On The Sidewalk Bleeding-monologue from Andy’s prospective All I feel is the excruciating pain entering my aching body. The irritation and agony makes me feel defenceless. I have a multitude of varied thoughts racing through my confused mind. As I am helplessly laying on the cold‚ wet concrete‚ with the rain drilling down on me‚ I am thinking if this is how I am going to die‚ my life over at the age of just 16. I can think back and faintly remember someone saying‚ “that’s for you royal!”
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Nice‚ France to John L. Mitchell‚ a wealthy Wisconsin senator and his wife‚ Harriet. Mitchell. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell grew up on an estate near Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Alexander Mitchell‚ his grandfather‚ was one of the wealthiest people in Wisconsin for his generation and established what became the Milwaukee Road along with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mitchell Park and the street Mitchell Boulevard were named in honor of Alexander. Billy Mitchell was the eldest of ten‚ and
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Boy Found Dead Covered In Blood on Sidewalk Just yesterday a boy at the age of sixteen was found dead on a sidewalk by the alley downtown. Witnesses tell investigators that his name was Andy. He had been stabbed to death. The knife had entered just below his rib cage and had been drawn violently across his body‚ opening the wound. Due to the immense amount of blood found at the crime scene‚ investigators state that the boy bled to death. Witnesses state that the victim was a member of a gang who
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On the Sidewalk‚ Bleeding- Summarizer Alan Cheng 821 Introduction/Orientation: The story takes place on a rainy March day at 11:30 P.M . Andy‚ a 16 year old‚ cigarette smoker‚ and a member of the gang “The Royals” was stabbed ten minutes ago just below his ribs by a member of the rival gang‚ The Guardians. He is slowly bleeding to death on the sidewalk in a quiet alleyway somewhere in New York. As he is slowly dying‚ he just can not stop thinking about his girlfriend‚ Laura‚ whom
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General Billy Mitchell Mary Olesky Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University‚ History of Aviation Brigadier General Billy Mitchell‚ though at the end of his official military career he was reduced in rank to Colonel‚ was one of the greatest leaders in American military air power. Despite his court-martial and the various punishments that came with it‚ he was still seen over ten years later to be the visionary and great leader that he had been for his entire career and the years after until his death
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Jean De La Fontaine once said “Beware- so long as you live of judging men by their outward appearance‚” and this idea is reinforced continually in the short story‚ “on the sidewalk bleeding” written by Evan hunter. The important idea was judgment and how we should not judge a book by it’s cover. I think this idea is worth learning about because too often in society we judge people without knowing them. The author wants to communicate that you should not prejudge somebody for their looks and consider
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Prejudice and our blind eye towards prejudice within our society are evident factors in the story “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” by Evan Hunter. The main character‚ Andy‚ because of his gang membership‚ is pre judged based on his jacket and not for who he actually is. As a society‚ we do not notice the injustice within our culture. Prejudice‚ an underlying and unseen inequality made the difference between life and death for Andy. Andy could have been saved numerous times from after he was stabbed but
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INTRODUCTION 1. William ‘Billy’ Mitchell was the most famous and controversial figure in American airpower history. The son of a wealthy Wisconsin senator was born in the 29 December 1879 at Nice‚ France. He enlisted as a private soldier during the Spanish American War. Quickly gaining a commission as Second Lieutenant one week after joining the Army due to the intervention of his father‚ he joined the Signal Corps. He was an outstanding junior officer‚ displaying a rare degree of initiative‚
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will be referred to as Mrs Jean Mitchell in order to ensure her identity remains confidential. According to Chapelhow et al (2005) there are a number of enablers which are essential to becoming an expert practitioner;
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Joni Mitchell - River Released in 1971 and produced by Reprise records‚ river is an intensely emotional contemporary folk song about heartbreak. Written solely by Joni Mitchell for her album ‘Blue’ the song is reminiscent of Christmas time although lyrically it has little relationship to Christmas. (Hopper‚ 2012) Instead of using a typical verse/chorus style this song is written using different sections – A/B/C etc. The line ‘I wish I had a river’ is the overlying focus point throughout the
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