City University of New York

Freshman orientations can be more than just an event – think about that you’re dropped in a completely new world with different faces and even different languages. And how many times you thought, “That’s just too much to take in a short time”? Orientation becomes more and more important when a campus is increasing the diversity of its student body. I have gathered some information of the problems exist with orientation week. I will also analyze these questions and give some workable solution to…

New Haven is a city in Connecticut, it’s a city that is notable because it has undergone a lot of changes. It does not offer images of a glamorous or lavish lifestyle other major US cities such as Las Vegas, Miami, Los Angeles, and it doesn’t offer the dream of someone coming into this city and having it change your whole life. However, it does offer the idea of an American Dream, the city is depicted as one where there are houses and having sophisticated and modern infrastructures. Its history…

Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City. The whole atmosphere was so new to me. I finally got of the crowded plane and grabbed my bags from the baggage claim and made my way outside. I saw plenty of people looking my way, and It made me oddly nervous, especially after what I heard about the city. I held my bags tight and continued moving. Soon enough I found myself on a taxi, driving to my new home for the next four years, Colgate University. I got a full scholarship here for…

Trade Center complex, were a massive investment to the United State that cost $400 Million and 7 years to build (from 1966 to 1973). They were located in West Street, New York city, NY, or New York City’s Financial…

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. When Eleanor was 8 years old, her mother died of diphtheria; her father died from a fall two years later. In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Together they had four sons and one daughter. When FDR was diagnosed with polio, Eleanor did a lot for him, because of this, she became more involved in politics and making an impact. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was noteworthy in history…

The Rockefeller Legacy Beatriz Elena Soto José María Vargas University  Abstract  The history of the Rockefeller family begins with the marriage of two opposing families. The marriage of Eliza Davison and called "Devil Bill" Rockefeller was a union between the faith of a young oil salesman sagas. From this union was born John D. Rockefeller who started the growth of the wealth of the family. John created a bad family reputation between their competitors of their competitors. His…

collection of the best of his writings for The New Yorker dating back to the 1940s. The four books include McSorely’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould’s Secret. The books are still renowned to this day for their precise and respectful observations and portraits of eccentrics on the outskirt of New York’s social scene. One of these characters was Joe Gould, a penniless and unemployable man who came to the city in 1916, and barely got by for thirty-five…

at his local school so his parents enrolled him at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania where he began to write stories under his covers at night. His writing continued as he got older and he began to submit several stories to the New Yorker paper which were all unfortunately rejected. In the Spring of 1942, during WWII several months after the United States had entered the war, Jerome had drafted into the war and was sent to fight in the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of great poetic, narrative, and artistic revolution and enlightenment in early twentieth century New York. One of the more influential and fantastic writers of that period was James Mercer Langston Hughes, commonly known just as Langston Hughes. Hughes was an extremely talented writer, for he published novels, poems, biographies, plays, television shows, operas, and proses. Despite his abundance of skills, poetry was arguably Hughes’s most precious forte.…

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…