New York City

The New York University Tandon School of Engineering, is the second most seasoned private designing and innovation school in the United States. The school goes back to 1854 when its forerunner establishments, the University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, were established. The school's fundamental grounds is in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center, a urban scholarly mechanical exploration park. History On May…

Some people may oppose the fact that new money is better than old money. In F. Scott Fitzgerald 's book "The great Gatsby" the author compares all characters of new money and old money in New York and Long Island. Not only did Fitzgerald compare the money she compared the culture.The culture during the 1920s in New York was formal opposed to Long Island where the culture was extravagant. To begin with, In Fitzgerald 's novel the main character, Nick Carraway, is living on the west egg of…

time, I felt really excited. I arrived in New York, and I saw a lot of new things I hadn’t seen before. This trip was really interesting. I first went to New York City. I think New York is a big and old city. Everything looks old except Manhattan which looks new and expensive. My first day in New York started on Wall Street, Time Square and Statue of Liberty. At the day, I wake up at 7 am to get ready going to Statue of Liberty. At 9 am I taken the New York water taxi, so I saw almost all…

Some of the earliest known evidence of sailing comes from what is today known as the Middle East. The Mesopotamians were no strangers to the movement of goods across great land distances, but they also developed great port cities. Ur was one of the Mesopotamian cities that not only grew, but thrived, at its strategic location where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers enter the Persian Gulf. Located in such a prime location, Ur became a massive epicenter for commerce in the ancient times and was…

pathway built on a portion of the former New York Central Railroad. It is located on the west side of Manhattan and extends for approximately a mile and a half long. The interesting part of the transformation of the rail line to a public walking path is that several New York citizens were the primary advocates for the drastic change. However, the arising question is why a park was chosen to replace the railroad. The transformation suggests that New York City citizens were conscious of the…

Jeury Nunez Reyes ENG 201-05 Prof. Schreiber 11 March 2016 A New Chapter Thirteen years ago at the age of five, I left everything behind in the Dominican Republic to start a new life with my parents in the United States. I was an only child at the time. It was a new beginning not only for my parents but for me as well. We had to adapt to a new society, and the fast moving pace of life in New York City. My life in this tremendous new city started off great; the schools, the protection of the law…

New York Burning book by Jill Lepore winner of the Bancroft prize, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005. Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University. In this book she reconstructed the events that took place on the spring and summer of 1741 which have been called the New York Slave rebellion of 1741, New York conspiracy 1741 or The Negro Plot of 1741. Jill Lepore research, and reorganized into words the cultural, political context, population eighteen century Manhattan.…

Have you lived your whole life without seeing a single mouse or rat? Are you someone who feels that none of this concerns you? For anybody living in New York, these rodents are a major problem. Although they are believed to be only found in subway stations and sewers, you might find one sitting five feet away your couch, sharing your popcorn and excreting waste to show its thanks. Sounds disgusting and absurd? Well, that’s reality! Why did I choose to research this? I started to research this…

makes people poor? What are the causes of people becoming poor? (Thomas B Edsall) Dr. E saw poverty as a technical problem, not a moral one or political pressures, to get an explanation where poverty start. “ We should consider the ramification of new research that provides insight into urban social disorder, worklessness, the rising salience of education and the shortcoming of government policy.” The scope of this research on unemployments to look at the consequences for men who group up in…

In the novel Geographies of Home, written by Loida Maritza Pérez, there are copious references to New York City and its importance to the plot of the story. Published in 1999, the novel follows a Dominican family in its migration to NYC and the challenges they face. As readers, we see problems involving Lliana, Marina, Rebecca, Papito, and Aurelia. Between rape, violence, and abuse, Pèrez does a great job incorporating Brooklyn into the plot of the story. A lot of the wild stories written about…