Stairway

With the helpful guidance of parents, children attempt to navigate a path to success. In his poem, "Mother to Son," Langston Hughes describes the unconditional love between a mother and her child. The poem focuses on a mother who has lead a difficult life and her son, to whom she gives advice. In this poem, a mother tells her son to persevere in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties. “Mother to Son,” serves as a beacon of hope and encouragement to move forward. Through various…

right down the street, as well as the supermarket Winn-Dixie. Home to many people of different ethnicities and backgrounds, Walden Pond provided the cheapest and most convenient lifestyle. Sporting freshly covered Beige paint coating and remodeled stairways, as well as red brick roofs, the rich exterior would fool many tourists into thinking Walden Pond was an exquisite…

setting is underground in the Montresor catacombs underneath Montresor's chateau--a damp, claustrophobic passageway, dripping with nitre from its proximity to a water source, leading always downward. Fortunato doesn't know this, but he is descending a stairway to Hell rather than to sample a rare wine. This is the perfect Gothic setting for a tale in which nothing good is going to occur. As Montresor describes their…

David Brooks an American journalist for the New York Times explains in his article, “The Structures of Growth” the five different processes to improving. He agrees with Canadian writer, Scott H. Young that the progress of improving at something isn’t linear but spherical. Brooks then supports his point by explaining the five processes. As an illustration, he uses a logarithmic as an example. In the beginning, the reader will have it made easy but eventually have to come out of their comfort…

barking. All of the sudden, Tyrone grabbed his dog then leaped out of the apartment building along with 200 other occupants. Tyrone heard over the intercom system, “Attention all guests, there has been a suspicious package reported on the emergency stairway outside room 119. We ask that all residents remain calm while exiting…

Ranch Hills High School is nestled into a bucolic, chaparral hillside, surrounded by rolling hills of shrubs and thorny bushes, typical of Southern California's wild, native landscape. The school is built on 72 acres of land once considered unusable due to the nature of the rural surroundings and impracticality of building on several steep slopes, according to Alice Kim of Architecture Week (2000). After collaboration between the City of Pomona and the Pomona Unified School District, two years…

The lead singers of the band who often claim all the fame, however, lead guitarists are musicians who are masters of their craft. These legendary lead guitarists in rock bands that include Jimi Hendrix, and Slash, are famous in their own right. It’s true that the vocalist may have his lyrics, but, it is the rhythm section behind him, who truly make the sound. The list of legendary lead guitarists: 1. The top spot goes to the American rock guitarist and singer - Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix is…

Depending on the carpenter, one could mostly work indoors. One could mostly work outdoors. Carpentry work can be divided into two categories rough and finish carpentry. Rough carpenters often work outdoors where they begin projects using unfinished wood and other building materials. They frame houses, build scaffolding, and make forms to be filled with concrete. Forms are used to mold concrete for bridges, highways, and house foundations. Finish carpenters are those who cut and fit doors,…

An escalator is a power-driven, continuous moving stairway designed to transport passengers up and down short vertical distances. Escalators are used around the world to move pedestrian traffic in places where elevators would be impractical. For example, at discharge times from offices, railways underground stations, airport terminals, theatres, shopping malls and departmental stores. The escalator's primary attribute is its ability to move large numbers of people at once from one area to…

Within chapters thirteen through twenty-four, several elements of the warrior code are present. At the start of chapter 14, lines 925-928, “Hrothgar stood at the top of the stairway and stared at Grendel’s claw, swinging high from that gold-shining roof. Then he cried: “Let God be thanked!” From these lines, it seems as though the noble and heroic actions of Beowulf are related back to God. Beowulf’s act of heroism against Grendel has, in turn, improved his status with not only the Danes but God…