Apple New York City is the place that everyone dreams of visiting. From the building, to the city lights, everyone wants to see the city that never sleeps. I remember being six years old and seeing NYC on the news while sitting on my couch in my living room in Poland. All the tall building and city streets did not fail to quickly capture my attention. Before I knew it my parents and I were on the plane and ready to move to NYC. Not knowing what to expect, I was excited yet very nervous at the same time. I was really hoping my high expectations of NYC would not be turned upside down once I actually get there. Every single person has a different interpretation of New York. Some are more enthusiastic than others but most view this city…
“Welcome to New York,” is all it took for me to wake from my four and a half hour nap. I readjusted in my seat to glimpse out the large window that my head had just been resting on only to observe grimy white subway tiles and fractured gray concrete. Swiftly, I concluded that we were driving through the Lincoln Tunnel that connects New Jersey to New York City. The small, hazy, yellow lights that filled the tunnel bounced off the red vinyl bus seats, creating strange patterns; holding my breath,…
opportunity arose to travel to New York City, with my friend Zach. My school’s basketball team was participating in a National tournament at Yeshiva University, where my friend Zach’s brother had an apartment nearby in Washington Heights. Hearing about the safety issues in the Heights, my parents didn’t want me roaming around the city without any adult supervision. With the backing of my Uncle Richard, who live in the Upper East Side, I began to plan my trip. Brainstorming with my uncle…
and I was so nervous, everyone around me seemed so different, or so I thought. My parents decided to move from Argentina to New York City, it was like going from one end to the other. Moving to another country was already a big step, and the things that came after did not help with the adaption. As I stepped out of the airport I looked up to see a clear dark sky with white snowflakes falling on my face, it was the first time I ever saw snow and I thought it was the best thing ever. I was…
Gweneviere said, “And the thing that scares me the most, is the thought that I will wake up one day and I’ll be eighty years old and I won’t remember the last forty years of my life,” showing her concern and fear over her current state of health (Isay, Jacobs, StoryCorps 114). The story also goes on to talk about her other concerns in regards to her family, friends, and forgetfulness of what she has eaten throughout the day, as well as, her own techniques on how to remember things, such as, the…
responses to the immigration process. The first piece, José Martí's 1891 essay “Our America”, looks at immigration from an unusual perspective: the perspective of the native people already inhabiting the land being migrated to. Martí…
each story captures a moment in time. Drown is narrated by and educated adult and set mostly in the 1980s with much of the narrative occurring in the narrators childhood. In this essay I will talk about how the immigrant life is portrayed and how money is a driving force between this families. In “Drown” Yunior the narrator of the story is explaining the story of his family immigration to the United Sates from the Dominican Republic. It all begin when Rafa and Yunior are…
The essay provides a brief explanation of queer theory and a description of the relationship between queer theory and pedagogy. Shlasko uses Morris’s (1998) summary of the most broadly accepted meaning of queer in two main ideas: “queer as a subject position, and queer as a politic” (123). Morris adds one additional ingredient seeing “queer as an aesthetic sensibility, based on conceptualizations of reading practices that also strongly influence some of the queer pedagogical writings”…
who band together to defeat the evil living in their town of Derry who calls Itself Pennywise the Clown but is dubbed ‘It’ by those who fear it. This essay aims to explore the possibility that the fictional town of Derry is an abject materialization of the monster ‘It’. The fears and horrors Its victims suffer are reflections of the anxieties of living in a small town at the times the story is set, late 1950s and mid 1980s. Pennywise represents anxieties faced by children and adults in the two…
interact, and which bodies and objects draw attention to their interaction (a non-white body in a white space for example), we can better understand the “hidden” nature of the way that Whiteness is constructed. This essay is a great companion to Cresswell’s In Place, Out of Place (for helping to understand place as a construction of Whiteness, and how some bodies are out of place in that construction) with Dixon’s Ride Out the Wilderness and Sibley’s “Creating Geographies of Difference” (for the…