Baltimore

Welcome to Baltimore Baltimore is one of the major cities in the U.S. state of Maryland. The city was established by Constitution of Maryland. It has the second largest seaport in Mid-Atlantic. Fredrick Douglass, Billie Holiday, Babe Ruth, Edgar Allan Poe are the famous residents of the city. The city has many architecturally important buildings such as Rembrandt Peale, Baltimore Basilica and Peale Museum. Many historic districts are also situated here such as Mount Vernon Place, Fell’s Point…

aggravated assault. Each involves force or threat of force. While it can be so difficult to even imagine, these violent crimes affect thousands of people all over the country. Situations like these happen to many people in the city of Baltimore. The rise in violent crime in Baltimore can be attributed to the high rate of poverty, poor education system, and high homicide rates.…

neighborhoods go south when white people move out and black people move in. If that isn’t enough to roil the revitalization waters, this emerging shift in neighborhood policy rings all kinds of alarm bells about gentrification and social engineering. Baltimore has avoided such prickly issues for the last decade with a community development approach under former Mayor Kurt Schmoke that favored the most decayed sectors in the city. Now, as Mayor Martin O’Malley’s administration begins…

Throughout my life I have lived in three cultural distinct regions Lima Peru, White Plains New York and Baltimore Maryland. For the first two years of my life I lived in Lima, Peru and even though I never culturally adapted myself into the culture I would often visit for months and immerse myself into the culture. I can say with confidence that if I grew up in that culture I would not my be the same person I am today because of the fact that they are a collectivistic country and that would…

(2014) represents the number of deaths caused by Heroin in Baltimore, MD from January through June 2007-2014: Drug abuse is a disease that is often overlooked and if left untreated it could turn into a recreational activity for the people using them. Many teens are using illegal substances and becoming addicted which can cause situations such as dropping out of school, roaming the streets, and hurting the people that care about them. Baltimore can be free from drugs by offering free mentor…

Baltimore, known for it’s amazing harbor, known as bird land, and also known according to www.Neighborhoodscout.com for it's 13th highest rates of Murder. Murder is one of the many things I will be talking about that's wrong with Baltimore. Other things will be what's good about Baltimore. Like the harbor, Diversity and other things like that Police Brutality, I mean I know not all police aren't bad but some are. It's no need need to shoot people most of the time for nothing and it's…

It was a glorious day for Browns fans as they witnessed something that hasn’t occurred since 2007, a victory in Baltimore. It was a rare sighting, but Cleveland pulled off the stunning upset in an overtime thriller. At first, it didn’t look to good for the Browns. After three and outs from both teams, the Ravens struck first. The defense was fooled by the fake hand off to Justin Forsett and Joe Flacco went unscathed to score from one yard out. On the next possession, Josh McCown orchestrated a…

Baltimore City Sewage Overflow: Past Time to Fix the Pipes Do you ever take a drink from a water fountain and realize that it doesn't taste as fresh and cool as your bottled water from the supermarket? Do you actually know when the last time your school's water pipes have last been changed? Well in Baltimore they are dealing with a bad sewage overflow that should have been over with by now. Baltimore residents are infuriated by the fact that there is nothing they can do to fix this problem,…

McCauley explains how Gary Vikan, the director of Walters Art Museum, and Charles Conner, the director of the university's Mind/Brain Institute, gather round people and let them settle on what inkblot they like better. Her purpose is to write about how the concept of beauty can be traced to science, and how one may find a particular inkblot more pleasant. In one of the studies, it is found that people prefer a smoother and rounder image, rather than a sharp and spiky image that is not evenly…

Berlinger, Joshua. "Baltimore Riots: A Timeline." CNN. Cable News Network, 28 Apr. 2015. Web. 12 Apr. 2016. Freddie Gray, 25 years old, was being transported in a police van after being charged with possession of an illegal switchblade. He was beaten by police while being transported to the prison, leaving him in a coma where he later died from his injuries. In the wake of Freddie Gray’s funeral riots broke out in Baltimore, buildings were looted and burned down, and rioters threw glass bottles…