City University of New York

Every summer of my life I return to the Stonington community for several weeks where I reestablish previous relationships and erect new relationships within the community. Stonington is a small lobster-fishing community off the coast of Maine located on Little Deer Isle. With a population of just over 1,000 Stonington is unique from my home town where twice as many people attend my high school. Despite the differences in lifestyles, making friends in Stonington was much easier than making…

When dealing with change and progress in the early portion of the twentieth century in America, one organization and one event come to mind. In 1911, the Triangle Waist Company building caught fire and several of workers in the building didn’t make it out alive. The majority of the workers were young females who worked long hours for little pay and ruthless conditions. Those who had the ability to fight for the women and victims did, pursuing ideas such as unions, for workers’ rights. The owners…

national spotlight. December 18, 2017: In Dupont, Washington, an Amtrak train was derailed, with multiple cars spilling onto a freeway and some train cars even dangling from a bridge. The train was traveling from Seattle to Portland on a route that was new for one of the first times. Three people were killed in the incident, and almost 100 people were injured and sent to hospitals. Soon after the incident, it was revealed that the train was traveling around 80 m.p.h., almost 50 m.p.h over the…

Watching a TNT broadcast, the most likely entertainment would be an NBA basketball game against some of the best teams in league. One only notices the athletes playing and not the sideline reporter until the commercials end and Craig Sager proclaims his voice in one of his many flamboyant suits. Craig Sager was a sideline reporter for all major sports for 26 years. Craig had one of the best resumes in the broadcasting business. He was at all the major events in sports history. When Hank Aaron…

lives. That is merely more than two-thirds of the passengers that died on that ship accident. The ages of the victims that lost their lives that morning, ranged from the tender age of 19 months to 75 years old. Now to anyone that would hear this news would be so shocked and confused because the Titanic was the unsinkable ship, well…

James Stanley Brakhage, well known Stan Brakhage, was an American non-account movie producer. He is thought to be a standout amongst the most imperative figures in twentieth century trial film. He quickly went to Dartmouth College then left for San Francisco, where he enlisted at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). “A mid-profession increase by a relatives’ film producer, focused on Brakhage's conception or initiation of moving visual considering:" his…

About a five minute walk away from the multiple street performers and artists, crowded streets and bright lights from the multiple screens of New York City’s Times Square, there was another show with bright lights, crowded seats, and outstanding performers. This show was the Broadway Musical, The Lion King, performed in the Minskoff Theatre. Around three years after the Disney animated movie was released, the Lion King was performed for the first time at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis,…

subway. All of these things created jobs for many people in the city, but there was more opportunity than just this. There was also a Ford manufacturing plant in the city. Ford manufacturing plants were a great place to work, because they offered five dollars per day, which was unheard of at that time. A person could also be working for public transportation services. However, transportation was not the only booming industry in the city; manufacturing could apply to many…

Five Nights at Freddy’s There I stood, in front of the golden sign for the famous restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, ready for my first official shift as there new security guard. The hours would be midnight until six in the morning, easy money to just sit there in an office and watch the cameras. I had just gotten my security licenses and heard from a buddy of mine that they were looking for people to work the graveyard shift over at Freddy’s. Supposedly, something had happened with the…

I disliked almost everything about it but what I did not know at the time is that by my senior year I would eventually love this school as I molded it into a place that I wanted to be at. During the end of my freshmen year, I found myself with a new view of how I was going to cultivate at Springfield Township High School. After meeting a valuable presence that will have forever leave an imprint on me, I decided that I needed to get involved with school to become apart of it. From that moment,…