never really did feel safe in the school district. That being said, there was only one place that I would always go to relax and get the stress of my mind, and that would be my humble abode, my home. Because I walked to school on a regular basis, I always knew where to go, even during the renovations. I mean, I could…

This selection was written to describe the conditions of tenement houses, overcrowded slums that filled New York City during the late 1900’s. The first sentence of this selection states, “The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered.” The author means that tenement houses were “cursed,” or were terrible creations from the very beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to for a long time. The owners of…

we arrived to Dayton it was dark. Unfortunately for us, the house were we going was not in the city but the outskirts. Once we showed up at the house, we were both pretty creped out. A really run down house in the woods, on top of a hill, no trespassing signs everywhere, and only one porch light on. It was the kind of light that is plugged in, but hanging by its wires swinging back and forth in the wind. The sunroom on the house was collapsed, only two walls were able to hold the ceiling up. One…

economic supply and demand as well as the seasonal weather. Other jobs that were more skilled, such as bakers and carpenters earned around nine dollars per week. Working in domestic work, as a waiter or bartender, earned them not much more than an unskilled laborer (five dollars per week). Working such low paying jobs made it difficult for immigrants to pay the cost of living and feed their families. This forced immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds to live in tenement houses. These houses…

For example, by turning a stair into a piano, more people opted to take the stairs rather than the elevator because it was more fun to take the piano stairs. Every year at the boarding school I attended, we were required to participate in the annual inter-house sport event. This event was probably the least anticipated event all year, it was dreadful and tedious as there was nothing to look forward because there was no recognition for winners and we always had to clean up the fields after the…

Apartments and houses are very different from one another. I lived in an apartment complex for about six years, and there are plenty of advantages and disadvantages from my experience about that style of living. Living in an apartment is sometimes unsafe. When I was 11 years old, and my brother was 16. My brother tripped onto the street while riding his bike. There was a woman driving over the speed limit and ran my brother over leaving him with a fractured arm. My brother was rushed to the…