...The first time I was ever in New York I was in awe at the beauty of the city. I stepped off of the bus and was breathless and speechless because of how strange yet familiar being there was. There were so many different smells that I remember saying that it smells like a fair. When I looked around the only thing I remember thinking was wow. The view that I saw from looking down that street was amazing. It looked like it never ended and on the side of the road were people, trees, so many famous buildings that I couldn't name them all, and the infamous New York taxis. My group of people was Grace, Eva, Abby, Aspen, and Ms. Shutte. On the sidewalk, we tried to cross the street and it was controlled chaos by the crosswalk. There were so many people waiting to go in all different directions. There were so many people everywhere in New York that we had to make a train to get through the crowds so we wouldn't stray from the group. The Big Apple was so populated that everywhere we went, we could either not see the ground because there were so many people, or see all the way down the street because there were barely any people....
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...able to adapt and face new challenges on a daily basis. However, there is an ongoing trend, in which parents are being overprotective of their children. This consequently leads to their children being unable to explore the outer world and attain valuable skills which can be used later in life. Susan Cheever, an American writer and mother of two children, depicts in her essay, “My Little Bit of Country”, her childhood experiencing both city and country life. The essay was originally published in 2012 in the anthology Central Park. As the title of the anthology indicates, the story mainly takes place in Central Park, New York. The essay is told from Susan Cheever’s perspective, thus it’s not an omniscient narrator, but a 1st person narrator with access to her own mind. The story begins with Susan Cheever recalling the mornings of the summer, going to Central Park with her father, whom had just returned from the war. The essay progresses on chronically, with her growing up and moving into the suburbs, until she finally as an adult returns to the city, when she herself have children. Therefore it’s somewhat safe to assume, that the essay starts after the war in the 1940’s and ends somewhere in the present time close to the year 2012, when it published. Susan Cheever’s writing style is different and she is able to interact with her readers. Her use metaphors and adjectives when describing Central Park, initiates the reader’s imagination and senses, enabling the reader to place him-...
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...ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 1. GENERAL ADVICE a. READ the title of the essay carefully and make sure that you understand it. If necessary, underline key words in the title. REMEMBER: if your essay does not cover the topic(s) proposed in the title, your mark will be very low. b. WRITE AN ESSAY PLAN. You can do this in English or in your mother tongue – but remember that you must be sure that you can express your ideas easily in English. In your essay plan you should note down specific vocabulary related to the topic. You should also write down any appropriate CONNECTORS (linkers). At first, you will find writing an essay plan difficult and time-consuming, but with practice it will save you time in the end and will also help you to organise your ideas in coherent paragraphs. EXAMPLE OF AN ESSAY PLAN: What are the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones? 1. INTRODUCTION: Now everybody has a mobile. What happened in the past? There are pros and cons. 2. PARAGRAPH 1: Advantages Immediate contact with family and friends. Good in emergencies. Many news uses – technology is developing. 3. PARAGRAPH 2: Disadvantages Bad for our health; addictive. Not sociable? What happens in schools? 4. CONCLUSION: Good and bad aspects. My opinion. KEY WORDS: technology, technological, developments, to keep in touch with someone, text messages, (on) the Internet, health, healthy, unhealthy, good//bad manners, to be banned. POSSIBLE LINKERS: Contrast...
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...Top Rated Albany, NY: Best Restaurants, Bars and Clubs Meta Description: Albany, New York is a great place to spend a night out on the town. Whether you’re looking for dining, drinking, or dancing, our short guide of the best Albany nightlife has you covered. Meta Keywords: things to do at night in Albany NY, best restaurants in Albany, best bars in Albany New York, best nightlife in Albany Getting Out on the Town in New York’s Capital City As far as state capitals go, Albany is a gem. Located one hundred miles North of New York City on the West bank of the Hudson river, upstate near the Finger Lakes area, this thriving little city of just over one hundred thousand is a great place to spend a night on the town. Albany is full of quaint...
