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As the season gets closer to summer the nights start to get warmer, and as the nights get warmer the kids play longer. Throughout lunch I heard about night games, which all my friends went to, and how much fun everyone had. Feeling left out I turned to Elli asking if we could do our own night games tonight. We didn't know if there would be enough people free after school to actually come. Afterwards, sitting at my house, on the stairs, waiting to hear any news about night games; I sent a text…

We've all seen it; while out at your favorite restaurant trying to enjoy your meal, that one couple in the corner who won't stop kissing. They act like they're in their own little world when in all reality, everyone is witnessing the spectacle of so called love. When this happens, it puts you off you meal and is just plain annoying. Thankfully, not all couples are like this. There are many couples in the world that are funny, rude, obnoxious, and every once in a great while, bearable. There are…

The Catcher in the Rye vs Their Eyes Were Watching God The narrator and protagonist of the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger, is Holden, a sixteen year old boy who gets kicked out of school because he is not doing well. He finds the world around him ugly and through his doubts, he tries to protect himself from the disappointment of adulthood. He has a mental breakdown when he realizes that is it is impossible for him to separate childhood from adulthood. Throughout the…

town, school, or even the city park. It can be the crowded NYC subway or the quiet Lady Bird Park. Without realizing it, people are affected by their environment every single day. Christmas music playing throughout the mall may cause the last-minute shopper to feel a sense of joy as memories of childhood Christmases fill her mind. Alternatively, that same music may infuriate and annoy said last-minute shopper. The crowded subway may cause a new mother to feel nervous. Whereas, the peaceful…

struggle of Europeans. Benton, a Missouri native, was commissioned to paint the walls of a --- subway station in the city of ----. Taking this as an opportunity to provide both facts and the abstract aspects of Missouri, Benton paints a fabulous representation of slavery that is both accurate and symbolic of the pain in which African Americans suffered from in a southern town. A short anecdote such as this subway story resembles Benton’s ability to paint controversial topics without question,…

The way we speak about food and our nutritional choices really does impact on the way we decide what to eat when we’re hungry. To start with, you always have ads on television about fast food, and what they do is promote these fatty foods by using specific wording to get customers intrigued about their product. Whereas you don’t see foods that are nutritious and healthy for you promoted in a way that is positive and really good to eat nearly as much as fast foods. The only way you here or see…

by the legendary Mack Queens, we dominated. Millions of bucks poured in daily. My job is a job that I know my mother would hate, but I bring in the good dough. The Core Four is the most successful business in the subways of New York City. We were just another group in the abandoned subway station, A6. We slept, we ate, we sold; all in that little station. The walls and floors were solid cement, converted in small pebbles from the old train tracks. The lights were shut off by the city, so we…

The awe-inspiring reality that Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons reveals to the blissfully unaware public considers the numerous illusions of life. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceive Us provides readers with one of the most renowned psychological experiments, clarifying just how much people miss on a daily basis. While presenting the relatively simple task, in hindsight, of counting how many passes the white team made, the participants of this experiment fail to…

Although Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City in the 1990s, is most frequently credited with starting that city’s application of the broken windows theory, his predecessor, David Dinkin, truly began its use. He hired 8,000 new officers, as well as a new police commissioner, and began the move towards broken windows and community policing (Business Insider). Additionally, while it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear.…

In “The Three Cities Within Toronto” by J. David Hulchanski, the author asserts that incomes in Toronto’s neighbourhoods and suburbs have become increasingly polarized since 1970 and can be understood as three distinct cities: city #1 comprises the relatively stagnant high-income core, city #2 is the shrinking middle income segment, dispersed throughout Toronto, and city #3 is the growing low income segment which surrounds the core. My field work in the Yonge and Wellesley area and beyond…