Albany

were more focused on making sure their political views were heard then putting out music that appealed to everyone. Black music was a way to express the struggle of freedom and pursuit of equality. The Albany movement help to put forth songs that’s help people get through there tough times. The Albany movement consisted of gospel hymns many of these same songs are used today during protest. Songs like “this little light of mine, I’m gon let it shine” these were songs of hope. According to…

Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik (Gillibrand) was born in Albany, New York on December 9, 1966. She is the middle child of Polly Edwina and Douglas Paul Rutnik. Both her parents are attorneys, and her father also worked as a lobbyist. Kirsten attended all-girls prep school in Troy, New York before enrolling in Dartmouth College. From which, she majored in Asian studies. Kirsten graduated magna cum laude in 1988 and went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School. Kirsten took on the…

In the early 1940's as stated in the New York Times, the Hudson River became contaminated with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), that flowed from two General Electric factories that were later banned in 1977, as a health threat to people and wildlife. In high doses, they have been shown to cause cancer in animals and are listed by federal agencies as a probable human carcinogen. As New York City grew along the Hudson river, the sewage discharged increased. In 1965, NYS voters passed a Pure…

You know most of the phrases or words in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are the same as documents before these but they changed the phrases or words to match what we wanted. Some of them like the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut both talked about government; while the cartoon “Join, or Die” and The Problem of Colonial Union is about trying to unite the colonies. There are some differences between these documents because some of them were not…

I am from a small town in Georgia called Albany where the population is majority African-American, as I grew up I became very used to being in the minority. At the time, I had no idea of the differences between people in regards to races. I had no understanding of the fact that only one out of every ten people in Albany were even Caucasian like myself. I saw everyone around me as the same, because I had not been taught a difference. Unlike with race, I did understand the differences in gender…

Walmart when she came through my line. She saw my name tag and asked if I had ever been to the Shekinah festival in Amish country. I told her I had never been and that I wasn’t from Columbus. She then asked where I was from and when I told her New Albany Indiana luck might have it, she was born and raised in my home town and from that day on we have been friends. Miss Norma had much to say in our interview and although her mind is pretty sharp she couldn’t remember everything pertaining to one…

of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River valley, so General John Burgoyne was given command of the British forces. Crossing Lake Champlain from Quebec was General John Burgoyne plan. His idea was to attack and capture Ticonderoga before proceeding to Albany, New York. He would meet with General Howe and his forces…

This was later known as the Albany Congress. The goal for this meeting was to unite colonies. The person who wanted colonial union was Benjamin Franklin. When he came up with an idea about the joining northern colonies, he introduced it to the Albany Congress. If agreed to this, unions would have the power to buy land from Indians, build forts, create an army, and control Indians. For this…

Despite such claims to republicanized monarchy in Great Britain, certain colonists and thinkers were not convinced. Englishman, and later colonial resident, Thomas Paine, for example, called into question the integrity of such claims in his pamphlet Common Sense. Written in 1776 and dispensed throughout the colonies, this seminal pamphlet attacked the absoluteness of the British monarchy. Unlike Wood’s interpretation of British monarchy—which is, granted, aided by hundreds of years of…

Growing up in Albany, GA, I saw poverty all around me. The poverty was most evident in the health care system. When I was a child, there were only 2 hospitals in Albany. As the years went by, healthcare providers slowly left town and one of the hospitals closed its doors. In middle school and college, I volunteered at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. These experiences proved invaluable when I had the opportunity to help in the NICU and work with sick children and families with financial need.…