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...hero. The evidence of his heroics is found the day before he dies from pneumonia. JOHNSY - She suffers from pneumonia in this story. Her wish for death and her dialogues reflect her disparity for life. - Her word has no direct relation with Sue’s question, which shows her state of mind, the blank mind. It’s a vivid description of a dying Johnsy. - With her actions and condition we were able to realize that we have hope and we must believe and have a faith. MR. BEHRMAN - Though the hero appears only once and speaks twice in the whole story but he, successfully reveals his affection to two young artists and his noble spirit. - Though he was hard in the outside, he was full of gentle feelings in heart. - His love towards Johnsy and Sue was fraternal or fatherly affections. SUE - Sue who is caring nursing, tolerating, through perseverance and gentleness. - Shows her fondness for her weak friend. - She does her duty as a concerned friend. II. SETTINGS The last leaf takes place in New York City. The largest city in America, the location of the story is a small part of New York known as “Greenwich Village” and it is pronounced as “Grennitch” it depicts New York in the light of struggling artist....
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...customized shopper marketing strategies. To involve the customer has therefore become the purpose of design and merchandising in the new retail environment Given customer expectations, retailers that can connect with customers through experiences that are personally relevant, memorable, interactive and emotional are more likely to increase sales and brand loyalty. These experiences also benefit retailers by helping them to: - Stay relevant through greater shopper engagement - Create new opportunities to appeal to customers’ lifestyle choices and stand out from competition. - Enhance flexibility to respond to changing customer caprice and competitive threats. Inspirations from other retail industries 3- PRADA STORE NEW YORK: Prada Epicenter of New York was provided with technology RFID, in order to improve the in-shop customer service. the Prada salespeople are equipped by a portable RFID Bluetooth readers, that controls also video screens found in the store and allows the demonstration of the products on models and present directly to the customer pictures of the collections and the drawings of the designers. In addition it can provide the customer...
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...A taste of the big city life An article about advantages and disadvantages in the big city. Development and speed. These are the two words that best describes the big city life for me. Development, because you are in a constant move in your life in every second. You meet new people every day. You learn and you fail. The pressure, can you handle it? It is all about pressure and the speed, the last word, speed. I could say it over and over again. I love it. I love the speed in the daily life, and how quick it all goes. Cars are everywhere. Big, small, blue, green, red, brown, yellow, and you name it. And not to mention the people. There are people all over the place, in every direction and in every corner. There are all kinds of people, and none of them look the same. Different styles and different ways to life their life’s. Of course if you take a look at the Wall Street, the only think you will see is black-suited men with no other interests than their money and how to can be more successful. You have probably already guessed that the article is about “The Big Apple”, which also is known as New York City. Living in New York City has all the stuff dreams are made of, millions of residents and tourist, an extensive public transportation system and all kinds of diverse culture in a tight area. Once I missed my train at the metro. I thought that I would have to wait for a new train for approximately 20-30 minutes, but within a blink of an eye a new one were already there...
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...Mary Gow in 2002 and its sixty four pages described the events of the terrorist attack on America by using four hijacked airplanes. September 11, 2001 started out as a normal day on the street of New York City. More than 40,000 people were on their way or already arrived at their jobs in the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan. Between 8:45 and 9:00 A.M. events unfolded that changed that changed the landscape and normalcy of New York City as well as America forever. Survivors described the scene as a horrific nightmare. The speeding jet struck the 110 story north tower around 102 and the explosion upon impact sounded like a bomb. Those outside witnessed flames shooting through broken windows, the sound of metal bending and falling and...
