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Collins grew up predominantly in Queens, New York. He composed his first lyric at age 12 and later joined his secondary school artistic magazine. In 1963 Collins got a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, and he went ahead to procure a doctorate in Romantic verse from the University of California, Riverside, in 1971. That year he likewise started a long vocation as an educator of English at Lehman College, Bronx, New York. Amid the 1970s, he composed various short…

The day was March 25, 1911, no one would be able to forget when one of the most catastrophic tragedies on record not only in New York City, but in the history of the American industry transpired. This horrendous event will forever be known as The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Due to the inhumane working conditions and the rapidly spreading fire, 145 of the 600 employees had died an extremely miserable death during the disastrous event from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to…

The fact of going to a supermarket could be an extremely excited experience, but for this paper was certainly really hard. On a regular visit to the supermarket many of us pick the product we are more familiar with. We don’t look at the calories or sugars that the product contains. Staying with the most modest food was a complex situation because many of the products in the supermarket that I choose weren’t modest at all; these products were more like craving by me. I only thought of buying…

The Catcher in the Rye is about a sixteen year old boy named Holden who just got kicked out of his school and is roaming around New York City looking for a way to escape his unavoidable…

in any of the arts takes courage.” (Unknown F 1). From her deep cool abstract images, to her delicate up close flower paintings you can tell that Georgia O’Keeffe loved to try new things and enjoyed painting images from her mind and the world around her. Her works were beautiful and complex, and like nothing seen…

opportunities for employment" (Whitaker). The vulnerable situation of these families during this period made them susceptible to injustices in the workforce. In Invisible Man, Ellison alludes to these economic hardships with the Narrator's experience in New York. After his arrival, the Narrator finds himself in various jobs which suppress his potential, such as a worker in a paint factory and a boiler room assistant, in an attempt to make some money. A bit later in the novel, he takes a job…

world came to the United States looking for job opportunities. Unsurprisingly, immigrants soon make up the majority population of the cities. However, newcomers faced hostility, discrimination, and were separated from the white citizens, but where do they settle? In 1890, Jacob Riis, a photojournalist, exposed the living conditions of hundreds of immigrants in New York’s slums in his book How the Other Half Lives. In this essay, an excerpt taken from Jacob Riis’s book will be analyzed to…

This program applies public education, anti-violence slogans “Don’t shoot. I want to grow up.”, conflict mediation and community mobilization activities2. The Cure Violence program is currently active in 25 cities in the United States as well as several international cities3. In New York City, the Cure Violence program was launched in spring 2012. It was originally named "Ceasefire." This program is funded by federal, state, and local foundations and corporations. The program targets young…

There is an old man who owns his own bagel shop in New York City. He makes the bagels kosher so he gets a lot of business from his own jewish community. He also sees bankers right before they head off to work, tourists looking looking for the authentic New York morning experience and other ordinary sorts of people who want a good bagel for whatever reason. He greets every one of them with a smile and a “hello”, sometimes in english and sometimes in yiddish. They know him as the friendly man who…

Behaviors Across Cultures, Levine discusses what it means to be helpful and how helpfulness can be measured. Levine was inspired to conduct this experiment after comparing how people in New York City helped others versus those who lived in Myanmar. He noted how much more helpful and kind the people of Myanmar were than New Yorkers, so although it was never explicitly stated, it would seem that his hypothesis was that people that resided in rural areas would be more helpful than those who lived…