show for HBO entitle simple Girls, with a broad name like Girls the show and how it represents girls isn 't so broad and often criticized for it. Girls is like many shows before it, for example Sex and the City, Broad City, and Girlfriends. These type of show are made to focuses on a particular group of friends and the world around them and nothing else and Girls is no different. The show is now on its fourth season and as a hole it has depicted the life of these young girls fresh out of college try…
In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and To Kill a Mockingbird, the authors’ usage of characterization can be used to compare the personality traits of Francie and Scout. Francie and Scout are both determined, observant, intelligent, and dynamic characters. Francie’s determination is best shown through her ambitions and goal. As a young girl, Francie set a goal to read every book in the world after falling in love with reading. She very methodically read through every book in alphabetical order, reading…
Warren Street, Brooklyn, NY. I decided to come around 9 am, so I could have enough time to spend with the children. Before all the children have lunch and nap time around 12 pm to 1pm as Eileen told me over the phone. On my way to the Nursey School, I was quite nervous about how everything is going to turn out because I never been to a preschool with so many kids in one room and thinking about if the teachers and children will like my company from a total stranger. I was a little lost on my way because…
In Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Francie Nolan and her family struggle with many economical and emotional hardships in Brooklyn in the early 1900's. Her mother, Katie, and her father, Johnny, marry and have children at an extremely young age, causing their family's fate to be doomed right from the start. Francie, the older of the two children, has her mother's hard-work ethic, and her father's sentimentality and imagination. Through Francie's fear, humiliation, compassion, sorrow, pride…
Sophie’s Choice was released in 1982 and quickly gained praise as a dramatic romance film. The storyline is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by American writer William Styron. It was directed by Alan J. Pakula, who later won the Robert Award for Best Foreign Film. Pakula also produced Sophie’s Choice along with Keith Barish, William C. Gerrity, and Martin Starger. Leading cast members included Meryl Streep as Sophie, Kevin Kline as Nathan and Peter MacNicol as narrator Stingo. Most notable…
crimes and these same crimes built him a lasting legacy by changing organized crime forever. Growing up as an immigrant in the United States, Al Capone dreamed of being unlike his peers by doing something memorable with his life. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, as Alphonse, he wanted to be unlike his father in every way. He felt this way because at this time, Capone was more interested in criminals than his own father (Hendley 27). Being a typical immigrant in New York, his father was a simple…
Dignity As I was walking down to downtown Brooklyn on a Saturday night, I noticed a few girls in the corner of a bar just anxiously waiting for somebody to pick them up. I’m not sure if they are victims of Human Trafficking but I definitely saw some red flags. For instance, I noticed that the girls looked like they were beaten because of the bruises on their arms and legs but who knows, I might be wrong. Also, I found it to be awkward for the girls to be wearing small skirts on 20 degree weather…
tried to close the door back, I pushed it open and snatched her outside on the porch. “Don’t you know that your involved with a married man, you slut bucket? Do you know how dangerous this could be?” I snarled. “Look, Lyric. There’s no need to call me names and threaten me. Trent and I go way back. We’ve been messing around before he even married Anna” she said, as she looked around to see if any of her neighbors were outside. “I’m not going to go back and forth with you about Trent. If he wanted you…
The two topics I will be focusing on in this paper are, adapting and facing discrimination. The name of the person I interviewed is Raimonda came from Lithuania. She moved to America when she was 3 years old. Moved into a small apartment in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, New York. When she lived in Deizimelis Lithuania, she said it was a very small town. People were poor. People grew their own food majority of people who lived in that town only had one car per family. They would have to drive a…
I was born in Brooklyn Hospital on March 15 in the afternoon. I guess I didn’t want to come out because I was a week over due, so the Doctor had to force her into labor. It took the doctor almost 9 hours to get me out but after all those hours I was born. When I came out I was about 7 pounds and 8 ounces, also I came out with a really big head for some reason. When I was born my Doctor asked my mom and dad if they had a name already but they didn’t have a name at all, so when I was born I…