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...“Living With Strangers” Many people think that urban life in big cities means a happy life, with no worries and just pure happiness. But what is happiness? And what makes us think that urban life is pure happiness? In the essay “Living With Strangers” by Siri Hustvedt, we hear about a woman's move from the countryside of Minnesota, to the Big Apple in New York City. Her move is described with many comparisons with her previous life and experiences, and a lot of humor, which underlines her situation and her attitude to urban life. In the following essay I am going to analyze and comment on Siri Hustvedt’s essay “Living With Strangers”. Part of my essay will focus on the genre, the attitude to urban living and the contrasts between Siri’s life in Minnesota and her new life in New York City. As said, the essay is based on Siri Hustvedt’s own life and experiences. Siri Hustvedt grew up in Minnesota, where everybody knows and greets each other. Now she lives in New York City where nobody seems to care about each other, and where greeting strangers would be “impractical and unsound”. This is a big change for her, and she uses an overwhelming amount of detailed descriptions to describe her situation in the Big Apple. She uses many personal experiences and examples, which characterizes the essay genre. Furthermore, she is very reflective, descriptive, subjective and very personal in her way of writing the essay. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival...
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...Finding New York SUSANNAH GRIFFEE T he Port Authority, Central Park, subway stations, Broadway, Coney Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Downtown, Times Square, JFK: Colson Whitehead’s essays tunnel into the heart of New York City, revealing it to be both a bastion of cruelty and an alluring symbol of hope, both an executioner of dreams and a mother of new beginnings. Whitehead writes about the city as if it were human, and about its people as if they were buildings. Yet these personifications constantly interchange. Whitehead never represents living beings as wholly mechanical, or the city as wholly human. The key to this interchange lies in the way Whitehead projects his own reality upon the city, and his own multifaceted identity upon the legions of anonymous selves that populate the city’s streets. Whitehead’s constant creation and re-creation of characters and metaphors reveal a fear of being held to one identity, to one existence. And behind this urge to escape a solidified selfhood lies a desire to evade the confines of time, the inevitability of death. This yearning marks where our version of reality and Whitehead’s version overlap. It is the one immutable monument in a city of constantly shifting perceptions. From the very beginning, Whitehead dismantles the vision of New York as a glittering, perfect metropolis. He writes about New York as a complex force rather than a commercialized idea, as a being capable of doling out both salvation and destruction. In...
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...In the first source, “The Gift of the Magi Historical Context” the writing sheds some light on the details of the story. In the Gift of the Magi, the reader assumes that the city they live in is New York and the assumption is probably correct based on clothes and descriptions. It also supports that they were poor and Delia couldn’t afford wigs but instead had to use gas to heat the curlers for her hair. The reading just reemphasized what Henry wrote about and how the act of giving was something they wanted to do for each other. The second source from Online Literature was just biographical information about O. Henry who was really named William Sydney Porter. Mr. Porter was born to a mother who had a talent for writing poetry and the ability to paint, but unfortunately she died when he was three years old. This may have led to him moving with his father to his relative’s farm. He eventually left the farm and married and had a child. He developed a magazine but he also spent time in prison for embezzlement. He eventually moved to New York City, which is the background for the Gift of the Magi. As a result of Porters problems with the law and drinking habits, I think that might be were the story line came from. He grew up poor and struggled and giving to others was probably not really something he could do. The third source from the author from the Columbia encyclopedia helps to understand what he may have been thinking about when he wrote the story. There...
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...Philip Willis English 101 The two very popular American newspapers articles that I will be comparing the tragic event that occurred during 9/11 are, The New York Times and the Washington Post. These two newspapers are similar but also very different the two newspapers which are both Americans daily read. The New York Times has been the older newspaper created in 1851 and winning 117 Pulitzer prices than any other newspaper organization, it’s the world most popular just after The Wall Street journal. This newspapers logo is “ All the news that’s fit to print” the times greatly expanded their organization adding special weekly selections and regular topics it stays as a full page set up with photography as others have changed to tabloids. As well as the Washington Post was founded in 1877 in Washington, making its areas oldest extant newspaper. The Post emphasis a lot of politics its photography is both in color and black and white the newspaper is published as a broadsheet. The Post won only 47 Pulitzer prizes including six Pulitzer prizes in 2008 making it the world’s highest number ever given in one year. In my opinion I believe that the New York Times newspaper has the most descriptive and was greatly written for the event that had occurred in 911. The full Page set up really got me interested in finding out more about what had went on. When you first look at the newspaper you see the two twin towers burning down slowly with a huge fire and endless smoke, this picture...
