In the play "Our Town"‚ by Thornton Wilder‚ a character by the name of Simon Stimson makes a very insightful statement about people and their lives. Simon is dead and buried‚ as well as several of the play’s other characters‚ when a newly-dead young woman named Emily joins their ranks and begins to realize the triviality and ignorance of her existence‚ as well as that of every living person. The dead are discussing this insignificance and unawareness of the living when Simon comments with disgust
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My Home Suva‚ Fiji Islands was my birthplace‚ I’ve lived there half my life. Being a dot on a globe‚ two separate islands on a map‚ and a small population‚ Fiji is surrounded with grains of sand and salty water. The beach was my playground. Precious memories were left behind when I had to move to a different country with my family‚ but the beach was a place never to be forgotten. The beach is my home where I explored‚ learned‚ and relaxed; it swept up my childhood to the shores as each tide pushes
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I ’m writing about my Grandma’s old home place when I was growing up. I would always spend the whole the summer with her. She has a nice old antique farm house on 10 acres of land. She would always have three huge gardens plus blackberries‚ grapevines‚ figs bushes and a persimmon tree. She always made jellies‚ jams‚ puddings‚ cakes. She was a jack of all trades. It’s a special place for me and I hold it very close to my heart. The house was green with black shutters‚ big covered
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This town I found myself in right now was unique. For some reason‚ it felt different from all the rest. Sure‚ it was breathtaking‚ but that was not what was bringing on this feeling. I tried to observe my surroundings carefully for this loose thread. The red cobblestone was lowly lit in the warm glow of the Christmas lights that hung everywhere. Explosions of red and green and blue and yellow filtered everything in sight like 3D glasses. Tinsel and garland wound around the support columns of
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter
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every day‚ for life is a fleeting thing. With troubles rapidly expanding in Europe and war becoming a looming reality‚ people were inundated with the negative aspects of life. To see Our Town was to escape from the negative and rejoice in the ordinary; it reaffirmed faith in the unchanging moral values of small town living. It was obviously the balm that audiences needed in the midst of a pessimistic and changing world. Through his play‚ Wilder tries to teach the audience to seize the moment and enjoy
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Q- Town planning is a science as well as art ? Town planning is a science as well as art .The art and science of ordering the use of land and sitting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum practicable degree of economy‚ convenience and beauty within available resources and time frame. If all artistic sense is forgotten in planning we start to build places that lack culture. Sure we can add an institution that may bring culture to that area‚ but the area itself lacks
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Our Town “Our Town”‚ by Thorton Wilder tells a story about life and the people of Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire. The choice of Grover’s Corners is meant to typify every small town or community in America. Grover’s Corner is Anytown ‚ U.S.A. It is a simple place and this reflected in the physical setting of the play. Basically‚ Our Town is about Grover’s Corners and its people‚ particularly the Gibbs and Webb families. It takes the audience through the stages of life‚ in a simple way
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Saturday was market day in Cape Town and the streets were crowded with shoppers looking for bargains‚ meeting friends and lovers. Boers and Frenchmen‚ soldiers in colorful uniforms and English ladies in flounced skirts and ruffled blouses mingled in front of the bazaars set up in the town squares at Braameonstein and Park Town and Burgersdorp. Everything was for sale: furniture‚ horses and carriages and fresh fruit. One could purchase dresses and chessboards‚ or meat or books in a dozen different
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nEco town Case Study White Hill Bordon Whitehill Bordon is located in the south east of England – 46 miles from central London. The nearest big cities are Guildford to the north and Portsmouth to the south. The town has grown around the Ministry of Defence’s presence in the town. It is set in rolling countryside and it is about a 40 minute drive to the sea. A new national park is being established – the South Downs National Park – and Whitehill Bordon will serve as a gateway to it. Here is a
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