Coffeehouse

Committing the crime of debt in the Victorian era was considered no less of a crime than those of murder. Debtors’ were imprisoned indefinitely or until their debt was paid and unless you had the means to pay the debt off, it was possible to spend your life imprisoned. Death was more plausible than release. In the Marshalsea, debts as low as one shilling could keep you imprisoned indefinitely. Families were allowed to live with the debtor and they were allowed to come and go as they pleased.…

For my beat, I’ve chosen to cover the neighborhood of Brookland, aka “Little Rome”, which has a population of 35,567 and is located in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., bounded by South Dakota Avenue to the east, 9th Street NE to the west, Rhode Island Avenue NE to the south, and Michigan Avenue to the north. The Brookland-CUA Metro station on Monroe and 9th Street serves the neighborhood and the students of The Catholic University of America and could be considered the midway point…

I took a creative writing course at the university of South Florida. The only reason I contemplated staying was a sexy Co-Ed I shared the textbook with. I thought to myself what could they teach me about writing. I became disinterested and decided to see what my fraternity brothers were doing instead in the land of Disney and three o’clock thunderstorm. Fast-forward ten years in the future. I decided to buckle down and become a writer – officially. I had been writing screenplays unsuccessfully…

Everyone has something they’re best at. Me, I’m particularly good at running away. I was unhappy. I knew I was unhappy and I knew I had been for a long time. I didn’t do anything about it. I sulked. Wallowed in it. Lived my life without any sense of peace or structure. You see, I don’t handle chaos well. And I’d let myself live in disarray until it built up inside of me and I was made of it. Eventually, I broke. I shattered in the way that a building does when a bomb goes off. I packed the…

later in 1650, a Jewish man opened England’s first coffee shop in Oxford, where people would come to socialize, discuss ideas, and drink coffee together- a tradition that is still prevalent in today’s modern culture. In the nineteenth century, coffeehouses in Central Europe were a place for intellectuals to gather, drink coffee, and freely express and share their revolutionary ideas. Vienna’s café culture is most notably known as a social hub for Jewish intellectuals at the time, some of whom…

Colonial cuisine was heavily influenced by the English at first, but soon developed its own style. Much of the food that was available in the colonies was uncommon in Great Britain and other areas of Europe, which led to adaptation problems with many of the people. The colonists did not have the equipment that people in Europe did, which led to new techniques and unique utensils. Throughout the different colonies, the food was usually unique to that area, because of the differences of economical…

The complexity of the stock market is indescribable. There are numerous strategies used by individuals in order to turn that complexity into money. Of course, there is a much more important factor in the stock market: the companies. If it were not for every company that gives individuals opportunity to become a stockholder, there would clearly be no stock market. These companies are what draw investors into the stock market with the chance of profiting from said company. When purchasing a…

Introduction The Purpose of this report is to review, analyze and reflect over the real life six week coaching experience I had with Jeff LaVelle. The project allowed me to apply my knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA’s) obtain thru my Coaching and Talent Management class. Jeff and I had face to face at Starbucks on the following days and times ; September 12, 5015 at 1 pm, September 20, 2015 at 11 am, October 4,2015 at 11am, October 18, 2015 at 11am, October 25, 2015 at 9am and November 1,…

According to dictionary.com psychology is the study which deals with the mind and how we process and deal with things. In order to get a better understanding of psychology and the human behavior, I decided to conduct my research at a coffee shop. The purpose of my investigation is to determine how people act before and after they consume coffee. It is interesting to analyze and interpret an individual’s behavior due to caffeine. Caffeine has a significant impact on some individual’s behaviors…

There is no doubt that nowadays society is full of different stereotypes and bias about people of other nationalities, class, race, or gender. A person can never be abroad but still talking about German to be very punctual, British – pedantic, Italians – passionate and American hard working. If to question ourselves how do we know all that and what makes us think this way, the answer will be rather simple, our conception about people is formed on the basis of history, literature and, of course…