The Neighbors

“Neighbors” is a short story written by Raymond Carver in 1971. It tells of a narrative of a couple, Bill and Arlene Miller who are left to take care of another couple’s, the Stones, apartment. From the very beginning the Millers recognize that the Stones’ life is much more exciting than theirs. When the Stones leave for their vacation, Bill goes over to the apartment to water the plants and feed the cat. He becomes increasingly interested in his neighbor’s possessions, almost as though he is…

“With Plan for Greenpoint Hospital, Neighbors May Finally Get Their Way” The Greenpoint Hospital was a major landmark of northern Brooklyn while it operated from 1914 to 1982. The hospital served residents living in a community built around industry and considered a rawer area of the city. As the hospital aged, its facilities declined and the level of care which could be provided for patients degraded to the point that the hospital was closed as the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center…

Intro/Thesis Freud, people will support laws that reflect 'thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' because they have an unconscious desire to do so (because they (or their ego) want to be loved and want their loving relationships protected), Sigmund Freud responds to the commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” recognizes the culture of individual ego and human aggression shown during the laws of society that protect the love of objects (Freud 232). Sigmund Freud stated that the…

Max GladeCS228 Written ReportFor my final project I decided to expand my KNN-Learner to be able to recognizemovement and gestures that occur over time. I started off working with the ASLalphabet but came to the conclusion that not many signs are dynamic, so I trained myKNN classifier to recognize RSTC (Recreational Scuba Training Council) hand signalswhich mostly require hand movement. On top of requiring the ability to track movementthe KNN classifier and my code needed to be able to handle…

Campbell ENG 232-800 16 October 2015 Trachetenberg, Zev. “Good Neighbors make Good Fences: Frost's 'Mending Wall'”. Philosophy and Literature 21.1 (1997): 114-22 Pro Quest. Web. 1 Oct. 2015. The poem by Robert Frost “Mending Wall” is a poem about two neighbors getting together every spring to repair the wall separating their property. Robert Frost “Mending Wall” is one of those poems that gets one to think. There are two neighbors in this poem that meet at the same time each year along the…

8 Neighbors, Do they still need each other? Non-profits are often overlooked when economic struggles come along, much of the time these organizations have to cut their programs or in the worst times, shut down. Partnerships like the 8 Neighbors are often born out of necessity of the economy or political climate(Katherine, Drew Rios, 2013). This partnership was born out of the economic crisis of the great recession. This was the time between 2007 and 2009 when there was a large amount of…

Unlucky for them, this man is a neighbor from hell. He has construction sounds coming from his apartment day and night, he won’t answer his door, and he even changed his locks so the landlord couldn’t get inside. He tries to frame the couple upstairs and make them look like the crazy ones. The stress this neighbor puts on the couple leads to a miscarriage. This neighbor even releases cockroaches to try and make them leave him alone. It ends with Carter, the neighbor/tenant, attacking Drake, the…

long stanza of blank verse. The poem of “The Mending Wall,” described two neighbors who had a controversy about the wall dividing their properties. The narrator wanted to remove the wall and his neighbor wanted to keep the wall between them, both having the goal to strengthen their relationship as neighbors. The symbolism of the “mending wall” was the highlighting factor of the entire story. The wall separated the neighbors physically but brought them closer together mentally. The symbolism…

connection. The barrier one person sets will only let their interactions go so far. In the poem, the two neighbors have a wall built between their yards. However the one neighbor realizes “there where it…

different kinds of people with different personalities which in this poem are neighbors. The two neighbors have different perspectives regarding the fence but they annually meet and repair the wall once it's destroyed by nature every spring. The speaker believes that the wall is not important but he's the one who initiates the repair of the fence. The neighbor keeps on reminding the speaker that “Good fences make good neighbors” but he doesn’t see the importance of the fence. The wall acts as a…