Neighborhoods in the Bronx

Introduction Today, urban centers around the world are driving forces for the vast majority of the global economy. With the opportunities these large urban areas offer, more and more people are moving into densely populated areas. In 2014, the United Nation’s reported that around 54% of the global population live in an urban area. In America, the urban population is over 80% of the total population, and is growing at the rate of 1% per year, which equates to over 3 million new urban Americans…

Hip Hop can be defined as a culture containing the following elements: Bboying/Bgirling, Tagging, DJing, MCing, and Knowledge. Hip Hop also has an influence in other areas such as media and fashion. Hip Hop is not to be confused with rapping, because rapping is a subset of the overall umbrella that is Hip Hop. In today’s society, many people fail to realize that in order to be a true Hip Hop artist they must incorporate more than one element into their career. Bboying/Bgirling, people often…

Discussion Think about the second chances given to both Wes Moores. Why did the author become a Rhodes Scholar while the other Wes Moore has a life sentence in prison? A person could have all the chances in the world to make their life better; however, those chances will always go to waste if they don’t do anything to change their behavior. The novel, The Other Wes Moore, is about two boys with the same name and same beginning, but very different outcomes. While both lived in poverty-ridden…

New York New York is one of the most popular cities in the world, attracting approximately 50 million tourists from all over the globe. This city is densely populated, so big that you will not explore the majority of it in your lifetime. The population is over 8.2 million residents, and about 30% of them are foreign-born enjoying a hustle-and-bustle cosmopolitan lifestyle rich in diversity. This city has a rich history, both politically and socially. It has a world-renowned cuisine and every…

From historic feat to historic tragedy, that is what the Lindbergh family experienced when Colonel Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic and just five short years later Charles A. Lindbergh, Junior was kidnaped. Charles A. Lindbergh, Junior was kidnaped from the family home in Hopewell, New Jersey on March 1, 1932. After a series of ransoms, fifteen in total, a truck driver found a body in the woods a mere two miles from the home on May 12, 1932. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh…

Harvard Law and was discriminated against for being Jewish when we applied for jobs. The limit in opportunity caused him to join the small new firm Skadden, Aprs, they worked with anything “came in the door to a generation of Jewish lawyers from the Bronx and Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s, then, was the work the white-shoe firms disdained: litigation and, more important, “proxy fights” (Gladwell 125). In the mid 1970’s to 1980s the money involved in mergers and acquisitions increased about…

Poverty, hunger, and homelessness are all fairly sizable problems in the United States of America. Unfortunately poverty is an issue that is often unseen by many while poor people’s voices are infrequently heard. A child’s definition of poverty from Jonathan Kozol’s “Still Separate, Still Unequal” is, “It is like being hidden. It’s as if you have been put in a garage where, if they don’t have room for something but aren’t sure if they should throw it out, they put it where they don’t need to…

One of the most uncertain things that all humans face is their real identity. This difficulty has caused a lot of confusion about who we really are and how we become our own person. There are many different theories to how people can identify themselves, but Social Identity Theory is the most viable and reasonable. This theory claims that people become who they are based on experiences and life lessons due to their surroundings. They believe that one’s own experiences will cause them to shape…

Reprehensible Recycling As far as 13 million years ago, humans have recycled. Archaeologists find evidence that our ancestors reused flint and bone in the tools they wielded (David). Fast forward from then and recycling is still incorporated into our society. In the 1970s Donald Sanderson, a former city councilman in Woodbury New Jersey, led the effort to make recycling mandatory (Poncavage). Even today people think that a 100% recycled society is a great thing, but is it? Recycling…

Henry Chelfant, one of the authors of the book Subway Art, notes that style concept is very specific (Chelfant 29). First of all, it is determined by letters form and how they are connected. According on site “Graffiti: art through vandalism”, there are several different styles of graffiti that are popular today. Pieces is the most common style at the moment. “Pieces are the most elaborate graffiti works, with a more artistic composition. Considered to be an artist 's best work, these are…