Greenwich Village

In the introduction, the discussion of a riot was brought forth. The term riot comes from the Stonewall riots, “[the] New York Stonewall riots which began on the night of 27 June 1969 when police raided a gay bar, called the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC, USA” (Johnson 2005). These riots went on for days and were the beginning of the gay liberation movement. Now, as Allen reflects, the time of Pride month is when…

DJ Cannonball’s weighty statement gets at the specificity of place and the spatial capital that came with having an apartment large enough to host South Shore house parties. It is possible that Black gay males were in search of apartments in South Shore because they offered the space needed for their parities as well as a closeness to and connection within the emerging community. This was a spatial network connected to racial, sexual, and class identity that offered the sort of…

-The story begins on a December Sunday after classes at Pencey Prep school in Argerstown, Pennsylvania -Holden gets the “ax” for failing all of his classes except for English. (He has already failed out of three other schools) -Holden is told that he is being expelled, but he 's not scheduled to return home to Manhattan until Wednesday, so he goes and visits his former history teacher who tries to give him academic advice. -Holden later returns to his dormitory where he becomes annoyed by…

Why is police brutality more prevalent nowadays? Accusations of the use of excessive force by the United States police department continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which brought the issue to mass public attention and urged some Law enforcement reforms. According to the article written by John Wihbey and Leighton Walter Kille, excessive-force complaints against law enforcement officers, internally generated, have more than doubled from 2003…

Langston Hughes: A Harlem Man A quote by Langston Hughes says – “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. (Hughes (1926))” As one of the most persistent figures, poets, during the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes’ work reached a wide range of viewers. He wanted to “express contemporary Harlem by borrowing from the ‘current of Afro-American popular music . . . jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, boogie-woogie, and be-bop.’…

Summary: In 1992, Duneier delved into an ethnographic study of the streets of Greenwich Village, centering on the men and women who live, and work there. Duneier yearned to develop insight on “how their world works and how they see it” (p. 10) and how “these persons live in a moral order” (p. 9). Thus, over seven years he dedicated his time and efforts to directly participating alongside the men and women, all the while meticulously observing, questioning and excavating information and…

In the epilogue of Michael Bronksi’s A Queer History of the United States (2011), Bonski asserts that the recent battle for marriage equality may in fact undermine the LGBT movement’s original intention to “fight to eliminate or limit the state’s involvement in consensual relationships” by insisting that it forces queer people take on the classic American lie: we are “just like you” (pp. 240, 241). Implicit in this claim is the belief that most queer people are not interested in establishing…

poverty, developing a troubled relationship with his stepfather. Baldwin knew that if he left the pulpit he must also leave home, so at 18 he took a job working for the New Jersey railroad. After working at the railroad for a while James moved to Greenwich…

The last leaf is a short story written by O.Henry in 1907 and it was translated in Hindi as Aakhiri Patta by children’s fiction writer Arvind Gupta.The story is about two young artists Joanna and Sue who live together in Greenwich Village, New York City. Joanna was down with Pneumonia and in those days there was no cure for pneumonia and so while lying on her bed she used to stare at a tree which lost most of its leaves and made her mind that the day the last leaf falls, she will die.Meanwhile,…

He didn’t live a long life but he did become famous real quick, especially in London where he first got discovered. He first was a guitar player for a band called blue flames and played at Greenwich Village Coffeehouse, which was located in New York, but they only wanted him to play covers of other famous musicians, yet everyone was amazed of his unique guitar playing skills, (www.biography.com, 2016). Soon he was…