The Streets

THE House on Mango Street As Rabindranath Tagore once said “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” The quote expresses the significance of dreams. The main character of the house on mango street, Esperanza, is a person that the quote best defines. A very strong girl that once dreamed big, no matter her surroundings and limitations. Throughout the novel, Esperanza goes through many life stages, as she tries to define herself, as well as she…

Washington DC: 11th Street [The Need] Bridges are no different than any other form of infrastructure, eventually they break down and need to be either repaired or replaced. Inspection occurs at least every two years, yet bridges are often pushed to their absolute limits of usability. In Washington DC, the 11th Street Bridge Project aims to replace two bridges built in the 1960s with three new bridges. With these bridges having been in place for nearly 50 years, there were numerous issues. For…

interpret their surroundings differently, and while many are shaped into a person who looks and sounds like where they are from, others may deviate, and attempt to find a home elsewhere. In their novels The Scarlet Letter and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Hawthorne and Crane’s both depict characters that are walking embodiments of their surroundings, and characters who are the opposite, and through the struggle of the latter character they illustrate how difficult it is for one to form an…

for lack of a better word, is good.” So preaches Michael Douglas in his Oscar-winning role as immoral businessman Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. Stone’s follow-up to his Best Picture winner Platoon¸ Wall Street does not have quite the reputation Platoon does. I have not seen Platoon, but it seems that this makes sense because Wall Street is not a very entertaining or interesting movie because, although greed may be good, Stone forgot that clarity is good too. The plot of this movie…

Cecil Robeck’s The Azusa Street Mission and Revival offers the response of on African American church to the social and religious segregation we learned from last weeks reading of Methodists and the Crucible of Race. As a licensed Nazarene pastor, I enjoyed that we were also given a reading that revealed the Holiness movement’s response to the dark times of segregation in our country. In The Azusa Street Mission and Revival Cecil Robeck’s explains that the worship practices of the black church…

What are the major consequences of Wall Street Crash 1929? The last century witnessed a tragedy in global stock markets, initiated by the notorious Wall Street Crash 1929. This caused a big slump in the market values of shares across the world. This triggered off the Great Depression, and many other consequences. According to Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday (1931), “The rich man's chauffeur drove with his ears laid back to catch the news of an impending move in Bethlehem Steel; he held…

House on Mango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of young girl named Esperanza who is middle age and grows up around her sister Nenny, and her friends Rachel and Lucy. She develops her identity growing up on Mango street through many little interesting vignettes. Esperanza is exposed to many different situations due to her environment, family and friends which challenge her beliefs on certain issues allowing her to learn a lot about life itself. Living on Mango Street,…

1. The Wall Street Crash, otherwise known as Black Tuesday, occurred on October 29, 1929 (Grossman). It was caused by wealthy buyers continuously buying stocks as prices continued to rise, inducing confidence in investment. If these investors had not contributed money as immensely, the Great Depression may have never occurred. Others also loaned money from banks to take advantage of the growing stock market. Nevertheless, when the stock market crashed, all of that investment was lost, and on…

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday and Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, When taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. The 1920, had led to the stock market crash , was a time of agony and decrease since too many people…

The Fall of Wall Street Part One Source Analysis 1. This picture is taken in Wall Street in late 1920s to early 1930s. It is shown when the description explains how the photo was taken during the fall of stock values, which happened on October 29, 1929 (Rosenberg, The Stock Market Crash of 1929). b. The situation occurring in this photo is that there are many traders withdrawing stocks and selling their shares since the value of the stocks and their shares were falling. They knew that their…