Neighborhoods in the Bronx

On the 28 of March, my friend/classmate Orela Anani and I went to go see UNIVERSES' The Party People Salon performance. I was excited to see this show since it would be the first time I saw a performance in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as a University of Maryland student. When I first walked into the venue, Kogod Theater, I was shocked it was not what I expected (which was a large auditorium performance hall) it was a small dark room. I thought there was no way a performance could…

In the 1960s Civil rights workers fought extremely hard for Equal rights. A lot of the rights today that blacks, women, gays, and other minorities have are due to this movement. They knew what they deserved and were determined to accomplish it for the future generations. In the 1960s things like voting or even blacks being in the same classroom as whites was unheard of. But thanks to people like Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcom X all people have the same rights. In fact, many don’t even put…

Many people know what obesity is, however not many know what it entails. Obesity is often judged by the public based on how much space an individual occupies or how much fat they have on their body. People see an obese individual as someone with no self-control who will not stop eating. Unfortunately, not many people see what goes on in the background. Prose’s examination of Gluttony is much like Dolnick’s discussion of the “obesity-hunger paradox in which they both argue that the people at…

able to learn about mob life, but also tenement life, and a little bit of pop culture. Through listening to Billy’s stories we can learn a lot about life during the 1930’s in New York. To begin the interview, I decided to get a better idea of the Bronx, the area in which Billy grew up in. Through his response I learned many things. During the Depression times were rough. There wasn’t much for teenage boys to do, so…

Cities, like the Bronx, Harlem, Detroit and others went through a period of decline in the post war era that left many African Americans abandoned in cities. An underclass was created that left blacks without a voice until hip hop and rap created opportunities to express…

A Struggle of Success: A Mother Trying to Better Her and Her Kid’s Lives Coco lived in Morris Heights and was seen as “an ebullient with a taste for excitement. Coco saw family as more important, she was generous throughout, and always wanted to please. Coco wasn’t much of a church girl and she wasn’t much of a schoolgirl either but she wasn’t raised by the street.” (LeBlanc 27). Coco’s mother was Foxy, and her step-father Richie, an older sister Iris, and an older brother Manuel. Foxy worked…

prejudice. I say this because; I have seen police brutality towards whites as well. Although racism is a big issue, in today’s society you are judged by were you come from, were you live, the way you dress, and the way you talk. An example is a story from Bronx, New York. A nineteen year old college student named Christian was accused of stealing because of his skin color. Back in October of 2013 Christian walked into Barneys to purchase an item, but wasn’t able to leave, because the item was…

Along with four other sources, the lead source seems to point toward New York. To be more specific, it takes you to the Brooklyn and Bronx area of New York. In his award winning book “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of Hip-Hop Generation” journalist Jeff Chang locates the foundations off Hip-hop in these areas. It is also in this same area where Chang finds Clive Campbell, also known…

whole culture that influenced our parents ' and inevitably, our, lives. Rap music shaped America and its people into what it is now and vice versa. So shouldn 't we know more about how it got started? 1978, New York City- The Bronx, a small poverty stricken neighborhood, is where it all began.…

The story that this author presents how two boys with same names, same ages, multiples similarities that can have the same opportunity in life move in different paths. The story is been develop in Baltimore and describes on different perspective, the life of those two young which one is an excellent professional and the other is now serving time for life. The writer was a prominent college student who receives multiples award, ready to move to England to attend Oxford Hopkins University on a…