Bathurst Street

My Family Abroad The familiar sound of a trumpet filled the air, causing everyone to stop what they were doing. For the next one minute and nine seconds “Retreat” and “To the Flag” plays over the loud speaker on our small post in Daegu, South Korea. Every soldier, seemingly entranced by the song, held a salute. This happened every day at five o’clock on the dot to signal the end of the work day. As the sound of the trumpet trailed off I dropped my salute and stood in formation alongside my friends

awake. I write most of my songs in the morning. It’s like I’m closer to who I really am because I was just asleep. Anyway I was tapping my pen on the notebook struggling to make lyrics off the top of my head. Alright, okay I got it. On these streets of Atlanta lived a boy named Alonzo got no role models got no footsteps got nobody to follow Full of pride straight up thug no rules to abide Got labeled spun the tables but the boy was unstable- Awe come on! I had it going but I choked

EDGE OF THE STREET Everlast Chain M ost people live a normal life, in a normal house, with a normal family, they have all the money, all the things a modern family would need for a boring life, well that’s not really the case for me, but, to much of my disappointment, it’s not much better either, in terms of a ‘house’ and a ‘family’, in life though, I’ve pretty much got everything I need. Let me explain. My name is Leo, and I live a sophisticated

Phillip Burgess Tiffany Mcafee 4-24-11 English 105 The Human Experience "The Human Experience" is a spellbinding, real and fascinating movie. This movie is one of the best documentary films of the 21st century. It totally touches on every feeling that a human can possibly feel. From the saddest to the happiness of total euphoria. This movie is a spiritual and uplifting masterpiece seen through many different eyes. It's explained and expressed by all walks of life everyone from

obvious this age group lived in these homes seeing the décor on the front porches and the cars in the driveways. The average household income ranges between seventy and eighty-five thousand dollars per year (StatisticalAtlas). Just walking down the street I noticed most of the lots are designated for either college students, expensive residential homes, or parks with green spaces. The neighborhoods average price for a normal sized home would range between three hundred and three

direction and see, ok?” “Ok” Danny said. We make our way wandering down never seen before streets in the city of Los Angeles. “Hey Danny don’t you think it’s just up there… Danny… Danny? Where'd he go? Oh no I think I lost him. But how he was just here a second ago. I call for him and search around the streets. It’s getting cold and I am tired. I hurry up and try to find the hotel. I remembered what the street name it’s on and asked a lady for directions. She guided me towards the hotel and I get back

the sickness that I dared no enter until four nights had passed in the stable and no noise came from within. I took nothing and fled to the streets. “I failed to see to the burial of my family. They rot where they fell, the rats crawling from corpse to corpse. Fearing death myself, and knowing it is coming for me, too, I ran from home to home on our street and where there were the dead I took what coins I could find and stored them in my purse. A boy about my age lay swollen on the floor of one

On my way to the Boott Cotton Museum in downtown Lowell, we’d driven by Market Street which was located nearby. It had caught my eye with its charming little shops and cobblestoned streets, and from that moment on, I longed to explore it and its surroundings. A few days later, I decided it would be the time for me to venture to Market Street. I prepped my backpack for the journey that lay ahead. It would be my first time discovering Lowell—alone—the prospect of which contributed to my blended excitement

and sacred place but ironically the church ended up being bombed. Another piece of figurative language that is very effective in this poem is imagery. The way the poem is written helps me create images in my head for example, "She raced through the streets of Birmingham." I can imagine her running around desperately, looking for her child. The metaphors and hyperboles in this poem also help with the imagery, for example, "...night dark hair," and "…rose-petal sweet." These metaphors make me think of

resisting" or the capacity to resist: such as survive exposure to a toxic agent(815). From this definition, it can be futher explained the common theme between two passages. Throughout Frank McCourt's novel, Angela's Ashes, and Ann Petry's novel, The Street, the theme of resistance is suffieciently developed in characters, events, and settings. The theme of resistance in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes is shown thorugh a boy preventing his family's demise, through begging, stealing, and his brief discomfort