Fictional characters from New York City

designation that was introduced by John Bayer in 1603. There are 1564 stars have been identified with Bayer designation so far out of approx.10000 stars that are visible at the night-time to the naked eye. The Flamsteed stars are slightly different from the Bayer stars, the Flamsteed stars are named after the numbers and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in so the Flamsteed stars in Scorpius will be named like “a number+Scorpii”. This method of designating was appeared in John…

September 11, 2001, is remembered as the day chaos and grief swept across our country. A populous and peaceful city, once home to the two tallest buildings in the world was quickly transformed into a city of despair. Terrorist group, Al Qaeda, made previous headlines, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” a reality (Eichenwald). Two American Airlines planes were flown into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, one, unsuccessful, into a field. America was under attack. Over 3,000…

The television program I would like to see an adaptation of is New Girl, which airs on Fox. New Girl is an America situation comedy series that first aired in September of 2011, where Zooey Deschanel starts as Jess Day. Jess is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. She is dorky and awkward; and she is comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys. Of the three male…

Lorde implies that protecting and providing for them the best that one can should be a priority that is acted on, not just talked about. Speaking about putting them first and doing it are two very different things as are "...poetry and rhetoric...." (1030) Poetry is metrical composition in verse that uses figurative language, symbols, metaphors to help express aspects of internal and external realities in some meaningful way. The key is the meaningful way. Poets, as well as all artists, want…

pathway built on a portion of the former New York Central Railroad. It is located on the west side of Manhattan and extends for approximately a mile and a half long. The interesting part of the transformation of the rail line to a public walking path is that several New York citizens were the primary advocates for the drastic change. However, the arising question is why a park was chosen to replace the railroad. The transformation suggests that New York City citizens were conscious of the…

nature deficit in the past couple generations including the newest generation. I believe just because of our technological advances it’s almost easier to ignore the outside world. It’s easier to say hey, go watch t.v. you won’t by physically harmed from that. Except they are being harmed they have no experience with nature and its no coincidence that we are raising the most obese children to date and it has a lot to do with the amount of emphasis we put on essentially everything else but going…

hired the NYC Transit Police head William Bratton as his police commissioner to implement the policing strategy throughout the city. Mr. Bratton referred to George Kelling as his “Intellectual mentor” and obviously believed in his theory. Giuliani set out to prove that New York’s image of being “too big, too unruly, too diverse, too broke to manage was wrong and that the city was manageable”. Police were writing citations for small crimes such as vandals, graffiti, disorderly conduct and…

We Thin gin”. There are three young men left. Even after losing four of their members, they continue on this “cool” path. You would imagine that seeing your friends die from these things that seem “cool” you would want change your life, but they continue to play this game. The game of death. “We Sing sin”, they are proud of all the crimes they have committed. Possibly because, they have yet to get caught. Probably because…

Introduction David Halberstam was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. His works include countless newspaper and magazine articles, and more than twenty books on topics ranging from war and foreign policy to the auto industry and sports. Although he is best known for these nonfiction contributions, Halberstam started his book writing career with a novel. The times in which he wrote were wrought by controversy, and Halberstam’s writings fit the times. A…

to be considering a megacity, a city has to have over 10 million citizens in its metropolitan area (Bugliarello, 1999). Different reasons can be nominated as causes of cities become a megacity. People coming from rural areas trying to find a better condition of life maybe are the major reason of the population growth in most megacities. However, with a big agglomeration of people and a big city, the government has to not let the problems assume control of the city. Problems such as…