Neighborhoods in the Bronx

resources and jobs. If individuals are exposed to drug and violence at a young age, they are more likely to experience the same fate. For example, Wes Moore brother Tony lived with his father at the Murphy Homes Project which was considered an urban neighborhood. Tony became another statistic by becoming a drug dealer and dropping out of high school, but Tony was adapting to his environment for survival. Survival is more important than education because they view education as a waste of time.…

Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren was born in the Bronx, New York City on October 14, 1939, the third of four siblings. His parents Frieda and Frank were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants. At the age of 16, Ralph and his brother, Jerry, changed their last name to Lauren after being teased consistently at school. Ralph was known for his distinctive fashion knowledge as a teen, finding inspiration while having a taste for both classic preppy wear and vintage looks. He went on to attend Baruch College in…

its listeners to engage in the negative behavior its songs boast about? In finding an answer to these questions, one must first understand the early history of Hip Hop, and from where it started from. The birthplace of Hip Hop can be found in The Bronx in New York,…

experience. However, the implications of New Haven’s urban renewal projects have gone unheard and unforeseen by the common citizen. The documentary titled The Hill depicts the story of a New Haven neighborhood, the Upper Hill, struggling to save their homes as the city of New Haven targets the neighborhood as a site for a gentrification project. The Hill shows how the Upper Hill residents challenge the city of New Haven, as they discover the true intentions of the city’s land-use…

B-boying is considered currently to be one of the mainstream dances of the Hip Hop genre. This intensely physical dance has a very interesting history and is a product of a subculture that was born on the streets of New York City during the early 1970s. Understanding the foundations and environment that created this dance is vital as well as its evolution into a modern dance form. B-boying and eventually B-girling can be divided into three main categories: old school, the freak and its…

roughly the same time, but both had very different outcomes in their lives. One of them became a Rhode scholar and the other one ended up with a life sentence in prison. Their lives were very similar while they were young, both grew up in a bad neighborhood and they also did not have fathers. While growing up both were not good in school which bothered one mother, but the other did not care as much. The decision they made ultimately decided their fates. Both of them were responsible of making…

Crack Era in the South Bronx. Contreras studies how society shaped people growing up in the South Bronx that led them into the world of drugs and crime in order to fulfill the American Dream. He does so by providing detailed field notes, creating a sociological framework of how components such as culture, deviance, socialization, crime and race contribute to the society as a whole. In this book, Contreras specifically studies a small community of friends in his neighborhood and how their life…

The title of the book is “The Other Wes Moore” that was written by Wes Moore, and the major subject of the book is that two boys with the same name has different fates. Throughout the ECR I will refer to the incarcerated Wes as The Other Wes and the author Wes as Wes Moore. The Other Wes was a product of his environment because of where he was raised and because of the people he looked up to. Wes Moor was different from The Other Wes because he grew up living off of people’s expectations of…

A fifteen year old deaf girl named, Mika Sykes, also known as Mik, is only able to hear with her old out of date hearing aids. She is bullied every day for her challenge. Mic would rather turn her hearing aids off and mute the world rather than listen to the chaos. Just as she thinks she will always be the outcast, she is grateful to meet a girl who is a misfit just like her. Jimmi Sixes, who is already a veteran at the age of nineteen and a street poet who struggles to become someone big in New…

Courage, courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. Courage is a word commonly confused with fearless. Fearlessness is in ways the same thing as foolishness. If one is fearless, one lacks fear, one lacks the understanding of fear, of what is being put at risk. In today's world people are jumping off roofs to prove how courageous they are. These individuals are, however misguided, they are expressing fearlessness not courage. Courage is so much greater, courage is…