Fictional characters from New York City

Heart disease also known as Cardiovascular ailment is a popular issue among immigrants of the Dominican population in New York City. There are several other health issues, which are in the family of Heart Disease such as Coronary Artery Disease, High Blood Pressure (Hypertension), Cardiac Arrest, Congestive Heart Failure, Arrhythmia, and Stroke, and there are lots of others but these are the most common. The most prevalent Dominican dish is usually eaten during breakfast and consist of “mangu,"…

I have gone in depth in studying my neighborhood from the beginning of the Children in New York Class and I can definitely say that I have learn a lot about my neighborhood that I didn’t have no knowledge about. The fact that Brownsville is known as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn and I have been living here for so many years and wasn’t aware of that. My perspective sure did change, due to the fact that there is such a high percentage of 23.4% of people living under the…

leaders such as Charles Parkhurst, a Protestant Reverend who urged for more “protest” from the Protestants. The Progressive Era united various anti-vice crusaders such as the Anti-Cigarette League, the American Purity Alliance, and the Anti-Saloon League. These groups were already united on many issues such as labor rights, women’s rights, minimum wage laws, etc. Thus, in 1900, a reform group known as the “New York Committee of Fifteen” conducted undercover vice investigations and released…

an end because I could feel the cold air hitting my face. We took the train and headed to the Lower East Side, which is known to be fairly close to China Town and Little Italy. The Lower East Side is southeastern of the city. The area has been known to be home to many immigrants from China, Russia, and Italy. The area has historically been known as a working class area, but has changed…

Three years ago Kent State redshirt sophomore Jimmy Hall was sitting inside of a jail cell in New York. Three years ago Hall’s basketball, and possibly his future, was over. Hall had been arrested and charged with burglary. That was the moment in Hall life when for the first time in his life when he realized that there were serious consequences for his mistakes. “We were just kids who weren’t doing the right thing,” Hall said of the situation. “We got caught up in something we weren’t…

Mike, God will always be by our side no matter what. Even when people say we can’t do certain things, God will always believe in us no matter what. Cronin, D. (2003) Dairy of a worm. New York City, NY: HarperCollins. AD360L (Preschool - 3rd) A worm recounts his everyday adventures in his diary. From his lessons from mom and his digging lessons with spiders. The worm goes through a few months of his diary when he experiences many different things and is taught many different lessons. This may…

switch before starting in the new school, I actually enjoyed the first day and it wasn’t until the next year that I realized the change turned out for the better. I didn’t think about the change much that summer. I passed the school multiple times since it was walking distance from my new home, but I didn’t pay any mind to it. At this point I just accepted the change; I was going to a new school and I couldn’t do anything about it. My mom took me to an orientation for new…

with a really big head for some reason. When I was born my Doctor asked my mom and dad if they had a name already but they didn’t have a name at all, so when I was born I didn’t have a name until the second day of my birth. Then my grandmother called from Puerto Rico and told my mom to name me “Jamie” so my mom named “Jamie” to make my grandmother happy. After a while my mom didn’t like the name anymore so she decided to change my name, while I was young, to “James Anthony Regester”. She felt…

different from where I am now. Georgia in a way shaped how I am today changing my attitude from not really putting in consideration to what others feel about trying not to offend people because I realized they have feelings too. So to understand how I am first you’re going to need to get a feel of where I used to be and where I came from. “The City that never sleeps” ”The Big Apple” ”The city where dreams happen” these are only some of…

Although Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City in the 1990s, is most frequently credited with starting that city’s application of the broken windows theory, his predecessor, David Dinkin, truly began its use. He hired 8,000 new officers, as well as a new police commissioner, and began the move towards broken windows and community policing (Business Insider). Additionally, while it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear.…