The Stoop

Walking down the sidewalks of Roland Park and Middle East, you can clearly see an inequality between their neighbourhood resources and the implications of the communities’ respective histories. Whereas Middle East seems to be experiencing a period of revitalization, clearly spearheaded by the nearby Johns Hopkins institutions, Roland Park portrays a stable, deep-rooted past of affluency. These physical conditions impact the wellbeing of residents and thus fall under the umbrella term of social…

In Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape, an older man celebrates his sixty-ninth birthday in his office, but listens to past recordings of himself from thirty years ago. Beckett emphasizes eloquently described movements and symbolism of everyday objects to reveal how resolutions from the past tends to turn into hypocrisy in the future. Beckett uses the movements of Krapp to describe the tiredness and resentment that he has for himself, yet they are broken promises he commits. He…

better on the ranch he is at now. Candy is described when he says “ I ain’t much good with on’y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That’s why they give me a job swampin’” (59). This shows his struggles as he is also described as a stoop shouldered old man. He further explains, “ An’ they give me two hundred an’ fifty dollars cause I lost my hand” (59). This first shows that he cannot do much on the ranch because of his conditions. He wouldn’t be fit to run a farm with George and…

humans, have the right to decide that? What gives us the authority, the right to do so? Yes, the Japanese people did horrible things, but did we have to stoop to their level? We were working diligently. We started for the right reason. But we were so blinded by the thought of victory, we were consumed with darkness. We allowed ourselves to stoop so low. We brought ourselves down to their level. We were just as barbaric as they were. So I’ll ask again. Did we have any right to play…

We as a society tend to forgo the lessons of our ancestors shortcomings in favour of repeating them in the vain hope that things will be different in our time. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, man’s ability to stray from his evils are put into question. Hawthorne uses the mirror in Dr. Heidegger’s study to symbolizes a conflict Heidegger lives through in recognizing a need for a haunted past. While also drawing parallels to the guests own vices of whose penalties they fail…

1. I grew up in San Francisco in an area where the majority of residents had lives there for generations. In my building all of my neighbors were older than my parents and a few were even older than my grandparents. Mrs. Garcia was a woman who lived in the apartment under us. She was in her 90s and had lost most of her hearing by the time I was eight but she would still complain that my brother and I were making too much noise. We rarely played inside and were generally quiet as to not disturb…

Ever since I can remember I always known that I want a career where I would be helping people. I always knew that I would end up somewhere in the medical fields. When I was younger, I always talked about becoming a nurse in the service but as time went on I changed my mind about joining the military service. However, that one thing that stuck was becoming a nurse. I knew it would be long hours in school, time consuming studying but I was prepared. It wasn’t until I moved to New York, where I…

In order to survive in difficult situations one must give up their compassion for others, and revert back to their primal instincts. The book Night is about a boy how went through the Holocaust, it does an awesome job at showing how people lose compassion for others. As shown in the book many victims were willing to give up their compassion to do anything that would keep them alive. Some were even willing to kill, most didn’t want to kill they would just harm others, and even then some reverted…

lap, wrapped in a towel, her head on his shoulder. A black wolf troubles his dreams with floating roses in its gray eyes. His mother in a green plaid skirt pulls a basket of groceries. Her cane's handle, palmed dark, rests on her forefinger. She stoops for a paper clip exposing a Y of veins. Slips her finger nail under one end, pushes it into a crack. Presses her thumb to the clip, and…

During the Renaissance, the importance of education was realized as more and more children were enrolled in school in order to develop more well-rounded youths, including girls as the roots of gender equality grew, but the rising importance of school wouldn 't go without criticism. Because of the changes in the typical family life from the Black Death, families started to push for their children to become better educated. A normal Renaissance education was based off a humanist curriculum,…