Fictional characters from New York City

It is a well-known fact that those suffering from poverty are statistically disadvantaged. According to the Chicago Tribune, between January and October of 2017, Chicago had 560 homicides, about 95% of those being in Chicago’s less affluent southside and westside neighborhoods. The association between concentrated poverty and criminal activity is statistically strong and although there are many lurking variables, (like gun attainability and segregation) poverty has proven to serve as both an…

Ellis island was an immigration station that processed over 12 million immigrants from 1892-1954. Of the 12 million people that immigrated, about 2% were turned away because they were considered “unfit” to enter the country. In some peak years, 10 to 15 percent of those processed were forced to return home. Immigrants were rejected if they were weak in the mind, mentally or physically unstable, had a criminal record or had a disease. About half the current American population can trace their…

Renaissance is about a social and artistic outbreak that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement". Colored people would move to Harlem for a better life and more freedom. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and…

and he observes the impact that she has towards the crowd. After a while the speaker notices that the dancer is unhappy due to the lack of respect she is getting from the audience. He incorporates the themes such as sex, youth, and promiscuity to successfully create the effects of an audience’s prejudice on the Harlem dancer, who suffers from cruel misinterpretations. In the first line of the poem, the speaker of the poem characterizes the spectators in the bar as “Applauding youths” and adds…

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…

Carolina. Thurmond was the son of successful lawyer, John William Thurmond. Strom Thurmond graduated in 1923 from what is now called Clemson University with a degree on horticulture. Strom Thurmond ended up serving in the senate from South Carolina, running for presidency in 1948 receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Donald Trump was born June 14, 1948 in Queens, New York City, NY. Trump was born the son of prominent real estate developer Fred Trump. He attended and…

and struggle that Baldwin masterfully transfers to the pages of “The Rock Pile”. Therefore, there is an aggravated tension throughout the whole story. Baldwin creates this mood by focusing on frightening details, and using direct speech of the characters. First signs of tension already appear in the beginning of the story when nothing even dreadful happened yet. The narrator describes how all the boys in the neighborhood “were to be seen there (the rock pile) each afternoon after school… They…

The terrorist attacks of September 2001 shattered Americas illusion of safety from this type of attack. With a tiny number of people, just 19, terrorists were able to commandeer 4 jet planes and use them as missiles, destroying both buildings of the World Trade Towers, as well as striking the Pentagon. Although there were 2,146 confirmed deaths of the buildings occupants, the devastation could have been much worse. At full capacity, there would have been 25,000 people trying to exit the…

977 Americans, with another 6,000 wounded. The horrendous event highlighted significance of terrorism threats in America, while propelling the terrorist syndicate Al Qaeda to international stardom, eventually becoming the face of terrorism in the new millennium. Spanning the thirteen years subsequent to the attacks…

In the early 1900’s, were there legitimate ways to prevent fires like we do today? Albert Marrin’s non-fiction story, “Flesh And Blood So Cheap” uses both explicit and implicit evidence and examples in his excerpt to convey his theme that The Triangle Fire that took place in 1911 was caused by many unsafe practices and standards, which led to 146 deaths in the large fire. Fortunately, this fire prompted people to want to work for reforms to improve safety standards which we still use to this day…