The Stoop

Harlem is very poor and half of them don’t even have a job. There is also a lot criminality in the neighbourhood. As we can read on page 18 line 14 “One thing about 145th street. Half the guys on the block don’t have jobs and so they’re always on the stoops or just standing around with nothing to do. And after a while that gets boring, so when the cops arrive like this it breaks the day up nice. Unless it’s you they’re looking for, of course.” Here we hear a lot about the street and the…

“ ‘Miss Doyle doesn't know what might happen,’ he urged, as though suggesting it might rain on a picnic and he was offering head covering.” Sometimes you have to change for the greater good. Also things might not be what they seem. Throughout the book, Charlotte Doyle journeys on a ship where there were supposed to be other passengers but suddenly she was left alone with the captain and crew. She has to learn to adapt to her new surroundings and change how she acts, thinks, and lives.Avi…

Book Review I chose to analyze and review the book Freedom is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and The Foundation of a Movement by Angela Davis. Throughout this book are essays, interviews, and speeches that Angela uses to identify the connection between state violence and oppression that has happened in the past and that’s still happening today. She reflects the importance of black feminize, intersectionality and prison abolition throughout the United States. Davis was a new assistant…

Lahiri’s decision to write a sweeping family epic is perhaps not surprising, given her background in short stories. “The Namesake” and “Unaccustomed Earth” wove together disparate tales concerning central themes—assimilation and biculturalism—while her novel “The Namesake” spanned two generations of the same Indian-American family. “The Lowland” outdoes them all: over the course of five decades and four generations, Lahiri examines the lives of various members of the Mitra family. From…

In this paper I will give you facts from both sides of the death penalty. The death penalty is a very controversial subject. Some people believe that it is wrong to kill a man ever and some believe that if a person kills that they should be killed as well. The arguments that we will see are whether the value of life is enough to not execute a convicted person, if the reason the person is being kills is for vengeance or justice and whether the crime decreases or stays the same if the death…

The main enemy for a teen that people don’t always see are insecurities. The lack of self confidence or the fear of not only how teens see themselves, but the way in which others perceive them as well. Insecurities latch a hold on high school teenagers and could stay with them as they move into adult hood. The everyday pressures that teens face cause insecurities in both girls and boys. These insecurities then drive those teens to react in dangerous ways, causing huge problems. Teens are…

Throughout the play, Arthur Miller has been able to integrate some key quotes that help show us that Willy is a tragic hero. A quote that helps portray this is, “There is more of him in the front stoop than in all the sales he ever made”. Through this simile Biff wanted to communicate his thoughts to the audience about how Willy had the wrong dreams, and had wasted his life, trying to achieve the American Dream. He tells us that Willy was worth more…

The battle between marijuana and alcohol has long been debated and over the years it has become more and more of a sensitive topic. I decided to research and find out which was actually worse and by how much. The problem between the two it is the fact that one is more of a psychoactive chemical. While there has never been evidence of marijuana overdose cause an incident. It has been found in alcohol to have caused many deaths just from the overdose alone. I'm not saying that and you said you…

The novel, The Handmaid 's Tale, by Margaret Atwood concentrates on the decisions made by the general public of Gilead in which the protection and security of humanity is more extremely respected than happiness or joy. The general public has experienced numerous physical changes that have urged remarkable mental consequences. I assume that Margret Atwood accepts that the likelihood of our general public getting to be as that of Gilead is extremely obvious in the decisions that we make today and…

There is a doorkeeper who is in charge of this gate that the man from the country must go through in order to get admittance to the Law. At one point in the story the man after being denied acceptance into the law stoops to peer through the gateway into the interior. After looking in the man realizes that there are hallways upon hallways and with these hallways many doorkeepers are standing by to guard. The man in fear of the law decides to wait outside the gates…