The Town

breakfast that morning, my mum surprised me when she said, “Hurry up with your breakfast, because I want you to catch the 9.45 bus into town to get the school uniform order from old Mr. Worthington’s store, and if you don’t dilly dally, you’ll be back before it starts raining cats and dogs again.” Leek is the closest town to our farm; about 6 miles away. It’s a Market Town, meaning that every Monday, which happened to be that day. Farmers from the surrounding area rose early to load their…

(After the interview was concluded, Restrepo showed me on a map, where he was stopped. He was backed up against the bushes between the outer ring road of the mall and the parking lot, facing south. Restrepo said he was directly in line with Brandon Town Center Drive, that leads to Brandon Boulevard.) Restrepo said he looked in front of him and saw a silver Chevy Camaro coming from the west and about 20 feet in front of him, with limo tint windows, with a B/M wearing khaki pants and maybe a…

In this article “Company Town: Seduced by a Juicy Burger” written by Dan Neil he criticizes the way that fast food companies such as, Carl’s Jr. and other fast food chain restaurants advertise their fast food using sexually appealing women to sell their unhealthy products to everyone who watches. In his opinion he accuses these fast food companies of using undisguised over sexualization in their fast food commercials, but at the same time Neil states, “From a marketing perspective, these ads are…

In the passages “Circus in Town” by Sinclair Ross and “‘Happyness’ for Sale” by Jia Lynn Yang, optimism plays a significant role in the character’s lives. Both passages show the hardships of two different characters, and how despite the rough circumstances they were put in they found a way to create a better life for themselves by being optimistic. Not only did the character’s positive attitude on life help them make a better environment for themselves, it also aided them in surviving the…

James Franey was a businessman with experience as a fixed income trade, who ran his own hedge fund Kenish Town Capital. In November 2008, Franey was considering a unique arbitrage opportunity. The arbitrage consisted of two U.S. Treasury bonds with identical maturities. Each of the bonds paid a semi-annual coupon. The two bonds differed in their coupon rate: one bond had a 4.25% annual coupon rate while the other had an annual coupon rate of 10.625%. What ultimately attracted Franey to these…

I am Azure Kennedy. I am eighteen years old and I am an only child. I grew up in a really small-town Ukiah, California and have lived there with my parents my entire life. I am so thankful to have grown up in without a doubt one of the most beautiful states in America. I lived an hour from the beach and an hour from the city. That right there explains my relationship with where I want to live someday. I want to live somewhere that is in the city but I can escape to the beach easily. To be honest…

Introduction In the play “Our Town” there are any worldviews that I have been asked to analyze and compare to the those of the Bible. I will take two, the view of life and of eternity, and compare them to what God says in His word. Let us begin. I. The view of Life The view of life in the play is shown to us by many different people from different walks of life. Dr. Gibbs refers to the new pair of twins in the first act in a way that implies that it is nothing special to see a new human…

How do we determine if love changes someone or not? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in “anyone live in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings, the authors use motifs, imagery, and symbolism to show how love can shape an individual change. Throughout the novel Gatsby has changed for Daisy because he is in love with her and in the poem the speaker anyone changed because noone showed him love . In the novel, Fitzgerald uses symbolism to represent a deeper meaning. Some…

The plaintiffs begin by mentioning the implications of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, a recently decided legal case in which the Town of Gilbert regulated the placement of outdoor signs, on the New Hampshire court case. The Supreme Court held that treating these signs differently was a content-based speech restriction, meaning that is was subject to…

In Roger Williams, “Letter to the Town of Providence”, he wrote of a more progressive approach on liberty. Surrounded by contention on religious and political matters, Williams began a narrative on his own beliefs that frowned upon the intolerance of religion and the occupancy of Indian land. In addressing the matter, he uses a ship at sea as a metaphor representing the society in Providence, and symbolism to represent the community of religious diversity coming together. Although a…