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...Living with Strangers In the essay “Living with Strangers” Siri Hustvedt discusses the lack of solidarity and the difference between the unspoken social rules, one can meet in a in a big city, for example New York City, and a small town in the state of Minnesota. These unspoken social rules are very hard for an outsider to understand. Hustvedt starts the essay by giving a briefly description of the huge difference she felt, when she moved from rural Minnesota to New York City. She talks about how one is expected to behave where she grew up. It was considered as rude and snobby to pass someone in silence – which is pretty much the worst thing in a small town – you have to say “Hi”. “Passing someone in silence wasn’t only rude; it could lead to accusations of snobbery – the worst possible sin in my small corner of egalitarian state (paragraph 3-5)”. Whereas in New York City it will make you seem mental greeting a stranger if you were to greet everyone you meet on the street. It is this problematic issue that has inspired Siri Hustvedt to write the essay. The title refers to the paradox living in a big city: on one hand you live among so many people and on the other you do not know these people so you are really on your own. Although this is not specifically mentioned; but she indicates it indirectly through an anecdote about the habits of her neighbors “...I listened to the howling battles of the couple the lived below me, their raging voices punctuated by thuds, bangs, and the...
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...Council AustanGoolsbee, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers Cecilia Munoz, Deputy Assistant to the President & Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Heidi Avery, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security State and Local Stakeholders: Leith Anderson, President, National Association of Evangelicals Hon. Michael Bloomberg, City of New York Bill Bratton, Former Police Chief, City of Los Angeles and City of New York Hon. Julian Castro, Mayor, City of San Antonio Secretary Michael Chertoff, Former Secretary Homeland Security Governor John Engler, President and CEO, Business Roundtable Hon. Eric Garcetti, City Council, President City of Los Angeles Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Former Secretary of Commerce Raymond Kelly, Commissioner, New York City Police Department Senator Mel Martinez, Former United States Senator/Chairman, Florida, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JP Morgan Chase Greg Page, Chairman & CEO, Cargill Secretary Federico Pena, Former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress Charles Ramsey, Chief of Police, City of Philadelphia/President, Major City Chiefs Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Former California Governor Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO John C. Wester, Bishop, Archdiocese...
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...Cheyne Brown Rachel Stevens Writing 121 7 October 2014 How Charles Simic Might Approach Vivian Maier’s Photography Imagine a black and white photograph overlooking a New York City street circa 1953. The Chrysler Building dominating the background skyline, you notice a group of commuters waiting on an El train platform looking down below as people congregate near shops and restaurants lining the street in the foreground. This might be an adequate insight into a Vivian Maier photograph. Although accurate, the description feels lifeless, and lacks the amazing nostalgic detail Poet Laureate Charles Simic might put on it. Simic, the author of the essay “The Life of Images” might ask himself questions like: “Where are the commuters going? What is the group of women doing by the hardware and appliance store?” Maybe Simic has eaten at Joe’s Restaurant (large signage in Maier’s photograph), and that brings back a flood of memories. It wouldn’t take him long to weave a detailed story about what these people in the photo were doing, or even conversations they might be having. Simic writes, “A photograph…, where time has stopped on an ordinary scene full of innuendoes, partakes of the infinite” (576). I feel Simic would approach Maier’s photographs the same way he approached Berenice Abbott’s photos, referenced in “The Life of Images”, breathing life and imagination into them. First I should give you a little background on who these three people are. Charles Simic is a writer, most...
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