City University of New York

a year full of violence, the turmoil in Chicago alone divided our country. The Chicago police attacked 6,000 anti war marchers, national leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, and New York City students had taken over several buildings at Columbia University, by the time of the Democratic National Convention there was a lot of political tension.(“Democratic National Convention….”) The Chicago Seven were the accused leaders of the riots during the 1968 Democratic…

On November 10 I attended Elf the Broadway Musical written by David Berrenbaum and directed by Sam Scalamoni. I attended Elf the Broadway Musical which was put on by Texas A&M University and MSC OPAS. Elf the Broadway Musical was a comedic musical that appealed to audience members of any ages including a range from myself a college student to the family of four sitting next to me. Elf the Broadway Musical was a delight surprise, since I had seen Elf (film) I expected the play to appeal more to a…

The Jazz age comprised of new music. called Jazz. New dance moves to incorporate with the new music. There was no racial barrier that was very distinctive in these venues. Everyone danced to the same style of the music. It was a time where people didn't really care about the economy, they didn't realize that the rich men ruled their cities. It was a time for growth, development, and understanding socioeconomic ambitions. But most importantly…

was publish on April 15. The Genre of this book is Young adult Fiction. Jenny Han was born on September 3.1980 in Richmond Virginia, before she gained popularity she attended the University of North Carolina before she had earned her Masters in Fine Arts at the New School. Fun fact about Jenny Han is that she is a New-York bestselling author for many of her books including ¨To all the boys I've loved before¨. this is not my first time reading a book by Jenny Han which was ¨the summer I turned…

Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller, the first robber baron of America and the Hero of America as well.. John D. Rockefeller born July 8, 1839 in Richford, New York and died May 23, 1937. (Rockefeller Biography) John D. Rockefeller a man believing in the Gospel of Wealth, helped the american people by making oil affordable to the masses and creating new ways to use the by-products of refining oil. Through the life of John D. Rockefeller, he influenced the United States especially with his…

Arthur Miller was born in New York City on October 17, 1915. Miller began his work as a play writer in the early stages of his life. Miller won multiples prizes for his outstanding work. He produced his first success, All My Sons, in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, Miller wrote Death of a Salesman, which won the Pulitzer Prize and transformed Miller into a national sensation. While he studied as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, he began research on the witch trials which led to…

Mitchell Duneier’s Sidewalk studies the New York City streets to investigate how this colossal urban area functions through the viewpoint of its infamous street vendors. This street vending, while a familiar concept, is also ill-reputed and actually considered an informal economy. Duneier examines the ways in which these vendors make a living in street conditions and attempts to identify how they ended up on the streets to begin with. Sidewalks sheds light on the life of these street vendors…

The Attacks on September 11, 2001 On the morning of September 11, 2001 a series of terrorist attacks occurred in the United States and Washington, D.C. The purpose was to weaken the United States’ economy by hurting it’s most important centers of income and power. The plan of the terrorists were to hit Wall Street, the Pentagon, and the White House. In the end, the planes attacking the Pentagon and Wall Street were successful for the attackers, but devastating for America. The total number…

“Whatever the number, they had no chance of escape” (Argersinger, 73), as only a few remembered the fire escape that was inadequate anyways as it only consisted of “a lone ladder running down to a rear narrow court, which was smoke filled as the fire raged one narrow door giving access to the ladder.” (Argersinger, 73). Given those conditions, the few workers that could have remembered about the fire escape would probably still have died in the incident. Another fact to be taken into…

Pearl Harbour “a day that will live in infamy” and it propelled the United States into World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a very accomplished man who lived an interesting life despite his obstacles. Franklin was born in 1882 in the city of Hyde Park, New York. Franklin had an older half brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt who later in life became a United States Diplomat, but who did…