Bronx Community College

Insularity Among and Within Communities Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, written in 1987, depicts New York City in the 1980s as a combination of racism, corrupt politics, warring social classes, and crime. The novel follows the narrative of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street bond trader with his wife, Judy McCoy, and daughter, Campbell McCoy. Sherman’s life is dramatically altered after he him and his lover, Maria Ruskin, are involved in a hit-and-run case in the South Bronx after…

Flushing is the neighborhood located in northern part of Queens, New York. It is not a very diverse neighborhood. Flushing is a very residential and commercial area. For this paper I will be providing information based on my observations of neighborhood of flushing. I will be visiting one of the most occupied neighborhood in flushing, which is Main Street. I look forward to learn and explore this neighborhood through my two visits at different days of the week and at different times. According…

Gibsland – Coleman School Complex is the smallest school in Bienville Parish. Gibsland’s physical plant consists of two separate school buildings connected by a covered external walkway. The school is a complex school therefore, one side consist of K – 6th grade students and the other 7th – 12th grade students. The school has a typical one – story ranch style layout, with average classroom sizes not exceeding 900 sq. ft. The physical school building is over 30 years old and has only…

I will write about the hip-hop history, the streams of hip-hop, the existence of hip-hop culture. Hip-hop history is one of the new cultures that have found around 1970’s. Hip-hop was born in 1970’s and began in 1520 sedgwick Avenue street, west Bronx, New York city. This place is considered as the birthplace of hip-hop. In the early 1960’s and 1970’s there was a big segregation and discrimination between African American and white American, and most of African American people couldn’t use the…

presented, it is now plausible to apply such data to the organizational issues of other forms of businesses. The Bronx House Community Center (2016) is a non- profit organization that has served Bronx locals since its inception in 1911. This business, while small in comparison to Engstrom (employee-wise and fiscally), is made up of eleven separate programs through which the community is served. Some of these programs include universal pre-k, summer day camp, swimming and athletic classes, a…

B-boying is considered currently to be one of the mainstream dances of the Hip Hop genre. This intensely physical dance has a very interesting history and is a product of a subculture that was born on the streets of New York City during the early 1970s. Understanding the foundations and environment that created this dance is vital as well as its evolution into a modern dance form. B-boying and eventually B-girling can be divided into three main categories: old school, the freak and its…

depths of Jamaica’s political uprisings to its role in fostering togetherness in the south Bronx, hip-hop culture is a phoenix: born from the ashes of a dejected, scorned community which blossomed into a vibrant, rich culture. Political and social tensions, in conjunction with diverse artistic movements, influenced the culture and expression of hip-hop; a movement which began in the seven-mile world of the South Bronx and eventually became a global sensation. Hip-hop was formed long before it…

I have lived my life as a white, heterosexual, upper middle-class male. The community I grew up in, Ann Arbor, openly embraced these representative markers, and usually allowed me to remain in the majority. The situations in which I was in the majority, with respect to class, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., have far outnumbered the situations in which I was in the minority. To put it simply, I have almost always been welcomed. Yet this seemed to magnify my perceptions for when I was in…

In the novel Slam, Slam lived in the hood. Slam had been very talented at basketball but not so much at school. In the book the kids called the main character Slam. Slams real name is Greg Harris. In the movie Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace was a good kid. Jamal did great in school and both on the court. There are many differences and similarities in both the novel Slam and the movie Finding forrester. In the book Slam, Greg harris went to Carver school. Then, Slam had to move schools not…

Lil B AKA “The Based God” is a truly unique rapper that has taken his positive music around the world, with varied results. Brandon McCartney, know on stage as Lil B or The Based God, is a 25 year old Californian rapper. He began his career at the age of 16, rapping for the rap group The Pack. When talking about Lil B, the Based philosophy must first be explained. Being based, a sort of religion created by the rapper. Being based is simply being yourself, not caring about what other people…