...place when you were a child? My favorite place was a playground near where I live, and I LOVED it! I could be there every day at all hours. I was on the verge of tears when I have to go home. In My Little Bit of Country is Susan Cheever writing about how she felt when she and her family moved from New York to Westchester. She have to move from her favorite place, Central Park. This essay is from 2012. Susan Cheever describes in her essay her relationship to Central Park in New York. She recollects many good experiences in the park as a kid. She describes the city as a magical place with many options, but her parents want a typical suburban life so they decided to move from their apartment in middle of New York to Westchester, which in outside the city. Susan Cheever’s relationship to Central Park does not end here, because she commutes to New York as soon as she gets an opportunity to come back to the life she and her family had in New York. Susan Cheever moved back to New York some years after, she had children and she raised them in New York, and they love Central Park as much as Susan Cheever does, and even though they are adults, they still love to celebrate functions in the park. Susan Cheever thinks the life in New York is safe, while the suburban life is a little bit scary. In the essay, there is a first person narrator and an omniscient narrator, because it is Susan Cheever herself there is the main character in the story and that can be reliable and unreliable...
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...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 in this town (..). This simple law, one nearly every New Yorker...
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...doubt about that. It is amazing how every single human-being on this planet is unique, it will always be something that amazes us. You can never figure a person out; the human mind is simply astonishing. The human mind will always behold a surprise. However, even though humans are difficult to figure out, we would say that there are mainly two different types of people in this world: Country-folk and city-folk. Susan Cheever is as mentioned earlier the writer of the essay My Little Bit of Country, and in this essay she reveals to us the thoughts and minds of a ‘city-person’. The story follows a chronological structure, and Susan Cheever starts the story with mentioning how she spent her summer mornings as a child in beautiful Central Park in company of her dad: “My earliest memories are of summer mornings in Central Park with my father” (Page: 1). When reading this essay, it becomes clear to see that Susan Cheever considers herself different from her family members: “I too often felt, even then at the age of three or four, that I had come from another exotic foreign place to live with my disappointingly ordinary family” (Page: 1, L.25) as this quote shows, she describes her family as being painfully ordinary, which clearly is a contrast to how she describes herself. The family decides to move away from New York because they desire better outdoors facilities, which is a bit of a shame since Susan Cheever enjoys living in New York. In this essay there are being dealt...
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...the beauty of New York Manhattan on a September day and how this day turns into a disaster; the speaker is telling us what happened on September 11, 2001. The speaker is, using other words, describing what happened on this day that shocked the whole world. In the beginning of the poem, the first stanza, the speaker is describing New York and how beautiful it can be in September, the way the speaker is talking about the city gives the impression that this might be a person that is from New York and that loves the city. The speaker is describing the color of the sky using the word “baby blue” (2) and describes the wind using a simile saying that it is “mild/ as a breath” (2-3) which really gives you a feeling of what this day looks like. The speaker ends the stanza with saying that if you have important things to do “now’s when to do it” (4) before it might be to late, referring to the attack that is about to happen that day. In the second stanza the speaker is continuing to describe how beautiful a day in September can be, the speaker says “even on so odd/an island as Manhattan” (7-8) meaning that even though Manhattan isn’t some tropical island it can still be beautiful in September. The speaker continues with saying, “without an ice cap, or those desert spaces/ composed of dust and emptiness and God” (11-12), the speaker is using these metaphors to describe that a September day in New York is beautiful, but without the cold and sad feelings that hit New York on the day of the...
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...Park” from 2012, the American writer Susan Cheever writes about her life In New – and how she loves the life there much better than the life on the country. In this essay, I am going to analyse and comment on the text with focus on the contrasts between New York and the country. I would also like to have a look at the themes that are used in the text. Contrasts, contrasts, contrasts... There is no doubt that the contrasts between the urban life and the life on the country are very thought-through by Cheever. She has created a potpourri of contrasts, which emphasizes the bond between Cheever and Central Park. For instance, “Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling with leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water […]?” This is just one of many examples, where she trashes the country and praises New York, or rather Central Park. In the beginning of the text, we do not exactly know why she hates the country so bad, but what we do know, is that she loves Central Park, and that she just cannot live without it. In page 3 , Cheever mentions Andy Warhol, who had said that the reason why the city was better than the country was that in the city he could find a little bit of country, but in the country there was no signs of the city. She adds that she knows exactly what he means, because Central Park was her little bit of country in the city. This saying of Andy Warhol is another contrast,...
