Avon Barksdale

The destruction of the Tower, the government subsidized highrise for lower income people, in which the Barksdale organization sold most of their drugs was a devastating loss of territory that forced the organization to return to selling drugs on the streets, the events are beneficial to the viewers because it allows the development of characters of Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell as they attempt to restructure their organization to accommodate the changes. The power that the Barksdale crew has accumulated through drug sales is often used as a violent force, especially the threat of death, to suppress their the community, but it is also to protect the Barksdale organization from others such as the police force who desire to see it destroyed.…

In the first episode of the show ‘the wire’, as detective Kima mentions the drug war, her fellow detective, Carver says, “You can’t even think of calling this a war, because wars end, but this don’t.” The wire mainly focuses on the crime scenes related to drugs in Baltimore. Detective McNulty and Kima are the main figures on the law enforcement side, and D’Angelo, Avon, and Stringer are the main figures on the drug dealing side. D’Angelo Barksdale, the nephew of the head of the drug dealers,…

created and written by author and former police reporter David Simon. The Series is centered on the Baltimore Police department and the Barksdale crew, a drug organization. The show has an overriding metaphor at play, something many characters refer to as the game. The scene that signifies this metaphor and has multiple comparisons to is the chess scene in episode 3, The Buys. In this scene a higher ranked drug dealer and the head of the organizations’ nephew, D’Angelo teaches two young drug…

To Avon many of the people involved in the game are not of any value to him and in his eyes are easily disposable. As shown in the death of the dancer from Orlando’s, she overdosed on drugs and Avon along with his close friends didn’t try to save her, instead they rolled her up in a rug and through her in the trash. This is a prime example of how the King treats those under him, he uses you and after he gets what he wants he disposes of you as if you are meaningless. Many of these people in…

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Benjy Compson is the narrator of the first part of the novel entitled “On April 7, 1928” this date represents Benjy's thirty-third birthday. Throughout this section reader discover Benjy’s world and his innermost thoughts from the morning until night. The section reports only one day. Because of Benjy’s limited cognitive skills which render him unable to distinguish time, readers are guided throughout his narrative by the change of his servants: each one represents a particular moment in his…

Shakespeare composed the majority of his great works in around a twenty-five-year span and he died relatively young at fifty-two. He penned comedies, tragedies, and lyric poems ; and his dominance of dialect, character psychology and emotion combined to make him one of the best authors in the English dialect. These are typically isolated into four classifications: histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. He composed histories, for example, Julius Caesar. He composed romantic tales, most…

The Author Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) was born into a samurai family and was originaly named Sugimore Nobumori. After his father abandoned his Samuria duties, the family feld to to Kyoto where they attached themselves to an aristicracy for protection. It was there where he was exposed to the theatre and grew up to write over a hundred plays. In 1705, he moved to Osake to write strictly for Takemoto Gidayu's Puppet Theatre until his death in 1725. He is still known as one of Japan's most…

William Shakespeare had a way with words, unlike any other person that stepped foot on this earth. He is known for creating a lot of the words that we still use today. This helped Shakespeare when expressing his love since he would often express his love through his writings. One can see examples of this in “Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” and “Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun.” As one can tell from the titles, these are drastically different poems. Just…