City University of New York

Gentrification is when the high and middle class population come into a poor neighborhoods and reclaim them. During this process an abundance of homes are rebuilt and the poorer class are being replace. Gentrification has extremely negative effects on inner city communities that are generally populated by African Americans. These communities suffer from the effects of gentrification for years by losing their homes and businesses to a higher class of people. Many areas that have and are being…

flooded urban areas like New York City. The “native” Americans skeptics of immigrants resulted in the assimilation of many immigrants because of the threat they caused. The out-casting of immigrants in large cities by the “native” Americans led to the formation of immigrant neighborhoods in order to have a sense of community. The condensed outdated apartment buildings in the neighborhoods had multiple families living one floor. Immigrants believed that they would flourish in the new land of…

The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African American literary, musical, and artistic culture that took place between the 1920s and mid-1930s. It was a time of intellectual and social growth for the black community. During this period, Harlem was a cultural hub attracting black artists, musicians, poets, and writers. Among those artists whose works attained recognition was Langston Hughes. His fierce ethnic pride would influence numerous foreign black writers like Jacques Roumain, Nicolás…

the people who designed it. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February 20, 1901. His family emigrated to the United States when Kahn was a child; he later studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and opened his own firm in 1935. His major works include the Yale University Art Gallery, the Kimbell Art Museum…

It’s really helpful to me because my questions are answered about cases and my feedback is also taking into consideration. Just the other day, these professionals were showing me an example of a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) card. I appreciate the new materials I learn every day. I am at the moment of my life where I am truly happy with everything and I couldn’t be more…

Theodore Alvin Holtzburg was born October 20th 1925 in Far Rockaway located in New York. He was born into a devout jewish family, after a small while the family moved to Washington Heights in upper Manhattan for reasons unknown. He was quite the smart boy and graduated from high school when he was just fourteen. As Theodore was growing up he was affected by the Fascism in Europe and like many others that were Jewish were sympathetic to the socialist party. While still a boy he and his brother…

The New York Times dialect map pinned me, based on my use of language, as a New York City, Paterson, or Yonkers native. I find that extremely interesting because it is true – I spent the last eighteen years of my life in a New Jersey suburb an hour outside of the Big Apple. How did the Times know? Is it because I am familiar with the term “mischief night?” Is it because I call my Nikes “sneakers?” Whatever the reason, dialects, while understood by those who are familiar, can be lost in…

A Party down at the Square is a story of a young boy who witness a lynching. The young boy is staying over at a family member house. When a group of man came and told our narrator uncle that there was going to be a party down in the square. Our narrator was told by his uncle to come. Like most people I thought that it was an actually party. We learn that when the narrator should up there was no music and people where angry. During all this they had a storm going on outside. That cause an…

it was enough for the researchers to maintain more control in the study. The participants were children (ages 7-11) and adolescents (ages 12-16) who were diagnosed with MDD at least 5 weeks prior this study in the NYS Psychiatric Institute in New York City. Before the study began, the researcher made sure the participants were not receiving any medications or therapy after being diagnosed to prevent any alterations in the results. Participants were going to receive $500 at the end of the study…

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…