This bridge took a lot of hard work and effort from many different people. ... From 1870 to 1883, the bridge was a pioneering example of steel-wire support cables which gave the illusion of a spider web. ... Instead it hangs in the air, suspended from thick cables. ... The bridge would stretch more than 3,000 feet from shore to shore. ... John even raised the walkway above the level of the road so the pedestrians had a view of New York Harbor that was as breathtaking as the bridge itself. ...

• Word Count: 1432
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Show how this is done in "A View from the Bridge" In a stage drama there are many values that are shown throughout the performance. ... "A View from the Bridge" by Arthur Mills shows the values of law, honour and family love. ... In "A View from the Bridge" Eddie is the typical hero of the story however like most other heroes Eddie has his heroic flaw. ... The next character in conflict with some of the values shown in "A View from the Bridge" is Alfieri. ... In "A View from the Bridge" Arthur Mills shows these values through the ways his characters act, say and do things. ...

• Word Count: 1125
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Critical Essay - "A view from the bridge" "A view from the bridge" by Arthur Miller centres around the Carbone family in New York city in 1955. ... The central character of "A view from the bridge" is Eddie carbone. a second generation Italian - American and a longshore man in the ports of new York. ... The theme of trust stems from the Italian - American community in which people are naturally fearful of the un known. ... Apart from trust there is other ways and situations in which Eddie is at odds with the people around him. ... This sense of honour or duty stems from Eddies background ...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Kirstie Hartley Examine the ideas of Manliness, Hostility and Aggression in "A View from the Bridge". ... In this essay I am going to be examining the ideas of manliness, hostility and aggression in "a View from the Bridge" a play by Arthur Miller. ... In Eddie's views, this will make him less of a man. ... I think Rodolfo's workmates may share Eddie's views on his sexuality. ... With Eddie's views on manliness comes hostility and ultimately aggression . ...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

COMPARE AND CONTRAST Dissecting the short stories, The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, and An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, by their use of characters, settings and points of view, and plot structures to help distinguish how the writers illustrate their short story. ... The main character is Peyton Farquar in, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. ... She used this to help convey her views of the Vietnam Conflict. ... Part two of the story strays from the action to another scene. ... Louise Erdrich used the approach of writing the story as the opposite sex's ow...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller offers a glimpse into the life of Italian Americans in New York in the nineteen fifties. ... There have been many waves of immigration into the United States each has depended upon a strong community to give them support from time to time. ... In A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller captures its essence in the form of a Greek tragedy told in modern times and narrated by the lawyer Alfieri who takes the part of the chorus. ... In A View from the Bridge, Miller uses the community code to demonstrate how far a man's obsessions can take him. ... Even...

• Word Count: 499
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

During the play "A View From the Bridge" the character of Eddie Carbone went through a series of transformations that both awed and shocked. This man went from a very caring and loving Brooklyn longshoreman to an evil despotic man consumed by hate. ... Eddie's relationship with his niece Catherine is very strong and as she grows up he finds himself becoming more and more distanced from her. ... When everyone in the community found out that Eddie was the one who ratted out his own in-laws they excommunicated him from society. ...

• Word Count: 592
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Peyton Farquhar, standing on a bridge with a noose around his neck, awaits his death from hanging. ... The story ends with Peyton hanging from the rope, he never escaped. Ambrose Bierce in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" develops the idea that people escape death anyway possible through the point of view in the story. ... Bierce changes the point of view around in his story. ... We see things from Farquhar's perspective, such as "a piece of dancing driftwood How slowly it appeared to move!" ...

• Word Count: 766
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Jim Bridger was a legendary frontiersman. ... From 1824 until the late 1860's he was the premier Indian fighter, beaver trapper, fur trader and guide to the Wild West. ... Year after year he was able to avoid Indian attack and turn a profit from his trappings. ... To settle a bet in the winter camp of his trapping party of 1824, Bridger was selected to set out to find the exact course of the Bear River from the Cache Valley in present day Utah. ... In reality, he was the first white man to view The Great Salt Lake. ...

• Word Count: 730
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

A View from the Bridge- Perception of the opening section The opening of "A View from the Bridge" shows Alfieri, a central character of the play, standing alone in his office. ... I feel that this would show Eddie's distance from Justice (this being represented by Alfieri). ... I would attempt to already show this in her character from the start by controlling my attitude around Eddie as this would create a general picture of their relationship to the audience. ...

• Word Count: 716
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

On Thursday I went to the Harbour Bridge. ... My uncle took me there so I can climb the bridge. At first we had to go in to this room where we put on grey suits from head to toe. My uncle said that we had to wear these so that if there was anyone taking photos of the bridge, bright colours from peoples clothes wouldn't come up but instead we'll be camouflaged with the colour of the metal. ... The wind was so strong but more importantly the view was amazing. ...

