Jersey City, New Jersey

Introduction Painting nails are very popular everywhere in the last few decades. There are many professional manicurists. In the New York City, numerous nail salons which are run by foreigners exist, especially Asian are managing including immigrants. There are two articles about the reality of the nail salons in New York City and these article show that many issues that a government or society are supposed to make strategies for improvements. Summary Sarah, M.N. (2015) states that there are…

economies with trading hubs in cities like Chicago. This transformation from rural to urban sparked the Great Migration, a mass movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized cities in the North. This influx of African American communities challenged the existing racial constructs in the metropolis and gave rise to new socially constructed identities and means of self-expression. Davarian L. Baldwin examines these identities and expressions in Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity,…

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been fond of traveling. I would always get excited to walk into the Oakland Airport and carry my little suitcase around with me. Back then, it was the biggest dream of mine to become an international flight attendant, allowing me to explore different places around the globe. My mom was working as a flight attendant even before I was born and the very first time I flew on a plane was when I was still her womb! When my two other siblings were born, my mom…

Different perception toward America The United States of America is attractive to people from different parts of the world who moved out of their country and start their new life in America. People come to America for many reasons such as the “American Dream”. Nevertheless, to begin a new life journey in a new country it is not easy to accomplish especially for immigrants who must overcome many difficulties in order to succeed in America. The poem “America” written by Claude McKay, expresses his…

In the novel Jazz, by Toni Morrison, there are several instances of bird motifs. They are an African American couple who moved from the rural South to “the City”. Jazz was written during the harlem renaissance which was the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that occurred in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. This was the period of time when artist of miscellaneous types were displayed. It was an explosion of creativity that put a magnifying glass on what…

outside of a man’s window. Hitchcock had to create a set that immersed an audience as the poster had to create a world that drew an audience in. Hitchcock and his cinematographer Robert Burks created an entire courtyard resembling those found in New York City with realistic apartments where the plot of the movie could take place. Despite the daunting technical aspects of shooting on the massive set that they had created, Hitchcock and Burks were able to construct a cinematic masterpiece told…

By 1890, San Antonio, Texas, was a thriving trade center with a population of 38,000. In 1891 a group of citizens decided to honor the heroes of the Alamo and Battle of San Jacinto with a Battle of Flowers.The first parade had horse-drawn carriages, bicycles decorated with fresh flowers and floats carrying children dressed as flowers. The Belknap Rifles represented the military. The participants pelted each other with blossoms.The Battle of Flowers Parade is the only one in the country to be…

org/aah/brown-dorothy-lavinia-1919-2004) Brown was born on January 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a couple of weeks after her birth, her mother and Brown moved to upstate New York. Once she turned five-months-old she was placed in adoption at Troy Orphan Asylum (soon was renamed Vanderhyden Hall) in Troy, New York. This orphanage is where Brown's thought of her career took place. When Brown had her tonsillectomy at five, she had an immediate interest in medicine. She was never…

New York City, one of the biggest cities filled with the richest and even poorest neighborhoods in the United States. In Alex Gibney’s documentary, Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream outlines the story about residents of New York's 740 Park Avenue. Park Avenue runs from Manhattan, home of the highest concentration of billionaires through the South Bronx, which is the poorest district in the U.S. The exigence in this film is that the wage gap between the rich and the poor in…

Introduction: Frost/Nixon is a drama/history film made in 2008 starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella. directed by Ron Howard, The film Frost/Nixon runs for 2 hours and 2 minutes and is made by the production company Universal Pictures. Frost/Nixon is rated 7.7/10 on Imdb and 92% on rotten tomatoes. Frost/Nixon is a real life story based on David Frost’s on air interview with the infamous 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon. This film focus on four aspects of Nixon’s life with…