The Stoop

An autumn afternoon, a watercolor sunset streaked muted pastel shades across the sky. It was a bitingly cold chill that belonged to winter. My eyes were focused on the Manhattan skyline, a beautifully grotesque thing. Nature, half obscured by looming manmade structures. I wasn 't sure what was uglier. What an outlandish thought, to find nature so unnerving. I had been so preoccupied by my own devices that I hadn 't noticed a small girl on a crumbling concrete stoop, her eyes intently focused on me . Her attention followed me as my body weaved through people like water over stones, a gift only New Yorkers possessed. I was drawn to her, naturally. The way her hair fell like waves pulling out to sea, the harsh wind whipping it from her face. How…

Critical essay nº 2. Samuel Reinoso Uceda. In this essay we are going to deal with the play “She Stoops to Conquer” (1773) by Oliver Goldsmith, specifically with the first act, which is divided in two scenes. The main objective of this essay is to gather as much information as possible about the play, and classify it according to MLA guidelines in the following topics: staging, characters, action, topic, genre, language and audience..…

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses women for their strengths.” (Lois Wyse) She Stoops to Conquer is an 18th Century play by Oliver Goldsmith which tells the story of how a lady crosses class lines to conquer her love. The plot is unravelled when Charles Marlow, a man who is brought to marry noble woman Miss Kate Hardcastle by her father, has a minor foible whereby he is frozen stiff with fear when it comes to talking and socializing with upper-class women. However when it comes…

On 07/14/17, at 3:30pm I Deputy Warden N. Christian was dispatched to 320 Whitehorne Ave on an injury-possible dangerous or vicious dog. I and The Columbus Division Police (CPD) Officer Shannon #2344 arrived at the above location. I met victim Brandon Stoops, Mr. Stoops stated he was walking west in an alley just south of the above location, when he saw a microwave positioned close to 320 Whitehorne Ave side fence. Mr. Stoops went to go pick up the microwave when a small dark colored dog came…

the students being disrespectful and interrupting Prez while he is trying to educate the students. Later on in the season, Howard “Bunny” Colvin, a retired commander for the Baltimore Police Department and Dr. David Parenti, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland creates a program that separates the corner kids from the stoop kids. The corner kids are those who are not well behaved in the classrooms and are more prepared for a life on the street while the stoop kids are the ones who…

In the novel Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer,hope our protagonist In this book there are secondary characters like braverman ,addie and G.T. Stoop. In this story Hope is trying to show she can live up to her name. She realizes there are more struggles in life then she thought. But you just need to look on the positive side of life and love who you have. At the begging of the story Hope just moved With her aunt Addie to the stairways diner hope changed her name to Hope at age 12 (used to be…

What is money really good for? Can money really make you happy? The theme of the novel, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls is money cannot buy you happiness. The Walls family lives their life simply and poorly, despite their financial difficulties. One may believe that money can really make the Walls family happy by relieving them from these difficulties; however, money often causes more difficulties. The quote, “Someone had slashed him apart with a knife and stole all of our money. I knew it…

Memorial Antechapel the ornaments are all trefoils. There is a blind arcade on the northeast façade on the transept. The pilasters on the arcade have a brick shaft with a stone capital with acanthus ornamentation and stone base. Around the arches is the same polychromatic brick pattern as found on the doors and equilateral arch windows. 5. Structural Systems: The structure is supported by Hammer-beam trusses. There are 39 brick and stone pier buttresses evenly spaced that help support the…

Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, “My Last Duchess” decries the inhibition of individual rights which resulted from the Victorian preoccupation with social status and wealth. Victorian social hierarchy demonstrates the social divisions of people based on their occupation and birthright, in a pre-defined specific ladder. The ekphrastic poem elucidates the possessive and cynical nature of the Duke, who objectifies the Duchess in a painting, “that piece a wonder, now”, revealing both the…

trying to promote was the issue with Victorian Upperclassmen, and how they needed their wives to be perfect. Browning also conveys the idea that because of the way Victorian upperclassmen viewed women, how they were obsessed with their power over them, they were ultimately weakened by this power dependency. Some examples of this are :“Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling? Even had you skill in speech which I have not… I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together” This portrays how…