• Word Count: 669
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Eddie and Catherine are two important characters form the play "A View From The Bridge" by Arthur Miller. ... Eddie and Catherine's relationship changes from father and daughter to woman and man throughout the play. ... Catherine and Rodolpho start to go out from that Eddie's actions, temper change, because he is madly jealous of Rodolpho. ... He denies his feelings but from this talk and from his actions before we can see that they are true. At this point their relationship changes name from daughter and father to man and woman; but still both of them de...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," the author, Ambrose Bierce has successfully engaged the reader making them want to read the story. ... In the third part of the story the author is telling us the story from Peyton's limited omniscient point of view. ... A soldier tricks Peyton into going to Owl Creek Bridge, little does he know they are going to try to kill him. ... He has already died from being hanged and the third section is last thought he has on the way down before the rope pulls tight. ... Then he is dead and the reader realizes the whole story happened in just minutes, f...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The two great cables extending from the bridge contain 80,000 miles of steel wire, which is enough to circle the equator three times. The concrete poured to cement the bridge into the stormy waters below could have also been used to pave a five-foot sidewalk from New York to San Francisco. ... Today, pedestrians and bicyclists are still allowed to cross the bridge on pathways with breathtaking views of the city, Alcatraz, and the Marin Headlands. The first exit of the Marin side of the bridge is Visa Point, which provides a magnificent view of the San Francisco skyline. Nevertheless, the be...

• Word Count: 3266
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

London is a melancholy poem concerning the plight of the city and its inhabitants and in contrast to this, the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge deals more with the overall view of the city. There is a negative view of London from the outset of this poem: 'As I wander thro' each charter'd street' The images of 'wander' are not of a pleasant stroll but rather of an aimless mission, and from this there is a feeling that the narrator is drifting around the streets of London with no where to go, without a purpose in life. ... Looking then at these two poems...

• Word Count: 1314
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Bridge learns many things from his involvement with Rafe. ... He learned to move past it from Rafe. ... "(67) Rafe benefited from the relationship, but not in the same way as Bridge did. ... Actually, Bridge's great painting which he works in all camp session is of the view from the camp. ... The exertion from the long climb caused him to have a brain hemorrhage. ...

• Word Count: 1356
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In short, would young generations, and young minds benefit from an overt knowledge and teaching of the extent to which current linguistic vocalizations reflect our orientation either towards or away from environmental concerns? ... What this informal study does underscore is the potential power of oral linguistic choices to change mental dispositions – a diachronic shift at work shaping and encoding 'new' world-views. ... Often conceived of as the classic "chicken and egg" question, theorists and educators continue to postulate hypotheses concerning this link, namely...

• Word Count: 4023
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

In modern society, faith is viewed as a fragile, tenuous thing, vague and indistinct. ... It cannot simply be viewed from "outside of the box- as any other problem might be. ... Suppose this wooden bridge is strong. ... Ultimately, weak faith in a strong bridge will save you; strong faith in a weak bridge will kill you ("Faith, Reason and Doubt-). ... It is faith that gets us all from point A to point B. ...

• Word Count: 1158
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In order to accurately understand how Kant bridged the gap between the rationalist method of understanding and knowledge and the empiricists, you must first separate and define the two. The rationalist point of view stemmed from Plato, and was acclaimed by many other great philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. ... The Empiricist point of view claims knowledge depends on sense experience. ... From the Empiricist point of view we gather practically justified beliefs of things in themselves. ... From ethics, another understanding is created. ...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He sucked again on his cigarette, to find himself back on the rooftop near O'Connell Bridge reliving his horrible memory of the mortifying ordeal. ... A pain shot from the wound on his arm and then numbness. The sniper finished his cigarette viewing the neighborhood he'd grown up in recalling the childish things his brother and he had gotten up to on O'Riley and O'Grady Street. ... The sniper sat silent unable to cry, unable to move, the numbness had returned, his blood seemed to drain from his body. He became very pale and then his blood came quickly flushing back over him...

• Word Count: 839
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

My drive up N. 36th street took us to the Freemont Bridge (once called the Aurora Bridge). There to the left, under the bridge stood the biggest, scariest sculpture named the Freemont Troll. ... This is such a beautiful structure, especially if you view it at night when it is lit up. I did not get to ride it to the top since I suffer from fear of heights. A shame, but the view from the bottom is just as breath taking. ...

• Word Count: 869
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The bridge seemed to rise forever as we crossed from Saint George Island to Mexico Beach. ... The sunlight danced its rays over the waves as we made our way across the bridge. ... Once we are over the lengthy bridge, the first signs of civilization awaited us. ... Even though these mammoth buildings blocked most of the view toward the Gulf, we would catch glimpses of the shimmering water in the gaps between the condos. ... We had to figure out how to retrieve the key from the complicated lockbox located outside the cottage doorway. ...

• Word Count: 675
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Between 1820 and 1840 Jackson's economic policies and the events that coincided with the great migration westward aided this change in power from the rich to the masses. ... Social, economic, and geographic situations affect the views of all people. ... This party allowed men with anti-Jackson views to be heard in great number. ... He was a sharp critic of what he considered the stranglehold of the aristocratic East on the nation's economic life, and adamantly opposed to monopolisits powers of eastern aristocrast that blocked the read to success for the small business (Charles Riv...

• Word Count: 426
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Children mock what they view on television and carry behaviors to their adulthood (Bridges 1). " Entertainment television is too violent that this is harmful to society that we as a society have become desensitized to violence" (Smith 1). ... Most children do what they see on television and this is a major reason why violent crime rates are increasing (Bridges 178). ... Furthermore a study was done and the results were that the children acted different from those who watched violent cartoons then ones that watched non-violent cartoons ("Violence on Television" 3) Most childre...

• Word Count: 928
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

I see a wooden bridge, and my family and closest friends are standing on one side of the bridge. ... However, the bridge doesn't break. ... Where does my need to be perfect come from? ... I must remember that I have limited vision, so my view of what is perfect may differ from God's view. ... I"ll be happier if I see myself from a new and healthy perspective. ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School