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...EDU 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Tale of Two Cities and Homelessness To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/edu-644-new/edu-644-week-3-dq-2-tale-of-two-cities-and-homelessness This discussion is an opportunity to compare and contrast policies and resources that support homeless children and families from two different cities, New York and Chicago. The information you analyze will either support a recommendation you make to either city or an idea for potential application of supports elsewhere. Additionally, the graphic will be included as part of your Week Six Final Project Prepare for this discussion by reviewing the required resources listed below for each city and by reviewing the Week Three Instructor Guidance. • Chicago Resources: Review the All Chicago website, the Chicago Coalition for the Homelesswebsite, and the newspaper articles from Hirst (2013) and Steinberg (2012) about homelessness in Chicago. • New York Resources: Review the Covenant House website, the Safe Horizon (2014) homeless youth facts page, and the Saulny (2012) newspaper article about homeless youth in New York. Initial Post: Review the resources provided above. Create an initial post that includes the two parts described below. Visual: Use a visual graphic of your choice such as a Venn diagram or chart using PowerPoint, SmartArt features in Microsoft Word, or Thinking maps® to compare and contrast the following five factors pertaining to homelessness: a. Statistical data about...
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...article is a statistical report on how crime rate decreases in certain major cities of the United States. This is an unbiased secondary report by an anonymous author, but it uses evidence to support its claim. This report has allowed me to understand how cities address the fluctuating crime rates in the last three decades. This source supported my research proposal by proving that crime rate is an issue that the community can decrease, if they are united. The article states how crime rate has decreased over the last two decades, which can be contributed to police officers. However, with the crime rate decreasing, the police aren't needed as they were in the past. This is due to the decrease in crime. In contrast to present times, in some cities, police activity has increased crime rates. This article is an unbiased secondary source that uses reputable sources to enforce his claim. This article is a turning point in my research because it brings up the question: Does police presence increase or decrease crime rate in Hialeah?...
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...population and location of mega-cities In 1800 only 3 percent of the worlds total population lived in cities, this figure now stands at 47 percent an increase of 44 percent over 200 years. In 1950, there were 83 cities with populations exceeding one million; New York was recognised as becoming the world’s first megacity. By the year 2007 83 millionaire cities had risen to 468. If this trend continues however the worlds urban population will double every 38 years. This is due to the propelled high rates of natural increase and very high rates of rural to urban migration. A few of the largest cities have grown to merge with others to form city regions, or agglomerations, such as Tokyo whose region now includes the population of Yokohama. The term megacity is now used to describe these city regions. A few current megacities according to that of the world gazetteer are that of Cairo in Egypt with a population of 16,794,464, Beijing in China with a population of 13,294,474 and Buenos Aires in Argentina with a population of 14,723,625. A few countries that have the potential to become megacities within the next 5 years are that of Chicago in the USA with a population of 9,506,302, and Xianggang in China with a current population of 9,565,291. This image shows the urban population (millions). As the image clearly show there are around 6 mega-city areas in the western hemisphere. The more obvious one being that of the world cities such as New York. As you can see Europe has no...
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...goes into the shopping experience. He explains in detail how stores are run and set up in order to accommodate their customers, and how those stores gather the information on how to set themselves up. Underhill describes shopping patterns in humans, “Human beings walk the way they drive, which is to say that Americans tend to keep to the right when they stroll down shopping-mall concourses or city sidewalks” (97). This piece was written by Malcolm Gladwell on November 4, 1996. While the article was written almost twenty years ago, the message and key elements in the article are still prevalent today. The piece was written for any and all of the readers of his website. Computers were much more...
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...uptown New York, Colson Whitehead looks out of the subway window as the train rises out from the tunnel as it head towards the next stop. It is the early ages of the city, when “everything is filthy.” This is where he started creating his own private New York (City Limits). “Never listen to what people tell you about old New York,” he says since you were not there to see it for yourself you cannot include it in part of your own New York (City Limits). This is why the Met Life building will always be the Pan Am building to him. He does not call it that “out of affection” but because “that’s what it is” to him (City Limits). To anyone seeing the Pan Am building for the first time will call it the Met Life building because “That’s what it is” to them (City Limits). “The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone” (City Limits). It knows the kind of person you are who you will become. The way you live your day-to-day life, permanently brazened onto your record by the “neon footprint” that is left by “every step” that you make (Broadway). Each person in the city “track [themselves] through city and years” as they walk their familiar paths every day (Broadway). They are the imprints that you left behind as a reminder to yourself as the kind of person that you are. If a person could see their “footprints,” they would “know [their] uncharted territories,” and be able to see where they once went, “never to return” (Broadway). “In the city you...
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...Living With Strangers Sometimes it can be a leap in the dark to move from a small city to a big city. You start somewhere new; an unknown place filled with new experiences, challenges and strangers. It can be overwhelming at first, and it might as well take some time to grow accustomed to the new culture and what the city has to offer. The situation can especially be difficult to someone who comes from a city, where one is used to live in closely encircling. As an example of this kind of situation is Siri Hustvedt’s essay ‘Living with Strangers’, which is written in 2002 Hustvedt describes in her essay her move from rural Minnesota to New York City in 1978 and how suddenly norms and rules change for her. In Minnesota it is the custom to greet everyone you meet on the road, even though you do not know the person. If you pass someone in silence, you will be considered as discourteous and it can lead to accusations of snobbery. This is the worst and rudest possible thing you can do and it gets compared as a sin in the egalitarian state. A good place to start is the title of the essay ‘Living With Strangers’, because it sums up the thesis in the text and Hustvedt’s point with the text. The title refers to a major problem in every city - whether it is a big or small one, and it is because the society that we live in now has changed and is still changing. The late modern society is characterized by the fact, that we no longer are bound by old traditions and habits. We are instead...
