Descriptive Essay: John Jay School For Law

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John Jay School for Law is nestled on Seventh Ave, in the Park Slope neighbourhood. Through the heavy double doors the scanning machines sit, eagerly awaiting one’s approach as they gobble up your bags and other items, illuminating all the contents to the school safety officer before excreting them out the other end. Up the clammy steps to the second floor where all the classes cynically open their doors and suck you in. Forty minutes you sit, seated on the hard, coloured chairs behind trash filled desks, engaged in activities which aid in the improvement of your intellectual wellness. The time slugs by, as your pen is introduced to paper and your thoughts begin to walk; across the pages or out in the hall was. The period ends wing the beep of the so called “bell”, just like prisoners, we march along to our next class with our warden, played by Mr. Holder, yelling “Get to class! You’re late!” His voice travels down the hall and into the rooms as you follow its lead. Another class, another forty minutes, unless it’s art or dance, then the routine repeats. …show more content…
By the stroke of your brush and the bleeding of your paint; the animation of a blank canvas. Time is sculpted into the form of a Cheetah which sprints to the bell. Dance class starts off with warm ups and stretches, and depending on the genre the amount of pain your unfit body endures differs Lunch is served at the end of the day; nonetheless we would all drop dead if not for the commodities at the corner store we stop at on our way to

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