New York City Ballet

New York City has a culture that many cannot resist. Whether the city’s used in entertainment and the media, or just talked about, many people are fascinated with the New York lifestyle, culture and diversity. In a poem for The New York, Terrance Hayes shows the diversity on a single roof-top bar in Chinatown. He writes about the different types of people around him and the possibilities. His emphasize on this idea is clear when he writes “On a Chinatown rooftop in New York anything can happen”…

night, federal officers shut down two illegal stills (an act that would become common in the years ahead) and reported that their operators had offered bribes (which would become even more common)” (Okrent 2). The rise of organized crime changed other cities, like Detroit, where corruption also arose and where it still occurs today. “Outlawing intoxicants gave America not the era of ‘clear thinking and clean living’ that idealists promised. Instead, it vastly increased political and police…

describes the atmosphere surrounding pageant week for Miss America in Atlantic City. She talks of the excitement of people coming to the city just for the chance to bump into one of the contestants, or all of the, as she labels “wannabees,” in their “store-bought pageant titles (Riverol v). Numerous citizens of the United States tune in to watch the pageant in September along with the people who travel to or live in Atlantic City. All of these people are trying to get a slice of this one of a…

gentrification can have negative and positive affects on a neighborhood, it’s important to ask who are the new residents moving into these neighborhoods, but more importantly how the people who remain in the neighborhood are affect by the change brought…

Carson McCullers was a famous American author with interesting works such as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. This paper will cover her early life, works as an author, and the toll of her adulthood leading all the way to her death. As an author, Carson had to overcome many challenges in her daily life, however, she was not recognized as an extraordinary author until after her death. What made her become recognizable, is the fact that she…

In “Sonny’s Blues,” Harlem is clearly illustrated as a dank and unclean city that boasted little hope or incentive for ambition for those that resided there. The lack of opportunity led to high levels of poverty, and in turn influenced many in the area to resort to crime, alcoholism, and drugs for comfort. Throughout the 1920s, Harlem was a place of progression, art, and activism. Dubbed the “Harlem Renaissance,” this era in American history was significant for the black community as a whole.…

Southern and Eastern Europe, and any other country one could name into the cities. This epoch of our history is deemed the term “the rise of urban America,” and had great implications on the country. This massive shift of people led to over populated cities filled with disease and impoverishment and created ongoing racial hostilities. These issues had and still have implications in the American society. The allure of big city life drew hundreds of thousands of people from Southern and Eastern…

ghettos is characterized by the racial prejudice of the era, racially charged violence in the form of race riots, and the development of black culture within the United States. This is best exemplified by the ghettoized Harlem neighborhood of New York City and the South Side of Chicago, or “Bronzeville”. From these ghettos arose two significant periods of thriving African American culture, the Harlem and Chicago/Bronzeville Renaissances, which established the presence of the black community…

It is a common misconception that humans as a whole have certain rights simply because they are born with them. Many believe they are free to exercise these rights unhindered because it is their right to do so. It is important to recognize this fallacy, because living under the assumption that we have rights just for being born is how they slowly get taken away. The truth is, that the current rights of United States citizens exist because they were fought for, and they must continue to be…

My love of Joan Didion is lifelong and, like anyone does with heroes, always feels at such a distance. In fact, Didion was much closer to me than I could have imagined. For the last years of her life, I became a friend of Susan Sontag?s. I had known that Sontag was ?important? before I met her in 1989, but I had never read anything by her but her famous ?Notes on Camp,? which I confess bewildered me when I first read it as a teenager. After meeting her, I read ?On Photography? and realized…