City

There’s a new building in town, and it’s for Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Not many people actually know what it is due to the size of it. The 225,785 sq. ft. building has been kept low for the past several months. It’s actually just a replacement for two schools being combined! The new Kemps Landing – Old Donation Center replacement has been under construction since the summer of 2014 and will start to serve gifted students in grades 2-8, as well as gifted art and dance students. It will…

By using the motif knitting and golden thread through Lucie’s golden locks and Madame Defarge’s great knitting skill, Charles Dickens creates contradictions between Lucie and Madame Defarge through their contrasting qualities and motives to show a contrast within their fates despite having almost the same upbringings. Even though Madame Defarge and Lucie Manette grew up as orphans as a result of family losses, Madame Defarge’s fate differs from Lucie’s fate. Madame Defarge chose the path of…

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, motifs profoundly help characterize certain characters throughout the novel. Motifs help connect certain descriptions and attitudes from a certain item to a character or theme. In the novel, the motif “stone” is used to characterize the Monseigneur. The motif helps connects the idea that the Monseigneur has a heart of stone. Like many of other members of the aristocracy in France, he treats others that are lower than him horribly…

Blood, Wine, and Water Wine, blood, and water all emphasize the horrible realities of revolution era France. They all come into play throughout “A Tale of Two Cities”, and they represent the three aspects of the revolution, and also the revolutionaries who organized and catalyzed the unjustly lauded deeds that occurred. The wine throughout the book is a precursor to blood. Towards the beginning, in the book it says, “one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a…

Bonaparte, “there is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed”. Since the 16th century, it was believed among historical figures that each individual controls their own destiny through their actions. The novel of Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, written in 1859, famously depicts the story of loss and love during the French Revolution in 1789. Throughout the novel, Dickens uses many characters and symbols to develop of theme of fate and destiny. Symbols such as the broken wine cask…

gratitude towards the policemen for keeping the city peaceful and surviving the civil war draft riots in 1863. The flag of the police department consist of green and white stripes and 24 stars within a blue square. There are five green and stripes which represents the five boroughs of New York, the blue represents the police department and the 24 stars represent 23 towns and villages that formed together to create New York city. The 24th star represents the city itself. New York had its first…

It was the middle of November, my family and I took a road trip to New York City. As we arrived to the city, we had to wait a few minutes to cross the George Washington Bridge because there was a lot of traffic. After waiting for a while we drove across the bridge and as we made our way across I saw a lot of skyscrapers, including the New World Trade Center and the Empire State Building. We arrived to a place where we had to wait for more than an hour to get on a ferry boat that would take us…

I used to believe that your first time in New York City was the perfect opportunity to be whomever you want, eat whatever you want, and see whatever you want. I imagined my first experiences in the city that never sleeps to be something Carrie Bradshaw would write about and Serena Van Der Woodsen would be proud of. I pictured myself hailing taxis by doing that cool whistling thing with my fingers and eating at restaurants with only the finest of cuisines. I dreamed about strutting down Madison…

Love; strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties (merriam-webster.com). Tale of two cities by Charles Dickens presents numerous occasions of love. Love is shown in many different ways; some of which need to be specifically looked for. Dickens uses the element of love to express how people unite when horrific events occur. Dickens also employs diction and imagery to express how love is a driving force in persevering through the hardest of times. Dickens employs diction…

During the end of my senior year in High School, an opportunity arose to travel to New York City, with my friend Zach. My school’s basketball team was participating in a National tournament at Yeshiva University, where my friend Zach’s brother had an apartment nearby in Washington Heights. Hearing about the safety issues in the Heights, my parents didn’t want me roaming around the city without any adult supervision. With the backing of my Uncle Richard, who live in the Upper East Side, I began…