Street furniture

despite the hustling of the city’s anti-social inhabitants the gut-wrenching smell of hot dogs and smoke, and the boring view of towering concrete buildings. People scurry like ants through the maze of streets attempting to make it to their subway train on time. Hundreds of people fill the streets, creating a wall that is nearly impossible to push through. They look straight ahead, making a point not to talk to anyone. Others have their noses in their phones and a coffee in their hands. People…

logical reasons from the beginning especially after the story you started about the parents that do not like the trash around there children at school. You stated, “City Hall needs to respond to your needs, and to meet those needs on the street, by cleaning the streets and keeping it clean for the youth.” That itself covered the reason behind why you did all these things such as the trash cans. You gave a logical reason of why you are doing this and why we should believe you want to this. You…

I walk out of my hotel and look to my right and left. I’m trying to orient my street map in the dark. Les Jardins d’Eiffel is on a side street, Rue Amélie, in the seventh arrondissement in Paris. Emily walks out behind me, giddy with excitement. She’s 17, and I’m the only adult student on the trip, having just turned 18, so her mom has allowed her to go with me to see the Eiffel Tower at midnight. “Are you sure you can find it?,” shes asks nervously. “Yes, just let me focus,” I reply The truth…

For a government to be ideal, it would have to abide by a set of laws set by the people and for the people. In today’s society, the government must cater to the needs of regular working class, rather than the one percent that control the nation along with how they believe it should be run. In order for society to further respect, the government needs to work toward catering to the needs of the people, while hearing their concerns. Some of the many improvements needed is universal healthcare for…

seen its fair share of murder and it is the job of the police officers and detectives to maintain order in the streets. Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, is also a writer for the Los Angeles times; and she took the liberty of noting every murder that occurred in her city. What would follow was a collection of stories and personal accounts from the streets in the eyes of the gunslingers and the law. South Central Los Angeles is a far cry from Beverly Hills…

leave this place where the smoke blows black / And the dark street winds and bends / Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow” (Silverstein 553). Here Silverstein uses the phrases smoke blows black, the dark street winds and bends, and asphalt flowers grows this allows for the reader to visualize how city life has become dreary and dark without life. This detail also gives some hope because asphalt is what makes up the street, and the street is before the sidewalk. The last significant piece…

The Road Not Taken In life, we reach a climax where we have to make our own decisions and let our fate take the lead. We also learn the mistakes of our action and suffer the consequences.The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is a descriptive poem that summarizes a traveler who comes upon a crossroad in his life. The choices the persona makes can affect him by changing his lifestyle or destroying it. The traveler is forced to decide between the two paths and decides to take the road less taken.…

“Can’t we stop for a moment? Hide in a shop maybe?” Jack panted as three teenagers slowed to a quick walk down a Berlin street. David and Hannah hurried along behind Jack while scolding him for such and absurd idea. They couldn’t stop until they reached safety. Running from a gestapo was difficult work and it would be too long before they could find a safe house or forest to duck into. They were Jews which somehow made them criminals in their world of 1940 Germany. Another threat was the…

This is where the scum of the earth goes to die. Under the buzzing glow of electric street lamps, Scarlet women glide like snakes, ready to pounce on any unsuspecting mouse that finds he has wandered onto the wrong street. Locals have taken to calling it “two-bit” street, cheap and dirty. The only people who don’t mind being seen on two-bit are the types who can be bought of by some sweet words and free liquor; just the type I love to pump for information. The summer night is sweltering, with…

are packed, but main street only has a few cars. Due to it being a Sunday, many of the shops and restaurants are closed. The only opened shop on main street is the pizzeria. The sidewalks are all cleared of snow, and the roads are also plowed and salted. Many of the houses are larger and white, but all seem to be in good shape. It is clear that this is a farming based town, due to the feed store located near the end of main street. Once outside of the main street and onto route seven…