NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Awards Jay-Z for Outstanding Donations at The NY Repertory Theater Grand Opening. Mayor Bill de Blasio will co-host the opening day event and present an award to Brooklyn-native Jay-Z for his efforts in helping secure 25% of the cost through private fundraising. New york, NY - March 6, 2017 - The New York Repertory Theater (NYRT) will re-open its doors in Lower Manhattan on May 1st, 2017. The theater is celebrating 75 years of service and aims to open its doors to…
Group 700+. However, Group 65-77 does not fit the conference average. Figure 12 – Conference County Area Ethnic Breakdown Figure 12 shows the conference’s county ethnic breakdown. These figures contain only the counties that are in the New Jersey Annual…
American Voice American Voice is characterized by themes of Hard work, Equality, and also Freedom. The American Voice is characterized by the theme of Hard Work of the poor innocent people that try to bring their family forward. This is demonstrated in ‘’I Hear America Singing.’’ Everyone by race and gender work hard to keep their family maintained. In The Poem Lines 3-8 talk about the laborers and the women also working for their husbands and families. This Supports the claim because the…
Did you know that the representation of the American Dream was not always positive within songs in the Roaring Twenties, a time of success and culture advancement. Throughout the time of America the Declaration of Independence has been looked at being an essential document as it brought upon the term; The American Dream, the pursuit of happiness, success and contempt that was looked on everyone in America. The poems “America” by Claude McKay and “I too Sing America” by Langston Hughes relate…
Movie Critique Submitted to Dr. Ashley Newell Submitted by Anuradha Adhikari Submitted on October 19, 2015 Philadelphia is a high-profile Hollywood movie which took AIDS plague seriously and was able to create a wave. The dread-disease drama seems difficult to deal within a company and the disease tends to scare even white collars. Basically the movie describes the downfall of an outstanding corporate lawyer because of his disease. (Demme, 1993) Andy Beckett, a senior associate…
Condy Raguet (January 28, 1784 – March 22, 1842) was the first chargé d'affaires from the United States to Brazil and a noted politician and free trade advocate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of French descent, Raguet was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating he began studying law but had to give up his studies after the death of his father. He briefly worked as supercargo for a counting house, before going into business for himself. He later worked as manager or…
In 1870, Camille Poirier started a shoe and leather goods store in Duluth, Minnesota. His first pack, the #3 Duluth Pack, that was available only in olive drab, was patented by Poirer in 1882. He expanded the products offered, to include wagon covers, auto packs, and shell bags for hunters. In 1911, he moved his shop to a larger building. During the Great Depression, more repairs were performed than new packs produced, but in the 1940's when the economy prospered and recreation soared,…
back. Bon Jovi was born March 2, 1962, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. This full name was John Francis Bongiovi Jr. During his teen years he looked up to many musicians of his time. Some of those musicians were Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. People would know Bruce Springsteen from his song “Born in the USA”. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were a rock band formed in New Jersey. Musicians such as these inspired Bon Jovi to pursue a career in…
“Why leave New York City to live here?” That is the question that often follows when someone learns of my family’s decision to move from the capital of the world to settle down in the uneventful Dauphin, Pennsylvania. The justification I generally give involves a statement about New York’s high living expenses and is often accompanied by my convincingly forced laughter. Such conversations lead me to speculate about the vast amount of people who romanticize New York City because of how the media…
The New Yorker cover page of Dec. 8, 2014 implies society and government are divided through the figurative use of black and white, and the resulting split created through the Gateway Arch and government. The cover page depicts the Gateway Arch in St. Louis as half white, half black and broken in two halves. The Gateway Arch is a historical landmark that represents the entrance to the west for early pioneers during a time when government was revolutionary, and society was democratic. However,…