Neighborhoods in the Bronx

The book The Catcher In the Rye, and the movies Dead Poets Society and Finding Forester all demonstrate how teachers can fill the role of a father figure. The protagonists in general all have incomplete families, in other words they are all missing some part of their family. These families don’t lack love, they only lack the best way to express their love. In The Catcher in The Rye one Holden’s older brothers died, this then caused his mother to become very anxious and his father to become more…

Hop was born in Bronx, New York City. The style of music, hip hop has roots in other forms, and its evolution was shaped by many different artists and came to life precisely on this day. DJ Kool Herc had been using and refining his break-beat style for the better part of a year. However put him before his biggest crowd ever and with the most powerful sound system he’d ever worked. Hip-bounce music is for the most part considered to have been spearheaded in New York 's South Bronx in 1973 by…

Johnathan Koval brings many levels of interest, exposure, and perception that enlightens the reality for minorities within education. As usual, I have found the issues that surround ethics begin with the curriculum, student environments (home and school), health care, government patterns, and history. The participants that were including within the book are members of a school organization where each student has a right to learn to be better decision makers and become societal contributors…

because of my family and my socioeconomic background. Being a first generation college student, the journey to becoming a college student wasn’t easy. I was born in the Bronx, New York, and being in that area I was exposed to different things. I saw drug deals happen on my block, I saw drug addicts walking around the neighborhood, teenagers robbing other teenagers because of what they had on. Seeing things like this and knowing what my family went by coming to America for a better life, I knew I…

segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now, while thousands of other schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by the force of law have since been rapidly resegregating” (P1). In the poorest of neighborhoods, he reports school demographics where blacks and Hispanics make up more than 90% of the population. Any belief that facilities are consistent from school to school…

Pastor Sileshi Tesfaye praises God that 15 people were saved and one man healed at a conference hosted by Eagle Christian Worship Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pray for their upcoming outreach to those of Muslim faith and for an upcoming neighborhood English Bible study group. Northeastern District Pray for the junior and senior high camp taking place July 17–23 at Delta Lake Bible Camp. Spanish Eastern District Praise God for momentum and growth in several district churches. Pray for an…

AT JOE - The Life Story of Joseph Antonio Cartagena Fat Joe Introduction Joseph Antonio Cartagena, widely recognized as Fat Joe, is an American rapper and actor hailing from the Bronx, New York. He is alternatively referred to as Joey Crack and Fat Joe da Gangsta. He is a member of the music collectives Terror Squad and D.I.T.C. In addition to his career as a rap musician, he has achieved success as an entrepreneur and currently holds the position of executive chief at the entertainment firm,…

has become an international martyr, a symbol on the level of Bob Marley or Che Guevara, whose life has inspired Tupacistas on the streets of Brazil, memorial murals in the Bronx and Spain, and bandanna-wearing youth gangs in South Africa," (79). Tupac’s influential music has touched not only the people of the rough neighborhoods in America, but many people around the world, similar to the influence of Nirvana’s Kurt…

As someone who grew up in a city surrounded by the Andes mountains, the idea of visiting the city of New York became a dream to fulfill. From the beginning I was impressed by Manhattan’s skyscrapers and the view of the skyline from far away. Famous attractions like Times Square, Central Park, the Empire State Building, and the Brooklyn Bridge instantly became places that I wanted to visit one day. Two years ago I was finally able to visit New York City and I was not disappointed. Besides the key…

Callogero or "C" is an easily influenced teenager that had been shaped by his neighborhood in the Bronx. Like many of us, C was someone who went along with what his friends did. Whether he liked it or not, it was hard to be an individual when surrounded by those whose opinions are important to oneself. Like C, I did not want to go against my…