City College of New York

also developed a command on French language, after learning the language from his mother. However, in 1772, Hamilton received education from a grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He studied with Francis Barber at Elizabethtown in 1773. He then decided to attend King's College (now Columbia University), in New York City, getting a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in just one…

able to give back to my community. At times when I feel deterred, I draw upon my memory of the New York City Science and Engineering Fair where I won first place in the Geology category. This was the stepping stone that qualified me to enter the Intel International Science and Engineering fair. This memory renews my conviction that hard work and persistence enable goals to be achieved and brings forth new…

on October 27, 1858 in New York City (Kane 299). “Teedie” as his family often called him, was the second of four children (Gable 465). Teedie was frequently ill from infancy to his late teens because he struggled with asthma (Harbaugh 329). Although he was a very small child, had asthma and awful vision, nothing took away his energy and zest for life (Gable 465). Theodore grew up very privileged because his father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., was a very wealthy New York City banker (Whitney…

I live in the heart of Manhattan. I live one block away from Penn station, in between 34th and 35th street on 8th avenue. I live at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel. I am in a very populated area of New York City. It is not populated with lots of residence but with commuters and tourists. The building that I live at is the only place on my block that you can reside. You can tell that my street is very touristy and very convenient for commuters. The buildings that are on my streets are all…

of a liberal. He wants all his children to graduate from college and be set for a career. My mother on the other hand sometimes mentions marriage and life as a…

to a cycle of blacks being born, raised, and dying in the hood. During the middle of the twentieth century, the city of New York built many new communities to account for the many new immigrants that the US welcomed from all across the world. Many African Americans and Caribbean Americans flocked to the new community called “the Bronx” due to the cheap price of housing and hope for a new beginning. Little did they know, the Bronx was not a place meant for them to strive. Many blacks raised in…

March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey. He was the fifth of nine children, and his father was a Presbyterian minister. Because the church regularly transferred their ministers, the family moved many times, primarily around central and western New York. The death of his father in 1853 forced him to abandon school in order to support his family. He worked as a teacher in a school for the blind in New York City and then worked as a clerk in a law firm in Buffalo, New York. He began his own law firm…

playing dressup with my Polly Pockets turned into a hobby which quickly turned into college hunting. The college that has grabbed my attention the most is the Fashion Institute of Technology. The Fashion Institute of Technology is a college of art, business, design, mass communication and technology within the Fashion Industry. It is an urban campus located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. (MedLibrary.org) The cost of housing is reasonable, considering I will be living…

Three years ago Kent State redshirt sophomore Jimmy Hall was sitting inside of a jail cell in New York. Three years ago Hall’s basketball, and possibly his future, was over. Hall had been arrested and charged with burglary. That was the moment in Hall life when for the first time in his life when he realized that there were serious consequences for his mistakes. “We were just kids who weren’t doing the right thing,” Hall said of the situation. “We got caught up in something we weren’t…

I then returned to New York City where I decided to attend Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, The City University of New York’s first new community college in more than 40 years. I was apart of the inaugural class of 300 students, which with regards to race/ethnicity was composed of 25% of Black students and 55% of Hispanic students. As a student here, there was much emphasis on the importance of diversity and on building relationships within the community. Here at Guttman, I was…