New York City

supporting dialogue for school improvement. This survey and other parts of the report can help citizens hold public officials accountable for school quality (Callahan, 2004, p. 2). The New York City School Survey Report was a best way to grasp the opinions of citizens considering that it was distributed to 981, 253 New York City parents, students, and teachers in 2014 (NYC, n.d). However, what weakens the survey is that in grades lower than the 6th, the survey is not distributed to parents,…

but grew up in Rockaway Beach, New York. She went to college in Bennington, Vermont, moved to New York City, and had a job in publishing so she could get paid for reading. According to Spinner herself, she read so much bad fiction that she needed time away, so she moved to London, and from there she traveled to Morocco, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan India, Nepal, and Ceylon. she came back to America, traveled to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. She then returned to New York and decided to study…

` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest…

Mark Bradford is very humorous and funny, almost comedian-like. Bradford takes posters from the ghetto, décollage & collages them, then sands them down. Some examples of posters he picks say, "Immigration in papers in thirty days" and "Indian Hair Weave". He uses repetition. In one of his projects he uses "perm end papers" because he used to work in his mother's hair salon and uses "musical fragments". In another map-like project he made up stories using his imagination about who lived at an…

Rockefeller To understand the Rockefeller Drug Laws one must first understand the person who was the fighting force behind the law’s implementation. Nelson Rockefeller was the 49th Governor of New York spanning from 1959 to 1973. His political backing was Republican yet was notorious for his liberal ideals. In 1962 New York bought into the Metcalf-Volker Law that offered voluntary and court-ordered rehabilitation to deal with the drug issue as opposed to jail time. Soon after came the Narcotic…

On the morning of June 28, 1969, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street. This soon turned violent when police forces roughly dragged out the patrons and employees out of the bar. The police arrested the employees for serving liquor without a license, which was their reason for disturbing the peace, and forced multiple patrons into a police van. This unnecessary act sparked a riot, bringing together residents and bystanders as they…

Particularly in segregated cities such as New York City, gangs use racial tensions to recruit minority members (Freng 137). Even white supremacist gangs rely on discontented rural populations for membership (Bellone). The development of gangs alongside immigration waves suggests an underlying tie between self-image and gang membership. In New York City, for example, African-Americans from the South, and immigrants from Europe and Mexico fueled…

For instance, children would run away from their new home for being beaten or feeling displaced(MOVIE). Some children were taken for the mere purpose to use them as slaves. According to (lady in Movie) she was told once after taken to a home that she was a replacement to be their live-in slave. She then…

were landing in the John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City. The whole atmosphere was so new to me. I finally got of the crowded plane and grabbed my bags from the baggage claim and made my way outside. I saw plenty of people looking my way, and It made me oddly nervous, especially after what I heard about the city. I held my bags tight and continued moving. Soon enough I found myself on a taxi, driving to my new home for the next four years, Colgate University. I got a…

the Great Migration of Blacks from the rural South to the North between 1910 and 1930, this gave way to a new era of street gangs. By the time of WWII, Harlem was one of the first Black ghettos in America, and “the area could not have been riper for the sprouting of street gangs (Haskins, 1974, p.80). In the 1930’s, following the U.S Civil War, gangs were also growing rapidly in other cities such as Chicago. Many Blacks migrated to Chicago to escape the misery of Jim Crow laws and the…