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In the excerpt from the Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by author L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and her many friends must travel to the emerald city where they were dazzled by its appearance. In this narrative the author uses many strategies to convey his perspective on the emerald city. For example, he includes repetition to introduce the fact that the whole city was green. He also used elaborate description to make sure that the reader understood the picture he was trying to create. The most effective…

He played his final two seasons in 1972 and 1973 as a part-time first baseman for the New York Mets. He then worked as a part-time hitting coach with the Mets until 1979. He was the first ballplayer with more than 3,000 hits and 500 home runs in his career. Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, ended his career…

Marital Strife in Eat a Bowl of Tea and Falling Man Though separated by different time periods, areas of New York, and even cultures, the novels Eat a Bowl of Tea by Louis Chu and Falling Man by Don DeLillo are similar in their depiction of the marital crisis. In the novel Eat a Bowl of Tea, the main character Ben Loy lives in Chinatown in the 1940s with his wife, who is having an affair with his cousin. In the novel Falling Man, the main character Keith lives in lower Manhattan in 2001 (post-…

19th-century cemeteries in New York were the subject of special study by the Board of Health—small wonder since the graveyard at Trinity Church alone held the remains of about 100,000 people…” (Lundgren). Trinity, like many church burial grounds throughout New England would flood after storms. Because of this flooding, outbreaks of communicable diseases like typhoid and cholera were common (Williams). The residents of New Haven, Connecticut saw the Basil Hall Rural Cemetery or New Burying…

the original play’s components. My experience watching Adcock’s take of The Royal Family was entertaining, humorous, and enjoyable. The storyline is about the life of the Cavendishes, who have a long-line of generations involved with theatre in New York City. Fanny Cavendish, played by Melissa Virgo is the grandmother of the family and fully embraces the family’s acting tradition. Tamarah Ashton, who plays has Fanny’s daughter Julie, is a also an actress trying to juggle her career, family…

Even though it has been a while since the Triangle fire, it is still known today as one of the deadliest workplace accidents in the history of New York City. This horrific fire blazed through the floors, starting from the eighth floor, as the frightened workers tried to make their way through and down the building. Most of the people that died from the fire were immigrant women and teenagers. As the fire spread, the owners of the building got word of the fire and gave warning to the workers by…

Golden Gate Bridge was officially open to the public.The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects San Francisco with Marin County.It was the longest suspension bridge in the world until 1964 when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built in New York.It is the only route that connects San Francisco with Marin County and about 112,000 cars cross it every day.That concludes to about 41 million cars a year. During the early 1800s to early 1900s, the only route to what is now Marin…

The setting of this fantastic story takes place in New York in the Upper West Side during 1979. The setting of the story is important because young Mirada and her friends have to grow up in New York, where they have to walk home from school every day, and a crazy man standing on a street corner is not unusual. My favorite character from this book is Miranda, a young girl living with her mother in an apartment in New York. She is my favorite character because even though she does not have as many…

Breaking News! On March 25 at 4:40 PM 159 people were working when a fire broke out in the Asch Building which is located in the heart of New York City. Workers were on the top three floors working overtime to produce shirtwaists when the building became enflamed. 146 people died, and most of them were young women; some were under the age of fifteen. There were 13 survivors; all of them were women. 54 people, in an effort to survive, leaped out of the windows of the ten story building.…

and cross referenigng a few sources. It turns out that my wonderful date was with a man who was found guilty of drug trafficking a few years ago and a few years before that and a possession charge before that. The lastest was a high profile case in New yoirk, were he went to trail but was never convicted. So he is a career drug dealer to say the…