Neighborhoods in the Bronx

high in New York City when hip-hop started in the mid-1970s. To try and eliminate some of the issues DJ’s threw block parties. To avoid issues around their community the residents participated. After that the hip-hop culture surfaced through the neighborhood. It then became the most popular thing in the African American youth all across the world (12). During that time that was the only positive thing they knew about that would relieve stress. The principles of hip-hop were “Peace, Unity, Love…

Sometimes living at a certain community doesn’t make you a part of it. Part of the reason can be that one can be so isolated from it, it feels like one lives somewhere else. For example, I live in Riverdale, a quiet community in the Bronx. Not that I don't like the community, I feel like I live in a safe area, but nothing even remotely interesting seems to occur in the Dale. When I leave my apartment to catch the bus that takes me to college, I walk by a couple of newspaper racks and never even…

gangster John Gotti is also famous as the head of Gambino Crime Family of New York. Also famous as Teflon Don, John Gotti had a net worth of around $10 million at the time of his death. Biography & Wiki John Gotti was born on 27th October 1940 in South Bronx, New York. His father’s name was J. Joseph Gotti and his mother was Fannie who were Italian immigrants. His father works as a day labor and finds it pretty hard to run a family of 13 children. Gotti was fifth among them. Before settling in…

Chase Mitchell Dr. Jagan English August 13, 2017 The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates What would be your thoughts if you found out that there was someone in the world that had your name, was from the same city and state as you, and lived a similar but different lifestyle as you did? For me that would be very odd. Even though my name is a common name, I’m sure there is no one in this world that we share somewhat of the same lifestyle. I find it interesting that it can happen. The author,…

the air is unhealthy and cause diseases and cause people to get sick easily.An example is,¨Neighborhoods throughout the Bronx, northern Manhattan and north Brooklyn struggle with both air quality issues and high poverty rates.” The article states,¨High truck and traffic volume, industrial facilities and older heating systems can all contribute to increased levels of air pollution in impoverished neighborhoods. The solutions that where used to fix urbanization in Brooklyn,New York is…

The character, Devon Hope, introduces in his poem, Bronx Masquerade, the idea that he and many of his classmates are living behind disguises rather than being their true selves. Devon is a prime example of this notion as he even goes by a nickname, Jump shot, at school and in his neighborhood that he does not feel represents him as a whole person. Though he is a great basketball player, that is not all he wants to be known for and much too often he is painted into that corner. He expresses this…

Lastly, even though lyrics follow the urban society’s view on their own situations, many contemplate that the content can be mislead, over exaggerate or inappropriately describe the nation and its people. As often as Americans preach the good word of fairness and equality, the American urbanites filling cities like Chicago, Atlanta and Watts were locked out of the sermon. During what historians call the Civil Rights Era (Timeline: Civil Rights Era 1954-1971), Americans would witness multiple…

The problem that we see with that is most of the time they will go to low income neighborhoods and it just so happens that most of the low income residents living in that area are minorities creating a distrust in police by the social minority group. Broken window and Community Policing are similar because there is a resistance among the…

Introduction For the purpose of this analysis, Terry Ramos was interviewed. Terry is a thirty five year old woman residing in the Bronx, NY. Terry is an expectant mother, girlfriend, stepmother, sister, aunt, niece, and family confidant. Terry is of Puerto-Rican decent but says that she has been heavily influenced by American culture as she does not speak Spanish and does not know much about her heritage. She is an employee of the city of New York and has worked in the educational system for…

not worried about the safety of their children then they could work much more effectively. An example of labor unions making strides in this category was the “If You Live in the Southeast Bronx,” flyer from the 1960s, which advertised better housing, better police protection, and cleaner, safer, better neighborhoods and schools (Doc. 6). Not only did labor unions hope to help Latino members but they also wanted to increase their membership and a great way to do this was advertising the things…