Dead Rabbits

census, only 3 of them were black, and 1 was mulatto, proving that the claims that mixed race was the reason for this neighborhood being so horrible were probably exaggerated and used to scare the public. The people living there had a wide variety of jobs, but most either didn’t have a job, or didn’t register their jobs with the census. Not many people at all were born in America. The Dead Rabbits were the most popular gang in the neighborhood. The name comes from Irish slang, meaning “athletic, rowdy, man”. The Dead Rabbits’ wore blue stripes on their pants to show their allegiance to their gang. Their biggest rivalry as a gang were the Bowery Boys. On the 4th of July in 1857, there was a riot in Five Points called the “Dead Rabbits Riot”. It started after the Dead Rabbits attacked a Bowery Boys controlled bar. Around 1,000 gang members fought in the streets that day. Thieves took this chaos as a chance to loot houses businesses in the neighborhood while the police were distracted with the gang war. Fighting continued into the next day, when federal troops were called in. Eight men were announced dead afterwards. However, many gang members were probably secretly buried because the gang members feared getting arrested. There were many alcohol breweries in Five Points, and the people who lived there drank a lot and often wandered around town drunk. One of this most famous breweries is The Old Brewery. It was built in 1792 and was first called Coulters Brewery. During the…

“Stop moving Ethiopia if not the snake will start to tighten its grip on your neck and so that I can try to remove it!”yelled Luke She stopped moving and since he was a good aim ,he was able to shoot a rock with his slingshot at the snake. She ran to hug Luke. “Thanks!”said Ethiopia “No prob”said Luke After that, he forgave Zoe and they kept hunting after they finished hunting that caught approximately 17 animals (sadly counting the dead mother rabbit…

The Rabbits Written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan, 'The Rabbits' is an allegorical tale of colonisation. First published in 2000 by Lothian Books, the book parallels the real life happenings of the British invasion and colonisation of Australia and the effects on the Indigenous Australians. Tan's illustrations open his audience's eyes with his peculiar, bold, semi-abstract style that conveys the anxiety and bewilderment of the possums as they bear witness to the mass destruction…

Watership Down is a novel written by Richard Adams, about a group of rabbits ran away from their home warren and establish a new one. In Sandleford Warren, Fiver, a rabbit who can predict when is disaster is going to occur, tell his brother, Hazel, about something bad going to happen to warren. With the notice, Hazel and Fiver went warn the Chief Rabbit, Threarah, about the danger but the Chief does not believe them. Later Hazel convinced Dandelion, Blackberry and Pipkin to join. Bigwig, an…

George have a dream of owning a little plot of land. In this dream, the pair have a place they belong, and Lennie will get to tend to the rabbits. They tell another character, Candy, about their dream and he offers to work the land and contribute the money he has saved to buy the land. Steinbeck includes repetition of ideas to emphasize the character’s motivation and a circular structure that highlights their inability to achieve their dream. Steinbeck emphasizes the characters goals of owning…

Hazel alerted everyone, warning them that someone was outside, trying to harm them. This had been a deadly mistake- the flicker to the unfortunate destruction of the warren, caused by the rabbits’ unease to be aware of every danger and elil. As every rabbit went out to investigate, only to have Hazel and Bigwig shot by humans. Consequently, Blackberry, Holly, and Bluebell went to attack the humans. While Bigwig and Hazel lay motionless, Fiver ran away. Blueberry, Holly, and Bluebell ran back…

brings death and ruin. The narrator is not named in the story but is a boy who is merely six years of age. This young boy becomes an unfortunate victim to the disaster that is war. In Ambrose Bierce’s short story, Chickamauga, the young boy’s childlike innocence in the beginning is proof that war changes people and forces them to grow up, often to become something and someone that they would not have otherwise. Imagination is an illusion and can bring comfort in times of destruction.…

They "display the basest elements of nature... and lack all sensitivity, all compassion for those more helpless and weaker in mind and body than they are" (Johnson 16). Curley is extremely competitive, a trait that is evident in his desire to prove himself in a fight with Lennie and in his constantly asking where his wife is, as if he is competing with the other workers for her or demonstrating his "ownership" of her. Jealousy consumes him, and he lives as if he is subject to Darwin's theory of…

catalog and saw clubs for everything from cake decorating to caring for baby calves. 4-H seemed like activities for country bumpkins. For no particular reason I picked rabbit judging. It turns out rabbit judging, something that should have given me a chance to be part of a team and gain confidence, instead gave me a life lesson in jealousy. After working hard to learn how to do rabbit judging, I still ended up snubbed for what I call beginner’s luck. In the beginning, however, I…

on. In her right hand she holds roses, and under her left arm is a casket, in which “Sixteenth-century Venetian brides received symbolic wedding gifts […].” (Goffen, p. 64) behind her is a small grouping of trees and two rabbits, and beyond that a small town with what appears to be a tower. The people gathered in front of a building are clearly visible, however they and the buildings appear to be hazy. This is an example of atmospheric perspective, a technique used to show how far objects in the…