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Walter Lee Family Room
781 wordsThe play Raisin in the Sun deals with an urban family and their pursuit of their dreams. The family has to work to overcome the poverty that they live in before they can pursue those dreams. This poverty is shown through the worn appearance of their apartment. Rose and Mama try to make their poor apartment appear to be a home in where there is still hope. Even so, the setup of the apartment and the closeness ensure that conflicts about individuals dreams are inevitable. The entire set, along wit...
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Minimum Wage Affordable Housing
1,176 wordsHomelessness is a growing problem in the United States. Countless people wonder the streets, sleep in boxes, and wonder where their next meal will come from. As a sociologist working on the Nation Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), I would address four main concerns: the links between poverty and the homelessness, links between unemployment and homelessness, lack of governmental support for the homeless, and lack of affordable, and satisfactory housing for the homeless. Poverty and homelessness a...
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Log Cabin Master Bedroom
1,245 wordsThrough a light mist I noticed a log structure that drew my attention. As I walked nearer the mist rose and cleared to reveal the home of my dreams, a log cabin. The price on this log home was reasonable enough for my income. The spacious cabin met the needed requirement for my future family. Its location on the outskirts of the city of Binghamton made it a perfect distance between home and work. A log home must meet the size, price, and location according to the buyers needs. The square footage...
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Side Of The Road Radio Station
2,097 words... al people" I Think I'm Pretty Sure I Remember What You Did Last Summer After we ran over that old lady in Diego's car, well things haven't been the same. I still have nightmares of her chasing me with that handbag. I told them to go to the police but Diego didn't want to be put up for manslaughter. I can't get the image out of my mind. I knew we shouldn't have dumped her body in the Port River. If Luke weren't so pissed that night he wouldn't have distracted Diego. Ben's not the same anymore...
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Realises He Has Lost Tragedy Is Inevitable Eddie
1,214 words... ing inappropriate is going on between Eddie and Catherine and that Eddies feeling may possibly be reciprocated. Rodolfo does not seem to realise this as he persuades Catherine to leave Eddie. Catherine then tries to change the topic and instead tells Rodolfo to hold and teach her. This shows Catherine is inexperienced. However alternatively, it can mean that she is manipulative when the conversation is not turning out the way she wants to, she cunningly changes the topic using her sexuality....
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Ying Ying Joy Luck
1,268 wordster> Question: In the Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan touches on an obscure, little discussed issue: the divergence of Chinese culture through American children born of Chinese immigrant parents. With close reference to at least two stories in the book, discuss the truth of this statement. To a certain extent, I agree with this statement. A persons environment in which he / she grows up is a large factor in moulding his / her thinking, character and behaviour. Going by their titles and genes, t...
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Stephen King H 2
1,011 wordsNote: The below essays were not edited by Essay Edge Editors. They appear as they were initially reviewed by admissions officers.
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Homer Barron Miss Emily
1,159 words... to those angels in coloured church windows- sort of tragic and serene. It gave me the image of someone with a child-like innocence who clearly was in dire need of some help, she sounds very lost. The other thing that grabs me about this description is the use of the word angel which I find ironic considering that we later find out that she keeps a corpse locked away in an upstairs room. Its safe to maybe say that she is an Angel of death. The other character that keeps coming up in this stor...
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Gas Station Front Door
1,386 words... our gone, she says. How long do you think itll take? I dont know. I might just drive around for a little bit and see the sights. I havent been out in a while, he lets out a big laugh and Kari smiles at his joke. Tony gets up and heads into the kitchen. What do you have to do while Im gone? Ive just got some errands to run. Some stuff for the shop, you know. He goes to the cabinet above the sink, removes a loose side-panel, feels around and finds the key. He makes his way to the garage and fi...
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Low Income Housing Mentally Ill
1,648 wordsHomelessness is an ongoing problem for our society. Everyday we come to terms with the effects of it, but what about the causes? By definition, a person who is homeless lives in public. The lack and destruction of federal housing programs and increasing rents forced those who are homeless to do in public what everyone prefers to do in private. According to the website, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the Low Income Housing Information Service estimates that there are twice as ma...