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...continues to recap the film and calls De Niro’s portrayal of the main character as bringing a brilliant conception alive with expert minimalism. Dempsey’s most surprising review comes in the form of the infamous climactic end to the film. Dempsey describes this as “only a revenge movie cliché; like the shark attacks in Jaws” further stating that is only provided a reflexive physical reaction. Ebert, Roger. Rev. of Taxi Driver, by Martin Scorsese/Michael Phillips/Julia Phillips/Tony Bill. 1 Jan. 2004. Web. 24 Nov. 2013. < http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-taxi-driver-1976>. Ebert’s review of Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese was a post look of great American films that Ebert put on his acclaimed “top rated” listing. Ebert describes the lead character Travis Bickle as “ a character with a desperate need to make some sort of contact somehow—to share or mimic the effortless social interaction he sees all around him, but does not participate in”. Ebert goes on to further review the personal pull everyone has on regards to feeling alone like Travis Bickle bringing the element of alienation into the review. Ebert also describes how Scorsese uses point-of-view cinematography to connect the audience with Travis, and see New York just as Bickle does, a dark underworld. Ebert ends the review stating that the climatic ending plays...
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...Out There! 1. “I’m gonna sell you on New York!” “Start spreading the news: I’m leaving today; I want to be a part of it: New York, New York!” – Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York” I don’t remember when I first heard this song, but it finally stuck with me when I heard it in Friends With Benefits, you know the scene where Jamie takes Dylan to Times Square to be a part of a flash mob while she’s trying to sell New York to him so he’d accept a job at GQ. Well, if you didn’t know that, then now you do. Aside from being one of my favourite movies ever, Friends With Benefits just completely amplified my love for New York by infinity times. Now just to clear things up before I continue, we’re friends right? I don’t want this essay to sound like a stranger shoving an annoying travel infomercial about New York down your throat. I want you to love New York as much as I do, or at least not feel forced to. It could be like we’re just having a conversation, just like Jamie says to Dylan back at her apartment after they watch that shitty romantic film: “Yeah. Two girls over drinks at Bennigan’s. Go.” 2. “It’s New York! I’ve seen Seinfeld.” “Not the bullshit tourist version!” I always knew I belonged in New York; I guess I just didn’t realize it when I was a kid. I was always saying things like, “Wow New York is so pretty I want to go there!”, “O my gosh can I go to New York puhLEASE.”, and “Wow how great would it be to live in New York?” New York always seemed like such a fabulous, far-off...
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...How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter Four of The Great Gatsby? Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby is one in which Nick continues to gradually piece together information about Gatsby, hearing about his romance with Daisy through the voice of Jordan Baker. Several settings are presented, conveying significant messages about the characters and the ‘roaring twenties’. Chapter Four is one where Nick travels with Gatsby to New York and spends time with him in several different places. New York is presented as being both magical and somewhat repulsive, similar to how Nick feels ‘within and without’ the strange world of the ultra-rich. Viewing the city from the bridge, Nick describes it as promising ‘all the mystery and beauty of the world’, however, immediately after, ‘a dead man’ is described. This could be implying that the ‘jazz age’ is not all that it seems to be, with Fitzgerald revealing that the ‘mystery and beauty’ is only a façade hiding a much darker truth. In addition, the way that the ‘valley of ashes’ is described as opening ‘out on both sides’ could convey the poignant message that death is inescapable in this seemingly wondrous environment. Alternatively, Fitzgerald could be comparing the setting of New York with Gatsby. Before we are introduced to Gatsby, he is presented as almost mythical, magical, but mysterious, just as the city appears from a distance. However, meeting Gatsby could be seen as disappointing, as he is simply an ordinary, wealthy man with a...
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...NYCAPS and City Time: A Tale of two New York City 1. How important were the NYCAPS and CityTime projects for New York City? What were their objectives? What would have been their business benefits? * Importance of NYCAPS and CityTime projects for New York City: 1. To reduce the paperwork used handling employee benefits and job changes. 2. To save labor and IT costs for New York City. 3. To control overtime payments to the city employees and improve accountability. 4. To reduce the mismanagement of the system and to deliver the information accurately. * Objectives of NYCAPS and CityTime Projects: 1. To create a modern automatic system that is used for managing and updating the personal information for New York City’s workforce along with information of employee benefits. 2. To save millions of dollars every year for the New York City with the successful implementation of NYCAPS. 3. City time project objective is to provide an automatic payroll for employees to control and check the undeserved overtime payments to city workers, which are not possible before. * Business benefits using NYCAPS and CityTime projects: 1. They are able to reduce the labor costs by automating the system to handle employee benefits. 2. It saved the revenue of the New York City by control the overtime payments to the city employees. 3. Improves the business process and efficiency of the system 2. Evaluate the key risk factors in both projects...
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