A Change Of The Subway By A New York City

Staples argues that race, gender, and class within the United States are unfair, and his use of imagery throughout his writing helps dictate his opinions. Much of his writing uses specific descriptions that help the reader feel as if he/she were in his shoes. His use of imagery helps set a convincing tone and elicit empathy from the reader as the story continues. The more descriptions he uses in his writing help illustrate the setting to show the reader his environment. As the audience grows closer to piece, and creates an emotional attachment to Staples himself, they begin to understand his perspective on racial tensions and how they continue to be prevalent in our society today. Toward the middle of his story, as he explains the different places he could be discriminated against, he says “elsewhere - in SoHo, for example, where sidewalks are narrow and tightly spaced buildings shut out the sky- things can get very taunt indeed” (Staples 1). This gives the reader the ability to visualize the specific story he is sharing. The words “narrow” and “tightly spaced” help the reader picture an alley. The

     The reality of this book hit the people of New York right between the eyes. Riis was once ascribed the label of lower class society, but

The first example of society behavior is used through the story of a late thirties white man name Benhard Goetz who shoots four black youths on a subway cart in New York. This anecdote is significant to the novel because it takes place in the mid-80s where society is pointed by drugs, and violent brutality wreaks havoc through the city of New York. Leaving his Manhattan apartment, Goetz hops on the subway and notices four African American youths “horsing around,” and “acting rowdy.” According to the story, Troy Canty, one of the boys, asked Goetz for five dollars. Out of instinct James another one of the boys, “gestured toward a suspicious-looking bulge in his pocket, as if he had a gun in there.”

The New York City Subway System has an extremely rich and detailed history that dates to the late nineteenth century. Before the system that the public currently takes advantage of when they visit New York City, there were an extensive amount of public transportation options that were available to the general public. For example, horse and carriages, omnibuses, and trolley systems were all used as a means of transportation throughout the nineteenth century. Once the idea for a subway system to be built was introduced, most people did not believe that it was possible. However, they were soon proven wrong after Alfred E. Beach secretly built the first subway system that was used in New York City. Once people saw that subterranean travel was a viable means of transportation, it did not take long until the subway system that is used today to come along. The New York City subway system revolutionized the way the general public traveled throughout the city, and inspired other growing cities to build subterranean travel systems of their own.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

From the start the novel is laden with the pressures that the main characters are exposed to due to their social inequality, unlikeness in their heredity, dissimilarity in their most distinctive character traits, differences in their aspirations and inequality in their endowments, let alone the increasingly fierce opposition that the characters are facing from modern post-war bourgeois society.

In his essay, "Black Man and Public Space," Brent Staples describes the discrimination he has had to face due to the stereotypes that go with being a black man in society. In the first paragraph, Staples recalls an instance when he was walking late at night and his appearance caused a frightening encounter amongst a young white woman. The women felt distraught by his presence and ran off thinking he was going to harm her. Staples still remembers this incident that happened more than a decade ago, proving that it still hurts and frustrates him to this day the fact that people falsely judge a person based solely on their appearance. The first paragraph draws the readers into reading more about the authors piece by expressing sympathy for the issues that people suffer due to racism. The narrator is not a dangerous man, he is a fine, respectable person who has a PhD in psychology from the university of Chicago. However, the horrible phenomena that is widely

During the time period the novel is set, people were encouraged to stand out and strive for better things. However, in East Village the opposite is true. As Nomi said, “[T]he biggest sin in our town was to be sure of yourself” (Toews 65). She goes on to say that, “The second biggest sin in town was to need a lot of things” (Toews 65). This expresses how the citizens of East Village are expected to accept what they have been given and remain satisfied with how life is. The atmosphere is suffocating and leaves no room for personal growth or self expression. It is this kind of environment that creates a counterculture within the community; comprised mostly of young adults looking for an escape.

Since the beginning of time, racial distinction has brought problems within society and politics because of the worth that is placed within a person’s skin color. The poem, “On the Subway,” by Sharon Olds is a poem that serves the reader to understand the struggle and pain that has been brought within generations of those coming from African American descent, for it portrays the pain that is carried within each individual due to the suffering that they have had to endure throughout their existence. Throughout the poem, the reader can observe that there is a prominent contrast between the two people sitting in the subway. The author portrays the man as a person from the lower class, and she does this by mentioning the aspects in which he looks

In "On the Subway," Sharon Olds brings two worlds into close proximity by using the narrator to compare herself to another being. The narrator is wearing a dark fur coat and is a white female. The other subject is a black male who has huge feet, wears black sneakers laced with white, has the casual cold look of a mugger, has a raw face, wears red, and has a dark soul according to the narrator. The contrast between both portraits is distinctive and significant. The narrator, who has a nervous and scared tone, seems to observe the boy in detail.

This picture was taken the day of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. My cousin Danny and I were hiking along a trail called the Subway Trail on top of Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield. Subway trail is a fun but short .15 mile side trail that offers very entertaining views of the Stowe cliffside and the great expanse that is Vermont, all at the cost of being on the cliffs edge of the mountain. This trail is not for people who don't like heights or having to boulder their way over obstacles. The entire trail is covered with large, unwieldy rocks that can be difficult to manage, you might as well be rock crawling for a good portion of it. I took this picture I'd say about .5 miles into the trail and I took it for a couple different reasons.

Santini boarded it behind a couple of up-and-coming young men, dressed alike in business suits. One was tall--Sgt. Santini estimated about six one--and athletic looking than other who was about five seven. They talked nonstop like just-out-of college graduates with all the answers. They lamented that they had to live so far from where they worked. Sgt. Santini heard the tall one say, “Every effort to fix income inequality failed.” Yeah, you middle class won’t pay higher taxes for urban renewal projects. So you fled the city, Sgt. Santini could not help thinking. But he felt a twinge of guilt for being critical of them and for thinking he was different. “Everyday we must ride this bus to the city to get to work and again after work to get away from the city,” shorter man said. Before evil night creatures stir. Uh? Is that it? Sgt. Santini continued to ruminate. You pay me to protect you from drug users, drug merchants, thieves, traders in flesh, pornography and a long lists of other sleazy

You're staring at a map in the middle of a subway platform in New York City, Trains are whizzing by either side of you and people are yelling at you to get out of the way. You're completely lost and unsure of how to get back to your hotel. Navigating the new york subway system can be tricky. The subway is a cheap way of getting around The city of New York. For about 2.50 per ride you can get there in 40 minutes, if you plan out your route. But to make the time and get your money's worth you have to know how to use the subway

A fabulous woman struts down the streets of New York. Her chin is angled skyward and she is garbed in a type of luminescent empowerment. Her heels click against the pavement, resounding a message of, no, not oppression, but instead an awareness of one’s value and strength. Her eyes don’t frantically scan the crush of people rushing to and from wherever in a daze of paranoia, her gaze is direct and fearless. She does not wonder who her next assailant is, she only seeks out fulfilment that in another time would be vehemently denied her. Weaving an untouched and unimpeded path, she stops at a gently-hipster building designed to appeal to a 21st century woman such as herself. “Now that’s new and certainly progressive” she thinks.

When I first examined the photo of the construction workers in New York City, my impression was they were passing something heavy like in a bucket brigade line. I saw their shoulders were curved over and their hands were straining which all the visuals cues were in place telling me they were working.