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Left With No Good Bye Left With No Good Father
1,277 wordsYour father shot himself; those are the words so engraved in my mind that every time I remember them, I hear my mothers voice as she said them to me that late night in July. I was 14 years old in the summer of 1989 when my father shot himself in the head. My parents had been divorced for about five years and been separated because of problems they had for much longer than I can recall. My father had remarried a former housekeeper with one child of her own and four of his; this was not a man who ...
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Hamlets Antic Disposition Makes Him Feel
1,601 words... e gets mad. She has betrayed him, and although he comes off as being harsh, he reveals to Laertes after her death that he loved her a great deal. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betray Hamlet by accepting money from the King in return for spying. Coming to him under the guise of visiting old friends, they try to get Hamlet to relate to them the reason for his depression. He quickly catches on to their plot, and gives away nothing. He is hurt that they would choose money over their friendship, a...
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Abelardo Morell A Of Nowadays Was Born In
536 wordsAbelardo Morell, a famous photographer of nowadays was born in Cuba in 1948. At the age of fourteen he moved with his family to New York City. Morell began his photographic experience at Bowdoin College as a street photographer influenced by such luminaries as Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson. After earning an MFA from Yale University in 1981, he began teaching at Massachusetts College of Art in 1983, where he still teaches today. When Morell's first child, Brady, was born in 1986, his wor...
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Begin To Feel Carbon Monoxide
1,141 wordsCarbon Monoxide Poisoning Imagine that it is the first really cold night of the winter season. You begin to feel a chill in the house so you decide its time to turn on the furnace. So you get up out of your chair and adjust the thermometer. After a while you notice that it has not really warmed up much in the house. So you decide to check it again just as soon as you get something for this awful headache that just came on. But, as you get up out of your chair you almost fall over because you are...
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Chronic Swamp Murders Told The Hemp Man
581 wordsCreative Story: The Chronic Swamp Murders One day while Joe and Jill Hemp were walking through Chronic swamp they came across a trail of blood in the water. They followed the trail until it stopped at a dead body. The body was of a man who was wearing a camouflage outfit. They immediately ran back to their house, which was not far from the murder site and called the police. Their house was located right on the edge of the swamp. When the police got there they roped off the whole area so they cou...
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Side Of The Street Environmental Issues
724 wordsEnvironmental systems analysis of 2358 Flora St I chose to analyze an old three-story row house in Clifton. It happens to be the place I am subleasing currently. Although I have not had too much time to spend in it, since I spend all of my time in studio, I have noticed some major problems in the design and implementation of the environmental systems. I will go through some of these environmental issues and how they relate or don t relate to the architecture and recommend an improvement. The Hou...
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Folic Acid Quit Smoking
666 wordsHaving a healthy baby starts way before you are ready to get pregnant. Any women in baby producing years, around twenty to thirty, should be taking care of themselves now. Whether they plan on having a child or might in the future. If they are sexually active and in this age range, then there is the possibility of getting pregnant. Even women on birth control should be following precautions. What does that mean? Every women should be taking some kind of multivitamin with folic acid. It not only ...
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Master Bedroom Family Room
553 wordsDriving down my street in East Greenbush, NY you will notice many big beautiful trees and yards. As you drive further down the street one house always seems to stand out. It started out as a small, one-floor ranch. Then, after many years of renovation, a mansion arose. This house makes every house surrounding it look like a pile of sticks. Inside are three main points of interest, the room of oversized things, the master bedroom and the swimming pool. After walking through the front door you are...
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End Of The Story Yellow Wallpaper
1,032 words? The Yellow Wallpaper? -Journey into Insanity In? The Yellow Wallpaper? , by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature as well as the wife allowing herself to be ruled by her husband plays a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude is seen in her brother, who is ...
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Alain De Botton Journey Around My Bedroom Travel
931 wordsTour d horizon The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton 272 pp, Hamish Hamilton Alain de Botton, like many Londoners, finds himself staring up at passing aeroplanes with envy. There, high above the mundane artefacts and actions of our everyday lives, those great steel birds float gracefully down to earth. Mesmerised by their bulk, de Botton marvels that above Slough is a plane that a few hours ago was flying over the Caspian Sea... the plane a symbol of worldliness, carrying within itself a trace of...
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