Neighborhoods in the Bronx

begins as an alternative to violence but many believe it has a negative effect on the behavior children. Rap music is an underground phenomenon of the 1980s by black people. It is speculated that rap music originates in the humble community of Bronx, New York, U.S.A. (Maultsby 10). Today, it is still argued about whether rap came from hip-hop culture or vice-versa due to the fact that they both started at the same time (Horton 285-286). The history of rap music is a sad one. In the…

living in the days of police sanctioned genocide. Let’s discuss just a few of the cases listed the highlight what is essentially legalized murder of blacks. On February 4, 1999 Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times and killed by four police officers in Bronx, NY. Diallo was not carrying a weapon or posing a threat to the police when stopped. He in fact, was taking his wallet out of his back pocket (which is where men tend to carry their…

Cell phones in school, one of the most wrongfully perceived distractions in school. Josh Higgins of USA Today once said, “Cell phones cannot prevent the shootings, but they can allow people to get help sooner. A regular phone may not be nearby.” (Higgins) These words relate to all of the recent shootings around the United States in schools. Without cell phones in school, someone may not have been able to call the police during the Columbine shooting. What if there was not a regular wall phone…

Foster parent, Dawn O’Neil, stated that the reason she requested this review is because she prefers foster children Ciary Dueno, Libasse Dueno, and Nicholas Dueno returned to her care. Ms. O’Neil expressed that she has been a foster parent for Leake and Watts Services for approximately six years. Ms. O’Neil voiced that she never had an incident or accident involving a foster child requiring immediate medical assistance. Ms. O’Neil uttered that she loved all the foster children she cared for and…

action lawsuit against the City of New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and unnamed and named New York City Police Officers. Floyd an African American man that stated that on February 27, 2008 he was walking home in the Bronx when he dumped into another resident who reside in the basement of his Godmother building. The man told Floyd that he was locked out of his apartment, Floyd went upstairs and got seven to ten keys because he wasn’t sure which one of those…

not receive any athletic scholarships for college which would’ve helped with the cost of tuition. Everything was going well for him until after the first month of college his financial aid was not processed. He had to leave Utica and return to the Bronx. He worked for the time while he was home then tried again for the Fall Semester in 2014. For the second time, he returned to Utica but still could not complete the semester due to issues with financial aid. This came to show how financial aid…

income, but the difference here was that they had a program called “KIPP” (Knowledge Is Power Program) that did well to teach the kids English and math subjects. The middle school that funded the program was in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York in South Bronx. Even though it was one of the most indigent schools around, it's one of the most intelligent ones as well. The program was about providing the time for your education by adding more school days and longer hours in your learning…

born to Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (1905–1999) and Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod, 1912–2000).[13] His siblings are Maryanne (born 1937), Fred Jr. (1938–1981), Elizabeth (born 1942), and Robert (born 1948). Trump grew up in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, New York. He attended the Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade. At age 13, Trump's parents enrolled him in the New York Military Academy, after discovering Donald made frequent trips into Manhattan without…

Global data shows that yearly that chronic disease are claiming more lives. Nowadays approximately half of the American adult suffer from one or more chronic disease. What makes this data so shocking is the fact that chronic diseases are the most preventable and yet it is the leading cause of death in the United States. Chronic diseases may cause limitations of activities, health, work and overall function of a person’s life and thus affect their family life as well. Obesity is amongst the…

In her memoir, Sonia Sotomayor expresses the emotional and commemorate events from her childhood through adult life that helped her become the persevered and intelligent woman she is today. At the age of eight, she was diagnosed with type one diabetes, which implicated that she had to learn over her childhood how to apply her insulin shots on her own. The parents were always arguing because the father was an unreliable alcoholic, and the mother a nurse who worked long hours. To avoid conflict…