Mayors Essays

been seldom one like that which followed Henchard’s announcement of himself to Elizabeth as her father.” The preceding excerpt from Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge follows Elizabeth Jane, a waitress in the town’s local tavern, and her discovery and initial shock of learning that her estranged father is Michael Henchard, the now wealthy mayor of a small town. This story illustrates examples of formal diction with levels of abstraction, imagery, and harsh and uneasy tone throughout that conveys

Do you want to see a change in this small community of Anamosa? Me, too! I’m a kid, but I do know that mayors are the voice of the people. I want to be that voice. The voice that people want to stand by and say,”I am proud I live In Anamosa!” As mayor, I will work my hardest to make Anamosa welcoming, and listen to what people want. One way to make the community happier, is adding bicycle lanes. Kids ride their bicycles on the sidewalk, because the road isn't safe. Cars speed down streets, which

“Jury”, Martha is forced to accept her social position and be treated as inferior due to the men around her. In the brief encounter we see between the Mayor and the couple enrolling their children in a new school, there’s a much more modern exchange. The Mayor treats the women as equals and speaks to them the same way he’d speak to anyone. The Mayor is described as “a small dark man with high cheekbones and a sharp chin who looks remarkably like an American character actor I can’t quite place” (American

City elections are coming up. Who are you voting for? If i get elected as mayor I will try to make Anamosa a better town. As mayor I would have more fundraisers, city wide clean ups and, help the homeless If i were mayor I would have more fundraisers, I would have fundraisers for schools so they can better educate our children. Some money I get from fundraisers will be donated to charity. I will have fundraisers for parks, to be a better place to relax and enjoy Anamosa. Also if the park needs new

Situation: As a patrol officer, I am only doing my job when I stop a car for running a red light. Unfortunately, the driver of the car happens to be the mayor. I give her a ticket anyway, but the next morning I get a call into the captain’s office and told in no uncertain terms that I screwed up, for there is an informal policy extending “Courtesy” to city politicians. Several nights later, I observe the mayor’s car weaving erratically across lanes and speeding. What would you do? What if the driver

The next day, the group of friends decided to tell the mayor about what happened last night. While the boys were walking into town, they witnessed people crying. After a while this seemed to be a reoccurring theme. They were all wondering what happened, but kept walking to the mayors house. When they arrived at his house, he greeted them and asked them what the matter was. They then proceeded to tell him what happened the previous night. The mayor agreed that the group should avoid Officer Don. Fred

basically in a town with small brick buildings and trash all over the streets it was basically home of the criminals or the no good people, as said by the mayor that started the whole poor criminals on one side and the rich people on the other. The side was called the secton.

It doesn’t take much to qualify to run for city council, all that is needed of a person is to be a registered voter, U.S. citizen, a resident of the community for a year, and never been convicted of a felony. So why do people run for city council? Some of the main reasons are to move up in politics, for personal enrichment, to serve the community, and concern about issues. Although everyone has their own motivations for running, older people tend to because they have the time and younger people

Most people want to improve themselves in some way, whether it is to lose weight or give up smoking or increase their confidence. Self-improvement is something that we carry out over a life time, but it is a task that can require a lot of motivation. Keeping your motivation levels up and steady can be a job in itself. In order to achieve the motivation required for self-improvement, we need to look at the three keys that will help us succeed in our goals. 1) INSPIRATION You need inspiration in

According to Chris Hedges in his excerpt “Empire of Illusion,” “The most essential skill in political theater and a consumer culture is artifice” (Hedges 1). Chris Hedges wrote this book to persuade the audience that the most essential skill a person can have is artifice, the skill of deception. Throughout the excerpt, Hedges covered the important of artifice by detailing the importance of personal narratives, where the reality is irrelevant (prompt). This topic is broadly known as controversial

Mayor Carcetti, a well-to-do white man who becomes mayor by the end of season three is thought to be a breath of fresh air. A new hope. However, after his first year in office, his views begin to shift like many of Baltimore’s mayors before him. Carcetti entered politics as a way to help those in need, and ended up keeping many citizens in a spiral of crime. In season

friends, family, and enemies told her, she worked and train hard and eventually became the first bunny to enter into the Zootopia Police Department. Now, most believe Judy was just a “token bunny” and she was only allowed into the force because of Mayor Lionheart’s Mammal Inclusion initiative. Its safe to say that the odds are highly stacked against Judy and she must do something

In contrast, both Mayor Faubus and Odysseus were negatively impacted by their character traits; Mayor Faubus’ pessimism cost his chance to be renowned as being the first state in the segregated states to allow integration, and Odysseus foolishness cost him peace with Poseidon 's. While the previous paragraph

Recently, shocking dash-cam footage has resurfaced, showing a 17-year-old Laquan McDonald catching 16 shots by a Chicago police officer. The incident took place in 2004, but video has just surfaced on the Internet and in official’s hands. Chicago mayor has received criticism for taking so long to release surveillance video that showed a white Chicago police officer shooting at black teenager 16 times. After the occurrence, they detained a police officer and Garry McCarthy resigned from being Chicago

The analysis of the reflections of society in Zootopia Zootopia is one of many of Disney and Pixar’s most celebrated productions. The animated film is the sixth highest-grossing animated movies of all time. Set in a world of anthropomorphic animals the movies protagonist is a young rabbit named Judy Hopps who comes from a small town with the dreams of becoming a police officer. When coming of age, Judy leaves her hometown to pursue her dream by going to live in Zootopia a city where anyone can become

Eduardo Matos Montezuma claims that the vision of Mexica is represented by orientation of the temple. The Templo Mayor was orientated structurally, cosmologically, virtually, as an embodiment towards the Mexica’s cosmovision. His repetitive description of the principal or fundamental center, where the horizontal and vertical planes intersect, clearly portrays his understanding towards the worldview reality of the Mexica where he explains the heavenly or upper plane and where the plane of the underworld

As the embodiment of the American Dream, Gatsby is both present and unreachable. Gatsby, although corrupt for most of the novel, turns out “alright” in the end. In her article, “The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word”, the author, Barbra Will, focuses on how Gatsby’s characterization and the obscene word on his steps complete the ending to The Great Gatsby. With his past life being full of corruption, the audience, as well as Nick, is forced to forget about Gatsby’s past. When Gatsby’s past is forgotten

The Conflict between Romanticism and Realism in Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is a story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters who individually speak to the sense and sensibility. In other words, the film is drawn between two cultural movements; the romanticism and the realism. Realism carries a message that portrays circumstances sensibly, while romanticism represents messages by utilizing fiction. Romanticism concentrates on plot, overstatements, illustration and

Recently the media has been covering stories of the amount of black lives being taken by the police. Statistics have shown that is not the case, that the loss of black lives are due to “black-on-black crime.” In this article, the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu makes an effect to understand the root of this problem, of why African Americans are killing each other. The problem of race has been a continuous issue in America. New Orleans happens to be one of the top city in America with high rate

“Social oppression is a concept that describes a relationship of dominance and subordination between categories of people in which one benefits from the systematic abuse, exploitation, and injustice directed toward the other.” This quote, stated by Ashley Crossman on Thoughtco, perfectly describes what oppression is especially from a feminist point of view. As Britannica stated, Feminism is “the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes.” In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott