Neighborhoods in the Bronx

My first official memory of New York would be taking place in the Bronx, summer of 2003. I was five years old sitting outside on the steps of our apartment building in the Grand Concourse, which is known as “The Project Village”. You could hear the Spanish music that blasted from the other apartment windows, and see the smaller kids like me getting ready to have relay races and actually enjoy the sun, and my favorite which was seeing the coquito man come up the hill with his truck. A coquito in…

Part I : Introduction Having watched The 13th in previous semesters, and watching it through the second time it is clear that since the release of this film in 2016, even now in 2020 there has been no improvement in racial disparities and discrimination within the United States. In addition to this Netflix documentary for our Law, Society, and Culture class, we have also read Goff’s, The Science of Justice and Spencer, K. B., Charbonneau, A. K., and Glaser, J. Implicit bias and policing. Social…

In my life I have been fortunate enough to have two parents that went to college, have well paying jobs and take education seriously. Naturally, I have been expected to try my best throughout grade school and after go to college to continue my education. If I had not grown up in a home where my parents ask where I am and who I am with and make sure I am okay, things might have turned out differently for me. “I [have] realized how difficult it is to separate the two. The expectations that others…

All members of society are incorporated or affiliated with some type of institution whether formal or informal in their lifetime that has the potential to influence them. Whether it be the educational institutions they experience in their young adult life or the family household they have grown up there whole life to, it is evident the amount of significance institutions have in influencing one’s beliefs and moralities throughout life. In Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”, the author explores a…

Power of Pollution Everybody knows that there are many different types of pollution, but what people don’t know is how it’s affecting their environment, and themselves. Researchers tend to focus on the types of pollution: air, environmental, sound, light and many more, but not on who and how it affects them. Not only does pollution affect animals and the environment, but it affects humans too. While limitations are put on how much pollution companies are allowed to emit out into the atmosphere,…

Many people may think that male rap artists will agree that “A Bitch Iz a Bitch”(Schneider 36) especially because of how male dominant the genre is and some soundtracks signifies this statement. Hip-hop does contain lyrics and images that are misogynistic and violent, however to generalize the whole genre unacceptable with aspects that many other genres share as well is not targeting the obscenity, but is targeting the genre as a way to silence an inferior culture. Censorship, the act of…

Black Women Don’t Draw Ormes’ artist ability started as a child. In Goldstein’s (2008) interview with Ormes’s sister Delores, she remembers Ormes drawing as a little girl and making carvings out of the soap. Even though Ormes’s high school did not offer art classes she drew cartoons for the yearbook and later became the art editor. Ormes did not receive formal training as an artist, except in the early 1940’s she took a few drawing classes when she moved to Chicago at the School of the Art…

Why there is a barriers to self management of diabetes among low household income adults aged 45 to 64 years in New York City? How low household income adults aged 45 to 64 years can be a barrier to self-management of diabetes in New York City? Why there is a relationship between low income households and diabetes among adults aged 45 to 64 in the New York City? According to the American Diabetic Association, diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.1…

Media influences through many types of communication systems and have a massive effect on people’s life, Americans probably just don’t know it yet. Caesar Barber a 56yr old man from the Bronx who sued, was the first broad-based action taken against the fast food industry for allegedly contributing to his obesity. The media through many types of advertisement promotes unhealthy foods, high in saturated fat, large amounts of fructose sugars, salt, as the ideal food options. Many may agree that it…

The disparities of this problem are often linked to the neighborhood in which a child resides. Unequal access to education is largely determined by the neighborhood with the opportunity to attend schools with certain performance levels being affected. The Schott Foundation for Public Education recently introduced a report that reveals the causes of unequal educational…