Live edge

The Introduction and the first chapter of the Riis’s book “How the Other Lives”, seem to vividly depict drastic changes in New York City’s demographic structure, which happened during the vast immigration wave of 1880’s. His photograph projections intrigued and shocked the opulent class, since it was not aware of the struggles of those underneath. Riis’s life’s work has only gained in relevance as the time was passing, since overcrowded tenements persisted in modified forms and shapes to this…

Grodd, who was huge like a gorilla, and Hartley, who was slippery like a snake. Then there was Wells, a tall man with Evil Overlord glasses and a manner that put me on edge every time I saw him giving a speech. “Well, it appears we have a thief.” Wells smirked when he saw me, I made a break for the door, but was grabbed by Grodd, who pinned my arms behind my back. “What did you take?” Wells asked, and tired to head but…

every day. With the help of human cadavers, those 144 people can be helped and be given the opportunity for a more prolonged life. Mary Roach uses her book, Stiff, to inform people of the impact that their body and organs can have on so many people’s lives. Mary Roach has always had an interest in science-related topics, whether she is experiencing it first hand or is writing about it. She’s had jobs that span from working in a zoo to being a journalist, but now she is an author who…

(No refusal of call) This story takes place in the Beautiful city of Pittsburgh where leaves glide through the breeze, birds chirp at the crack of dawn and where people walked the streets. Lived a kid named cody who goes to the new middle school North Pitt to start off his 8th grade year. Cody was getting ready for school like how he does every morning. Get dressed eat breakfast brush his teeth and get on the bus. On his way to school he was thinking I can't wait today is soccer sign-ups. When…

MUSIC HISTORY II RESEARCH PROJECT: EXPLORING THE STRAIGHT-EDGE PUNK MOVEMENT Chris Spears MU332: Music History II March 3, 2017 Thesis and Credible Bibliographic Sources 1.1 Thesis The “straight edge punk” categorization within contemporary musical history is a subculture of hardcore punk rock which celebrates the musical themes of the 1970s and early-1980s hardcore punk scene but does so in a way that steers clear of the traditional “excesses” of the punk subculture, such as alcohol,…

down a road that is just completely and utterly terrible? A road that is not only bumpy and rugged, but is also highly unattractive. I know that I have. In fact, I drive down an extremely unsavory road like this every day of my life. That is because I live on that road. I am not exaggerating when I express how terrible this road is, in the past I have used the word “zebra” to describe its appearance. The whole thing is covered in cracks from large trucks and buses driving over it. Instead of…

particles are around, what the temperature is, so they were hurdling through this empty space really fast, measuring, sending that data back, and scientists liked it off with their listening, waiting. They knew at some point these capsules would get to the edge of the solar system." This quote from the RadioLab made me think. As the ships were going on, it made me believe that it was similar to a person who was blind. The scientists had to rely on their knowledge and ears to recognize or realize…

In the poem “Summer Solstice, New York City” by Sharon Olds, a man struggles with a difficult decision: to live or end his life. The police come while he is sitting literally on the edge trying to decide what to do. Olds’ poem is very vague, not really giving any clear information about the issue or what is going on. By chronicling the day of a man who wants life to end, Olds alludes to the precariousness of existence to those who do not ponder the end of life. As the reader can see, this…

my face and the salt drifting through the air, filling my lungs. Everything seems simple. Next to the powerful ocean I am merely a speck oblivious to the complex beauty before me. In her 1955 essay “The Marginal World,” Rachel Carson stands at the edge where the water meets the soil and she tries to see a glimpse of the hidden beauty within a small pool. When she sees what is inside, she realizes the strength of the small creatures within it. With her discovery, Carson writes of her experience…

the speaker believes that the man has finally reached his breaking point. Through the act of almost jumping off, to then being saved by the police, the victim is able to gain composure and leave his old life behind. His life that had led him to the edge of the building, potentially ending his life. Olds expresses the idea of a suicide that is prevented as the beginning of an end to an old life. The beginning of the poem is started off by describing the “end” of the day, whereas the end of the…