Metropolis

because of his job in the U.S Army. Then I move to an U.S Army Base, where I’m surrounded by so many people who I don’t know. It will change my life for ever. It was the year of 2013. It was a snowy day in the cold month of April, in the large Metropolis Mountain town named Karlsruhe, Germany. Karlsruhe is by the Mountains, or better known as The…

The ancient Greek world was a thriving metropolis of language, education, literature and philosophy at the beginning of Christianity and was significant factor for the early disciples. The first written languages were found on mud tablets and situated in Minoan Knossos Palace on the island of Crete. This is important to note, because observation is noted in that the Minoans and Mycenaean’s had an impact on the Greek language. The mud tablets found in the Knossos Palace had language consisting of…

Damarius Muldrow Professor Gonzalez LAH 3470 901 21 November 2014 Final Paper Tampa, Florida is home to over 330,000 people, 38 thousand business firms, and 3 major sport teams (US Census 2010). Compared to cities across the nation it’s considered one of the best places to live and to find a career. Before 1880 Tampa’s population was somewhere under 700 and was mostly inhabited by Yankees and Caribbean fishermen. Yet, by 1887 the population would quadruple in size. This increase in residents…

Young Rural Migrants Characteristics of the New Cohort of Migrants Referred to the Story (Hu, 2012), the characteristics of young rural migrants as summarized in this section. Young migrants, who were born after 1980, are first stepping into the metropolis at an average age of 17.2, much earlier than the previous generation (Hu, 2012). This new group of working force leaves regular schools early, which implies a low education level on average. With the recent rapid development in the…

Los Santos: a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis full of self-help gurus, starlets and fading celebrities, once the envy of the western world, now struggling to stay afloat in an era of economic uncertainty and cheap reality TV. On a normal day Michael would wake up or come home to the normal sounds of bickering and yelling but to him it was all the same, he had seen worse, been in worse situations. Despite the brokenness of his family which was lost in money, and things like yoga and drinking kale…

I did not fall down a rabbit hole. A tornado did not come and whisk me away to faraway lands. Any wardrobes I found were perfectly ordinary with no hidden entrance to a snowy realm. None of my jewelry or possessions were remarkable aside from some sentimental value. Nothing I owned or anyone I encountered made me stand out; however, something found me anyway. It all started with an unusual dream. A sky of pulsating green is the first thing that I notice. It is strangely beautiful, but…

I was raised in a household in which intelligence and education were greatly valued. I was homeschooled until 6th grade and my mother, who served as my teacher, was never lenient on my brother or me. She worked us harder than a normal teacher likely would have. My mother often stressed how important knowledge was. Since I can remember, I have loved learning new things. Once I learned to read, I read everything in sight, with a dictionary at my side to look up words I did not yet know. Unlike…

Bianca Hill Indigenous Identities HON 2973-007 Professor Amanda Minks 17 September 2015 Stereotyping Indians in Smoke Signals Sherman Alexie’s award winning book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a collection of short stories in which he tells stories of Indians, mainly on the Spokane reservation. These stories are set in contemporary times, but the characters still struggle with the issues that have long affected Native peoples, like poverty, abandonment, and alcoholism. The…

In the PBS documentary, Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening, Kate Chopin’s grandson, David Chopin said “she used to have these Thursday afternoon soirées and all the poets and the writers and the editors and people who happened to be in town were there. She sat there like the Grand Dame she was and entertained them” (Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening). Kate Chopin’s writing career was relatively short, lasting for only about 5 years. She worked almost entirely in fiction, writing two novels, one at the very…

Chicago, Illinois often referred to as the Second City or the Windy City has recently taken on a much more ominous nickname, Chiraq. The dubious title that entails that a major American city share similar traits to the worn torn country of Iraq comes about from the dramatic and unfortunate rise of gang violence in the city and metro area. Despite success in curbing crime from its peak levels in the early 90’s the decrease is no more, crime has come roaring back in the Windy City, leaving many…