Neighborhoods in the Bronx

The author Wes had to leave his home in Maryland to the rapidly changing Bronx that would later be infested with drug abuse and distribution (38). After becoming settled there he began to change; his grades plummeted and he began to get into trouble more frequently. Leading him to be sent to military school and after being removed from the Bronx progressed for the better (85). Due to him being removed he learned about discipline, respect, and himself than he…

nurse? NEVER! " I'm sure you’re probably wondering why people would ask me expressly about a nursing career; the thing is, I come from a very long line of nurses. If you've ever been to Lincoln Hospital, Montifiore Medical Center, or North Central Bronx Hospital and heard someone say "Nurse Bramble!" I am definitely related to the person they are…

Public administrators tend to rouse attention only when complaints flare over their competence or their fees or their tendency to oversee dens of political patronage. Or when they run afoul of the law. Last year, a former longtime counsel to the Bronx County public administrator pleaded guilty to grand larceny, while a bookkeeper for the Kings County public administrator was sentenced to a prison term for stealing from the dead. Recent audits by the city’s comptroller found disturbing…

The book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is a nonfiction history of two young men with the same name. Both of them lived in the United States, in the same town, and in the same neighborhood, but one of them made poor decisions, and they ended up in drastically different circumstances. Both young men were born in Baltimore, Maryland, with just a year of difference. There were a lot of alcoholics, drug dealers, and low social class people in Baltimore during the mid-1970s. At the end of the book…

New York City has a culture that many cannot resist. Whether the city’s used in entertainment and the media, or just talked about, many people are fascinated with the New York lifestyle, culture and diversity. In a poem for The New York, Terrance Hayes shows the diversity on a single roof-top bar in Chinatown. He writes about the different types of people around him and the possibilities. His emphasize on this idea is clear when he writes “On a Chinatown rooftop in New York anything can happen”…

Hip hop is a subcultural movement that originated in the early 1970’s by groups of young African-American, Latino, and Caribbean teenagers living in South Bronx, New York City. Though it made its way towards the western coast of the United States of America, Hip hop did not gain popularity until the 1980’s. It can be divided into four sub-groups. Each of these groups represent hip hop in a unique way. In terms of orality, hip hop heavily relies on rap music, which involves speech, writing, and…

Conservative propaganda, which is inextricably tied to Christianity in the U.S., tells us that poor people have failed on a personal level. To be poor is to have failed to have made the best of the opportunities provided by God in this great land and that failing is nothing short of immoral. In this view, the world is a dangerous place filled with evil temptations. Salvation is a narrow path that the poor have failed to follow. Poor people are immoral in the eyes of conservatives and thus, they…

Intro Our judicial system has developed to the point where law is seen as black and white. What the judicial system fails to acknowledge is that there are some gray areas. In the article, “Colleges of Crime”, written by Brad Edmondson, an award winning writer, he speaks of a young girl whose whole life changed drastically in a blink of an eye. Angela Thompson was 17. Plans for her future. No previous criminal record. Stressed about paying for school, she was convinced to sell drugs. Caught and…

babies were thrown out of apartment building windows, instantly dying from the impact of reaching ground level. Early August, new born Rizwan Ahmad was found on the ground in a pool of blood (Baker & Rojas, 2015). Tenisha Fearon, a resident of the Bronx threw her 6-month old daughter from her 6th floor window early October (Palmer & Santora, 2015). However, the most troubling side of the story is that these two babies are believed to have been murdered by their mothers. Filicide is the…

Randol Contreras is an ethnography of mid to late 1990’s drug robbers in the Bronx, New York. Contreras studies a group of Dominican men who participate in violent robberies where they steal money and drugs from drug dealers and split the profits amongst themselves and their informants. He offers background into the lives of the main participants and tries to demonstrate to the reader how the people involved went from neighborhood kids, to drug dealers and eventually became drug robbers. The…