Jersey City, New Jersey

Chronological/Timeline: Desi Arnaz (Alfredo) I am sitting down with a drums by me and when somebody touch me, I play the drums then I say, “BABALOO”, then I stand up and start to tell my history. I am Desi Arnaz. On March 2nd, 1917, I was born, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. My parents were Dolores de Acha y Desiderio Alberto Arnaz ll. On June 1st, 1934, my family moved to Miami, Florida, after being forced out of our home due to the Cuban Revolution. I was seventeen years old when I became a…

no exit signs and the fire escape was very narrow so it would have taking all the worker a very long time to get down The book Triangle The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle talks about a shirtwaist factory fire that happened in 1911 in New York. Several workers died during the fire, most of the people were Jewish immigrants and…

revolutionary war. While Samuel was on the trail trying to find his parents he found and eight year old girl that her parents were killed back at the attack. Samuel and the girl pushed to go to New York City, because that's where Samuel thought his parents were being held as prisoner of war. On the way to New York…

in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older settlers and change in landscape. Many urban cities like Chicago, Michigan and Boston have experienced gentrification, however, it is affecting the Harlem residents more profoundly, uprooting the people who have been living there for decades, thus destroying…

Street-Eats With roughly 23,000 residents, the 12 block deep and five block wide neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights is considered to be one of the most convenient commuting neighborhoods outside of Manhattan. This is due to the fact that the neighborhood is located directly across from the East River of lower Manhattan. It was one of the first neighborhoods outside of Manhattan to be developed and settled. Originally referred to as Brooklyn Village, Brooklyn Heights has been a prominent and…

Over the previous decades, New York City was able to reform itself into the one of the most populated areas in the United States today. This city is known to embrace diversity for our population, which attracts the attention of immigrants who desired new opportunities and fortunes. Since the passing of the Immigration and Nationality Amendments of 1965, New York City experienced a wave of immigrants. New York City is currently the home to millions of people who came from different countries…

changes in American cities during Urbanization, such as the spoils system, political machines, and robber barons, the majority of these changes were beneficial towards the evolution of today’s society, which is demonstrated by technological advances like Carnegie Steel and Edison’s light bulb, revolutionizing sanitary reforms sparked from books such as Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives, and Carnegie and Rockefeller 's rise of industry. During Urbanization, politicians developed new methods…

urbanization. Trades were becoming mechanized as times were changing, and so more men and women were working long hours for little pay in factories or mills. Along with industrialization came many immigrants who began to crowd industrial cities. Overcrowded and unsanitary cities resulted from immigrants who wanted to have industrial jobs and be prosperous. The influx of immigrants…

alleys, and anything else you could imagine around here. We were in need of an adventure so we decided to take one. Our plan was to each pick a city to visit and we would visit each of these two cities for two days each. I picked Paris, France because I took French for five years and we studied the city a lot and I have always wanted to visit. He chose New York City because we have both really wanted to visit there for a long time. I am very excited for this trip. We have both finished packing…

Favorite Cheese Quote My favorite cheese quote is “The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.” I like this quote because it hits so close to home with me especially in relationships. I have been in a couple very serious relationships including an engagement that ended very badly and I was heartbroken. I have always carried this hurt from those relationships into my new relationships and it has been a barrier in all of my relationships and in a few cases it has…