The Old Apartment

Jones was thirteen years old and, living in Bronx New York. She had a bad attitude with a bad reputation. She wouldn’t let anyone get in her way, especially growing up in a rundown neighborhood. She lived with her single mother and her younger sister. Her two older brothers were incarcerated one was in for murder and would never see daylight again. She also had an older sister but, she never came around since she was twenty six with five kids, living from apartment to apartment. Her mother had three

Every man believes of Living the American dream. In a land of opportunity but suffered equality, in the mid-twentieth century, during a time of segregation. the struggles and hard work minorities faced made the dream seem too good to be true. In an economy where money becomes more for the Younger family. In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, she uses symbolism, imagery, and the setting to reveal the reality minorities had to overcome to achieve their dreams in the mid-twentieth century.

shares the story of a woman who admits to being afraid of leaving her apartment without putting on makeup. “I don’t get to choose how I’m going to leave my apartment today,” one young woman told me, “If I could, my body would look different. But I cant choose which picture makes my arms look thinner” (Simmons). One word: Fear. The woman fears the opinion of others. She second guesses herself before she steps foot outside her apartment building. It displays the lack of confidence she has towards herself

In Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood, Capote takes readers to the town of Holcomb, Kansas. As someone who has always lived in large cities, such as New Orleans, Louisiana or New York City, Truman Capote was a complete outsider to this town. His interest in traveling to this town came as a surprise to his publishers, it was so tremendously unusually for his character. Capote’s depiction of Holcomb, Kansas from an outsider's point of view, was that of a small country town in the middle of nowhere

I made to the woman who would leave me unexpectedly 10 years later. You don’t get much of a choice about it when your wife doesn’t love you any more and finds someone to replace you. How do you explain these things to a strawberry-blonde four-year-old girl in pink fairy wings holding a magic wand? You don’t. You just smile, buy her an ice-cream and tell her mummy and daddy don’t live together now. The rest you just make up along the way. Nothing prepares you for being a single parent and no one can

case it corrupts the family as each of them tries to take the money for their own use. For this reason, Mama is the only individual who uses the money for the whole family purchasing the house in order to move them out of the tight, dark, and bad apartment they were living in. The money drives the family; the one individual who seems mostly mesmerized by money is Walter who portrays the average African American man who with the money symbolizes the common misuse of money especially in a society where

They say suicide is not beautiful, well to me that is simply untrue because once you see it for yourself that changes the whole notion. The day I saw my mom take the old revolver out of my daddy's underwear drawer and put it against her forehead, that was the day that changed me forever. I was supposed to be playing but I had taken to racing trucks and was zooming them down the hallway back and forth. I stopped at the middle door, in between my bedroom and the other bedroom which was reserved for

Wealth, Love, and the American Dream      It has been said that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about the pursuit of the American dream. It has also been said that the novel is about love, ambition, and obsession. Perhaps both are true. Combined, these themes may be understood in their most basic forms among the relationships within the novel. After all, each character’s reason for belonging to a relationship speaks very strongly of what really makes him tick; each

Rental Units are the large part of USA housing market. Nearly one-third of American households rent, and over 14 percent of households live in a rental apartments. The following chart list that 35% of population rents, which does not seem much in comparison to 65% of house owners but they also contribute a lot to this society. Multifamily housing has high potential for energy savings through retrofits, but the lack of data on best practices and historical cost savings has weakened investment.

of his previous actions. It had become difficult for him to adjust to life in the United States. Friends and family insisted that it would require time, but after years of adjusting, things didn't seem to fit. It felt strange reminiscing about the old days, Michael's life before had been his own. Now he was in constant need of supervision, even his own children didn't trust him. The doctors said that he was suffering from a mental illness, something called schizophrenia. Symptoms included paranoia