Jersey City, New Jersey

and opens to a world of skyscrapers and billboards. The August heat hits you like a truck in an accident. One can remember the first time standing in New York City. The rainbow hues of flashing billboards and cameras shine into eyes as the excited screams of newcomers flood the ears making the city feel like home. The star- studded part of the city that draws everyone nearer, Times Square, is the first item in sight. It is hard to miss if one is just scanning the area. Bright lights of the…

hinges on is the development of characters, and relationships amongst them, within his movies. Like any great director, Scorsese pulls inspiration for his movies from his own life experience, and as an Italian-American growing up in 1940s and 50s New York, he has a great source of characters and environments to pull from. This essay will examine Martin Scorsese’s life and show how he uses his life to create great movies. The unique environment Scorsese was raised in led him to pursue a…

people feel curiosity about that site. These characteristics are related to different points of interest or topics such as, tourism, politics, economics, fashion, history, etc. in USA, for example, New York is the fashion city, Sandiego is home of dazzling beaches, Miami beach is the most popular Floridian city for tourism with an amazing weather year and Washington DC, the capital of USA, is center of politics, international affairs, culture and history. Now, than I am living in USA I want to…

commander of the early Roman Empire once said, “Home is where the heart is.” This statement still speaks true to most people today. Anyone who is in the real estate or homebuilding business knows that people do not buy houses; they buy homes. That is why new homebuilders spend thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars upgrading and decorating their model homes. One such homebuilder, perhaps, understands the business better than most others is NVR, Inc. NVR, Inc., a Virginia based…

My intentions for my paper is to tell a detailed account of the trip to America that Khrushchev took in the Summer of 1959. In this paper, I would like to detail all the way from the Kitchen Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev in moscow in spring of 1959, the trip to America, his time here, as well as the aftermath of the trip and the unraveling of those relations with the U2 incident. I have found multiple newspapers covering his trip, almost a day to day account of it via various newspapers…

Have you lived your whole life without seeing a single mouse or rat? Are you someone who feels that none of this concerns you? For anybody living in New York, these rodents are a major problem. Although they are believed to be only found in subway stations and sewers, you might find one sitting five feet away your couch, sharing your popcorn and excreting waste to show its thanks. Sounds disgusting and absurd? Well, that’s reality! Why did I choose to research this? I started to research this…

they have reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. The New York City Liberty Union website provides a total number of how many people were stopped from the year 2002 to 2016, while also providing a racial breakdown of how many of that total were blacks, whites, and Latinos. According to this website, in 2016 from January to September, there were a total of 10,171 New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked.Of the 10,171 people, 54 percent were black, 29…

“Miami isn’t too far; it is ninety-five miles away at the most…” Maya’s cherubic features made it hard to fabricate an excuse for wanting to stay in Cuba. I knew that staying here, staying in poverty, predisposed me to a life of misery and malnourishment. The journey would be perilous, which made me wonder if it was worth it. I longed to voice my dissent and convince her to condone the actions of the corrupt government, however I knew the time to liberate had come. My patience for living life…

For this project I chose to go with the New York Islanders as my company. The Islanders are a professional hockey team currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. There are 2 facets of the organization that are driving factors in its success. The first is hockey operations and the other is the business operations. Business operations handles everything not related to the construction and maintenance of the hockey team. This would include facility management, customer satisfaction and transportation. My…

Mark Bradford is very humorous and funny, almost comedian-like. Bradford takes posters from the ghetto, décollage & collages them, then sands them down. Some examples of posters he picks say, "Immigration in papers in thirty days" and "Indian Hair Weave". He uses repetition. In one of his projects he uses "perm end papers" because he used to work in his mother's hair salon and uses "musical fragments". In another map-like project he made up stories using his imagination about who lived at an…