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Washington, D.C., I spent my childhood riding the subway with my parents from the city to the suburbs. We would pick up our car at the local park-and-ride down the street from our home, and then repeat the same process the next day. During the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, because of the subway, my parents had quick and easy access to my daycare center. With the said, according to the Department of Transportation, statistical data revealed that from 2000 to 2014…

It is a well-known fact that those suffering from poverty are statistically disadvantaged. According to the Chicago Tribune, between January and October of 2017, Chicago had 560 homicides, about 95% of those being in Chicago’s less affluent southside and westside neighborhoods. The association between concentrated poverty and criminal activity is statistically strong and although there are many lurking variables, (like gun attainability and segregation) poverty has proven to serve as both an…

Ellis island was an immigration station that processed over 12 million immigrants from 1892-1954. Of the 12 million people that immigrated, about 2% were turned away because they were considered “unfit” to enter the country. In some peak years, 10 to 15 percent of those processed were forced to return home. Immigrants were rejected if they were weak in the mind, mentally or physically unstable, had a criminal record or had a disease. About half the current American population can trace their…

Renaissance is about a social and artistic outbreak that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement". Colored people would move to Harlem for a better life and more freedom. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and…

The Harlem Dancer is a short poem that focuses on a woman’s beauty and a scene inside a bar. The title indicates that the location of the bar is in Harlem which was considered a common place during the Harlem Renaissance. McKay has also described the woman in this poem to be a young, black prostitute and he observes the impact that she has towards the crowd. After a while the speaker notices that the dancer is unhappy due to the lack of respect she is getting from the audience. He incorporates…

The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African American literary, musical, and artistic culture that took place between the 1920s and mid-1930s. It was a time of intellectual and social growth for the black community. During this period, Harlem was a cultural hub attracting black artists, musicians, poets, and writers. Among those artists whose works attained recognition was Langston Hughes. His fierce ethnic pride would influence numerous foreign black writers like Jacques Roumain, Nicolás…

University with a degree on horticulture. Strom Thurmond ended up serving in the senate from South Carolina, running for presidency in 1948 receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Donald Trump was born June 14, 1948 in Queens, New York City, NY. Trump was born the son of prominent real estate developer Fred Trump. He attended and graduated Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Donald Trump inherited 40 million dollars when his father passed. Not also to mention the…

In the short story “The Rockpile” James Baldwin takes the reader into a specific atmosphere of Harlem. This is an atmosphere of suspense, stress, and struggle that Baldwin masterfully transfers to the pages of “The Rock Pile”. Therefore, there is an aggravated tension throughout the whole story. Baldwin creates this mood by focusing on frightening details, and using direct speech of the characters. First signs of tension already appear in the beginning of the story when nothing even dreadful…

do with the devastated space where the buildings once stood, everything from a Japanese style of garden, to various types of memorials, there was even a call to rebuild the buildings, stronger than before. There was a competition held to design the new memorial (Bose, 2005), yet it was apparent from all the controversy, America was still not over the attack, fear and the unknown have a way of making intelligent people use bad judgement and rushed decisions.…

977 Americans, with another 6,000 wounded. The horrendous event highlighted significance of terrorism threats in America, while propelling the terrorist syndicate Al Qaeda to international stardom, eventually becoming the face of terrorism in the new millennium. Spanning the thirteen years subsequent to the attacks…