Neighborhoods in the Bronx

audience about the comparison of rental prices in different neighborhoods of New York City. Central Idea: The two boroughs of New York City-- Manhattan and Brooklyn have their own characteristics which make their rents so different. Introduction I. During the process of looking for a suitable apartment for myself, I found there is a big difference of the rental prices in different neighborhoods of New York City. II. According to Zumper’s National Rent Report…

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is a memoir of two men’s lives who held many similarities with each other; not only did they have the same name, but they were both born in the same area of Baltimore in the 1970s, were raised most of their lives without fathers, and were faced with similar situations and experiences while growing up. The author, after facing numerous challenges along his path, ends up with a highly successful future, while the other Wes Moore, ends up with a lifetime sentence in…

Reuss-Ianni’s chapter 3, I decided to investigate the effects of neighborhood context and police aggressiveness. To support this argument, I plan to use textbook along with a peer-reviewed article. I am also interested in learning more about the code of silence covered briefly in Burns (2013), chapter 3 and to accomplish this, I will be doing an internet-based research on how the code of silence diminishes police integrity. Topic #1 Neighborhood Context Effects and Police Aggressiveness…

Inwood Walking Survey Geography Inwood is a neighborhood that is at the most northern point of the borough of Manhattan. It consists primarily of apartment buildings, with a wide variety of mom and pop business stores. The neighborhood is full of hills and mountainous areas and bordered by two bodies of water; The Harlem River to the north and east, and the Hudson River on the west, which places most of the neighborhood in hurricane evacuation Zone 2 (“Hurricane Evacuation Zone Finder”, 2016).…

Inequality Addressed in Literature The true inequalities in schools around America are described accurately in Jonathan Kozol’s novel, Savage Inequalities. The novel is essentially summed up to compare the inequalities that exist between poor inner-city schools and more affluent suburban schools. Kozol’s philosophy is that children who belong to poor families are predestined to a poor future due to the understaffed and underfunded schools that are in poorer areas of the country. In order to…

ghetto that is nationally recognized as the roughest neighborhood to reside within New York City, aka “The Bronx.” Surely an inhabitable area: primarily for minorities and authorities. The distinction of male or female has no relevance to the operant conditioning he or she will endure; as a result, one can become part of a syndicate due to the pervasive environment. Consequently, the negative inference of the ghetto civilization in the Bronx insinuates that one will experience a life…

Response Memo, Week Three Charlotte Freitag In their policy-shifting report “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety”, Wilson and Kelling (1982) make a case for why they believe proactive policing would help lower crime rates nationally and promote feelings of comfort across communities. They argue that the widespread usage of foot patrolling officers, as opposed to officers patrolling in vehicles, would promote positive civilian interactions and would deter crime, as the physical…

in fact. I plan on supporting women charities, and organizations but I also want to start my own program to empower women. I call it “Own your Whore” which is still just a plan at the moment. The 2nd one is low income residents. I am from the South Bronx, and I live…

Ariela Sanabria Stella and Charles Guttman Community College Introduction to Urban Community Health A Public Health Recommendation Report Professor Wilson Dec 4, 2014 The Problem: The Bronx community in New York City is what I call home. Just like any home, it’s not perfect and has it’s faults, one of them being high rates of obesity. The community provides a variety of places for it’s inhabitants to obtain food, for example supermarkets, fast food restaurants, and even vegetable stands.…

what you have been threw. Being culturally competent you can understand why they feel that way or what gives them that view that it is or is not. The Message by Grand Master Flex e.l shows the socio-economic experience of minorities in the inner city Bronx,Ny. Hip hop’s early 80s is something different than today's hip hop. Old school hip hop had a message told stories and they weren't scared of the consequences because…