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Summary Of Here Is New York By E. B. White
Summary: In “Here is New York”, an essay by E.B. White, in the first paragraph, White classifies the residents of New York in three different categories, In the next two paragraphs White goes on to explain in interesting details that the events that happened on September eleventh in New York were horrific, but because of the residents it stayed strong. All the residents may fall under a different categorization, but because of them, New York stayed strong.
Paraphrase: In the first paragraph of White’s essay he is classifying the residents of New York. One part of the city is the man or woman who was born there is not aware of the beautiful sights and aspects of New York and goes about their day not noticing it. The second part of the city

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